Surah-AN NISAA/3

The name of Allah

If you fear that you might not treat the orphans justly, then marry the women that seem good to you: two, or three, or four...
[i) There is the view of A'ishah who says that men tended to marry orphan girls who were under their guardianship out of consideration for either their property, beauty or because they thought they would be able to treat them according to their whims, as they had no one to protect them. After marriage such men sometimes committed excesses against these girls. It is in this context that the...