After reading a previous question… When a Muslim man has four wives but doesn treat them equally…?
First of all, people incorrectly assume that Muslim men will marry/have 4 wives, Multiple wives are seldom found in Islam today. Men in those days were allowed to marry up to 4 times, to help the women whose husbands had been killed while they had fallen in battle defending the nascent Islamic community”, – only so the women weren’t left widowed/single.. Most women in that situation, given the option, would rather be a co-wife than no wife. As for your main question, if the wives aren’t being treated fairly, or equally, then the man has gone against the conditions of polgygamy, therefore, the wife’s can file for a divorce. But each of these divorce cases will be looked at severally. EDIT: Livvy, Qur’an permits but does not command a man to have four wives. The Qur’an stipulates that he is to have no more than one wife. Polygamy (marrying more than once) provides a solution to some of life’s problems. When there is a shortage of men, for example after a devastating war, many women will
