Is this tradition true? Anyone know about it?
a story from 8 months ago but.....such a strange tradition. Children that have never seen their mother's face??!!!!
Never showed her face in 30 years of marriage
Saudi wants divorce after husband lifts her veil
DUBAI (AlArabiya.net)
A 50-year-old Saudi woman asked for divorce after her husband lifted her face veil while she was sleeping, local press reported.
For 30 years, the wife said she never showed her face to her husband in conformity with the tradition of her native village near the south western Saudi city of Khamis Mushayt.
"After all these years, he tries to commit such a big mistake," the wife told Saudi newspaper Al-Riyadh, after she left the house in total disbelief.
She said the husband apologized and promised never to do it again.
This is not the first case of husbands who have not seen their wives' faces in decades.
In the past Al Arabiya has reported the case of Ali al-Qahtani, whose wife had been wearing the face veil for the entire ten years of their marrage. When he tried to take it off, she threatened to leave and only decided to stay after he swore never to try again.
Hassan Al-Atibi threatened to marry another woman if his wife didn't show him her face. The woman nominated one of her friends who doesn't observe this tradition as a possible new wife for him, saying this would be better than her showing her face.
And neither the husband or children of Om Rabea al-Gahdaray, 70, have ever seen her face. Al-Gahdaray says it is a family tradition, also followed by mother and sisters, which her husband accepted and never tried to change.
When asked how she could have kids without her husband ever seeing her face, she replied: "Marriage is about love, not faces."
The practice of always remaining veiled, even in front of your husband, is not an Islamic practice but a very old tradition practiced by a minority of people in Gulf countries.
With a face like a bucket of smashed Crabs........
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Never heard of this before. But when he married her, he must of known of her belief. Thus he should repect her choice.
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Oooh, Jauntie, I'm going to write that down and think of times to use it.
this story made me laugh but jaunties comment well thats even funnier..good one jauntie...
golds are digged deep down from the bottom...
never mind finding it on the surface...
caves are there for you to let in...
~~~ We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp and some are dull, some are pretty, some have weird names and all are of different colors, but they all have to learn to live in the same box.~~~
not sure what hit me first! Your handbag or the blond wig ;)
You are awful...........but I like it.
As Dick Emery would say
You don't look at the mantelpiece when you're stoking the fire :D
I heard of a similar instance with a bedouin in the KOC hospital (dental department) in Ahmadi, Kuwait. That was my reason for the dentist comment
i also read years ago (in gulf times) that d bride fainted when she saw her groom's face for d first time when he was about to take her home after their wedding party. it happemed in saudi arabia too.
here is the link from Al Arabiya
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/10/08/40103.html
That is why I asked if anyone had heard of this strange cultural tradition in some parts of Saudi. It must be a very local tradition only practiced by a few.
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
I mean, tradition is tradion and I know husbands that would adopt that culture/tradition at a drop of a hat (...and who could blame them after seeing their wives.) LOL
But...but...if she is an he?
Hidding a wonderfull moustache?
How an husband can know?
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.yeakkk
Everybody wants to go to heaven; but nobody wants to die.
sounds like a movie plot... but maybe it's true
u'r kidding, right?!
well all this is not the fact its just a story...so forget it
Lolz... well what if ... ok forget it !
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
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Everybody wants to go to heaven; but nobody wants to die.
huge comedic mileage to be made out of this.
Anyone want to suggest a few scenarios?
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
What a perverted job a dentist must have!
really uneducated people...
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
yup tis up to the individual which they gonna follow tradition or religion.......
life's too short so make the most of it, you only live but once.......