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Should Muslims be forbidden from practicing polygamy?

Spiderman

Spiderman

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The prophet Muhammad was a polygamist. Should there be laws that forbid Muslims from imitating their Prophet?

If you are a Muslim, you must have no objection to polygamy, right?because it was the practice of the Prophet whom God chose to bring the world the true Faith, it can't be a bad thing, right?
 
dust1n

dust1n

Zindīq
PopeADope said:
The prophet Muhammad was a polygamist. Should there be laws that forbid Muslims from imitating their Prophet?

If you are a Muslim, you must have no objection to polygamy, right?because it was the practice of the Prophet whom God chose to bring the world the true Faith, it can't be a bad thing, right?
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Just as a counter-point, King David had at least 8 wives. Not to mention God told Midianites to take women children as slaves, so...
 
Skwim

Skwim

Veteran Member
Don't know who you're looking at to do any forbidding, but if they did it in the USA they'd be breaking the law. Outside the USA I don't care how many people they're married to.


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icehorse

icehorse

......unaffiliated...... anti-dogmatist
Premium Member
Deathbydefault said:
There should be laws against forced marriages and purchasable brides, but I don't see polygamy as that big of a deal.
If it works both ways and everything is consensual, I don't care what people do.
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The fact that apostasy is a crime makes this even more complicated. If you could take apostasy off the table, the next concern is coercion. Then there is the whole legality thing.

But if those three issues are resolved, I can't think of a moral reason why a man shouldn't have many wives or a wife have many husbands.
 
Sakeenah

Sakeenah

Well-Known Member
PopeADope said:
The prophet Muhammad was a polygamist. Should there be laws that forbid Muslims from imitating their Prophet?

If you are a Muslim, you must have no objection to polygamy, right?because it was the practice of the Prophet whom God chose to bring the world the true Faith, it can't be a bad thing, right?
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Do you want to ban polygamy because you are against a man having more than one wife or you want to ban it just because you don't want muslims to imitate the prophet muhammad?

Muslims aren't the only ones who practice polygamy, it's practiced in different cultures and religions.I don't have an issue with polygamy as long as everyone in the relationship is happy with it. According to Islam a wife can object to her husband getting married again and if he does she can choose to stay married or divorce him.
 
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psychoslice

psychoslice

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In a Western society yes they should not practice polygamy, back many years go it made since, because many where killed in fighting or diseases and of course you needed to keep the population going, now it is useless.
 
Rival

Rival

Diex Aie
Staff member
Premium Member
No, I support polygyny if the money and resources are there for future children.
 
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Glaurung

Denizen of Niflheim
dust1n said:
Just as a counter-point, King David had at least 8 wives. Not to mention God told Midianites to take women children as slaves, so...
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It's important to understand that it doesn't follow that just because a societal state of affairs is mentioned in the Bible (especially in the OT) it therefore necessarily follows that such a state of affairs is to be taken as the moral model to be followed for all time. Many the the OT figures were polygamous, but that doesn't mean that Christians should therefore also be. Further, the NT clearly assumes monogamy when it touches upon the issue of marriage.

PopeADope said:
The prophet Muhammad was a polygamist. Should there be laws that forbid Muslims from imitating their Prophet?
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A man (Muslim or otherwise) can of course live with as many women who will consent to live with him. (or vise versa) It doesn't however mean that such arrangements ought to accommodated with any legal legitimacy. The entire legal framework in the West assumes monogamy.
 
Godobeyer

Godobeyer

the word "Islam" means "submission" to God
Premium Member
PopeADope said:
The prophet Muhammad was a polygamist. Should there be laws that forbid Muslims from imitating their Prophet?

If you are a Muslim, you must have no objection to polygamy, right?because it was the practice of the Prophet whom God chose to bring the world the true Faith, it can't be a bad thing, right?
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Polygamy as solution of bachelorhood and spinsterhood is better than prostitution or not being married at all.

Not Just Islam allow this,I think most of religion do.
 
G

Glaurung

Denizen of Niflheim
Rival said:
Paul makes it specific that Elders be the man 'of one wife', which kind of assumes that laymen can have more than one.
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Such an inference is a stretch. It only means that those who seek holy orders must be living within the bounds of Christian conduct. You're also ignoring the rather explicit injunction in 1 Corinthians 7:2-4
 
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Rival

Rival

Diex Aie
Staff member
Premium Member
Musing Bassist said:
Such an inference is a stretch. It only means that those who seek holy orders must be living in the bounds of Christian conduct. You're also ignoring the rather explicit injunction in 1 Corinthians 7:2-4
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Ah, now that verse is more appropriate to Christian thought.

But, to be fair, when I was Christian I just ignored Paul because I found him a repressive weirdo and hated how Christians quoted him more than the Gospels.
 
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