Wallahi, if a woman walks out of the delivery room alive, it is a miracle, I need men to understand, If she walks out with her child alive and well, it is a great miracle. We speak about childbirth as if it is routine, but in that room, a woman stands between life and death.
Prophet Muhammad (SAW) cooked, cleaned, and helped with household chores. He did not treat his wives like maids; he treated them with kindness, respect, and as partners.
Be like Muhammad (SAW).
Once you see a married woman with HIV, chances are she got it from her husband. Utterly unfair. The husband sure didn't get it from sharing sharps.
To her, she's struck by a two edged sword; betrayal and a lifetime of affliction. Both sides striking at the same time. The pain!
In 2018, while working as a community mobiliser on a sexual and reproductive health and rights project in Kano State, we regularly engaged women in rural communities. During one of those sessions, a woman said to us:
“Malama, don Allah, kamar yadda kuke tara mata kuna koya mana abubuwa, don Allah ku dinga tara mazajenmu kuna nuna musu muhimmancin zuwa asibiti da neman magani. Saboda sau da yawa za ki ga muna fama da infection ko sanyi. Idan mun je asibiti an ba mu magani, ana ce mana mu gaya wa mazajenmu su zo su karɓi magani, saboda idan mun warke su ba su warke ba, za su iya sake sa mana cutar. Amma mazajenmu sai su ƙi zuwa asibiti, su ce wai muna tona musu asiri. Wani ma zai iya sakin matarsa saboda ta gaya masa ya je asibiti. Ita kuma idan an sake ta, wani lokacin samun wani mijin yana zama da wahala, saboda ana cewa ba ta iya rufa wa mijinta asiri.”
In translation, she was saying:
“Please, just as you gather women and educate us, we would appreciate it if you also engaged our husbands and taught them the importance of going to the hospital and receiving treatment for sexually transmitted infections. Many times, we suffer from infections and, when we go to the hospital, we are treated and advised to bring our husbands for treatment too, because if we recover while they remain untreated, they may infect us again. But when we ask our husbands to go to the hospital, some become offended and accuse us of exposing their shame. In some cases, a man may even divorce his wife for asking him to seek treatment. A woman divorced under such circumstances may also struggle to remarry because she becomes stigmatised and accused of being unable to conceal her husband’s shame.”
This was in 2018, and in 2026, you are promoting the dangerous idea that a “good wife” is one who hears but pretends not to hear, sees but pretends not to see and remains silent regardless of what her husband does, all in the name of preserving the dignity of marriage.
Who raised you guys to think like this?
Since when did “matar rufin asiri” come to mean a woman who must ignore persistent betrayal, silence herself and protect a grown man from the consequences of his own choices? Do you not realise that protecting the privacy of a marriage is not the same as concealing misconduct or tolerating repeated infidelity or sacrificing one’s dignity, health and peace to preserve a man’s public image.
Islam does not normalise zina or present infidelity as an ordinary male weakness that women must tolerate. It, in contrast, treats sexual immorality as a grave offence. So what makes anyone think it is acceptable to normalise cheating, or gaslight women into enabling wayward partners who behave as though infidelity is their birthright, and then condemn every woman who chooses to walk away because she cannot continue living with a man alleged to be a chronic womaniser?
Why should the responsibility for a man’s discipline, loyalty and sexual conduct be transferred to his wife? Why should she be praised for pretending not to see what threatens her emotional and physical well-being, while he is excused from accountability?
Please do not use this mindset to raise your daughters, whether you have them now or may have them in the future. This thinking is one of the reasons many women are suffering and dying in silence, are repeatedly infected with life-threatening sexually transmitted infections because they are taught that their chastity is synonymous with overlooking their husband’s inadequacies. You’re suggesting women should remain trapped in harmful marriages because society tells them that marriage is “for better or worse” and that a woman’s virtue is measured by how much humiliation, betrayal and danger she can endure without speaking.
A woman who truly loves you and wants the best for you in both worlds would never turn deaf ears or a blind eye to wrongdoing by pretending not to see it.
Ka je ka nema ilimi.
Nothing. This is a life damage. He’ll never recover from it as a man. Idan akace Allah ya rufa mana asiri, this kind of thing is included, it’s not just about materialism.
This girl has destroyed this boy for life. This will do nothing to the side chicks, at all.
Some married men ehn??? You have a wife at home, and you’re adding me as a second wife, yet you’re behaving like it’s your first marriage. You don’t even care about how your other wife is feeling. Trying by all means to make your wedding trend.
Doing all sorts of hugging and dancing mtchew.
How will you, as a man give a prostitute the right and balls to disrespect your wife? No matter how bad she is! How dare you!!!
If there was mental evaluation before marriage, many Nigerian men would not pass it. A lot of guys are not fit to be husbands, let alone fathers!
Eww!
Dear Men, please learn to protect your wife at all costs.
Our first son was 4 months old and we decided to go visit my husband's family.
My husband carried our baby using a carrier and I was holding a small hand bag. There was no car then, so we took a bike.
Upon reaching their home, we met my father in law and exchanged pleasantries, my mother in law came and took our baby to put him on her back.
A few hours later it was time to go and something I will never forget happened. My husband went to my mother in law and carried our son and put him in the carrier.
My father in law snapped and said why should it be my husband carrying the baby , that it is the work of his wife not him, he said look at her she's carrying only a hand bag and you're the one carrying the baby stop doing that.
I was so shocked and as I made a move to go collect our baby, my husband said stop right there. I stood still o.
He then turned to his father and said, dad with all due respect sir this is my family, my wife, my son,my future.
This is how I chose to run my home, she carried him for 10 months, went through so much pain to bring him forth, and now it is my turn to also do my part.
His dad said okay, sorry for interfering and that was the end.
Guys at that point, I said to myself, yes, this husband by God's grace I choose am well.
Imagine if he had supported his dad?
Many spouses don't protect their partners from their family members, however you treat him or her before your family is the exact same way they will reciprocate.
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