Investigation ( Iwaadi) This is a concept that has practically extinct in our times, and if still exists, has been relegated to minor areas of less importance. Iwaadi is a set of questions and findings done by the parents (especially the mother) of the groom after he informs them of his intentions to marrying a particular girl, and prior to the formal proposer that initially would be done by them. Iwaadi is a very important step in the marriages of our ancestors, it determines if the love of the young-lovers would actually turn into a roller-coaster or would fall down into becoming a nightmare. Iwaadi consists of series of questions about the bride’s family. These questions would be posted at friends and neighbors of the bride’s family, question such as; what type of illness do they suffer from? What kind of relations do they keep with people? Are they nice? Are they chaste? Does their mother fights with their father? Is the girl modest and gentle? e.t.c… Iwaadi also usually consisted of going to Ifa priest (a kind of psychic) to seek for the horoscope and future predictions of the-would-be-couples, this concept, however, was really a sham since we now clearly know through the divinely revealed religion(s) that no one knows the future except Almighty God. If at the end of the research, the results were positives the next step would be taken.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 03:46:14 +0000
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