TLK
April 14, 2011, 9:24pm
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Re: Attending the nikah of your own mother (or father)
I highly encouraged my Father to re-marry, because my Mum is mentally ill. But I think now he just gave up and is just living with my Mom as is. He’s been married before, whe my Mum had left home and had been gone, my Dad married someone else and mentioned nothing to us and she just showed up at our house one day. We hated him for doing that to us or for even marrying someone else while our Mum was alive. The marriage eventually ended (peacefully) because she wanted to go back to her country and live with her kids, she was a really nice lady.
As time has gone, I now understand his reason for re-marrying. He really did it for us because we needed a mum around, we were living off food that he cooked or store bought and I was too younge to run a home myself. Regardless, I think it was his right to marry again because he was alone. It was wrong of him to not mention anything and just get married, but I can understand why now. My family says he doesn’t have a reason because his first wife is still alive, but what good is it to have a wife who wants nothing to do with you.
This is one unique happening madina. Thanks for sharing it with us but at the end, your mom and dad are together and that is important. May allah keep your family in his amaan. aameen.