Holy Prophet of Islam - Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa — Page 374
The Holy Prophet of Islam, Hadrat Muhammad Mustafa Ꮪ. Wives of the Holy Prophetsa (Mothers of the Faithful) sa га 21. The Holy Prophet married twelve times. Non-Muslims often make an issue that it was against the commandment of the Holy Qur'ān that a Muslim should not have more than four wives at a time. However, if we look at the circumstances under which those marriages took place it reveals that it was an absolute necessity to do so. First of all he did not marry a woman while Hadrat Khadijah" was alive. It was after her demise that he married other women. Polygamy was common at that time and the commandment of Allāh limiting the number of wives one can have with certain conditions had not yet come. All the women he married were widows or divorcees except Hadrat ‘Ä'ishah". None of the women who married the Holy Prophet" was forced into marriage. They married him of their own free will. Furthermore, whenever he married a woman it was for the abolishing of certain old traditions such as not marrying the wife of an adopted son or a widow with children. Furthermore some of the women he married were quite old. So the reason for marrying more than four wives was based on piety and for the religous needs of the time. The Holy sa sa. Prophet married the following pious ladies: 1. Hadrat Khadijah™ª 374 ra. Hadrat Khadijah, the daughter of Khuwailid bin Asad bin 'Abdul