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==Aisha bint Abi Bakr== | <!-- ==Aisha bint Abi Bakr== | ||
[[File:DanishAisha.jpg|right|thumb|Aisha’s wedding day. Commissioned for Bluitgen, K. (2006). ''Koranen og profeten Muhammeds Liv'' (''The Quran and the Life of the Prophet Muhammad''). Copenhagen: Hoest & Soen. The artist chose to remain anonymous.|300px]] | [[File:DanishAisha.jpg|right|thumb|Aisha’s wedding day. Commissioned for Bluitgen, K. (2006). ''Koranen og profeten Muhammeds Liv'' (''The Quran and the Life of the Prophet Muhammad''). Copenhagen: Hoest & Soen. The artist chose to remain anonymous.|300px]] | ||
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===Islam=== | ===Islam=== | ||
Aisha hung a curtain decorated with winged horses and birds<ref>Nasa’i vol. 6 p. 182 #5354, #5355.</ref> in front of a cupboard. Muhammad pulled it down, complaining that it distracted him from his prayers. But when Aisha sewed the curtain into two cushions, he did not object to sitting on these.<ref>{{Bukhari|1|8|371}}; {{Bukhari|3|43|659}}; Nasa’i vol. 6 pp. 182-186 #5356, #5357 #5358, #5359.</ref> Another day he stood at her door with a “sign of disgust on his face”. She asked what she had done wrong, and he replied, “What about this cushion?” It was decorated with pictures. She said that she had bought it especially for him “to sit and recline on.” He told her: “The painters of these pictures will be punished on the Day of Resurrection ... The angels do not enter a house where there are pictures.”<ref>{{Bukhari|3|34|318}}.</ref> But Muhammad did not object to “a plush wrap, with a border on it, that we would wear.”<ref>Nasa’i vol. 6 p. 182 #5355.</ref> He forbade musical instruments,<ref>{{Bukhari|7|69| | Aisha hung a curtain decorated with winged horses and birds<ref>Nasa’i vol. 6 p. 182 #5354, #5355.</ref> in front of a cupboard. Muhammad pulled it down, complaining that it distracted him from his prayers. But when Aisha sewed the curtain into two cushions, he did not object to sitting on these.<ref>{{Bukhari|1|8|371}}; {{Bukhari|3|43|659}}; Nasa’i vol. 6 pp. 182-186 #5356, #5357 #5358, #5359.</ref> Another day he stood at her door with a “sign of disgust on his face”. She asked what she had done wrong, and he replied, “What about this cushion?” It was decorated with pictures. She said that she had bought it especially for him “to sit and recline on.” He told her: “The painters of these pictures will be punished on the Day of Resurrection ... The angels do not enter a house where there are pictures.”<ref>{{Bukhari|3|34|318}}.</ref> But Muhammad did not object to “a plush wrap, with a border on it, that we would wear.”<ref>Nasa’i vol. 6 p. 182 #5355.</ref> He forbade musical instruments,<ref>[{{Bukhari-url-only|7|69|494}}v Sahih Bukhari 7:69:494v]</ref> especially bells<ref>{{Muslim|24|5279}}.</ref> and singing,<ref>{{Abudawud|41|4090}}.</ref> yet when Aisha arranged a wedding party, he admonished her for not providing singers “for the ''Ansar'' are a people who give a place to love songs.”<ref>[http://www.oocities.org/tirmidhihadith/page6.html/ Tirmidhi 3154, 3155.]</ref> When Aisha refused to admit her foster-mother’s brother-in-law to her house, Muhammad said that she should have let him in “for he is your paternal uncle.” Aisha pointed out that it was the woman, not her husband, who had breast-fed her, but Muhammad explained that her foster-mother’s husband was still considered like a father to her.<ref>Nasa’i vol. 4 p. 144 #3315; p. 145 #3317.</ref> Yet when he found Aisha sitting unveiled with her foster-brother, presumably a younger man, he showed anger and warned her, “Be careful whom you count as your brothers.”<ref> Nasa’i vol. 4 p. 143 #3314.</ref> No matter how obscure the rules, no matter how complex the list of exceptions to the rules, ''hadith'' after ''hadith'' shows that Aisha tried to comply. | ||
Despite this, there is no real evidence that Aisha “believed” Islam in the sense of giving intellectual assent to the literal existence of Allah. On the contrary, she expressed her scepticism to Muhammad’s face. When he told her that Allah had given him permission to reject or accept as many as he liked of the women who offered to marry him, with no need to pay a dower,<ref>{{Quran|33|51}}.</ref> she responded, “I feel that your Lord hastens in fulfilling your wishes and desires!”<ref>[http://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=60&translator=1&start=307&number=307/ Bukhari 6:60:311.] See also {{Muslim|8|3453}}; {{Muslim|8|3454}}.</ref> When she was accused of infidelity, she wept night and day as long as she feared Muhammad might divorce her. But when he finally spoke to her directly about the accusations, he did not mention the usual punishment for adultery but only said, “Fear Allah, and if you have done wrong as men say, then repent towards Allah, for he accepts repentance from his slaves.” At this hint that Muhammad intended to exonerate her, “my tears ceased, and I could not feel them.”<ref>Guillaume/Ishaq p. 496; {{Bukhari|5|59|462}}.</ref> Muhammad immediately entered the prophetic trance to hear Allah’s verdict, and “I felt no fear or alarm … [but] as for my parents … I thought that they would die from fear.”<ref>Guillaume/Ishaq p. 497; {{Bukhari|5|59|462}}.</ref> Aisha was not afraid of Allah because she already knew that Muhammad had decided in her favour – that is, she knew who Allah really was. In one quarrel she told her husband directly: “You are the one who ''claims'' to be the Prophet of Allah!”<ref>[http://www.ghazali.org/books/marriage.pdf/ Farah/Ghazali vol. 2 p. 95.]</ref> | Despite this, there is no real evidence that Aisha “believed” Islam in the sense of giving intellectual assent to the literal existence of Allah. On the contrary, she expressed her scepticism to Muhammad’s face. When he told her that Allah had given him permission to reject or accept as many as he liked of the women who offered to marry him, with no need to pay a dower,<ref>{{Quran|33|51}}.</ref> she responded, “I feel that your Lord hastens in fulfilling your wishes and desires!”<ref>[http://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=60&translator=1&start=307&number=307/ Bukhari 6:60:311.] See also {{Muslim|8|3453}}; {{Muslim|8|3454}}.</ref> When she was accused of infidelity, she wept night and day as long as she feared Muhammad might divorce her. But when he finally spoke to her directly about the accusations, he did not mention the usual punishment for adultery but only said, “Fear Allah, and if you have done wrong as men say, then repent towards Allah, for he accepts repentance from his slaves.” At this hint that Muhammad intended to exonerate her, “my tears ceased, and I could not feel them.”<ref>Guillaume/Ishaq p. 496; {{Bukhari|5|59|462}}.</ref> Muhammad immediately entered the prophetic trance to hear Allah’s verdict, and “I felt no fear or alarm … [but] as for my parents … I thought that they would die from fear.”<ref>Guillaume/Ishaq p. 497; {{Bukhari|5|59|462}}.</ref> Aisha was not afraid of Allah because she already knew that Muhammad had decided in her favour – that is, she knew who Allah really was. In one quarrel she told her husband directly: “You are the one who ''claims'' to be the Prophet of Allah!”<ref>[http://www.ghazali.org/books/marriage.pdf/ Farah/Ghazali vol. 2 p. 95.]</ref> | ||
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