The world population is 50% women and 50% men…
which means that 1 man should marry 1 woman…because 1 man is made for 1 woman…
if 1 man starts marrying 2 women…that would leave 50% of men without any woman to marry…
if 1 man starts marrying 3 women…that would leave 66% of men without any woman to marry…
if 1 man starts marrying 4 women…that would leave 75% of men without any woman to marry…
in pakistan and India the population is such that there are more men and less women. this means that even if 1 man marries 1 woman, there will still be some men left without a woman to marry…
looking at the statistics and using common sense…these statistics surely are against the idea of polygamy???
at the time of the Prophet (pbuh) it was different…because he got married to widows…whose husbands died in the war…and after the war the population of women was MORE than men…hence it made sense for men to have more than one woman…
but in todays society…when the population of men and women is equal…how does one explain the above problems…i.e. if all men started marrying more than 1 woman…that would leave other men WITHOUT a wife…which would cause MANY more problems in the society…
for those who dont understand…let me make it abit easier for you…
lets assume there are 4 slices of cake…and 4 men to eat it. if one man eats 1 slice…then everyone will have an equal share…however, if one man says “No, I want 4 slices”…that would leave the other 3 men without a slice of cake to eat…