MARRIAGE COMMISSION REPORT AND THE PROBLEM OF POLYGAMY

C. G. Jung gives testimony to the need and utility of the institution of polygamy when he tells us: “The stamping out of polygamy by the African Missions has given rise to prostitution on such a scale that in Uganda alone twenty thousand pounds are spent yearly on prevention of veneral diseases, not to speak of the moral consequences which have been of the worst.” It is because of these arguments, weighty testimonies and scientific opinions that one is compelled to say that polygamy is not a ‘disease’ or a ‘curse’ as some turncoats think—it has great utility and performs important social functions and that is why Islam has permitted it. Another illusion needs be dispersed.