Women In Islam 14 - Answering Polygamy Questions - Part 1

Aired on March 13, 2008.
This episode featured answering a problematic question from a sister's concern for her husband's taking on a second wife.

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• Islam
• Qur'an
• Muhammad
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• marriage
• women
• polygamy
• second
• wife

[naazamk]

I am not asking you to go and ask your husbands to take another wife, but I am asking you to accept this as a natural, acceptable, even preferable practice of Islam. If you are stronger in your faith, I see only blessings in asking your husband to help out a sister in need by marrying her. Imagine yourself a single mother, an unmarried woman past her prime, or a widow, alone without support.

[naazamk]

Sisters, we are so caught up in this idea that we possess our men, that even the second or third wife feels she has a right to prevent the inclusion of another into the relationship that benefitted her. Where are our minds? Where is our faith in Allah’s Wisdom? Where is our submission to the Will of Allah? Where is our love for each other? Where is the wanting for our sisters what we want for ourselves, namely family, love and happiness?