Presentation
Since 9/11, we have seen that specific gatherings have attempted to gain by that disaster by assaulting Islam from all sides. Lamentably, even some Christian TV directs have participated right now and are attempting to discolor the picture of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad (harmony arrive and his descendants).
One of the most widely recognized topics in their assault against Islam is on the Prophet Muhammad’s numerous spouses.
We wish first to talk about the idea of polygamy in Islam followed by the relationships of the Prophet.
Marriage
Marriage in Islam is an indication of God’s capacity and magnificence. The Qur’ãn says:
“From His signs is that He has made for you life partners from yourselves with the goal that you may get harmony [and tranquility] through them; and He set between you love and leniency. In these are finishes paperwork for the individuals who reflect.” (Surah ar-Room, 30:21)
Monogamy and Polygyny
By and large talking, there are two sorts of relationships in Islam:
• Monogamy: one man wedded to one lady;
• Limited polygyny1 (a sort of polygamy): one man wedded to two, three or at the most four spouses.
In Islam, the perfect marriage is the monogamous type of marriage. Constrained polygyny is an arrangement affirmed by Islam for remarkable conditions just; and that additionally with numerous stringent conditions.2
Dominant part of Muslim men are monogamous in their marriage connections; the individuals who have more than one spouse are not very many, presumably under zero point one percent of the Muslim world.
Polygamy in History
Islam didn’t imagine the arrangement of polygamy. It existed some time before Islam came into the area of world occasions. The Bible says that Lamech, the grandson of Adam, “took unto him two spouses: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.”3
So polygamy has existed from the most punctual long stretches of mankind’s history.
Numerous sacred characters of the Bible had numerous spouses or courtesans simultaneously. Abraham had Sarah and Hajar. Abraham was first honored with a child through Hajar whom he named Ishmael, and afterward he was honored with another child through Sarah whom he named Isaac.
Take a gander at the case of Jacob; he had four spouses and courtesans: Leah and Rachel (both were Jacob’s cousins), and he likewise had Bilhah and Zilpah (both were slave-young ladies talented to Jacob by his wives). It is from these four women that Jacob had twelve children who became progenitors of the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
David, referred to in Arabic as Prophet Dawūd, had at any rate eight spouses whose names are known, he had numerous others whose names have not been recorded. The Second Book of Samuel (in the Bible) discusses “the spouses” of David in Hebron and furthermore in Jerusalem.4
Lamech, the grandson of Adam, had two spouses.
Abraham had two spouses: Sarah and Hajar.
Jacob had two spouses and two courtesans:
The Twelve of Tribes of Israel are from these four women.
David had numerous spouses.
