5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

Muslim. She becomes a renegade at the moment she makes up
her mind to marry a non-Muslim man.
The seventh woman who is harâm to marry due to a
temporary situation is a slave woman while a man is married to
a free woman; yet it is jaiz to marry a free woman while one is
married to a slave woman.
It is not permissible for a man to greet these seven women
or to acknowledge their greetings. To marry someone else’s
wife is not permissible, but if she is divorced, and if she has
waited through the period of iddat, it is permissible to marry her.
It is written at the end of the chapter about iddat, “If a woman
hears from a true Muslim that her missing husband [who has
been, let us say, put into jail, or taken prisoner in a country far
away from his hometown,] is dead, or that he divorced her with
three talâqs (triple divorce), she will be free to marry any other
man. It is written in the explanation of the tenth article of the
book Majalla that a missing man who is (at least) ninety years
old is judged to be dead by the judge. If her first husband
comes back the second nikâh (marriage) will be invalid, even if
she had heard that the man had died, or she had recevied a
letter from him informing her that he had divorced her with triple
divorce. [Ni’mat-i Islâm]
It is harâm for a free man to be married to more than four
women at the same time. It is also harâm for a slave to be
married to more than two women at the same time. It is not
necessary to take permission from the first wife in order to
marry a second woman. If the first wife does not consent to her
husband’s second marriage, even if she says that she will kill
herself, the husband can still marry the second woman. But it
will be better if the husband gets the consent of the first wife. It
will be even better if he gives up the second marriage in order
to please the first wife. He will earn a lot of thawâbs (rewards)
for his forbearance. It will be harâm for a man to marry even the
first one if he cannot maintain justice or if he is cruel to her, or if
he cannot earn enough money to support her. Please see the
thirty-ninth chapter of the second part in the Turkish original
version. Shiites say that it is jâiz to marry up to nine women.
Hamidullah (an Indian with a doctorate degree in Islamic
Studies from Sorbon university in France) in his book translated
into Turkish under the title İslâma Giriş (Introduction to Islam)
has misleading comments on this subject.
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