Question: Please can you tell
me how world population grew when Adam and Eve were a single couple and
their children brothers and sisters. What does the Qur’an and religious
literature have to say on this issue? Did the children marry one another
then? Is this not weird?
Answer: The basic sources of divine
origin don’t provide any information about the matter. The Holy Qur’an,
reliable sayings of the Prophet (sws) and the Bible do not give any detail
in this matter.
Obviously, the only possibility in
this regard is the one you have pointed out. The progeny of Adam and Eve
the first pair of human beings must have married one another.
As far as the legitimacy of marriage
between siblings is concerned, it needs to be appreciated that the basic
reason for prohibiting marriage with blood relations is to sanctify and
protect the institution of family. Before the development and establishment
of this institution the restriction of course could not have been enforced.
It was only after this institution developed that the restriction of marriage
between siblings seems to have been enforced.
(Tariq Hashmi)
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