”I can’t be covering my body and eyes with black cloth…” Woman In Purdah Begs Court To End Her 2-Year Marriage
A Muslim woman identified as Azanat Bashiru in Ilorin, Kwara state has begged a court to end her two-year-old marriage as she could not live with the thought of covering herself in Purdah all the time.
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Appearing in court, Azanat said that her husband of two years and father of their two children, Mumin Bashiru, did not tell her before they got married in 2014 that she would be put in purdah, the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN reports.
”This is not in our agreement. I cannot be covering my body with black cloth, including my eyes, all of the time,” she said.
Mumin, on the other hand, did not raise any objection but demanded custody of their two children.
”If she doesn’t agree to be in purdah, she is free to go,” he simply said.
The purdah practice requires married Muslim women to stay in separate rooms, behind a curtain or dress in all-enveloping clothes, in other to stay out of the sight of men or strangers.
Smart woman. What sort of stupid bondage is that? In this our naija heat, someone will now say another person should be covering up completely smh.
She should live the bondage joor, you dress up and go out, then you confine your wife in a home depressed all in the name of religion??
My dear find ur way which kind of rubbish tradition is dis
Hmmmmm
So the women live like outcasts while the men walk free and enjoy fresh air. Mtcheew
Shikena let her go
Which kyn prison be that?
na rubbish… stupid pudah
Hmmmmm