Oktavarium
Internet Refugee
I'm a Muslim, so I'll bite because I think people get our position wrong very often.
You can marry up to 4 in theory, but there's a lot of things you have to keep in mind:
1. You have to treat them all equally and not pick favorites. Even the Quran says it's near impossible for most people (4:129)
2. You have to provide equally well for each them. This requires having cash coming out the wazoo and so polygamy was a thing of the aristocracy.
So, in theory, it is possible for it to be ethical, but in practicality monogamy is highly, highly preferable. Islam has a rather formal system of law that takes into account things like social acceptance and physical/mental danger among other things.
It isn't an excuse to have an "open relationship", it was and is a custom that's isolated to few for basically the entirety of history and a heavy ethical weight on you if you do choose to marry more than one.
You can marry up to 4 in theory, but there's a lot of things you have to keep in mind:
1. You have to treat them all equally and not pick favorites. Even the Quran says it's near impossible for most people (4:129)
2. You have to provide equally well for each them. This requires having cash coming out the wazoo and so polygamy was a thing of the aristocracy.
So, in theory, it is possible for it to be ethical, but in practicality monogamy is highly, highly preferable. Islam has a rather formal system of law that takes into account things like social acceptance and physical/mental danger among other things.
It isn't an excuse to have an "open relationship", it was and is a custom that's isolated to few for basically the entirety of history and a heavy ethical weight on you if you do choose to marry more than one.