[quote="DANGIRL"]t has become irrelevant in this day and age.[/quote]
well its not just the 7th century, anytime there are major wars, women and children do not have the husband/father figures as they are the ones fighting....
it hasn't become irrelevant, in fact, it is a halal solution to man. Allah SWT knows man and his tendencies as he has created them.
and you are right scholars prefer monogamy over polygamy, because we all know men cannot treat them equally and Allah SWT already warns that in the Qur'an, but it is permissible and should be done with a just intent in the beginning and just effort throughout
but look at society, men fukk around and cheat with no regard for their wife. If he has two wives and has relations with both, he isn't an adulterer and he isn't a cheat.
Now you are a girl and you cannot fathom sharing your husband, and I understand that 100%. I'd feel uneasy if my pops had another wife, I really would.
But you cannot just throw away something that Allah SWT has made permissible, if you do that, you may as well throw away the rest of the Qur'an. Wouldn't you rather your husband come up to you and ask your permission to marry a 2nd wife instead of him going behind your back and cheating? Which one would hurt you more abaayo?
you know in the days leading up to Youm Al Qiyamah, so many men will die in battles/wars/ect/ect and women will increase
it would be worse than the 7th century or any other time with women approaching the ratio of 50:1 in terms of the population
whats your solution then? so many people not marrying? lesbian/faggotry?
polygamy would be the only solution and it would be the most just solution for women in that period of time
the reason it seems such a foreign idea today is because of the globalization of the Western world and its customs throughout the globe. People have committed adultery throughout times obv, but there is a culture that glorifies it and premarital sex like it is nothing.
Monogamy is useless if the man will cheat and go behind the back of his wife, the relationship is over when that happens and the man is following shaydaan. Atleast with the process of polygamy and the rules of marriage laid out in the Qur'an, you have the halal solution of divorce if you don't want to share your husband or you have the halal solution of letting your husband have a second wife with your knowledge
Nabi Muhammad Sallahu Alayhi Wasallam used to pray in one of his prayers to Allah SWT by saying in Arabic "Allah humma innaka taalamu be anni aadiloo bima astatee', wa lakinnee la aadiloo bima la astatee'," or "Dear Allah, you are well aware that I try to be just with all I can, but I can't be just with what I can't."
Something Allah SWT made permissible is done in his wisdom, so better believe that calamity will strike and things that may seem "old and backwards" to you may just become what the world needs during its last hours..
Overall I agree with you polygamy isn't REQUIRED in Islam. It is something made to combat social or human ills. And The Qur'an makes it clear that no human will ever be able to treat them all justly, and the du'a from our noble Nabi Sallahu Alayhi Wasallam also proves that
and my post I try to put it in today's content where sex sells
marriage should be more than about sex...
