I would like to open my case by saying that there is no such thing as a universally codified system <strong>of</strong> marriage . This perhaps is because maxria~ge, in one form or another, has been in existence well before the law, ox one might even say, well before religions . - In these days many people tend to look at marriage as an Yristitution brought about by laws or by reli" gions . In effect, marriage is n~ more than asocial institution, contract between a man and a woman, witnessed by the members <strong>of</strong> the Community ' in which they live, -that they intend to live together and produce children whom the community should recognise and accept . Thus syatems <strong>of</strong> marriage can, and in, fact da, vary from one society to another . In some small communities the practice is due to economic rea» sons . If the wife helps the hus" band on hi . farm, then it is obviaus that ';'v .e more wives he has the richer he is . More wives also mean more power. for the man . As soon as the word polygamy is mentioned, people think <strong>of</strong> the Moslems . In~ fact, once you say to them tbat youz xe3:igio~ is Islam, you can gura what the next questtan will be : "How many wives do you have?" Indeed'Moslems are'"~pexmitt~eid:- ~~ to marry more than one wife . . . . .but the maximum number is restr ctd ,BLACK POWER : PAGE 26 . you can guess what the next questia~ will be : "How many wives do you own?" Indeed, Moslems are perm .tbed to marry more than one wife, ., .,but the maximum number is restricted to four ; and the~'e is a strong string attached . According to Islam a person may marry one, two, three ar up to four wives provided he can do equal justice to all <strong>of</strong> them, Like everything else in Islam, there is a reason for polygamy, In the days <strong>of</strong> "jihad" or .reidgi~i~s~ wars ,many husbands got killed on the battle grounds and consequently wives, some children were left without somean~ to care far them, Thus the Society became unbalanced, just as it was in the case <strong>of</strong> many European countries immediately af" ter the war, The only alternative fox these widows who, <strong>of</strong> course, had no private home, was to marry men already wed . Thus, and with justification, Islam allows polyga-~ my in order to maintain a goad balance in the society . I remember a lady once putting her case against polygamy thus : "When God created Adam He gave him only one wife - Eve," The answer I gave her was that if Adam had asked for more, God might have given him more, but the fact that he did not ask, does no~C mean that polygamy is
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