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The Islamic institution of polygyny also takes into consideration the socio-psychological limitations inherent in man. Men generally get married to satisfy their physical and psychological desires for female companionship. However, a man may marry a woman when he is young and immature, and for various emotional reasons, may later find her unsuitable, unable to find contentment and happiness with her. Or a man may be married to a barren woman or a woman whose interests are very different from his.

Allah (SWT) instructs females as follows:” And say to the believing women that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what ordinarily appears thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husband’s fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers and their brothers’ sons or their sisters’ sons or their women or the slaves whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical need or small children who have no awareness of sex.” (An-Nur: 31)

Allah (SWT) said:” Marry of the women that please you: two, three, or four. But if you feel that you shall not be able to deal justly, then only one or what your right hand possesses. That would be more suitable to prevent you from doing injustice.” (An-Nisa’: 3)

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