Recent federal statistics, issued by the state courts, revealed that the number of cases of marriage between citizens and foreigners increased by 29% in the UAE during the past two years, compared to the previous two years, while the percentage rose to 57% of the total number of marriages held in Dubai. During the same period, the matter was considered by a member of the National Council, Hamad Ahmed Al-Rahoumi, to “raise fears,” explaining that it would “produce extremely dangerous social effects.”
Officials and specialists confirmed that “the increase in cases of marriage of citizens to foreign women negatively affects the identity of society,” explaining that it has “negative repercussions on the income of the citizen husband, especially if a separation occurs between him and his wife, and he – that is, the husband – becomes blamed by his family and society for his marriage to a woman.” Strange to his environment.
According to the same statistics, the number of marriages between male and female citizens across the country during the past two years amounted to 7,401 marriages, compared to 2,159 marriages of citizens to foreign women.
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To view a chart showing marriage rates, Please click on this link. 3 solutions Professor of Islamic Culture and Emirates Society, at the Canadian University in Dubai, Dr. Saif Al Jabri, identified three solutions to the problem, saying that a family education program should be established while performing national service, since young people go to it at early stages of life, specifically before engagement or marriage. Focus should also be placed on the segment of students at the university level, because schools do not teach this family culture, in addition to focusing on the importance of female citizens, given that they are the most capable of being nurturing mothers for their husbands before their children. He called for girls to be made aware of the importance of their role in building a family, before looking for a job. |
The statistics showed that the number of marriage contracts in Abu Dhabi reached 3,034 contracts, including 874 marriages between a citizen and a foreigner, and the number in Dubai reached 1,158 contracts, including 661 marriages between a citizen and a foreigner, and the number of contracts in Sharjah reached 1,283 contracts, including 237 marriages between a citizen and a foreigner. Ajman: 410 contracts, including 163 marriages between a citizen and a foreigner. The number in Ras Al Khaimah reached 781 marriage contracts, including 154 marriage contracts between a citizen and a foreigner, and in Fujairah the number reached 602 contracts, including 49 marriages to a foreigner, and in Umm Al Quwain the number reached 133 contracts, including 21 marriages to a foreigner.
Al-Rahoumi told Al-Emarat Al-Youm that he is not calling for preventing citizens from marrying foreign women, “perhaps there was equality in marriage, or the citizen had certain circumstances or needs.” We must not deny that we have successful marriages, but there is no monitoring of them by the concerned authorities, despite there being a real need to monitor them, especially in terms of age groups, ways of getting to know each other, whether the wife is a Muslim or not, and whether she is of an Arab nationality or not. “Arabic.”
He added that the wife will – in one way or another – receive financial support from the Emirati government, and if a child occurs from the marriage, the child will be an Emirati. The results of this marriage are represented by Emirati children, who must speak Arabic, be aware of our customs and traditions, and be Muslims.
Al-Rahoumi stressed that he does not seek to interfere in the personal freedom of citizens, but calls on federal bodies, such as the “Marriage Fund,” to follow up on this phenomenon and contribute to developing solutions for it that guarantee the comfort of citizens, and this begins with the role that the “Fund” is supposed to undertake, Before the marriage is concluded, not after it, and the role of the “fund” should not be reduced, until it becomes merely a “cashier” that disburses money, after completing the required papers.
Al-Rahoumi revealed numbers and facts that he described as “shocking,” saying: “In Dubai, we have a rate of 57% of marriages between citizens and foreign women, followed by the Emirate of Ajman with a rate of 39.8%, then the capital Abu Dhabi with a rate of 28.8%, then the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah with a rate of 19.7%. The Emirate of Sharjah has a rate of 18.5%, then the Emirate of Umm Al Quwain has a rate of 15.9%, and finally the Emirate of Fujairah by 8.1%.
He stressed: “In general, citizens married foreign women at a rate of 29.1% during the past two years.”
He continued: “We will discover the outcome of this situation within the next 10 years. It is possible that we will have 50% of citizens with foreign mothers, including Muslims and non-Muslims, Arabs and others. This human product will be added to our problems related to demographics, and the matter really needs intervention.” “Instantaneous monitoring and analysis of the situation, numbers and expected results, and the development of effective visions and solutions.”
But the head of the sociology department at the UAE University, Dr. Saad Abdullah Al-Kubaisi, saw that “marriage is a personal matter, and the citizen has the right to marry whomever he wants, from anywhere in the world, and no one has the right to determine for him whom he should marry, as this is a private matter.”
For his part, Dr. Saif Al Jabri, professor of Islamic culture and Emirati society at the Canadian University in Dubai, linked the increasing phenomenon of citizens marrying foreign women to the rise in the divorce rate.
He called for work to “address this problem, by overcoming the difficulties facing a male citizen marrying a female citizen, and highlighting that foreigners are the beneficiaries of that marriage. When a citizen’s wife gives birth to her first child, she obtains social and legal immunity.”
He continued: “With my long experience in the family field, as a legal official and social reformer, I have lived through many stories, and I refused to marry citizens to foreign women. I have experienced many cases of failure of this type of marriage, but the citizen did not realize what he was waiting for until after “It’s too late.” Al-Jabri stressed: “I have advised many people about to get married, and I tirelessly strive to advise young people, and ask them for advice and istikhaarah before consummating the marriage. I hope that parents – who are helpless – will pay attention to the high rate of spinsterhood among female citizens, as the matter is related to the increase in the costs of marriage, and not Colts.”
Al-Jabri stressed that “our society – with its great openness to the world – must not neglect the role of the family, and emphasize this role, and if a woman has to choose between marriage and a job, she must choose marriage, because it is the foundation of society, and a woman’s original job is motherhood, forming a family and raising it, and we do not want female employees, Rather, we want working mothers.”
Openness of society
On the other hand, the Dean of the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Sharjah, Dr. Ahmed Falah Al-Amoush, said that “the marriage of a male citizen to a female citizen enhances national identity and community cohesion, also contributes to consolidating Arab and Islamic values and culture, and fills the gap in the problem of the increasing rate of spinsterhood among female citizens.” .
Al-Amoush considered that the main reason for the increase in the rate of citizens marrying foreign women is due to the openness of society, in addition to the high costs of local weddings, which the government has begun to confront through the idea of mass weddings, which represents one of the best Arab social initiatives.
He pointed out that “some young men have a different perception of foreign women, especially those of some nationalities, and marriage may seem easy at first, but it soon produces negative effects that harm the children, especially if marriage causes the husband to distance himself from his Islamic and Arab culture, and distance him from The customs and traditions of his society, as he will soon yearn for his identity, while the wife tries to drag him into her culture and the culture of her society, and from here a civilizational conflict arises, which may threaten the entire family. By disintegration and collapse.”
He called on Emirati families to “invest in educated, cultured young people, regardless of their financial ability, and to facilitate marriage procedures and ceremonies, in order to preserve national identity and our solid Arab and Islamic customs, which is the first solution to this problem.”
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