Now, of course, those two extra women may have simply been booty ("ma malakat aymankum"), in which case this Saudi, according to certain Koranic verses (e.g., 4:3), would be exonerated. "Saudi arrested for having six wives," from the Age.com, July 31:
Police in Saudi Arabia have arrested a man working for the country's vice squad who is accused of having six wives, two more than allowed under Islamic law.This, of course, is the same commission that arrests "flirtatious" men and bans red roses.The 56-year-old Saudi, detained in the south-western province of Jazan near the border with Yemen, is being questioned over charges that he is married to three Saudi and three Yemeni women, Al-Watan newspaper reported.
The man is an employee with the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, or religious police commonly known as the Muttawa, which is in charge of enforcing a strict Islamic moral code in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia.
He has denied the charge, claiming he has divorced two of his spouses, the newspaper said.The province's governor has ordered the formation of a committee to look into the case, Al-Watan said.
Muslim men can keep up to four wives at a time under sharia, or Islamic law, which is applied in oil-rich Saudi Arabia.
Didn't some guy somewhere say something about one wife being more than enough to handle?
Yikes!
Scandalous!
Six wives when he should have had four?
Presumably, to be a Muslim bigamist one would have to have eight wives, rather than the licit four.
What shall we call that Saudi caught having six wives rather than the licit four? I'd call him a sesquigamist.
Dude should have just kept two as slaves.
nabi ZK (pbum)
Muhammad, of course, had nine wives, and two concubines, one Coptic and one Jewish, or was it eleven wives, and no concubines, or was it...Oh, it's all so confusing. I just can't keep it straight. As many wives as Tommy whatshisface, you know...Tommy Manville, but Tommy had them in the Western way, seriatim, one after the other, and not the way Muhammad did, all at once, which is one more reason, I suppose, that Muhammad is considered to be the Perfect Man. And or was it that Perfection the reason that he allowed himself, and himself alone, to have nine (or was it eleven?) wives?
I've forgotten so much of this. Can anyone refresh my memory, and possibly list all his wives, and concubines, and where they came from, and how he acquired them?
Hugh wrote:
"And or was it that Perfection the reason that he allowed himself, and himself alone, to have nine (or was it eleven?) wives?"
Come on now Hugh, you know it was Allah's will that Muhammad alone be granted to circumvent Allah's explicit words on permitted number of wives in the Qur'an.
“I feel that your Lord hastens in fulfilling your wishes and desires.”
Even Aisha knew that.
Damn, I guess they didn't get the TXT messages.
So what's the punishment for having excess wives? Considering how cock-eyed Islamic law is, the two latest wives will probably be stoned. Or maybe just returned to their families, to be killed for dishonoring the family.
lol Lahab
nabi ZK (pbum)
You're supposed to have six wives in a row, stupid SOWdi! Like King Henry IIX.
"Muslim men can keep up to four wives at a time under sharia..."
Waaay too much "booty"! :)
Why would any sane man WANT four wives?
'- Women have no sympathy . . . And my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. And it is so intimate too. Women crave for being loved, not for loving. They scream at you for sympathy all day long, they are incapable of giving any in return for they cannot remember your affairs long enough to do so. - [Florence Nightingale]'
The number of wives are probably a status symbol for Muslims.
Like you having two cars in the drive way.
Perhaps he should claim he was being extra pious and wanted to emulate Mr. Perfect Mo as much as possible. The idiots might actually buy that and let him off.
These are the same cops who murdered 25 or so little Saudi school girls a few years ago, by forcing them back into their burning school because they fled the blaze with no head-covering.
Ummah~ Leagally, royal polygamy was on the table during Henry VIII's negotiations with the Vatican while Catherine of Aragon and Anne Bolyen were both alive. Also, Anne of Cleves was kept in grand style, and was present at court, even after her divorce. I think Henry saw himself as the northern "Grand Turk"
Why not?
What about those 'which your right hand possesses? He has his entitlements, don't you think?
Ummah,
Actually, it was Henry VIII who had six wives, not his father, Henry VII.
Hugh,
You can find a terrific summary of ol' Mo's polygamy here.
Courtesy of Islam Watch. (BTW, all twelve parts are good reading.)
It's entirely possible that he had, in fact, divorced two of his wives. Just without telling them is all.
After all, they might have kicked his sorry arse out of bed if they had known he had divorced them. And islam is about nothing so much as unrestricted fornication.
They are only wimminfolk after all.
ImNo~ In all fairness to Ummah, IIX is an ummmm.....regressive, but legitimate way of expressing VIII.
When I lived in Indonesia, Muslims said that polygamy was a way to prevent adultery. Does anyone see how it would?
This has to be worse because what man could have 6 mistresses?
Hugh~
Thus sayeth Wiki:
Khadijah bint Khuwaylid
Sawda bint Zama*
Aisha bint Abi Bakr*
Hafsa bint Umar
Zaynab bint Khuzayma
Umm Salama Hind bint Abi Umayya
Zaynab bint Jahsh
Juwayriya bint al-Harith
Ramlah bint Abi-Sufyan
Rayhana bint Amr ibn Khunafa**
Safiyya bint Huyayy
Maymuna bint al-Harith
Maria al-Qibtiyya**
*succession disputed
** status as wife or concubine is disputed
I've seen in several posts where the writer is bringing up the idea of a man only being able to handle one woman.(I admit it was tongue in cheek) Well that is true if her satisfaction is important to the man. But in islam, her satisfaction isn't even in the same universe of concern as his. Because there is none. One more bit of evidence at the juvenile nature of islam, it's all about "me." And the "me" can have two different meanings, both as a singular, husband/pimp/jailer/torturer/executioner, and the plural, ummah.