The name I have been carrying since I was a child is Zaynab Aliyu Gwarzo. My father is originally from GWARZO town in Kano state and is called Malam Ali Mai Almajirai. Malam Ali is well known in and around Gwarzo village for his ability to provide cures for diseases related to demons from the Holy Quran.
Apart from the medicine he provides, he teaches thousands of almajirai, and is a renowned farmer and shepherd. He owns five large farms, raising livestock such as chickens, ducks, geese, ostriches, ducks, geese, goats and others.
Malam Ali is also a man of great integrity and generosity, anyone who spends a night in Gwarzo town knows this. In Gwarzo town as a whole, Malam Ali is a prominent figure who is highly respected and valued. From where do you say you are looking for Malam Ali’s house, will you be called “Mai Almajirai?” From all over Gwarzo town, processions will be held to the house of Malam Ali Mai Almajirai.
Malam Ali had three wives, but none of them gave birth to a child, except for his wife Inna Dubu who gave birth to Umar-Faruk. She gave birth to nine children, all of whom died in infancy (wabi).
From Inna Dubu came Inna Rakiya, then Innata, Rabi. Rabi was the last wife of Malam, Buzuwa, who was my mother and it was in her hands that I was raised.
The origin of Innata's marriage to Malam was that she brought her for medical treatment, as Malam was a man who was friendly with different people from all over the Hausa country and its surroundings, big businessmen, politicians, scholars and senior government officials would come to him for help in their affairs, and they saw real benefit in his help, from different towns patients were brought to him for whom he had a section in his house.
He used to give names to the market, diseases that plagued humanity, especially those related to demons, to everyday diseases. That is why you would always see our door full of modern cars, one coming in and the other going out.
That is what brought him together with Alhaji Sani Buzu, a famous leather trader and politician from Yamai, Niger. He came to Kano specifically to seek treatment for his daughter, who had been suffering from demonic disease, along with her younger sister Nuratu.
It was in Kano that he heard about Malam Ali through a friend of his, a Niger trader in Kano, who had also come to seek help from Malam Ali. Alhaji Sani did not know anyone in Kano, and he never visited or stayed there except on Rabi’s request. There was a lot of love between him and his two children, Rabi and Nuratu, whose mother had died and left him, and since her death he had not remarried.
He brought Rabi to Kano with the sole purpose of seeking treatment. Malam Ali, he is not a healer of the insane, unless the illness is minor and affects the jinn, he can separate the person from them in a few verses from the Holy Quran.
He brought Rabi and her sister Nuratu to Malam Ali's house for two weeks and she was treated, fortunately her illness was minor, in a short time Malam Ali separated her from them.
To his delight, Alhaji Sani said that he could say whatever he wanted as long as it was not more than he could give or do for him. Malam Ali's mouth opened and he said, even if you didn't give me anything, why did you marry me Rabi Mana? He is better than anything you can give me, I don't accept any reward for work except charity where it is needed.
Alhaji Sani's body went cold, because he had never brought to his mind the request that Malam Ali would ask for, he would have almost not started this nonsense.
His mind was blown, the children who had never been to Kano, or even the word "zo" in Hausa, could not live without their sister, there was a real love and affection between Rabi and Nuratu.
There, Yamai was with his mother, hoping to get married this year before the elections he was seeking in their state (Damagaram).
He praised the life of Malam Ali and his family, he did not look down on them at all, they were in good clothes and hats and covered in secrets, but Rabin wondered if she would agree, how could he go with Nuratu without Rabi.
Surprisingly, when Rabin was contacted, she immediately agreed, this was no small surprise, because Malam Ali gave birth to Rabi's third child.
She or Nuratu said that she would follow her sister's footsteps, that is, she would not follow Baban. Malam Ali also promised to treat Nuratu like Faruk until she married her.
