Re: Polygyny
I've never agreed with this whole idea that having more than one wife is a man's "right." There are worlds of difference between something being allowed and something being *owed.* Islam has made permissible for a man to marry more than one woman, but it has also placed several conditions on that permission which make it in practice something very difficult to do.
I think any man who insists on his "right" to have up to four wives without acknowledging the inherent conditions set upon him regarding that practice is being disingenuous. I also don't see how a man can fulfill his duty to his wife of being a protector and a "cloak" for her while at the same time engaging in something that makes her incredibly unhappy.
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"Then her finger moved in the moonlight,
Her musket shattered the moonlight,
Shattered her breast in the moonlight and warned him—with her death.
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Not till the dawn he heard it, his face grew grey to hear
How Bess, the landlord's daughter,
The landlord's black-eyed daughter,
Had watched for her love in the moonlight, and died in the darkness there."
-- A.N.
"Yes they're sharing a drink they call loneliness,
But it's better than drinking alone."
-- B.J.
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