Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 118
118 people of Doomsday, for they saw that it was not difficult for God to end the world if He so wished. Gender Ratio The Holy Prophet s as has also mentioned the ratio between the sexes as an important sign of the time of the Messiah. He said that women would so outnumber men that a man would be guardian over fifty women. 52 The prophecy has come true. There are more women in the world today than men. In some European countries, on account of the depletion of men in wars, women so outnumber men that even those who used to ridicule Islam for its teaching of polygamy are now seriously considering it as a solution to this problem. Eminent scholars are writing articles saying that in order to avoid anarchy and preserve civilisation, it is necessary to either permit polygamy or to free fornication of the taboo associated with it. Most people are of the view that those who practice polyg - amy should be ignored and not dragged into courts. All this is because women now outnumber men, otherwise, only a few years back polygamy was considered a grievous sin that no Christian could ever condone. In fact, on account of so much hate towards polygamy, even Muslims were starting to become apologetic about the teachings of Islam that allow for more than one wife.