The ruling on marrying four women for the sake of variety and then divorcing them one after another
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: There are some people who marry four women, and their marriage is for the purpose of variety and pleasure. They divorce one and then take another, and so on. They marry them for the purpose of variety and pleasure, then divorce one and replace her with another, then the second, and so on, and he continues with this matter. He asks: What is the ruling on such an action?
Answer:
This is not permissible. This is playing with the marriage contract. If this is established, that he is playing with the marriage contract, such a thing is prohibited. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: There are some people who marry four women, and their marriage is for the purpose of variety and pleasure. They divorce one and then take another, and so on. They marry them for the purpose of variety and pleasure, then divorce one and replace her with another, then the second, and so on, and he continues with this matter. He asks: What is the ruling on such an action?
Answer:
This is not permissible. This is playing with the marriage contract. If this is established, that he is playing with the marriage contract, such a thing is prohibited. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، ذكر الآثار عن تابعي التابعين ومن بعدهم — islamhouse.com (42:39)
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