Muslim Woman Laments Being Thrown Out By Husband No. 4 Over SOS Background
The man I was married to threw me out of the house at eight o’clock at night, and it was during the month of Ramadan.
He expelled me because of something he heard outside—that his wife had grown up in an SOS (children’s home).
He came to me that night angry and asked, ‘Did you grow up with relatives, or did you grow up in SOS?’ I replied, ‘Yes, I grew up in SOS.’
He angrily told me, ‘Get out of my house. I don’t want a woman who grew up in SOS.’ I asked him, ‘Where should I go at this hour? It’s eight o’clock. I can leave in the morning, habibi.’
But he refused and said, ‘Don’t call me habibi. Get out of my house and go wherever you want.’
I cried and begged him, but he refused. In the end, at half past eight at night, I left his house.
It was Ramadan. Until morning I sat in the neighbors’ garden, not knowing where to go.
Whenever I cried, I hugged the black bag that held my clothes. I have been married four times, but now I have lost hope of getting married again.
Every man I marry, once he hears that I grew up in SOS, treats me this way, or his family treats me this way.
I suffer from diabetes and high blood pressure.
May Allah grant me healing. I have lost hope in marriage.
NOTE
SOS is a private-run charity home for motherless children.
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