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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sirajstc" data-source="post: 8308177" data-attributes="member: 91140">PolyandryPolyandry Q: If a man is allowed to have more than one wife why does Islam prohibit a woman from having more than one husband?  Answer:  A lot of people, including some Muslims, question the  logic of allowing Muslim men to have more than one spouse while denying  the same ‘right’ to women.  Let me first state emphatically, that the foundation of an Islamic  society is justice and equity. Allah has created men and women as equal,  but with different capabilities and different responsibilities. Men and  women are different, physiologically and psychologically. Their roles  and responsibilities are different.   The following points enumerate the reasons why polyandry is prohibited in Islam: 1. If a man marries more than one wife, the parents of the children  born of such marriages can easily be identified. The father as well as  the mother can easily be identified. In case of a woman marrying more  than one husband, only the mother of the children born of such marriages  will be identified and not the father. Islam gives tremendous  importance to the identification of both parents, mother and father.  Psychologists tell us that children who do not know their parents,  especially their father undergo severe mental trauma and disturbances.  Often they have an unhappy childhood. It is for this reason that the  children of prostitutes do not have a healthy childhood. If a child born  of such wedlock is admitted in school, and when the mother is asked the  name of the father, she would have to give two or more names! I am  aware that recent advances in science have made it possible for both the  mother and father to be identified with the help of genetic testing.  Thus this point was applicable for the past, and may not be applicable  for the present.  2. Man is more polygamous by nature as compared to a woman. 3. Biologically, it is easier for a man to perform his duties as a  husband despite having several wives. A woman, in a similar position,  having several husbands, will not find it possible to perform her duties  as a wife.  4. A woman who has more than one husband will have several sexual  partners at the same time and has a high chance of acquiring venereal or  sexually transmitted diseases which can also be transmitted back to her  husband even if all of them have no extra-marital sex. This is less  likely in a man having more than one sexual partner, and none of them  having extra-marital sex.  The above reasons are those that one can easily identify. There are  probably many more reasons why Allah, in His Infinite Wisdom, has  prohibited polyandry.</blockquote>

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