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 "id": "concept/walima-fiqh",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "walima-fiqh",
 "label": {
  "ar": "وَليمة",
  "en": "Walima (wedding feast, fiqh)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الوليمة في اللغة من الولم وهو الجمع، وهي طعام العرس والإملاك، وتقع في الاصطلاح على كل طعام يُتخذ لسرور حادث. وأحكام وليمة العرس عند الفقهاء: هل هي سنة أو واجبة، وهل تُقضى، وحكمة إشهار النكاح، وحكم إجابة الدعوة إليها، وحكم الأكل للصائم والمفطر. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.17946}{cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.17947}",
  "en": "Walima, from walm (gathering), is the feast of a wedding or betrothal, and technically any food made for a happy event. The rulings on the wedding feast cover whether it is a sunna or an obligation, whether it is enforced, the purpose of announcing the marriage, accepting the invitation, and eating by a fasting or non-fasting guest. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.17946}{cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.17947}"
 },
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 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
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 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "family-marriage-kinship"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "legal",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الموسوعة الفقهية الكويتية، نسخة نور بوك، مدخل «وليمة»، ص 17946-17951 من المسح",
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  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5; complete headword on scan pp.17946-17965 (definition, related terms, ruling and enforcement, purpose, accepting the invitation, the conditions on the place, host and guest, the choice between two hosts, the judge's invitation, the day, the time, several wives, the least feast, and expiry); the next heading is يأس on p.17965; the cross-reference ولي (انظر ولاية) on p.17965 is not drafted"
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  "building/taj-mahal",
  "concept/abawan",
  "concept/adl-bayn-al-zawjat",
  "concept/adl-nikah",
  "concept/afal",
  "concept/ahl-al-nasab",
  "concept/akdariyya",
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