Why can't a woman marry more than one man?

Question

ewww as in disgusting or as in a female sheep? more clarification please.

Answer 1

Simple. It is illegal in the United Kingdom for a woman to have more than one husband, and it is illegal for a man to have more than one wife.

Religion, "culture" or anything else has nothing to do with it in this country. Anyone who claims that their "culture" or religion permits polygamy really shouldn't be living in this society.

If other countries permit polygamy them you must ask them why they allow it, or not, for men or women.

Answer 2

Because the only reason polygamy exists in Islam is because there are more men than women and so that every woman can be taken care of:

I honestly don't think a woman would want more than one husband.

Plus, I would not want 2 wives even if it meant a threesome.

Answer 3

it would be against the law

and a bad idea anyway

Answer 4

Some people think if a woman marrys more than one man she either didn't follow the commitment or wants money. And if you are a widow you still need to keep that commitment to your husband.

Answer 5

Good lord why would she want to???!!

Answer 6

Don't be greedy

Answer 7

Sammi what are you doing with a CR2.......

in answer to the question no man would want sloppy seconds

Answer 8

May Peace Mercy and Blessings of Allah(swt) be on all of you.

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. Men and women are equal in Islam, but not identical.

Surah Nisa’ Chapter 4 verses 22 to 24 gives the list of women with who you can not marry and it is further mentions in Surah Nisa’ Chapter 4 verse 24 "Also (prohibited are) women already married"

The following points enumerate the reasons why polyandry is prohibited in Islam:



1.    

If a man has 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 which was applicable for the past may not be applicable for the present.

Man is more polygamous by nature as compared to a woman.

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. A woman undergoes several psychological and behavioral changes due to different phases of the menstrual cycle.

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 s*x. This is not the case in a man having more than one wife, and none of them having extra-marital s*x.

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 .

For the details on the Rights of Women in Islam please watch the video in the link below

http://uk.blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-jpvQQV...

May Peace Mercy and Blessings of Allah(swt) be on all of you.

Answer 9

When you have a child, who would be responsible for raising the child? How, before modern medicine, would you know who the father is? Which man would be responsible to pay for you? This just all doesn't add up.

Nichole

Answer 10

Islam does not approve of polyandry, i.e., a woman taking up more than one husband. It is the male whose children the women bear. If a woman had multiple husbands, it would not be easy to know who is the biological father of the child.

When a child is conceived, God puts love and affection in the hearts of the parents so that they can bring up the child. Without this love, life cannot be sustained. But if there was dispute about who really has fathered the child, there would be no love in the heart of the fathers.

Psychologists say that children who grow up without knowing who their father is, are lacking in stability and maturity. These days because of scientific progress in DNA testing, one can say who the father is; but these tests were not available for mankind till now. Islam has historically provided for peace and stability in the family, not discord.  

Answer 11

Why would a woman want to marry more then one man?  That's disgusting. As a woman, I'd probably shoot all my husbands because they'd be nagging me about having s*x with them and stupid stuff like that.  Women who have multiple partners have a higher chance of getting HIV, AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, and cervical cancer which as all women know leads to women being sterile.

Answer 12

Two wrongs don't make a right, Have you been drinking ?

Answer 13

Salam alaycum

Well, if a woman marry more than one man, she won't be able to know who's kid this is!!  This is one reason.. :)

And some people here are right, why will i want more that one husband?  i have enough problems with one!! (uh, no my dear, i didn't mean that, you are a great..)  :)lol

Answer 14

No religion allows it.  

Its only fiction and Group marriages were suggested by some authors like Alvin Toffler in his book "Future Shock".

Answer 15

ewww

as very disgusting....

Answer 16

Baby confusion

Answer 17

I would not wanna share a bed with another bloke. "YUCK!".

Answer 18

any woman wants to grow old and weary prematurely due to oversexed?

..too much s*x for a woman even to one man would make her numbed and experienced no more pleasure with s*x.

..sexual infections more  likely to occur.

..cervical cancer is most probable as women are more prone to skin cancers due to overexposure to sunlight. Other cancer is also likely derived from exposure to toxic elements from smoke, alcohol and drugs.

..man generally by nature won't like to take responsibility from which they are not accountable.

..women are seek only when they are young, fresh, pretty, even able to "service" several men, and immoral men won't mind having to share with other men for sexual pleasure, but when this women are old and wrinkled, no man would want to take care of her anymore as she is not his responsibility.Unless she is well off to spend for him and long for his company temporarily.

