Peace everyone,
In Genesis, God tells Adam that a man is to leave his mother and father, find a wife and start a family. ONE man has ONE woman, and they make a complete pair. This is True Marriage.
As times were hard people took many wives to ensure their tribe would survive. This stopped eventually. NO JEWS today or for the last 2000 years practiced polygamy.
No Christians practice polygamy.
Jesus told us the ancient law that God told Adam, that a man is only to have one wife, and the two complete each other.
A man is not complete without a woman, and a woman is not complete with out a man. No man is worth 4 women.
There cannot be true love in a polygamous relationship.
Why did some of the Prophets take many wives? Are they misguided? No, that is just how things were in the ancient world, for PAGANS AND JEWS. But polygamy stopped as the world progressed.
Even the pagans stopped polygamy.
For Islam to start this practice up again in the modern world pits it lower than paganism. It is a regressive backwards religion that only belongs in the ancient world. It is not from God because God always taught that a man and a woman make a true pair.
Here you have an error in the Quran.