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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't quite get your position.  Is it your argument that men NEEDED to marry multiples to provide for women widowed by wars? Or that they SHOULDN'T have, because it's clearly impossible to be fair to more than one?[/quote]

Men needed to have polygamy because wartime widows & womens inability to provide for themselves back then warranted that situation. Not enough single men to marry widows. But only the best of character should be permitted, because it hurts most women to be in a polygamous marriage.[/quote]
But it's not like wartime somehow generates more men of the best of character. Under your vision of polygamy, still very few would qualify for multiple wives. The Quran only offers one guidance, not one for wartime and one for peace time.

Yes, women are hurt by polygamous marriages, and Muhammad knew this, because he made sure his only child, Fatima, was in a monogamous marriage by not letting her husband Ali take more wives. "What hurts Fatima, hurts me."  Although tradition has it he loved Ali like his own son, so you'd hardly say Ali didn't have the "best of character."[/quote]

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