..the more men a woman has, the looser her reproductive muscles become and men usually don't derived pleasure with poor reproductive muscles of women.

Answer 19

because there are more women then men, plus who would the father be if she has a baby, it maybe hard for her to satisfy all her husbands.  

Answer 20

One Mother-in-law is plenty.

Answer 21

Islamically lineage is traced through the man, so if a woman married 2 men and had s*x with both of them, then got pregnant.  She wouldn't know who is the father.  Of course now days you can get dna tests, but that wasn't an option before, and I don't think that's a reason for women to now be allowed to marry more than one man.

Answer 22

Because men don't want to extend to women the privileges they give themselves.

Answer 23

Mohammed invented this law shortly after one of his war campaigns. There were heavy casualties and a lot of women were widowed. His idea for a temporary solution to this problem was to allow men to take in additional wives. This is because the followers of Mohammed were not charitable people and would not offer a safe haven to these poor ladies without payment in kind. As the men liked the sexual variety this offered them - they decided to keep this law. Women cannot be bothered with keeping more than one husband happy so they wouldn't want more than one husband. The film "Paint Your Waggon" challenges this idea.

To Islam Solution for Humanity:

"A woman undergoes several psychological and behavioral changes due to different phases of the menstrual cycle. " God you people are so ignorant of women. It's a pity that you are wrong as the "Severe psychological and behavioural changes" would cause any right minded woman to murder every one of you mysoginistic loonies.

A man is not naturally more poligamous - according to the Koran god split desire into 10 parts - he gave 9 to women, so you contradict yourself here.

No man can ever be sure a woman tells the truth about the paternity of a child. At least 1 in 10 children in all societies are not born to you man who thinks he's the father. Women make cuckoos of you and then laugh whilst they take your money to raise their lover's child.

Just how exactly do you think a "family" of one wife and several husbands would be suceptable to venerial disease if none of them had s*x outside of the said marriage?

Also it is worth remembering that before the death of Khadija your prophet Mohammed would never have dreamed of such a situation, for a start he was kept by his powerful and successful businesswoman wife and she would have killed him for even thinking of taking an additional wife. No, he waited until after her demise for god to reveal this gem, it's amazing how gods laws were revealed just as they became convenient to Mohammed.

Answer 24

Back in the days of Muhammed and before, there were more women than men, so men would marry many women. Islam put a Limit to this by saying men could only marry 4 women, and only if he can treat them all equally and have consent from the first wifes etc. Therefore it's not said that Women can marry more than 1 man.

Also it is said in islam that every child should have the right to know who is their real mother and father. If a women marries many men, then the child wouldn't know who their father is (in that time atleast).

Also Islam teaches to go by the law of your country too, so in this day in age in many countries this is against the law. For both men and women.

Answer 25

The following reason really made me laugh :

1. There are more woman than men?? ---- (So if tomorrow there would be more men than woman, we women can have more men?.  )

2. If a woman has 2 or more men she won't be able to know who the father is. ( ever heard of DNA?)

I've only started reading some of these first answers. It really amazes me that people are that ignored to believe this nonsense.

My personal opinion as a Muslim is that Neither  man or woman should have more than 1 partner.

If you have the need for more, you are a greedy person that does not love that first partner enough.

Answer 26

because your not gonna know whos the "baby daddy"

its as plain as that.

Answer 27

'Cos polyandry is not allowed in Islam.

Think how many rights does the husband have over the wife and think of his mother... Now multiply that by x (how many extra husbands you want). If a woman can put up with that much, then I rate her. One husband and mother-in-law is more than enough for me. Think about how many clothes you're gonna have to iron, how many people you're gonna have to cook for and clean up after, I'm too lazy to do all that. And imagine how many times you'd have to go through labour and all your kids getting confused whose dad is who. And would your s*x drive be able to keep up with them. If you deny them s*x, imagine how many angels would be cursing you then. Also, would your husbands all be living in the same house or would you have separate houses. Would they get along in the same house, one might want to keep you all for himself and others might get jealous. If they lived in separate houses, imagine how hard it would be to get from one to the other, attending to duties in one and then the other, looking after the kids in one and then the other. I think it's easier for men to move from wife to wife in their separate houses than it is for women. And the kids would miss their mam if she's away from them for too long, it's not fair on the kids, they need that love and support from their mothers, it's really important.

I'm grateful for the prohibition of polyandry. At the end of the day, whatever Allah (SWT) has allowed and disallowed is always for our own good, even if we may not see it but there is always wisdom behind every rule in Islam.