[QUOTE="xfxfxfanatikx"]
[QUOTE="ColonelVodka"]Why not just answer it here? I'm not going to start a topic over this. I don't care enough. ColonelVodka
1. He married a women before Aisha (RA). Khadijah (RA) and many after.
2. She was not a "kid" as you would typically see a 9yr-old today - relative to time, place and individual - she hit puberty then the marriage was consumated.
3. As far as the hadith is concerned, it is saheeh, no dispute.
4.In Islam, we follow the absolute law of the nature, puberty. It doesn't matter how old is the person; once you hit puberty, you're an adult according to the law of the nature. Why does the age have to be 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 etc to determine adulthood? Who decides this age? Why don't all the cultures/countries agree on one age?
5. Of-course now, we have the hypocrites, idolators, jews and christians at that time who also hated Islam - why did they not pin-point such an event and make a "big-deal" out of it as people are now? It would've been a big blow, same thing with Abu Lahab. Because she was a adult.
1. So what? There's been plenty of dudes that already had a family before they got charged with pedophilia.
2. She was a kid. Period. The early stages of puberty don't instantly make you an adult.
3. Um, alright...
4. And by the definition of most modern laws, he is a pedophile. Plain and simple.
5. I don't know. I don't really care.
1. It proves he had a wife before and wives who were all of different ages after Aisha (RA)
- translating to: he wasn't after "little kids" as the christian missionaries put it.
2. She hit puberty, its a basicfact thata girl becomes a woman when she begins her menstruation cycle.The significance of menstruation that anyone with the slightest familiarity with physiology will tell you is that it is a sign that the girl is being prepared to become a mother. Also as I have mentioned genetics, race and environment do play a role.
3-5.Marriage at the early years of puberty was acceptable in 7th century Arabia asit was the social norm in all Semitic cultures from the Israelites to the Arabs and all nations in between.Now applying your "modern-day laws" to a practice which existed before you and [then to some degree it exists and happens now!] is a rather shallow and weak attempt at trying to hurt the image of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) - refute the Messege - don't attack the Messenger.
(by the way man-made laws change...)
Following:
- It was the norm of the Semitic society in 7th century Arabia to allow pubescent marriages.
- There was no reports of opposition to the Prophet's marriage to `Aishah(R) either from his friends or his enemies.
- Even today, there are cultures who still allow pubescent marriage for their young women.
- She was not a child.
Such claims are based only on conjecture and moral relativism.
Log in to comment