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Some have suggested that "Prophet Muhammad married most of his wives for political reasons" and that "He only married so many women at one time out of political necessity." | Some have suggested that "Prophet Muhammad married most of his wives for political reasons" and that "He only married so many women at one time out of political necessity." | ||
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Now let's look at it from a different angle. What would Islam have lost if Muhammad had failed to marry any of the other women? | Now let's look at it from a different angle. What would Islam have lost if Muhammad had failed to marry any of the other women? | ||
#If he hadn’t married Aisha, Sawdah or Hafsah, he might have had to think of a different way of raising money. However, what with the plundering and | #If he hadn’t married Aisha, Sawdah or Hafsah, he might have had to think of a different way of raising money. However, what with the plundering and taxing, Muhammad seemed to have had that problem worked out. | ||
#If he hadn’t married his [[Cousin Marriage in | #If he hadn’t married his [[Cousin Marriage in Islamic Law|cousin]] Zaynab bint Jahsh, he would have saved himself quite a bit of trouble, as this marriage – the first to break his “four wives only” rule – caused him social embarrassment on several fronts. | ||
#If he hadn’t married Mulaykah, Fatima, Asma or Amrah, he wouldn’t have had to divorce them, which might have kept his relations with their families smoother. But never mind about this – only Asma was of any political importance, and the divorce proved that even she was not as important as her family had hoped. | #If he hadn’t married Mulaykah, Fatima, Asma or Amrah, he wouldn’t have had to divorce them, which might have kept his relations with their families smoother. But never mind about this – only Asma was of any political importance, and the divorce proved that even she was not as important as her family had hoped. | ||
#If he hadn’t married Zaynab bint Khuzaymah, Hind or Maymunah, nothing at all would have changed. | #If he hadn’t married Zaynab bint Khuzaymah, Hind or Maymunah, nothing at all would have changed. | ||