History
Marriage was a Sunnah (custom) of earlier prophets which the Islamic Prophet Muhammad re-instituted and passed on to his ummah or community. An Arabic word for marriage is nikah (in Arabic: نكاح nikāḥ), which is generally used to refer to Islamic marriages. Nikah also translates literally as sexual intercourse, giving hints as to the Arabic entomological origins of the phrase in Arabic: عقد القران, "Aqd Nikah", with Aqd in Arabic: عقد translating to contract.
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