reading the koran one will notice- that 1. marrying more than one is not encouraged - because it is terrible difficult to treat justly more than one wife 2. it is allowed to marry more than one - but not for the purpose of joy . it is mentionned in the same koranic vers where someone is encouraged how to treat justly the orphans -so it is allowed to marry widows. i know that the present practice simply does not care about that . but this is the civilised solution in cases there are not enough men for some reasons . after WW II in germany there were more than 4 million widows . women without support . at that time the protestant youth conference brought up the idea of allowing poligamy for a certain period of time - but the allied forces refused the idae " poligamy is not civilised " . so as a result the american and the brittish soldiers could get a woman for a night paying as little as some milk powder or a bar of chocolate . hey marjorie - have you ever thought of that ? alma wad
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reading the koran
Date: 2006-08-15 09:32 am (UTC)2. it is allowed to marry more than one - but not for the purpose of joy . it is mentionned in the same koranic vers where someone is encouraged how to treat justly the orphans -so it is allowed to marry widows. i know that the present practice simply does not care about that . but this is the civilised solution in cases there are not enough men for some reasons .
after WW II in germany there were more than 4 million widows . women without support . at that time the protestant youth conference brought up the idea of allowing poligamy for a certain period of time - but the allied forces refused the idae " poligamy is not civilised " . so as a result the american and the brittish soldiers could get a woman for a night paying as little as some milk powder or a bar of chocolate . hey marjorie - have you ever thought of that ?
alma wad