I don't know where to begin. I am in utter shock and my family is devastated but we're also ever thankful to the Almighty. We broke off my sister's engagement today. The engagement lasted 2 years and the marriage was about to be held in a month in a tiny gathering and we...

thought that the groom and his family were the best we could ever ask for. My parents treated him like they treat me, their only son and I treated him like a brother. Today he called my mother and literally argued over the topic of Haq Mahar, all my parents did was talk to his..

mother and tell her that whatever they want to decide as Mahar we would accept as they had said no to dowry. We were actually doing him a favor we did not even quote a number and this guy calls my mother and tells her how she was wrong in contacting his mom to discuss this and...

why we didn't consult with HIM directly. Now my mom replied that it would've been disrespectful to bypass your mom for such a decision to which he said "I am my own authority and my mom has nothing to do with my decisions" throughout the call basically, he wanted us to...

know that he was the shot caller and we should conform to his decisions.
He kept arguing with my mom and this was the 1st time we ever saw him behave this way. My sister (his fiance) took the phone and told him that this is no way of talking to your elders and especially my...

parents to which he literally started SCREAMING at her and told her to shut up after he verbally abused and cursed my father on the call. Every one of us heard the curses and we were simply shocked at what's happening just a month before marriage there was absolutely no need...

for this tiny issue to be escalated. And if this is how he's treating us and my sister BEFORE nikkah, we can only imagine how he'd behave if anything like this had happened after the marriage. My mom and my sister are devastated not because the way it ended but because the...

fact that we can actually NEVER know for certain how the other family is, as apparently 2 years are not enough time to know or judge people. One thing's for certain, after he called my father a "Ch***iya", there is absolutely no  way that we are gonna wed my sister to this...

utter disgrace of a man. She's an independent woman and will find the right guy whenever Allah wills but her belief in marriage is now shaken to the core. Yet we are thankful like we always have been because we believe that my sister was saved from far worse. Most importantly...

We continue to stick together as a family through thick and thin.
This is a weird two faced world we live in. I hope every woman and man find the best partner that he or she deserves.