Emir of Zamfara Anka Alh Attahiru Muhammad Ahmad has advocated for strict compliance to Islamic teachings related to having more than one wife (Polygamy forms of marriage).
The monarch who spoke during the opening ceremony of a two-days national conference with the theme “Re-thinking Security through the Lenses of Humanities” organized by the Faculty of Humanities, Federal University Gusau on Saturday insisted that, resorting to accepting societal re-orientation through reconsideration of Islamic values attached to polygamy system of marriage is the only way out of the current social problems confronting the Northern region.
He stressed that most of the children that constitute threat to the social security and safety of the public in the North were the product of Polygamy that was contracted out of an arrangement that is in contradiction to the teaching of Islam.
While describing that there was nothing wrong in the polygamy form of marriage the Emir insisted that people must begin to act according to the true teaching of Islam in terms marrying more than a wife as well as given birth to unwanted number of children that one cannot be able to control in terms of provision of their basic needs and responsibilities.
The monarch commended the University and indeed the Faculty of Humanities for organizing the conference to review issues around security and chart the way forward, describing the gathering as timely.
