Muslims marry four wives? Dr Zakir Naik answered: "1. Definition of ‘Polygamy’
’Polygamy’ means a system of marriage whereby one
person has more than one spouse. Polygamy can be
of two types. One is polygyny where a man marries
more than one woman, and the other is polyandry,
where a woman marries more than one man. In Islam, limited polygyny is permitted; whereas polyandry is
completely prohibited. Now coming to the original question, why is a man
allowed to have more than one wife? 2. The Qur’an is the only religious scripture in the
world that says, “marry only one”
The Qur’an is the only religious book, on the face of
this earth, that contains the phrase ‘marry only one’.
There is no other religious book that instructs men to
have only one wife. In none of the other religious scriptures, whether it be the Vedas, the Ramayana,
the Mahabharata, the Geeta, the Talmud or the Bible
does one find a restriction on the number of wives.
According to these scriptures one can marry as many
as one wishes. It was only later, that the Hindu
priests and the Christian Church restricted the number of wives to one. Many Hindu religious personalities, according to their
scriptures, had multiple wives. King Dashrat, the
father of Rama, had more than one wife. Krishna had
several wives. In earlier times, Christian men were permitted as
many wives as they wished, since the Bible puts no
restriction on the number of wives. It was only a few
centuries ago that the Church restricted the number of
wives to one. Polygyny is permitted in Judaism. According to
Talmudic law, Abraham had three wives, and
Solomon had hundreds of wives. The practice of
polygyny continued till Rabbi Gershom ben Yehudah
(960 CE to 1030 CE) issued an edict against it. The
Jewish Sephardic communities living in Muslim countries continued the practice till as late as 1950,
until an Act of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel extended
the ban on marrying more than one wife. 3. Hindus are more polygynous than Muslims
The report of the ‘Committee of The Status of Woman
in Islam’, published in 1975 mentions on page
numbers 66 and 67 that the percentage of
polygamous marriages between the years 1951 and
1961 was 5.06% among the Hindus and only 4.31% among the Muslims. According to Indian law, only
Muslim men are permitted to have more than one
wife. It is illegal for any non-Muslim in India to have
more than one wife. Despite it being illegal, Hindus
have more multiple wives as compared to Muslims.
Earlier, there was no restriction even on Hindu men with respect to the number of wives allowed. It was
only in 1954, when the Hindu Marriage Act was
passed that it became illegal for a Hindu to have more
than one wife. At present it is the Indian Law that
restricts a Hindu man from having more than one wife
and not the Hindu scriptures. Let us now analyse why Islam allows a man to have
more than one wife. 4. Qur’an permits limited polygyny
As I mentioned earlier, Qur’an is the only religious
book on the face of the earth that says ‘marry only
one’. The context of this phrase is the following verse
from Surah An Nisa’ of the Glorious Qur’an: “Marry women of your choice, two, or three, or four;
but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly
(with them), then only one.” [Al Qur’an 4:3] Before the Qur’an was revealed, there was no upper
limit for polygyny and many men had scores of wives,
some even hundreds. Islam put an upper limit of four
wives. Islam gives a man permission to marry two,
three or four women, only on the condition that he
deals justly with them. In the same chapter i.e. Surah An Nisa’ Verse 129
says: “Ye are never able to be fair and just as between
women....” [Al Qur’an 4:129] Therefore polygyny is not a rule but an exception.
Many people are under the misconception that it is
compulsory for a Muslim man to have more than one
wife. Broadly, Islam has five categories of Do’s and Don’ts: (i) ‘Fardh’ i.e. compulsory or obligatory (ii) ‘Mustahab’ i.e. recommended or encouraged (iii) ‘Mubah’ i.e. permissible or allowed (iv) ‘Makrooh’ i.e. not recommended or discouraged (v) ‘Haraam’ i.e. prohibited or forbidden Polygyny falls in the middle category of things that
are permissible. It cannot be said that a Muslim who
has two, three or four wives is a better Muslim as
compared to a Muslim who has only one wife. 5. Average life span of females is more than that of
males
By nature males and females are born in
approximately the same ratio. A female child has
more immunity than a male child. A female child can
fight the germs and diseases better than the male child. For this reason, during the paediatric age itself
there are more deaths among males as compared to
the females. During wars, there are more men killed as compared
to women. More men die due to accidents and
diseases than women. The average life span of
females is more than that of males, and at any given
time one finds more widows in the world than
widowers. 6. India has more male population than female due to
female foeticide and infanticide
India is one of the few countries, along with the other
neighbouring countries, in which the female population
is less than the male population. The reason lies in
the high rate of female foeticide and infanticide in India, and the fact that more than one million female
foetuses are aborted every year in this country, after
they are identified as females. If this evil practice is
stopped, then India too will have more females as
compared to males. 7. World female population is more than male
population
In the USA, women outnumber men by 7.8 million
New York alone has one million more females as
compared to the number of males, and of the male
population of New York one-third are gays i.e sodomites The USA as a whole has more than
twenty-five million gays .This means that these
people do not wish to marry women. Great Britain four
million more females as compared to males. Germany
has five million more females as compared to males.
Russia has nine million more females than males. God alone knows how many million more females
there are in the whole world as compared to males 8. Restricting each and every man to have only one
wife is not practical
Even if every man got married to one woman, there
would still be more than thirty million females in USA
who would not be able to get husbands (considering
that America has twenty-five million gays). There would be more than four million females in Great
Britain, five million females in Germany and nine
million females in Russia alone who would not be able
to find a husband. Suppose my sister happens to be one of the
unmarried women living in USA, or suppose your
sister happens to be one of the unmarried women in
USA. The only two options remaining for her are that
she either marries a man who already has a wife or
becomes public property. There is no other option. All those who are modest will opt for the first. In Western society, it is common for a man to have
mistresses and/or multiple extra-marital affairs, in
which case, the woman leads a disgraceful and
unprotected life. The same society, however, cannot
accept a man having more than one wife, in which
women retain their honourable, dignified position in society and lead a protected life. Thus the only two options before a woman who
cannot find a husband is to marry a married man or to
become public property. Islam prefers giving women
the honourable position by permitting the first option
and disallowing the second. There are several other reasons, why Islam has
permitted limited polygyny, but it is mainly to protect
the modesty of women"

Thank you sheikh Quran is d only scripture in the world where you can see marry only one wife but if you can be just marry 2,3, it 4 Surat nisah
Islam is the only religion Allah knows walahi I can swear with my life and the life of my families

islam is the best religion to practice!

Ma shaa Allah, i completely agree with the Sheikh.
Well, Islam is a practical religion, it's a religion that deals with societal issues in all its ramifications.

Either you are a christian or an atheist or whatever religion or ideology you belong to , you cannot help but agree that the Islamic approach is the best and logically sound to protect and continue to foster humanity.

Alhamdulilah i'm a Muslim.