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'Selfish purposes': HC says polygamy being widely misused in Islam
The Morning Standard
|May 17, 2025
Though it was permitted in Islam to go for more than one marriage under certain circumstances and with certain conditions, this permission was being 'widely misused', by even going against the mandate of Muslim law, the Allahabad High Court observed.
The bench, comprising Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal, said polygamy had been permitted, conditionally, by the Holy Quran in early Islamic times for rehabilitation of widows and orphans after heavy wartime casualties but now the said provision was being misused for 'selfish purposes'.
This story is from the May 17, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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