Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure: Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

Do you expect me to brain that a company owner, presumably a Malay Muslim, will marry four wives so that he can build an empire by using the names of his wives and his wives' relatives as proxies? What a load of rubbish! This idea is insulting to the Malays and insulting to Islam and for that idea to come from another Malay, is doubly insulting.

Suppose there were Malays with four wives and using their wives to build a business empire through the means that Iskandar Ismail suggests.... in that case, I dare to suggest that very idea came about after the fact: after he had four wives not because he had the idea of having four wives to build a business empire.

Anybody dumb enough to have four wives...however rich he may be...will sooner or later have to think of ways and means to keep those four wives happy, contented, and rich - and not necessarily in that order! And that is when he starts to think about using them to build a business empire - after all, after he has had his lust attended to, what better way to make his wives work to earn their living than by involving them in his business dealings?