Evading so...

Evading so, Islam has decided the joining of two women in t estimony so that one may remind the other and prevent her from false testifying: “Let two men or one man and two women whom you choose, bear witness so that if one of them makes a mistake the other can correct him. (2:282)” Modern medical experiments have proved that some women, during their monthlies, suffer symptoms causing their mental powers to be enfeebled. Hence, they become oblivious.

( 41 ) Such experiments support the necessity of joining two women during bearing testimo nies. 4. Polygamy The enemies have waged wrong campaigns against Islam using various forms of bitter criticism and empty censure one of which is their vituperating Islam’s permitting polygamy, which is, as they have claimed, considered as injury and confusion for the mari tal life. First of all, Islam was not the originator of polygamy.

Many centuries before Islam, polygamy was decided by the divine religions and positive laws. “Polygamy was not forbidden in the most ancient code. Likewise, it was not forbidden in the Torah and the Gospel. Since the reign of Prophet Abraham up to the Nativity, none of the prophets forbade polygamy. In the Gospel, we cannot find a single text te lling the illegality of a matter which was decided as legal in the Old Testament.

Everything that is mentioned in the Gospel asserts the legality of polygamy in every situation except one: the bishop who shows failure in standing monasticism must satisfy himself with a single wife… Edward Westermarck, whose major interests were history of marriage, says that ‘polygamy, as the Church confesses, perpetuated until the seventeenth century.

Moreover, it occurred frequently beyond the sights of the Church and the ruling authorities.’ Hence, Islam, allowing polygamy, has not brought something heretic. However, the new thing that Islam has brought in this regard was reforming the disorder created by absolute polygamy and taking in consideration the necessities that God does not neglect .

In some circumstances, or even general social circumstances, the allowance of polygamy is more beneficial than its forbiddingness.” ( 42 ) As a matter of fact, those who denied Islam’s allowing polygamy have certainly practiced it by means of deviation and sinful relations. Had they thought about the matter perceptively and impartially, they would have found that polygamy is the one and onl y solution for the problems and crises that befall individuals and societies.