y muslims can have 4 wives?
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One of the condition that Quran allows more than wife is that you treat them equally. These verse were orginally revealed regarding orphans, when there were many in the society and polygamy was required to have these girls to get a married life.\n"If you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans, Marry women of your choice, Two or three or four; but if you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one" Quran 4: 3. \n\nBut Quran also states in another place that it is very difficult to treat equally\n"You are never able to be fair and just as between wifes, even if it is your ardent desire: " Quran 4:129. \n\nSo there is an indirect reference to have only one wife but in rare circumstances more than one can be married. As pointed by above answers when male population in a society is less than females, polgamy may be required to have all the women lead a family life.
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When Prophet married more than 4, it was not yet forbidden. \n\nMOST OF THE PROPHETS WIFE WERE WIDOWED\n\nMarriage to a widow was a curse in Arabia as well in other major parts of the world such as India. In most of these societies a widow was considered more like a pariah or curse for the entire family. By marrying them he was setting a precedent to reverse the taboo of widow marriage. \nSecondly, he was paying back his due to some of the companions who had perished in battles leaving behind widows with children, just as he was also seeking to unify the Arab tribes.\n\nThe Prophet's marriages proved to be one of the means of achieving his mission of unifying Arabs. \n\nA still important factor to consider: The most sexually active phase in anyone’s life is before he reaches the age of fifty. We must remember that in this phase, the Prophet had only one wife, Khadijah, who was fifteen years older than him and a widow twice. The Prophet married her when he was twenty-five and she was forty years. \n\nIt was only after her death and in Madinah, after he had dedicated himself to the task of building a nation, that he married a number of women belonging to different Arab clans, most of them were widows.  Such a function of marriage is inconceivable for us today. It is wrong to judge them by the standards of our modern secular values and ideals. \n\n===================\n\nThe founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which\nhuman greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he? " [Lamartine, Historie de la Turquie, Paris 1854, Vol. 11 pp. 276-2727]
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are you just jealous you don't have four wives?
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First it is not many it is only 4!!\nAllah allowed us to marry 4 wives but also we are warned to be very carefuk about this issue and only take this step if there is no hope at all in this wife whatever the fault might be and since the worst legal thing to do is divorce it is taken as the last option at all and it's better not to consider it\nAs the Islam tells us we must be able to marry and carry all the burdons but also Islam warned us that we will never be fair to the wives whatever we do but we must try our best
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It is a matter of record that some of the OT people had many wives. But what is recorded in the Bible should not be confused with what is approved and commended in the Bible. Polygamy was never God's original intention for man.
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Allah is saying that you can marry the slaves not to have sex with them.Allah  allows sex just between a husband and his wife. \n[4:23] Prohibited to you (for marriage) are: your mothers, daughters, sisters; father's sisters, mother's sisters; brother's daughters, sister's daughters; foster-mothers (who gave you suck), foster-sisters; your wives' mothers; your step-daughters under your guardianship, born of your wives to whom ye have gone, no prohibition if ye have not gone in; (those who have been) wives of your sons proceeding from your loins; and two sisters in wedlock at one and the same time, except for what is past; for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. \n\n[4:24] Also (prohibited are) women already married, except those whom your right hands possess: thus hath Allah ordained (prohibitions) against you: except for these, all others are lawful, provided ye seek (them in marriage) with gifts from your property, desiring chastity, not lust. Seeing that ye derive benefit from them, give them their dowers (at least) as prescribed; but if, after a dower is prescribed, ye agree mutually (to vary it), there is no blame on you, and Allah is All-Knowing All-Wise. \n\nI hope that I made it clear for you and thank you for asking such an interesting question.
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Have you ever heard of polygamy involving more than one husband? I like it about as much as the idea of a threesome with two women. Don't men have enough problems with just one wife?
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you can only have a maximum of four wives at one time if you can treat them all equally
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well you don't see like a guy  who is ready to settle down with just one lady, if you have 7 at the same time i will be sorry for each and one of them.\ni hope they see this and  leave you all alone cos you don't deserve to be with a woman, you can't respect a woman \nsorry
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How many wives did God give Adam?
