1. Women
  2. Polygamy

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  • The Second Wife

    The mysteries of the human self is an ambiguous world that only Allah The Exalted knows the essence of. This self varies from one person to another, and even a single human self is in itself subjected to changes from time to time. It is also influenced by new things, whether feelings or opinions, which change its state. All this is contingent on the.. More

  • Polygny: The Sharee‘ah Perspective and Reality

    A French historian believes that the West should legalize polygny in order to solve its moral problems. Indonesian women demand the legalization of polygny in order to prevent their husbands from having extramarital affairs.Egyptian women consider polygny to be the answer to the problem of unmarried women. Tunisian law prohibits polygny and permits.. More

  • Islam and polygamy -II

    Polygamy, in the sense of having more than one wife at the same time, has been one of the chief issues due to which severe criticism has been directed against Islam. Non-Muslims decry Islam for permitting polygamy and allowing a man to have up to four wives at the same time, thus debasing women and slighting their status in society. It should be made.. More

  • Polygyny is the Original Rule

    Polygyny is the basic rule; however, the ruling of polygyny differs according to the circumstances and conditions of every man. Restricting polygyny to cases where the first wife is sick or old is considered unjustly narrowing that which is wide. The phenomenon of polygyny was widespread during the period of Jaahiliyyah (pre-Islamic era) and.. More

  • Egyptian Women's Association Calls for Polygny

    At a time when the Egyptian women's associations resisted polygny and called for a personal status law to ban it, despite the wide-scale turmoil that was raised in the wake of a popular Egyptian soap opera that presented a positive image of polygny, a journalist by the name of Hayaam Darbak, surprised Egyptian society by establishing a women's association.. More

  • Islam and polygamy -I

    Polygamy is defined in many dictionaries as: “Any person (male or female) may unconditionally marry unlimited number spouses at the same time." This means that a male or female may marry an unlimited number of spouses at the same time. In other cultures and faiths, a male may marry an unlimited number of wives at the same time, for any reason,.. More