DUBAI. Feb 1: A father of 22 sons and 20 daughters says he is working hard to head the biggest family in this Gulf Arab country, reports Reuter.

"If God wills. I may get 60 sons.’ Salim Juma Mubarak, who says he is in his forties, told the Dally Khaleej Times.

The United Arab Emirates national lives with his three Indian wives and 42 children under one roof in the Emi rale of Ras al Khaimah. Three babies are due within the next three months He has four ex-wives.

He says he follows the tenets of Islam and never lives with more than three wives at a time " the paper said of the man who works as a muezzin. railing the fa'thful to prayer

"His family would have been larger had nine boys and girls not died shortly after birth, it said

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