01-12-2005, 10:05 AM
Assalamu aleikum,
Just want to add, that to statistics I have read pologamy among muslims is 2 percent. I don't know how accurate that figure is. Does anyone have another figure and is ther any figure of the percentage of men and women having affairs outside the non-Muslim marriage? Of course that could be difficult to attain, since this is business done that one should not be proud of.
But one thing to bear in mind is that taking another wife as a Muslim man is connected with big RESPONSIBILITY, both emotionally and economically and should surely be one reason for not being practiced much. While having affairs outside marrige that result in children or not, does not bring with it much responsibility. And besides that, it is something that is done WITHOUT the consent of the other part in marriage.
Wasalam