💐 In The Name Of Allah The Most Gracious The Most Merciful
💌 Five advantages of polygyny for Muslim husbands:
1] Increase in the number of pious Muslim children who can assist their families and become productive assets to the Muslim Ummah.
2] Strengthened awareness of time management and fair treatment when dealing with their large family.
3] Additional rewards gained in taking good care of their wives and kids, especially if some of the stepchildren were orphaned.
4] Ability for a husband to branch out his businesses in case he has several stores or companies in different cities. Each wife can support him by managing the separate branches if necessary.
5] Opportunity to enhance peaceful relations among Muslim communities when a husband marries women from different countries, racial background or tribes.
🌻 Five benefits of polygyny for the Muslim woman:
1] Ability to prove that her love for Allah the Almighty is far greater than her clinginess to her husband, while realizing she has the strength to not be controlled by her nafs and emotions.
2] Strengthened faith/Imaan and increased level of patience when she humbly submits to Allah's Will, patiently accepts His Qadr/Destiny, and readily sacrifices her attachment to her spouse for an even better reward - Allah's Love and an elevated status in Jannah Paradise.
3] Additional rewards in striving to be patient with her husband's other wife/wives and half-siblings of her children.
4] More free-time and chances for her to relax from daily chores and marital obligations, particularly when she is unwell or busy with other tasks. The element of missing her soulmate when he isn't around can also deepen her love for him, as the saying goes "absence makes the heart grow fonder." What keeps her admirably unwavering in this extraordinary love journey is her ongoing trust in Allah Subhaanahu wa Ta'aala and steadfast belief that she can enjoy an everlasting bond with her spouse in Jannah Paradise.
5] If she dies before her husband, her co-wives can
Inn-sha-Allah look after her kids, particularly if they were close friends, and her children can Inn-sha-Allah stay connected with their half-siblings.
🌻 What advantages do the children in a polygynous marriage obtain?
1] Understanding of the virtues of justice and time management, when they observe their father trying his best to treat his multiple wives as fairly as he possibly can.
2] Awareness of the beauty of patience, when they witness their mother trying her best to stay patient with the man whom Allah the Most Wise chose as her other half.
3] Improved capability to appreciate cooperation, unity and togetherness when they regularly interact with their father's other wives and children.
4] Open-minded attitude and respect towards people who come from the same tribe or country as their half-siblings.
5] They can Inn-sha-Allah work together with their half-siblings in Da'wah or business in the future, as long as they team up against shaytan who wants humanity to surrender to worldly greed, suspicion and envy.
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📖 Abu Huraira RadhiAllahu 'anhu narrated: Allah's noble Messenger Muhammad SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam said, "If a woman prays her five prayers, fasts her month of Ramadan, guards her chastity, and obeys her husband, she will enter Paradise from any gate she wishes."
Source: Sahih Ibn Hibbān 4252
Grade: Sahih (Authentic) according to Al-Albani
📖 Abu Huraira RadhiAllahu 'anhu narrated: Allah's noble Messenger Muhammad SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam said, "If I were to order anyone to prostrate to another, I would have ordered a wife to prostrate before her husband."
Source: Sunan At-Tirmidhī 1159
Grade: Hasan (Fair) according to At-Tirmidhi
Ali Al-Qari said, "That she prostrates to her husband is due to the number of his rights over her and her difficulty in maintaining gratitude for them. This rhetorical point conveys the obligation of the wife to obey her husband in his rights. Indeed, prostration is not lawful to anyone other than Allah Subhaanahu wa Ta'aala."
Source: Mirqāt Al-Mafātih 5/2125
📖 Abdullah ibn Amr RadhiAllahu 'anhu narrated: Allah's noble Messenger Muhammad SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam said, "The world is enjoyment and the best enjoyment in the world is a righteous wife."
Source: Sahih Muslim 1467
Grade: Sahih (Authentic) according to Muslim