Polygynous Family Love.........borrowed from Steadfast love....
We are the braid.
Each individual adult interwoven and intertwined
Diagonally overlapping in a specific peculiar pattern.
Creating a stronger, thicker love than each individual strand standing alone.
Individual strands accent the braid with their unique characteristics
Actively participating with particular, practical, and dynamic roles
Establishing close-knit bonds that celebrate each special strand.
Formulating a firm, sturdy force that cannot be easily broken.
Producing the weaving of a potent and unified powerhouse.
Each individual with unique characteristics wove together with love
Compose and affect the braid.
Together woven…
Together in love…
Together stronger…
We...Are...the...braid!
posted by Safa at 7:34 AM
7 Comments:
I can't say that I feel like this concerning Polygyny.....but I see it as beautiful....and had to share it......for those who are blessed with this form of Family....enjoy....
7:40 AM
I love this poem,it kind of gives me hope. May Allah bless all of us in polygny and those of us who may be entering into it, with this type of success,AAMEEN
11:39 AM
Its beautiful if its being practiced this way... otherwise its like two separate twists sharing one strand on and off. Sorry to be gloom and doom... allergies have me down.
3:33 PM
I like that poem alot. I tried to read it to my hubby but he didn't understand me......oh well....
7:05 PM
According to recent surveys, a mans brain cannot understand words that are not direct and last longer than 1 minute...they constantly hear "blah blah"....just tell him the quick version..."Polygyny is like a hair braid"....DONE.....save the flowery stuff for yourself........(yes, I took my pill today)
Gloom and Doom central here Aoife......I just posted the poem cuz it's pretty......I think if most men had their way it wouldn't be a braid....they'd rather us dancing around the maypole if u know what I mean.....
11:03 PM
I agree withe Maypole theaory Safa, and the man likes to see himself as the biggest pole in the neighborhood! LOL!
It seems to serve the purposes of a lot of polygynous men to keep their wives/marriages completely separate so they can play one off against the other. At least that is what I have seen here in the Middle East. When the man controls the schedule, and gets irritatated or angry at one, he just leaves and goes to the other for a while. Surely, this is not what Allah intended and only reflects the immaturity and lack of wisdom on the part of the husband. I have said it before and will keep saying it: it takes a very wise and fair man to balance more than one marriage at a time and do justice to Islam. Unfortunately there is no process whereby a man must prove his capability before he embarks on polygyny.
Salaam Alaikum,
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1:58 AM
Hmmmm....you raise some interesting points there......you know how in the states you have to take mandatory parenting class.....whether or not you expect yourself to be a parent? Wouldn't it be interesting if there was a mandatory polygyny class for boys at the muslim high schools.....just a taste of what it means to be "fair". Hmmmmmmm.....
2:33 AM
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