Do you know the condition of the people at the time the order
came to restrict the number of wives? (Restricted to only
four)
Men used to bury their daughters alive in the sand, out of shame
for having something so low instead of a son.
Women were treated horribly with disgust.
Men could marry as many as they liked and often owned women like
cattle or sheep.
There were no laws to protect the women and they had no rights at
all.
Islam is about rights.
Children also have rights in Islam.
When a man dies his wealth is left to his family. How could the
court know who to give the wealth of a man, if he was one of
several husbands to a woman?
How would a child know who his father was?
No society ever supported the concept of a woman being married to
two or more men at the same time. Almost every society supported
the concept of a man having more than one woman.
Islam came to set things straight.
Women were given rights.
Men were strictly ordered to treat their women with the very best
of treatment.
First of all, the men had to divorce their wives, if they had more
than four. So this was not an order to go out and get four wives.
It was an order to begin limitations. And the first limitation was;
No more than four.
Second, the limitation of equal treatment for all of them. How
could a man keep more than one wife unless he was exceedingly
wealthy and/or exceedingly strong and virile?
Next, the limitation very clearly states; ".. but if you fear that
you shall not be able to deal justly (with them) then only one
..."
Step by step, the men of Islam have come to be known today as the
most monogamous of all men on earth. (we only have one wife)
Check for yourself and see. In the majority of all the Muslim homes
on earth, a man gets married once, to one woman and then he stays
married to her until the death of either himself or his wife.
It is strange isn't it, a society like America, that condones
having sex without marriage, homosexuality, same sex marriages, sex
without responsibility, children without fathers and divorces are
more common place than the measles or chicken pox, would be so
concerned about the way Islam demands that a couple be married, the
man actually work instead of the woman and the woman owns her own
property without giving anything for the support of the house or
the child, a child has the right to his or her own mother raising
them instead of a baby sitter or day care, father must support his
children, divorce is hated, marriage is sanctified.
