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gurey if u were my husband and impotent i will stay with you and be patient and seek the reward of God Almighty.........and i will expect the same in return if i become a barren...
lets just say u have a pretty young wife at home that fulfills all your needs...would u still feel the need to take another wife..
[quote="Tasnim"]gurey if u were my husband and impotent i will stay with you and be patient and seek the reward of God Almighty.........and i will expect the same in return if i become a barren...quote]
Firstly let me clarify that Islam does not impose polygamy as a universal practice. The Prophet himself was a monogamist for the greater part of his married life, from the age of twenty-five when he married Khadija until he was fifty when she died.
One should therefore regard monogamy as the norm and polygamy as the exception.
My family has been monogamous for three generations, and you won't hear anything good about polygamy from any of them. But four generations back both sides of my father's family were polygamous.
It is family tradition that my great-great grandfather had a total of twelve wives. When he wrote his autobiography in 1881 at the age of 74 (I got his age wrong when I told this story once before, but I went back to the source this time.) he stated that he had five living wives, fifty one living children, about a hundred grandchildren and about twenty great grandchildren. He died five years later at 79.
I don't know how happy the people in that family were. We have only the old man's biography. But the numbers are impressive and I do know that they did stick together and are still somewhat cohesive.
We have a glowing history by one of the daughters on the other side of the family. They were poor and life was hard, but they ate well, believed in what they were doing and were happy. When the old man married the second wife, they were living in an eight by twelve foot rootcellar dug in the ground. He died in 1910 at age 85.
The official Mormon Church abandoned polygamy in the 1880's.
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Wouldn't it be fantastic, if policymakers introduce social rewards for giving birth to male babies, imagine if that happens females would be able to have 4 competitive males under their hands, what a leisure
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