Islam & polygamy

[S_87]

Ok lets look at this a different way

Lets say a woman is independent, doesnt need a man to financially support her, looks good is healthy etc etc.

In the West not all such women who are 'potentially great wives' are married. Many have to resort to being mistresses to married men 'a dirty little secret' for whatever reason. Its a fact its HAPPENING. Now someone may say, not every woman is like that-and i totally agree. but there are those women like that, if someone says they havent seen or heard of it then they are lying


at thisoldman
Allah knows best but that is more pettyness than justness.

Now in Islam, theres not space for our sisters to be dirty secrets, if a man and a woman are attracted then Allah gave the woman the rights to have a man in an honourable way. MARRIAGE.

 

[nour elhoda]

There are more women in the world. Men are usually the ones who go to war and these things that is why there is baby booms after war. That aside there are some men who can treat wives equally and there are some women who do not mind sharing their husband. I am not one of them but it doesn't mean they are wrong.

you are totally right , and thats why the permission of polygamy is a great bless from Allah that solves many problems

 

[nour elhoda]

Quick clarification: the mainstream Mormon Church has outlawed polygamy since 1904, as part of their Second Manifesto. Only the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints continue to follow polygamy.

Carry on.

yes totally true .....polygamy is not something initialed in islam , it exists in all the holy religions & it was stopped in christianity under the commands of the church



thaaaank you so much

 

[nour elhoda]

Ok lets look at this a different way

Lets say a woman is independent, doesnt need a man to financially support her, looks good is healthy etc etc.

In the West not all such women who are 'potentially great wives' are married. Many have to resort to being mistresses to married men 'a dirty little secret' for whatever reason. Its a fact its HAPPENING. Now someone may say, not every woman is like that-and i totally agree. but there are those women like that, if someone says they havent seen or heard of it then they are lying


at thisoldman
Allah knows best but that is more pettyness than justness.

Now in Islam, theres not space for our sisters to be dirty secrets, if a man and a woman are attracted then Allah gave the woman the rights to have a man in an honourable way. MARRIAGE.

yes that is really happening

i remember once in one of the TV shows one american girl was asking for approving that law of polygamy as she said " I prefer i shared marriage life than loneliness"


and nowadays the European countries suffer from many social devices that stem from that dirty secret affairs

 

[nour elhoda]

moreover, in Christianity , if you read the bible the 4 versions you would find mention of other prophets who had up to 70 wives like Solomon .

polygamy existed in Judaism, The Old Testament mentions plural marriage as an acceptable variation for the Hebrews, and many of the

Abrahamic prophets and patriarchs had multiple wives, including Lamech, Abraham, Jacob, Esau, Gideon, Saul, David, Solomon, Rehoboam,

Elkanah, Ashur, Abijah and Jehoiada. Some interpretations also suggest Moses had a second wife in Tharbis.

Polygamy was not banned in the Jewish community until about 1000CE by Rabbi Gershom.


polygamy did exist in the bible and in Christianity , it was allowed until it was forbidden by the Roman Catholic church


In the 16th century, there was a Christian re-examination of plural marriages. The founder of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther wrote:

"I confess that I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict the Scripture. If a man wishes to marry more than

one wife he should be asked whether he is satisfied in his conscience that he may do so in accordance with the word of God. In such a case

the civil authority has nothing to do in the matter."[20]



so islam didnt introduce polygamy for the first time

 

[ayesha.ansari]

Well this all conversation is so confusing. Islam allow every thing to be neat and legal not to make some thing illegal and problomatic for the society. SO what ever people think about Islam better is to study what Quran says about it and What you think is right .

 

[Mister Agenda]

I think the laws against polygamy in the USA are too strict. We took about 12,000 Bantu refugees from Somalia; but if a man had more than one wife, he had to divorce all but one or he and his family could not come here. This is such a hardship, disrupting the existing marriage arrangements. I think an exception should be made for immigrants, or at least refugee immigrants. Refugees by definition are in a desperate situation, a regular immigrant might just decide not to come because of the restriction; a refugee might think he must do this to save the lives of his children.

I don't have so much of an issue with the law against marrying more than one person in the USA, but the law requires divorce even if you were married legally to two or more people in another country.

 

[Ramadhan]

Some of the positive effects of polygamy (remember, I am saying polygamy within Islamic context, where the husband must be fair and just to all his wives) is keeping marriages and family units intact, which can only be good for individuals and society in general (and please also note that in Islam, divorce IS allowed, there's even a whole surat devoted to regulate the matters of divorce).

ironically, in the west, polygamy is illegal, while at the same time, most men are having extramarital relationships to the detriments of family units and the inevitable break down of family units and ties that result from them. And in such extramarital relationships, usually it is the woman who become victims and whose rights or their potential children's rights not guaranteed. Contrast that to a marriage where everyone rights is honored.

I don't have so much of an issue with the law against marrying more than one person in the USA,

I thought that as an atheist you would have been against anti polygamy law as it actually is based on christian norm which has no scientific basis, and the law actually infringe on the rights of individuals especially since everyone involved (husband, wives) agree on their own account of entering into polygamous marriage.