Customs and traditions differ from one country to another, and the rites of marriage also differ among the peoples of the world, and may vary from country to country within the same country.
Akhbar Al-Youm newspaper had highlighted some of the marriage rituals prevalent among some tribes in the state of India, in one of its issues in 1950 under the title “For men only”. It resorted as follows:
How was a man viewed in the past? And how was his treatment of women in the forties of the last century? .. Lessons provided by “Akhbar Al-Youm” in one of its issues in 1950 under the title “For Men Only.”
Perhaps the most prominent of what was reported by the newspaper in its issue of July 2, 1946, regarding the men:
Wealth does not change the minerals of men, but it reveals them.
It is not a husband who lives at the expense of his wife.
The greatness of a man is manifested in the greatness of the problems he faces and overcomes.
A great man is the one who raises his head in time of adversity. It is a tradition of some Australian peoples that if a man meets his mother-in-law he will spit on the ground.
One of the customs of some Indian tribes is that a man marries his mother-in-law before marrying her daughter.
A journalist asked Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of the President of the United States, this question: How can a man successfully break into a woman’s heart?
Basma replied: He should get used to listening to her empty conversations, even if he had a headache.
The most impactful and shocking lesson among these tramplings prepared by Akhbar Al-Youm in its issue was the customs and rites of marriage in India, where a man must marry his mother-in-law before marrying her daughter, and this custom is found in some tribes of India only.