Multiple Marriages
Lot of good dialog. A few bullet points. -Quran seems to dicourage multiple wives, but puts no restrictions on having multiple wives to ensure when cultural, economical or societal needs dictate, there is no hinderance from Allah. Although it seems like there is a restriction on having more than 4 wives, I am of the opinion that there is likely no restriction on the number of wives. -Multiple marriage in Islam is to help the society. Multiple marriages is not soleley for pleasure purposes, but to also help poor, divorced, widowed or generally to help women who are having difficulty getting married otherwise. This is to make sure that women are taken care of and to reduce immorality in the society. -The question whether women like to share a husband or not is a cultural issue. This is not universal. Wouldn’t it be better for a women as a last resort to share a husband, being financially taken care of than never getting married, struggling financially or turning towards immorality. – Also it is the fact that females are born more in numbers than male children. Female lifespan is longer too. More male die due to wars and disease. For this reason most times there are more females than male. When such situation arises, marrying multiple wives can really help the society. – Finally can a man love all wives equally? The answer is NO, but a good person will try to make sure it is not apparent or there is no extreme bias. A good person will try to treat them equally as much as possible.