Comments on: What Makes a Somali Marriage Different?

By: naeymah

naeymah — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:20:59 +0000

My parents are both half arab half somalis. I was born in Kenya, growing up in Kenya I wasn’t around a lot of somalis but a mixed culture of pakistanis, swahili, arab, kenyans, indians, etc. So basically I never learned the traditions and cultures of somalis. It’s always been a hard topic when it comes to marriage, even with a slight joke it became one serious lecture. Most, actually all of the things you have mentioned here is new to me. For me theres only my religion that I follow, I don’t follow my cultures since they do interfere with my religion. Interfere meaning some things that are practiced as traditions are not necessarily halal.
We’re all the same before Allah, so then why should our culture/traditions matter when we have Islam?

By: Samiiya

Samiiya — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:44:17 +0000

Well, thanks for sharing this with us, my mom told me such stories, and I used to laugh at the way she’d explain the wedding ceremony, she’d use a funny accent!

By: bile

bile — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 03:24:10 +0000

waa run qofwalba waxa ugu horeeya uu ku fikira
guri lagu nasto oo lagu raaxaysto
gabar qurux badn ubad fiican
thats every bodys dream
to a good family nice wamen. and good kids
mahad sanidin
thanks

By: abdulmalik walter

abdulmalik walter — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:14:03 +0000

i wish to learn more about Muslim marriage coz am a Muslim in love with a Muslim lady but she is a Somali when am not