I know your trolling.
This is where hikma and common sense goes out the window. Informing your wife is literally decent manners and anyone who refuses do do so shows their lack of respect and such a person can easily fall into lying.
Using fiqh without consideration of your partner to govern marriages is where in which your marriage goes down the drain. Imagine, a woman in Islam doesn’t have to cook and clean, even if she’s a housewife. She can watch her husband come back home from a long and tiring day and just watch him hungry from her coach.
When you use fiqh like that, this is the can of worms you open up.
Also, classical scholars also say:
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Furthermore, having a wife back home does cause issues with the regards to the rights of the wife and kids
because of location and time and this is a concern scholars have touched upon:
To sum up: it is permissible for you to take a second wife if your first wife agrees to you being away from her for a long time and she waives her rights to time with you during this period.
But if she does not agree, then you do not have the right to go ahead with this marriage because you are not able to treat both wives fairly and justly.
The reason no one thinks about the issue of
location and the
rights of the wife is because Many Somali men think marrying more than one is an inherent right like provision for example and not a privilege for those that have the time and money. The fact that the first thing you did is find a fatwa about how men don’t need to inform their wives instead of taking into consideration how a man with two women in different continents could possibly treat them equal is the biggest issue we have with men and polygamy. They simply don’t care about women’s haqq or even their kids upbringing for that matter.