voicer/project#3

Safaa Ali

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Project 3

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      As stated in the Holy Qura’an, a man has the right to practice polygamy and to have up to four wives. That was for narrowing the enormous cases of adultery and slavery that was very common in the Arabs’ life in the early days of Islam. But is it still applicable nowadays?

    In Arabic societies, like Egypt, Syria, Arabian Gulf region, we can still sea men with tow, three or even four wives for each

The idea has recently been a subject for some media contents that glorify the multiple wives man, such as the famous Egyptian TV serious, Al Haj Metwally.

    

Arab men may remarry just because they were attracted to a physical appearance of a younger or prettier woman.

     A second marriage does not necessarily put an end to the first one. Some women can live with her husband having another wife, as long as he is capable financially.

    Nevertheless, some men refuse to let go with their first wife for different reasons. In most cases, she is the mother of the children.

   The stereo type of the devil second wife is not always true. Some of these women accept to be the second wife because of her neediness. Some of them even keep their marriage as a secret respecting the first wife’s feelings.

      No one can think of himself as an unfair person. A man who have more than a wife, would think that he is treating them equally and paying attention for every one of his wives, so he can be fair to them. That is what provided in Qura’an as a condition to practice polygamy.

      After all, for some men it is a kind of addiction. They justify it with religious reasons while they barely know any other thing about Holy Qura’an. They can marry four wives, and furthermore, they can replace some of them.