نيجيريا: زواج جماعي يضم أكثر من ألف زوج من المسلمين

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شهدت مدينة "كانو" النيجيرية احتفال المسلمين بزواج جماعي ضم 1111 زوجًا من المسلمين، في إطار مساعي مكافحة معدلات الطلاق المرتفعة، ولتأسيس أسر مسلمة تنعم بالاستقرار.

ويعد هذا الاحتفال الرابع من نوعه؛ حيث بدأ الزواج الجماعي في مايو 2012، وأتى عامه الرابع ليضم تزويج هذا العدد ممن سبق لهم الزواج.

وقد دعت الشرطة الإسلامية بالمدينة للمشروع في فبراير عام 2012، بهدف تزويج المطلقين والأرامل؛ حيث يتم استدعاء الرجال والنساء لإجراء رؤية شرعية بحضور رجال الحسبة وتبادل المعلومات المتعلقة بالطرفين؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Kano Mass Weddings

More than 1,000 Muslim couples have tied the knot at a mass wedding in Nigeria's city of Kano aimed at combating rising divorce rates and promote more stable families.

“We are gathered here today to solemnize the weddings of 1,111 couples under Kano state’s mass wedding program,” Deputy Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje said at the ceremony, the fourth of its kind since May 2012, The Daily Mail reported on Saturday, December 21.

The event at the city's central mosque included 1,111 previously divorced women and an equal number of men, many of whom had also been married before.

The program was introduced in February, 2012, by the Islamic shari`ah police in Kano, the largest city in Nigeria's mainly Muslim north, hoping to fight rising extremist among Nigeria’s youth.

It started by airing radio announcements in mid-February calling on men open to marrying selected widows and divorcees to come forward.

During last year’s event, men and women were invited to a screening review with the hisbah police to be introduced to their interests and education.

The questions asked by the police panel include basic information, such as occupation, income and number of children. Men are asked why they want to get married again, among other things.

Those who qualify are then allowed to meet each other at the Hisbah office, choosing on their own among the participants who they might wish to marry.

Hisbah chief Aminu Daurawa said the programme has arranged 4,461 marriages over the last 18 months.

Daurawa added that marriage program has also been applied to Kano's minority Christian population.

“We have included 50 Christian couples in this batch in liaison with the Christian leaders in the state and they will have their weddings in church,” he told AFP.