Re: What are your thoughts on polygamous marriage/being a co-wife?
You are completely misreading this Hadith. The Prophet acted as a father would. He saw his daughter was distraught that her husband was going to get another wife so he told Hazrat Ali not to do it. **Tell me one thing. If consent was required, there was no issue! Hazrat Fatima would simply say no you may not marry again and that would be the end of the story. But because consent is not required, she was upset and the Prophet stepped in to tell Hazrat Ali not to proceed with the second marriage. **
Also you don’t need grounds for Khula/divorce so your argument doesn’t make sense there either. You only need your husband’s consent for Khula or you can always get a divorce if you have availed yourself of that right in your Nikah contract.
And lastly you make it seem as if a man wanting to be physically intimate with another woman is never a legitimate reason to get married again. It can be and again it’s perfectly fine as long as he treats all his wives equally. Keep in mind being equal and fair doesn’t mean loving them equally. A man can be more fond of one wife over the other and again there is nothing wrong with that as long as he treats them equally.
You are trying too hard to make sense of this using circular logic. Islam is a very straightforward religion. It is what it is.
So you’re basically saying Fatima (R) had to go to her father to circumvent Islamic LAW or in other words, ALLAH’S LAW? So Rasullullah in this case repealed a LAW that Allah has created in your opinion?