The default in the Shari'ah is plural marriage or a single wife

The questioner:
Is plurality the principle in the Shari'ah, or is it singularity? And does justice mean everything, or specific things?

The Shaykh:
The default is plural marriage, and a single wife is the exception. Yes.

The questioner:
If.

The Shaykh:
And those who do not practice plural marriage, especially among the enemies of Islam, are like livestock; they limit themselves to one in name, but in reality they are not with one, but with a number, like the male goat that is presented with this one and that one, and the bull that is presented with this one and that one, and he deposits his semen and his testicles everywhere, not caring, like a beast. As for the one with wives in the Shari'ah, he deposits it in a suitable place, in a place where Allah has permitted slaughter, in a place that is trimmed, so he is far from resembling the beasts. But they are the enemies of Allah, and they are the people closest to resembling the beasts, as He said: and they understand from them the general intelligence, or rather he is a shadow of a path.