Why Muslims Can Have Four Wives (But Christians Can Only Have One)

King Solomon had 700 wives. Abraham, Jacob and David all had more than one. Christians honour every one of them, yet a Christian man can marry only one woman, while Islam, which honours the same prophets, allows up to four. Here's how two religions with the same heroes ended up at one and four: from the Quran's verse on orphans and the Battle of Uhud to Jesus' "one flesh", the Council of Trent, Martin Luther's secret, and the debate still alive inside Islam today. Chapters 0:00 Same heroes, different rules 0:27 The verse 1:05 A ceiling and a condition 1:46 "You will never be equal" 2:30 Muhammad's own marriages 3:11 Why not four husbands? 3:35 How common is it really? 4:14 The Bible's awkward fact 4:55 Where "one" came from 5:31 Augustine, Trent and Luther 6:07 Other exceptions 6:52 Why one, and why four? 7:35 One, or up to four Sources Quran 4:3, 4:129, 33:50 · Jami' al-Tirmidhi 1128 · Sunan Abi Dawud 2133 · Sahih al-Bukhari 5230 · 1 Kings 11:3 · Deuteronomy 17:17, 21:15–17 · Exodus 21:10 · Matthew 19:4–6 · 1 Timothy 3:2 · Ephesians 5 · Augustine, On the Good of Marriage · Council of Trent, Session 24, Canon 2 (1563) · Lambeth Conference 1988 · Moroccan Family Code (2004) · Muslim Family Laws Ordinance, Pakistan (1961) Polygamy statistics: Pew Research Center (2019): https://www.pewresearch.org/short-rea... Images (Wikimedia Commons) Mount Uhud: Adiput (public domain) · Sandro Botticelli, Saint Augustine in his study (public domain) · Council of Trent, Museo Buonconsiglio: Laurom (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Lucas Cranach the Elder, Martin Luther, 1528 (public domain) · Hans Krell, Philip I of Hesse, 1534 (public domain) No image of Muhammad or any prophet is shown in this video. #Islam #Christianity #ComparativeReligion