Two or Three or Four

When you enter a beautiful orchard, fulfill of trees, you will have the desire to eat from all kinds of the fruits, because each fruit has its own vitamins, and also its benefits. This is exactly what we mean by the idea of "two or three or four". Every woman has her virtues and good characteristics, so when you have one woman, you own some virtues. And when you marry the second, you own some other virtues that doesn't exist in the first. And when you have the third, or the fourth, you can say that you have from all the vitamins that are existed in "two or three or four" and are very necessary for you. And if we go back the Islamic age, we will find that this idea of "two or three or four" can be seen easily. Our generous prophet married nine women because of special wisdom. And many of his friends were married "two or three or four".

1.    Ibn Mas'ood said: if there will be more than ten days in my life, I would like to marry because I don't like to meet my god and I am unmarried. This assures the idea of "two or three or four".

2.    Omar liked to marry "two or three or four" because he said " I marry because of multiplying".

3.    Sufyan Ibn Ayneyya said: Ali had four women, assuring the motto of "two or three or four".

4.    one of our prophet's friend came to him saying: " I am poor". The prophet told him to marry. He did that and became poorer. Then Mouhamad said; Marry the second wife. He did that and became much poorer. And so, he married the third,and finally the fourth, applying the idea of "two or three or four".The wisdom appeared when the last wife was a skillful knitter. She taught her husband and his other three wives knitting, and they became a rich family.

This means that the idea of "two or three or four" is right and successful. And we know that our prophet married nine women and remained near from his God. This means that "two or three or four" is a good idea that doesn't make us far from our religion. But on the contrary, "two or three or four" helps us to live a happy life. As a conclusion, we can say that fruit is necessary, and having "two or three or four" kinds of fruit is much more important.