تعدد ازدواج:مولانا عمراحمدعثمانی اور متجددین کی آراء کا تحقیقی مطالعہ: Polygamy: A Research analysis of Maulana Umar Ahmad Usmani and Contemporary Modern Scholar’s thoughts

Abstract

Marriage is a social contract that guarantees chastity, strengthens family life and contributes to the reproduction process. Before the advent of Islam, rampant polygamy was observed among the Arabs who always considered their wives merely as slave, and a source of their sexual satisfaction. However, Islam curbed this notion of rampant polygamy and limitized the number of wives upto four with the condition of ensuring the principle of equality among the wives. Maulana Umar Ahmad Usmani, a renowned scholar is of the view that Islam permits polygamy only in unavoidable circumstances. The contemporary modern scholars opine that there is the only one marriage concept in Islam and polygamy is restricted to some special situation. In the liberal world, polygamy is considered the violation of human rights where as having multiple illicit sexual relations are accepted in the name of liberty. The traditionalist scholars are of the view that Islam has clearly given the permission of polygamy upto four wives with the condition that a husband equally treats these four wives. A critical analysis of Maulana Umar Ahmad Usmani and modern scholars on polygamy has been done in this article