The prophet and Polygamy

The Christian missionaries always propagate that the Prophet Muhammad was polygamous, so he, according to their understanding, can't be a prophet.

In fact Islam didn't invent polygamy; it had been there since the dawn of humanity, Polygamy was practiced worldwide.

But he was a prophet, they will say, a prophet shouldn't marry more than one woman. These devout Christians forget or might not know that all the prophets in the Old Testament were polygamous.

The Holy restricts the number of the wives

The Old Testament prophets are recorded to have married limitlessly more than woman. The Holy Quran restricts the number of women that the prophet Muhammad should marry while in the Holy Book there is no any reference to the number of wives.

• In Exodus 21:10, a man can marry an infinite amount of women without any limits to how many he can marry.
• In 2 Samuel 5:13; 1 Chronicles 3:1-9, 14:3, King David had six wives and numerous concubines.
• In 1 Kings 11:3, King Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines.
• In 2 Chronicles 11:21, King Solomon's son Rehoboam had 18 wives and 60 concubines.
• In Deuteronomy 21:15 "If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other and both bear him sons...."

Also note the New Testament never banned polygamous, it just banned divorcing. Polygamy was practiced in the Christian world and only banned by Augustine as this would be a strange practice in the Roman world. There are still some Christian cults who still practiced polygamy.