AG.

Men with more than one woman has existed in every society since the dawn of time. Islam came and regulated it, with limits, conditions and obligations to each wife. Look at the West, where it is banned. Go into any workplace and you will find married men having affairs, and the women know exactly who they are with. There are far more women than men, and most women only go for the man with status or looks, maybe 2% of men. If one man has one woman, many women are left with no marriage at all. So they take the married man, and he cheats on his wife. They accept it because the man they want is already taken. A polygynous marriage is illegal, so what remains is a relationship nobody regulates and nobody has rights in. Neither sex is the villain here. That is the materialist explanation, and it is reality. Judging the ruling by the men who abuse it is hypocrisy. Nobody says Sharia is bad because some ruler oppresses his citizens. ‘I knew people who practised it badly’ shows that the man failed, and says nothing about what Allah legislated. ‘I don’t understand why Allah did this’ usually comes from the Western template of marriage: find your soulmate, like a novel. That describes educated women with jobs and options, who then promote their own situation to a universal rule. Travel the Muslim world and you will see where polygyny is needed and people marrying for different reasons.. Islam is for all of humanity, so its rules must work everywhere, for everyone. Does the Creator not know His creation? (67:14) Allah permitted it and obligated nobody. No one can force you into it, so these debates are pointless. Resentment of His rules is dangerous: ‘That is because they disliked what Allah revealed, so He nullified their deeds’ (47:9). You are limited in sight and knowledge: ‘you have been given only a little knowledge’ (17:85). The root of all of this is a school system whose whole knowledge is built on Descartes and his heirs. Descartes said in Discours de la methode something along the lines of ‘good sense is the best-shared thing in the world, since everyone believes they have enough.’ A degree convinces people their reason can grasp everything, and from a curriculum built by that worldview they conclude that whatever they cannot understand must be wrong. Insane arrogance for limited and everfinishing species