Page:Thomas Patrick Hughes - Notes on Muhammadanism - 2ed. (1877).djvu/202

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NIKAH, OR MARRIAGE.
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The ceremony being over, the bridegroom embraces his friends and receives their congratulations. Nikah is preceded and followed by festive rejoicings, which have been variously described by Oriental travellers; but they are not parts of either the civil or religious ceremony.