A 63 year old Saudi Arabian Man,Abu Abdullah, referred to as the “polygamist of the century” has claimed to have gotten married 53 times in 43 years in his quest for peace and stability.
He said his decision behind his multiple marriages was not to seek personal pleasure but he was in search of a woman who could make him happy. Most of his Marriages were to Saudi women, but he also married foreigners during his overseas business trips.
In an interview with a Saudi owned media company MBC, 63 year old Abdullah said his first marriage was at the age of 20, and his tenth wife was six years older than him.He also said that the shortest out of his 53 marriages lasted only a single night.He said:
” When I married for the first time, I did not plan to marry more than one woman because I was feeling comfortable and had children. But after a while, problems happened and I decided to marry again when I was 23 years old and I informed my wife of my decision .”
As related by Gulf News, Abdullah stated that as problems began between his two wives, he decided to marry for a third and fourth time and eventually divorced his two wives.He also claimed to have treated all his wives fairly and admitted that even though all his wives were Saudi women, he had married foreign women in foreign lands to protect himself from sinning during his business trips for three to four months.
”Every man in the world wishes to have one woman and remain with her forever..Stability is not to be found with a young woman, but with an old one, Abdullah stated.”
Regardless of his track record, Abdullah is now married to only one woman and has no plans to remarry.This has indeed proved that his decisions did not resolve his search for a woman that could make him happy.
