MSSN cautions women against exposing marital issues on social media
The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) has cautioned Muslim women against constant exposure of their private marital issues on social media.
Alhaja Balqees Owolewa, MSSN’s Women Coordinator in Lagos State, gave the warning on Sunday while speaking at the 2026 edition of the association’s “Ummahat Day”.
Supreme news reports that the theme of the programme, organised by the state unit of MSSN, is ” Living the Vow”.
Owolewa said many homes had suffered owing to flawed and inapplicable online counselling, adding constant sharing of “marital wins” on social media had also damaged homes.
The Co-ordinator said it was high time Muslim women faced the realities of marriage, urging them to focus on what truly matters and shun what could affect their homes.
Omolewa said the programme was organised to inspire women to build and maintain peaceful Islamic homes.
“The choice of this theme centres on inspiring married women to make a sincere pledge to Allah toward building successful Islamic homes.
“It aims to equip us with practical tools to strengthen and enrich our relationships while guiding us away from the unrealistic expectations shaped by culture, movies, and social media.
“As we strive to maintain peaceful homes, let us be cautious not to take our private marital issues to social media or over-share our wins there,” she said.
The coordinator prayed for tranquility, mercy, and lasting companionship in homes.
Speaking on the approaching month of Ramadan, Omolewa urged Muslims to use the month to bless others and forgive those who had wronged them.
She urged them to use the time to soften their hearts, control their emotions, increase kindness toward their spouses and children, and transform their homes into sanctuaries of worship.
Also speaking, the Director-General, Office of the Education Quality Assurance of the state government, Dr Suleiman Ogunmuyiwa, urged husbands to continue to love their wives because” if marriage fails, it is on their heads”
According to him, marriage is like a company with the husband as the Chief Executive Officer, wife as assistant manager and the children as workers.
“So if the company collapses then it is the CEO that will get fired first so every husband is the CEO and they should try as much as possible to keep their home intact .
“For the in-laws, they are third parties, even though they have an impact on the marriage, but they should allow the couples to live their lives the way they want it.” he said.
Ogunmuyiwa said communication is every important in a marriage and that issues are best resolved by partners themselves.
He warned against taking issues to social media, urging couples to seek trusted third parties to resolve their issues, only if they could not resolve the issues on their own.
Also speaking, the Guest Lecturer, Imam Sanni Kayode Yusuf, said life comes with challenges ,and that marriage experiences both good and bad times.
Yusuf u urged Muslim men and women to abide by Allah’s rules and regulations on marital issues.
The cleric also warned against taking marital issues to social media or seeking what he called online help.
He said: ‘”Social media has its good and the bad side, we cannot throw away the bad water with the baby, but the truth is that social media has caused a lot of harm than good to marriage.
” There are bloggers on the social media followed by couples ,which are not worthy to be followed.
“What they teach and write is out- of- place, and these are the people we recognise in our society as celebrities. So social media is good and at the same time it causes harm to our marriages.”
Also speaking, one of the participants,Miss Rofiat Tijani,urged couples to put everything before God and allow Him to see them through in their marriages.
Tijani blamed the high rate of divorce in the society on non-adherence to Allah’s dictates on marriage.
She said marriages would experience peace if couples place Allah’s vow over human vows, and live by it.
“When we put every thing before God alone, He will surely do more than what we seek, but when we give vow on the platter of promises to each other, then problems will surely occur.” she said
