ISBN: 9798175473453 - four wives? seriously?: why would islam allow a man to marry up to four women? (1 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - FOUR WIVES SERIOUSLY Say those words and the argument usually begins before anyone opens the Qur'an.Some hear inequality.Some hear male privilege.Some hear an outdated tradition.And some men hear only one thing: permission.But what if everyone is staring at the number four and missing the more important question Can one man actually be just to more than one family In this direct and deeply personal book, Mark H. Awad goes beyond the usual arguments to examine what plural marriage looks like when the discussion stops being about numbers and starts being about human beings.What happens to the first wife Why would a woman knowingly choose to become a second wife What about jealousy, love, money, time, divorce-and the children who inherit the consequences of decisions they never made Drawing on Qur'anic passages, family experiences, and stories witnessed over a lifetime, Awad confronts an uncomfortable truth: religious permission does not erase human responsibility.A second wife is not a girlfriend.A wife is not something to replace when the excitement disappears.And another marriage does not automatically repair a broken one.Before asking, 'How many wives am I allowed to have ' perhaps a man should ask a much harder question: 'What kind of husband am I already 'This is not a book telling men to marry four women. And it is not telling women they should accept plural marriage.It is an invitation to look beyond the controversy and ask what Islam actually permits-and what that permission demands.Before you count the wives, count the lives.Because perhaps the most important word in this entire discussion was never four.Maybe it was always one.…