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God created Adam and Eve, not Adam, Eve, Jane, Mary-Ann, Sally, etc...  God created marriage between ONE man and ONE woman...  Muslims have a perverted God's creation and made it corrupted in having many wives.  Just because they do it doesn't make it right.
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It is easier to have one woman married to two men that way you share the pms...\nit is against the law in most countries to marry more than one person with out divorcing the first
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I'm a Muslim woman and i totally agree with you.\nIslam dignified the women.\nthanks God cause i'm Muslim
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The last answer is completely true. Whatever religion you might happen to be, polygamy is a punishable crime in Turkey. To be accepted legally, all marriages must be performed by a civil servant (not an imam) and they will run a background check to make sure you are not married. Where it happens that people have more than one wife, only one (if any) are legally accepted as such and can claim benefits, etc. In any country in the world, you can live with several women 'as your wives'; there is nothing a government can do to stop that.\n\nI'm not an expert on the Ottoman Empire, but I believe that, as Muslims at the time were subject to a legal system based partly on Shariah, Muslims would have been able to take more than one wife. That's just a guess. But certainly forbidding polygamy was one of the first acts of the modern Turkish Republic.\n\nAnybody who tells you differently is just talking out their a......
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Not much muslims... others do it to.\n\nThere spoce to be three handfastings for exsample, the third being the final one and anytime before that you can back out of doing another.\n\nIt makes sence realy though. Just look at the devorce rate!\n\nHow many of thise people would have gotten married for rearl if they where forced to do a temporary marriage first?
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Actually i don't really understand your question .. but I'll answer it as if you are asking about "Why men marry 4 women in Islam and why women can't marry 4 men?" ... OK? ...\n\nFirst of all ... Islam is the only religion that said "marry only one" ... and the proof from Quran is:\n4:3\n"And if you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly with the orphan girls, then marry (other) women of your choice, two or three, or four but if you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly (with them), THEN ONLY ONE or (the captives and the slaves) that your right hands possess. That is nearer to prevent you from doing injustice."\n\nand although Muslim man is allowed to treat his slave(s) or his captive(s) as his wife ... he should not do that against their will ... an dthe proof from Quran is :\n\n24:33\n"And let those who find not the financial means for marriage keep themselves chaste, until Allah enriches them of His Bounty. And such of your slaves as seek a writing (of emancipation), give them such writing, if you know that they are good and trustworthy. And give them something yourselves out of the wealth of Allah which He has bestowed upon you. And force not your maids to prostitution, if they desire chastity, in order that you may make a gain in the (perishable) goods of this worldly life. But if anyone compels them (to prostitution), then after such compulsion, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful (to those women, i.e. He will forgive them because they have been forced to do this evil action unwillingly)."\n\nNow ... teh reasons why men CAN (not should) marry 4 women is:\n1- sexual desire at men is stronger than women ... \n\n2- if his wife has a desease or anything that makes him unable to treat her normally as a wife , but he wishs not to divorce her ...\n\n3- man can make parrallel sexual relationships .. and we can still recognize the father ... while woman cannot make parallel sexual relationship because of the responsibility of the relations (taking care of each husband as a wife and all of the children as a mother .. get pregnant .. needed as a wife for each of them !!!) ... and it's going to be hard to recognize the father ...\n\nbesides it has been proven lately that women with parallel sexual relationships get the womp canser ...\n\n4- women numbers are getting greater than men numbers due to wars and natural desastars ... so eventually there is going to be alot of women with no men if a man doesn't marry except one ...\n\nso these women has only one way to get sexual relationships which is to be prostitutes for married men ... which ruins the already established relationships "stable marriages" and makes men do sexual relations aoutside marriage which is forbidden as a major sin...\n\nso if men married tehse women ... it will be better for everyone ... \n\nactually in my country we are getting near to that problem ... where girls are getting near 30 and even over 30 and didn't get married yet because women outnumbered men ...\n\ni hope i answered your question .. with my best regards...
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Yup, that's true!\nhttp://www.anwary-islam.com/women/pwife_aisha.htm  from one of their own sites.