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On 26 mar, 23:46, "Jean_Dominique" yahoo.com> wrote:

Why is a man allowed to have more than one wife in Islam

1. 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?

2. The Qur’an is the only religious scripture in the world that says,"marry only one".

The Qur’an is the only religious book, on the face of this earth, that contains the phrase
‘marry only one’. 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.

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.

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.

Laws of Rape (Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT)

If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay
fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated
her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.

Death to the Rape Victim (Deuteronomy 22:23-24 NAB)

If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her,
you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl
because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he
violated his neighbors wife.

David's Punishment - Polygamy, Rape, Baby Killing, and God's "Forgiveness" (2 Samuel 12:11-14 NAB)

Thus says the Lord: 'I will bring evil upon you out of your own house. I will take your
wives [plural] while you live to see it, and will give them to your neighbor. He shall lie
with your wives in broad daylight. You have done this deed in secret, but I will bring it
about in the presence of all Israel, and with the sun looking down.'

Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." Nathan answered David: "The
Lord on his part has forgiven your sin: you shall not die. But since you have utterly spurned
the Lord by this deed, the child born to you must surely die." [The child dies seven days later.]

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