All praise is due only to Allaah. We laud Him and beseech His

It is not 
permissible for the groom or his family to request or 
expect a trousseau.
The right of the girl to inheritance does not fall 
away with her trousseau 
A new issue brought up by the writer is whether the girl still 
receives her share of inheritance from her parents after they 
have given her trousseau. Such questions are the result of 
ignorance of the Shariah. 
In reality the trousseau has 
absolutely no relation whatsoever with inheritance and 
they do not affect each other.
If a father gives his daughter 
the whole world as a trousseau, then too she does not lose 
any of her share in his estate (i.e. she will inherit her full Shar`i 
share when he passes away). When the father passes away 
then the daughter(s) will receive their full Shar`i share, and the 
brothers should not usurp the entire estate and satisfy 
themselves by saying that their female siblings have received 
their shares in the form of their respective trousseaus. 
Whatever a father gives his children – male or female – during 
his lifetime does not affect their respective shares in 
inheritance. A father should however keep in mind that 
whatever he doles out to his children during his lifetime should 
be equal and fair and not favour any one of them, whilst 
depriving the others. This however is a separate mas`alah 
which will be discussed at another juncture. Be that as it may, 

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this much is certain that a daughter is not deprived to the least 
bit of her inheritance because she was given trousseau.
Another issue brought up by the writer is regarding the Shar`i 
status of the food served by the parents of the girl on the 
occasion of Nikah. This issue has also reached excessive 
proportions in our societies.