{"id":1020,"date":"2012-09-17T12:38:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T12:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/rs\/en\/polygamy\/"},"modified":"2012-09-17T12:38:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T12:38:48","slug":"polygamy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r-islam.com\/en\/polygamy\/","title":{"rendered":"Polygamy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-1019\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/rs\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/polygamy-wedding-rings%20copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"377\" height=\"251\" style=\"float: right;\" \/><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Question:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Why is a man allowed to have more than one wife in Islam? i.e. why is polygamy allowed in Islam?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Answer:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>1. Definition of Polygamy<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Polygamy means a system of marriage whereby one person has more than one spouse. Polygamy can be of two types. One is polygyny where a man marries more than one woman, and the other is polyandry, where a woman marries more than one man. In Islam, limited polygyny is permitted; whereas polyandry is completely prohibited. Now coming to the original question, why is a man allowed to have more than one wife?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>2. The Qur\u2019an is the only religious scripture in the world that says, \u201cmarry only one\u201d.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The Qur\u2019an is the only religious book, on the face of this earth, that contains the phrase \u2018marry only one\u2019. There is no other religious book that instructs men to have only one wife. In none of the other religious scriptures, whether it be the Vedas, the Ramayan, the Mahabharat, the Geeta, the Talmud or the Bible does one find a restriction on the number of wives. According to these scriptures one can marry as many as one wishes. It was only later, that the Hindu priests and the Christian Church restricted the number of wives to one.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Many Hindu religious personalities, according to their scriptures, had multiple wives. King Dashrat, the father of Rama, had more than one wife. Krishna had several wives.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">In earlier times, Christian men were permitted as many wives as they wished, since the Bible puts no restriction on the number of wives. It was only a few centuries ago that the Church restricted the number of wives to one.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Polygyny is permitted in Judaism. According to Talmudic law, Abraham had three wives, and Solomon had hundreds of wives. The practice of polygyny continued till Rabbi Gershom ben Yehudah (960 C.E to 1030 C.E) issued an edict against it. The Jewish Sephardic communities living in Muslim countries continued the practice till as late as 1950, until an Act of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel extended the ban on marrying more than one wife.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">(*Interesting Note:- As per the 1975 census of India Hindus are more polygynous than Muslims. The report of the \u2018Committee of The Status of Woman in Islam\u2019, published in 1975 mentions on page numbers 66 and 67 that the percentage of polygamous marriages between the years 1951 and 1961 was 5.06% among the Hindus and only 4.31% among the Muslims.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">According to Indian law only Muslim men are permitted to have more than one wife. It is illegal for any non-Muslim in India to have more than one wife. Despite it being illegal, Hindus have more multiple wives as compared to Muslims. Earlier, there was no restriction even on Hindu men with respect to the number of wives allowed. It was only in 1954, when the Hindu Marriage Act was passed that it became illegal for a Hindu to have more than one wife. At present it is the Indian Law that restricts a Hindu man from having more than one wife and not the Hindu scriptures.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Let us now analyse why Islam allows a man to have more than one wife.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>3. Qur\u2019an permits limited polygyny<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">As I mentioned earlier, Qur\u2019an is the only religious book on the face of the earth that says \u2018marry only one\u2019. The context of this phrase is the following verse from<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Surah Nisa of the Glorious Qur\u2019an:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u201c<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Marry women of your choice, two, or three, or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one.<\/span>\u201d [Al-Qur\u2019an 4:3]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Before the Qur\u2019an was revealed, there was no upper limit for polygyny and many men had scores of wives, some even hundreds. Islam put an upper limit of four wives. Islam gives a man permission to marry two, three or four women, only on the condition that he deals justly with them.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">In the same chapter i.e. Surah Nisa verse 129 says:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u201c<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Ye are never able to be fair and just as between women&#8230;.<\/span>\u201d [Al-Qur\u2019an 4:129]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Therefore polygyny is not a rule but an exception. Many people are under the misconception that it is compulsory for a Muslim man to have more than one wife.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Broadly, Islam has five categories of Do\u2019s and Don\u2019ts:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">(i) \u2018Fard\u2019 i.e. compulsory or obligatory<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">(ii) \u2018Mustahab\u2019 i.e. recommended or encouraged<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">(iii) \u2018Mubah\u2019 i.e. permissible or allowed<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">(iv) \u2018Makruh\u2019 i.e. not recommended or discouraged<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">(v) \u2018Haraam\u2019 i.e. prohibited or forbidden<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Polygyny falls in the middle category of things that are permissible. It cannot be said that a Muslim who has two, three or four wives is a better Muslim as compared to a Muslim who has only one wife.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>4. Average life span of females is more than that of males<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">By nature males and females are born in approximately the same ratio. A female child has more immunity than a male child. A female child can fight the germs and diseases better than the male child. For this reason, during the pediatric age itself there are more deaths among males as compared to the females. During wars, there are more men killed as compared to women. More men die<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">due to accidents and diseases than women. The average life span of females is more than that of males, and at any given time one finds more widows in the world than widowers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>5. India has more male population than female due to female<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">foeticide and infanticide India is one of the few countries, along with the other neighbouring countries, in which the female population is less than the male population. The reason lies in the high rate of female infanticide in India, and the fact that more than one million female foetuses are aborted every year in this country, after they are identified as females. If this evil practice is stopped, then India too will have more females as compared to males.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>6. World female population is more than male population<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">In the USA, women outnumber men by 7.8 million. New York alone has one million more females as compared to the number of males, and of the male population of New York one-third are gays i.e sodomites. The U.S.A as a whole has more than twenty-five million gays. This means that these people do not wish to marry women. Great Britain has four million more females as compared to males. Germany has five million more females as compared to males. Russia has nine million more females than males. God alone knows how many million more females there are in the whole world as compared to males.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>7. Restricting each and every man to have only one wife is not practical<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Even if every man got married to one woman, there would still be more than thirty million females in U.S.A who would not be able to get husbands (considering that America has twenty five million gays). There would be more than four million females in Great Britain, 5 million females in Germany and nine million females in Russia alone who would not be able to find a husband. Suppose my sister happens to be one of the unmarried women living in USA, or suppose your sister happens to be one of the unmarried women in USA. The only two options remaining for her are that she either marries a man who already has a wife or becomes &#8216;public property&#8217;. There is no other option. All those who are modest will opt for the first.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Most women would not like to share their husband with other women. But in Islam when the situation deems it really neccessary Muslim women in due faith could bear a small personal loss to prevent a greater loss of letting other Muslim sisters becoming &#8216;public properties&#8217;.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>8. Marring a married man preferable to becoming &#8216;public property&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">In Western society, it is common for a man to have mistresses and\/or multiple extra-marital affairs, in which case, the woman leads a disgraceful, unprotected life. The same society, however, cannot accept a man having more than one wife, in which women retain their honourable, dignified position in society and lead a protected life. Thus the only two options before a woman who cannot find a husband is to marry a married man or to become &#8216;public property&#8217;. Islam prefers giving women the honourable position by permitting the first option and disallowing the second.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">There are several other reasons, why Islam has permitted limited polygyny, but it is mainly to protect the modesty of women.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.803px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">www.irf.net<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Question: Why is a man allowed to have more than one wife in Islam? i.e. why is polygamy allowed in Islam? 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