First wife's permission

[Shak]

Re: First wife’s permission

@lethal_kamikaze

Peace Enigmatic,

The verse 4:3 speaks about the conditional clause about orphans, introducing the rule about marriage. This reminds us of the immediate occasion of the promulgation of this verse. It was after ‘Uhud’, when the Muslim community was left with many orphans and widows, and some captives of war. Their treatment was to be governed by principles of the greatest humanity and equity. The occasion is past, but the principles remain. Marry the orphans if you are quite sure that you will in that way protect their interests and their property, with perfect justice to them and to your own dependants if you have any. If not, make other arrangments for the orphans.

Same verse explained more, the unrestricted number of wives of the ‘Time of Ignorance’ was now strictly limited to a maximum of four, provided you could treat them with perfect equality, in material things as well as in affection and immaterial things. As this condition is most difficult to fulfil, I understand the recommendation to be towards monogamy.

I’ll check if I can find more details from my notes/books.

LKK do you have a reference? Interesting topic though! Though LKK some will say that people can use this clause for their own selfish reasons