Child Marriage in the Qur'an: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
| [checked revision] | [unchecked revision] |
mNo edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 418: | Line 418: | ||
The Qur'an in verse 33:49 states that no 'Iddah is prescribed for a woman who has ''not'' had intimate contact with her husband, but goes on to stipulate the 'Iddah for pre-pubescent girls in verse 65:4, meaning the holiest text of Islam supports marrying and having sex with prepubescent girls. This is definitive proof that the Qur'an endorses pedophilia, something that is considered by many people to be the most serious of all sexual crimes. | The Qur'an in verse 33:49 states that no 'Iddah is prescribed for a woman who has ''not'' had intimate contact with her husband, but goes on to stipulate the 'Iddah for pre-pubescent girls in verse 65:4, meaning the holiest text of Islam supports marrying and having sex with prepubescent girls. This is definitive proof that the Qur'an endorses pedophilia, something that is considered by many people to be the most serious of all sexual crimes. | ||
Did Prophet Muhammad Rape a Nine-year Old Aisha? | |||
The allegation that the Prophet Muhammad married Aisha in the year 624AD | |||
when she was only a nine-year old girl, is not new. However, the fact | |||
this controversy has surfaced on right-wing blogs, is something that has | |||
caught a lot of Muslims by surprise. The controversy: The controversy was sparked by a lecture in Toronto where the former Muslim, | |||
Syrian-American Wafa Sultan claimed, “As a married man, Mohammed raped | |||
Aisha when she was nine; he was fifty-four.” Wafa Sultan’s depiction of Prophet Muhammad as a child rapist seems | |||
to be a manifestation of her hatred of Muslims in general. She has no | |||
evidence of any rape having taken place nor does she have a record of | |||
Aisha’s age. Both Prof. Daniel Pipes and Avi Benlolo of the Friends of the Simon | |||
Wiesenthal Centre too spoke against the main premise of Wafa Sultan’s | |||
speech.It is in the vested interest of both Islam-haters as well as | |||
Islamists to continue to uphold the myth that Muhammad married a | |||
nine-year old Aisha. To the former, it is the juiciest scandal with | |||
which to deride Islam and Muslims, while for the Mullahs, it is a | |||
license to sanction pedophilia and child rape for themselves and their | |||
patrons.Most medieval Islamic history books were written 200-300 years after | |||
the advent of Islam and it is true that all of them state emphatically | |||
that Aisha was only nine when she became Muhammad’s bride. However, all | |||
of them rely on, and quote, one single individual as the source of this | |||
information. His name was Hishām ibn Urwah, a prominent narrator of | |||
sayings of the Prophet (the Hadith), who died in the year 756AD. He was | |||
Aisha’s great-grand nephew, who first suggested that his great-grand | |||
aunt was only nine-years old on the day of her wedding, 125 years after | |||
the said event. Prior to his utterance, a century after the fact, there is no mention | |||
or reference to the age of Aisha. Hisham bin Urwah lived and taught in | |||
Medina for 70 years, yet no one else—not even his famous pupil Malik | |||
ibn Anas—-reported Aisha’s age. It is no coincidence that the growth of | |||
harems of the Abbasid caliphs mushroomed to hundreds of wives and | |||
concubines—many young girls—at the time the sharia law based on bin | |||
Urwah’s report, legalized child marriage. Instead of relying on the words of bin Urwah as so many Islam-haters | |||
and Islamists do, I suggest we look at a few facts that prove that | |||
Aisha’s age on the day of her wedding could not have been lower than 14 | |||
years of age. Mathematical facts: The historian al-Tabari informs us in his treatise on Islamic history | |||
that the father of Aisha, Abu Bakr had four children and all them were | |||
born before the year 610AD, the year of the advent of Islam. If, as is | |||
generally accepted, Aisha became Muhammad’s bride in the year 624AD, | |||
then she had to be at least 14 years of age, if not older on the day of | |||
her wedding. Other calculations based on historical events place Aisha as old as | |||
20 when she became a bride. Ibn Hisham, the historian, reports that | |||
Aisha accepted Islam quite some time before Umar (the second caliph). | |||
This means she must have been at least a young girl in the year 610. | |||
Assuming she was five years old when Abu Bakr and his family converted | |||
to Islam, the information puts the age of Aisha at 20 or more at the | |||
time of her marriage with Muhammad was consummated in 624AD. Furthermore, most Islamic historians agree that Asma, the elder | |||
sister of Aisha, was ten years older than her. It is also reported that | |||
Asma died in 683AD at the ripe age of 100. If this is true, then Asma | |||
would have been 31 years old at the time of Aisha’s wedding with | |||
Muhammad in 624 and the bride would have been 21. Of course, these facts do not suit either the Islam-haters or the | |||
Mullahs who sanction child marriage. Had the medieval caliphs or their | |||
court appointed clerics in the 8th century accepted these timelines, it | |||
would have taken away their right to fill their harems with young girls | |||
of their choice. | |||
{{Core Pedophilia}} | {{Core Pedophilia}} | ||