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Subject: Muhammad and Ayesha
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leah.j 2.02.11 - 12:26pm
Almost every Muslim topic here gets twisted round and mentions the prophet Muhammad marrying Ayesha (a kid), the ppl go on about child abuse and how he r*ped her.....these ppl go on hearsay....obviously they havent researched the matter or they would have found the truth....looking through Islamic files i have downloaded onto my laptop...i came across this...now read it...go check it all out, * +

leah.j 2.02.11 - 12:27pm
and i hope it clears things up for the ignorant ppl here. * +

leah.j 2.02.11 - 12:28pm
A Christian friend asked me once, Will you marry your seven year old daughter to a fifty year old man? I kept my silence. He continued, If you would not, how can you approve the marriage of an innocent seven year old, Ayesha, with your Prophet? I told him, I dont have an answer to your question at this time. My friend smiled and left me with a thorn in the heart of my faith. Most Muslims * +

leah.j 2.02.11 - 12:29pm
answer that such marriages were accepted in those days. Otherwise, people would have objected to Prophets marriage with Ayesha. However, such an explanation would be gullible only for those who are naive enough to believe it. But unfortunately, I was not satisfied with the answer. The Prophet was an exemplary man. All his actions were most virtuous so that we, Muslims, can emulate them. * +

leah.j 2.02.11 - 12:31pm
However, most people in our Islamic Center of Toledo, including me, would not think of betrothing our seven years daughter to a fifty-two year-old man. If a parent agrees to such a wedding, most people, if not all, would look down upon the father and the old husband. In 1923, registrars of marriage in Egypt were instructed not to register and issue official certificates of marriage for brides * +

leah.j 2.02.11 - 12:32pm
less than sixteen and grooms less than eighteen years of age. Eight years later, the Law of the Organization and Procedure of Sheriah courts of 1931 consolidated the above provision by not hearing the marriage disputes involving brides less than sixteen and grooms less than eighteen years old. (Women in Muslim Family Law, John Esposito, 1982). It shows that even in the Muslim majority country of * +

leah.j 2.02.11 - 12:34pm
Egypt the child marriages are unacceptable. So, I believed, without solid evidence other than my reverence to my Prophet, that the stories of the marriage of seven-year-old Ayesha to 50-year-old Prophet are only myths. However, my long pursuit in search of the truth on this matter proved my intuition correct. My Prophet was a gentleman. And he did not marry an innocent seven or nine year old * +

leah.j 2.02.11 - 12:35pm
year old girl. The age of Ayesha has been erroneously reported in the hadith literature. Furthermore, I think that the narratives reporting this event are highly unreliable. Some of the hadith (traditions of the Prophet) regarding Ayeshas age at the time of her wedding with prophet are problematic. I present the following evidences against the acceptance of the fictitious story by Hisham ibn * +

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