Mamoudou Sylla English 102 Dr. Alina Gharabegian Summer II 2014 Polygamy: Muslim men’ Perception and Effects on Muslim Women A marriage which is a happy and important event in the life of a couple, a civil act, celebrated in the town hall, or in a place of worship, “marriage” very often leads to heated debates, sometimes within the couple or families of the couple and most of the time within the society in which the couple lives. Despite the reduction of the boundaries between countries, even between continents via the globalization phenomenon, there not an accepted universal form of marriage. For instance, a mention of the word "polygamy” will raise eyebrows; bring some sarcastic comments and bad jokes from the detractors of the practice. …show more content…
First, the verse that has caused to pour a lot of ink and a lot of saliva about polygamy is: " Have two, three or four, but if you fear being unjust, or one of the slaves of fear of being unjust to the widows and their orphans, have one…” (Surratt 4 - Verse 3). Verse No. 129 of the same Surratt clearly says "You can never be fair to women, even if you earnestly desire." So polygamy is directly linked by grammatical construction of a social problem that orphans and widow who are the subject of several verses of the Surratt. Muslims lost seventy men during the Ehud battle, one the furriest and bloodiest of a series of battles during the jihad. The number of Muslim fighters was seven hundreds. So 10% of men in the Muslim community were killed in this battle. Polygamy was a common custom pre-Islamic Arabia, East Africa. The Qur'an had not yet taken a position. If among the seventy Muslims died, some men were polygamous, one can easily imagine the disaster that represents more than 10% of Muslim women, therefore find themselves with no income widows and dependent children for most of them. In this respect, solidarity is needed on one hand, and avoid those widows to fall into adultery temptations in the other hand. The community is very young and administration in the modern sense (including the payment of taxes) had not yet emerged at this time. Muslims then thought to remarry some widows. In this dramatic context, the verse of polygamy was revealed in its specific