🧵 Thread: An Argument For Polygamy
Polygamy has been throughout human history a normal and natural practice for men. However, the Roman Catholic Church would challenge this practice in Europe, and it was eventually shunned in European society and considered a sin. (1)
Polygamy has been throughout human history a normal and natural practice for men. However, the Roman Catholic Church would challenge this practice in Europe, and it was eventually shunned in European society and considered a sin. (1)
The Western liberal tradition, although claiming to be secular and a strong defender of the harm principle, would inherit and carry on the Roman Catholic tradition of opposing polygamy and outlawing it. However, polygamous marriages apart from doing no harm to society, (2)
actually benefits it and to the contrary repels many harms and evils that could befall society if it were made illegal. In many historical and present-day societies, women among the population were higher than the male population, and the ratios never exceeded four to one. (3)
This means that not permitting polygamy would leave certain women away from being able to marry, even if they were perfectly capable of doing so. In an Islāmic society where pre-marital and extra-marital relationships are prohibited, this would be injustice to women as it… (4)
deprives them from the natural human instinct to have romantic and sexual relationships and the widespread desire of women to raise children and have a family. It is thus a form of oppression to prohibit polygamy, and given the higher female population compared to the male… (5)
population in most societies, allowing polygamy for both males and females would only further oppression instead of eliminating the so-called “oppression” liberals like to bring up of violating the “equality” between men and women by permitting polygamy for one gender but… (6)
not the other. Furthermore, in pre-modern societies, it was not always possible to identify the father of a woman’s child if she were involved in polygamous marriages. Making an argument that the woman’s husbands could collectively raise her children, although sounds like a… (7)
solution on the surface, doesn’t work in reality, because many men would refuse to raise his wife’s many children when most of them probably aren’t even his children. The argument that we have DNA testing today doesn’t stand either, because it’s not always accurate and… (8)
there’s no guarantee that everyone in today’s world has access to such modern technology, or that we would continue to have access to it in the future. Islāmic Law is designed for people of all times and places since the coming of the Messenger ﷺ and His Message. (9)
Non-Muslims who don’t believe in Islām would make an argument that the way to resolve the issues of only permitting monogamy would be to legalise pre-marital and extra-marital relations. The issue with this is that many women would then turn to prostitution and other… (10)
methods to satisfy their romantic and sexual desires, leading to many men cheating on their wives. Men cheating on their wives in extra-marital relationships would lead to children being born to illegitimate couples, many of which break down due to the unwillingness or… (11)
inability for illegitimate couples to take care of their children born to such relationships. Furthermore, men cheating on their spouses lead to the break-up of families, which leads to children being raised by only one parent with broken families. (12)
Children being raised by single parents in divorced and broken families along with children being raised in orphanages and the foster care system statistically shows to be a cause of severe mental health problems and social issues in children and teenagers. (13)
A lot of these problems are likely caused by child abuse from guardians who view them as unwanted children. This would also have a negative impact on their education, which is necessary for the construction of a healthy and functional future generation, (14)
instead of one riddled with incompetence, unemployment, crime, social decadence, among other things which are detrimental to the survival of any economy, society or civilisation. It’s also a form of oppression to intentionally create harm and unhappiness in society. (15)
Apart from the above argument, there is also an economic argument for the legalisation of polygamy which is similar to an argument I’ve made previously in another thread. It is necessary for an Islāmic society to procreate as many children as possible, (16)
since greater population growth would lead to greater economic growth and a larger number of people to fight as Mujāhidīn in the path of Allāh. France maintained its position as a European regional power and later also a global power because it always had throughout… (17)
history maintained one of the largest populations in the world. A large population and great population growth to maintain such a large population in future generations is necessary for the domination of Islām and the Islāmic State on the global scale. (18)
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