I have never heard of this so can anyone confirm or denounce what he is saying, because that sounds like something imported from elsewhere rather than homegrown.
Was this really apart of our culture or is this guy lying?
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I have never heard of this so can anyone confirm or denounce what he is saying, because that sounds like something imported from elsewhere rather than homegrown.
A lot of Somalis came out and said this is not a common practice in the comments of another video .
Not common, my grandmother got married at 18, but rejected several men between 16-18 and this would have been in the 70's.
balanbalis
Reacting doesn’t mean endorsement
Nah my parents and grandparents all had love marriages and didnt meet via parents
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Guys exaggerating a little bit or used the wrong words, waxaa laga yaabaa ustadh Abdulrahmaan arintaan inyar inuu qaldey.
No one is going to state publicly that their daughter is ready marriage. We like to do things behind closed doors.
Whats more likely imo is that the father went to the unmarried men who frequent the masjid and asked them if they want to marry his daughter. These men have likely told the masjid sheikh or an oday that they want to get married, no one is going to approach a random guy who has not stated, if he wants to get married.
In the west, our masjids run marriage programs. That culture has not come out of nowhere, it was present back home.
Arranged marriages were common in my family and we are not in the wadaad circles. Unfortunately this has died in my family and overall in the west.
We need to come back to our roots and modify it. It should be a cultural norm again. I would put everybody kids at those lists in the masjid. I would also make sure parents present options to their children, this doesn’t unfortunately happen much.
No one is going to state publicly that their daughter is ready marriage. We like to do things behind closed doors.
Whats more likely imo is that the father went to the unmarried men who frequent the masjid and asked them if they want to marry his daughter. These men have likely told the masjid sheikh or an oday that they want to get married, no one is going to approach a random guy who has not stated, if he wants to get married.
In the west, our masjids run marriage programs. That culture has not come out of nowhere, it was present back home.
Arranged marriages were common in my family and we are not in the wadaad circles. Unfortunately this has died in my family and overall in the west.
We need to come back to our roots and modify it. It should be a cultural norm again. I would put everybody kids at those lists in the masjid. I would also make sure parents present options to their children, this doesn’t unfortunately happen much.
Bille
Sidii roon Raba og
ilaahay ka cabso, wadaadka iska dhaaf.
We were spread out from Djibouti to Juba, practiced pastoralism (saw animals reproduce), and kept our abtirsi
Amharics were the banished axumites secluded to the mountains (high density to this day) and had no method of keeping track of who’s who
Who’s more likely to inbreed? Plus we’re closely related to the oromos and they have a short FROH dispelling founders effect.
I think the Amharic doctors were really embarrassed and swabbed out the results
Somali Founder Effect & Genetic Diversity
It seems that the average Somali is more inbred than the product of a normal second cousin marriage, and FROH (measure of inbreeding) of 0.015 for children of second cousins and a higher higher 0.018 for the average Somali. This is apparently due to present day preference for consanguineous...
www.somalispot.com
He's not lying at all, I've heard about this before. My parents didn't get married like this either so it was probably much before our parents' generation (which is why most people here have not heard about it) or it may have been limited to the religious/learned people and specific tribes/communities. Bottom line is that this practice was present in Somalia, the Ustadh isn't making it up. Be more careful about labelling someone a liar because they mentioned something you never knew or heard about.
Says it all really
Well that clears things up but I never really called him a liar just asked if he was.
