In this day and age, is it right to for an adult to marry a child as Muhammad did? (yes or no, then explain)?

Question

This is a follow up on a question just asked: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmXmhNx9LJArdcCjpXmIhmzzy6IX?qid=20061126173136AAQoWy9

I noticed that people who supported the Islamic position on this marriage, totally avoided the issue. In Islam, anything Muhammad did, is forever deemed to be the everlasting perfect standard. This means, that if Muhammad owned slaves back then, its ok to own slaves now.

So to clear this matter up, we can make this very simple, IS MARRIAGE BETWEEN ADULT AND CHILD A PROPER AND MORAL ACT TODAY, NOW. YES OR NO.

NOTE TO NON-MUSLIMS:

I hope your following this. Everything Muhammad did is what Muslims are suppose to hold up as perfect behavior...TODAY! Notice how no Muslims who ansered the above linked question gave there opinion about whether its wrong to marry children today, they merely tried to claim that it was more common back then...and by the way, it wasnt! Show me proof that it was ever common for ADULTS to marry kids.

It was VERY COMMON FOR KIDS TO MARRY EACH OTHER...BUT SHOW ME WHERE IT WAS EVER EVER COMMON FOR ELDERLY MEN TO MARRY KIDS!

Answer 1

good, well thought question with no room to escape. I like that in you, but I'm sorry to say that you won't get any relevant answers because they'll be too busy copping out. but I like your spirit though.

Answer 2

What's the worst that could happen? She gets pregnant? She doesn't finish school by 18? He divorces her when she turns 18? These things happen to kids everywhere, unmarried, married, &c. Any childhood relationship is doomed, whether it's with a person your own age, a year off or 20 years off. People change and grow. There's only one question: Does sex cause harm? We know the answer, so get over your foolish beliefs. Marriage is an outdated custom anyway. And have you heard 10 is the new 15? I say repeal all laws that don't have facts to back up the "harm" they supposedly cause. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/11/25/national/a174504S47.DTL

Answer 3

It was common and unquestioned in his time. Many men died in the wars, leaving many orphans and widows who had no income. girls who were ready to maintain a household and have children were married. I don't think it's fair to say this happened only in Mohammed's (phuh) culture. My wife is from a Catholic country(Sicily), and her mother got married when she was 15 to someone who was 42. It is not only in Islam that this happens. Do I think it is right today? Society is differant. Most women go to college and have careers today. In the time of Mohammed (pbuh) women maintained the house and had children. Once she was able to meet these needs, she was married.
Today- society has changed so our opinions have changed. Children are often kept being 'raised'- or 'prepared' for life until 18. They may go to collage (sorry cant spell?) and most of them get jobs. Today's society often puts marraige on the back burner, and child bearing has been stalled until women are in their late 30's. Children in his time were a necessity since so many people were slaughtered. Populations were not what they are today. If you married a girl when she was young, it gave you many child bearing years. Opinions on this subject greatly differ if you travel through out the world instead of just factoring in your own society. Not everywhere lives like America with all due respect.

Answer 4

For that time it was acceptable for men to marry girls when they hit puberty, and that was 1500 years ago, yet not even 100 years ago some Age of consents in America were 7 years old in some states, so it's alright to bash Islam for something that happened 15 centuries ago, yet it's fine for it to happen in christian country simply because it's America http://islamanswersback.phpbbnow.com/viewtopic.php?p=75, as a society norm, today no it is not normal for Adults to marry children, but not even a century again it was a common place and was done in America

Answer 5

For the 100,000,000 time: Prophet Muhammad didn't consummate a marriage with a nine year old. She was way into her late teens, before she married Propeht Muhammad. She was even turned down by a perspective mate way before she married the Prophet.

“A great misconception prevails as to the age at which Aisha was taken in marriage by the Prophet. Ibn Sa‘d has stated in the Tabaqat that when Abu Bakr [father of Aisha] was approached on behalf of the Holy Prophet, he replied that the girl had already been betrothed to Jubair, and that he would have to settle the matter first with him. This shows that Aisha must have been approaching majority at the time. Again, the Isaba, speaking of the Prophet’s daughter Fatima, says that she was born five years before the Call and was about five years older than Aisha. This shows that Aisha must have been about ten years at the time of her betrothal to the Prophet, and not six years as she is generally supposed to be. This is further borne out by the fact that Aisha herself is reported to have stated that when the chapter [of the Holy Quran] entitled The Moon, the fifty-fourth chapter, was revealed, she was a girl playing about and remembered certain verses then revealed. Now the fifty-fourth chapter was undoubtedly revealed before the sixth year of the Call. All these considerations point to but one conclusion, viz., that Aisha could not have been less than ten years of age at the time of her nikah, which was virtually only a betrothal. And there is one report in the Tabaqat that Aisha was nine years of age at the time of nikah. Again it is a fact admitted on all hands that the nikah of Aisha took place in the tenth year of the Call in the month of Shawwal, while there is also preponderance of evidence as to the consummation of her marriage taking place in the second year of Hijra in the same month, which shows that full five years had elapsed between the nikah and the consummation. Hence there is not the least doubt that Aisha was at least nine or ten years of age at the time of betrothal, and fourteen or fifteen years at the time of marriage.” [4] (Bolding is mine.)

To facilitate understanding dates of these events, please note that it was in the tenth year of the Call, i.e. the tenth year after the Holy Prophet Muhammad received his calling from God to his mission of prophethood, that his wife Khadija passed away, and the approach was made to Abu Bakr for the hand of his daughter Aisha. The hijra or emigration of the Holy Prophet to Madina took place three years later, and Aisha came to the household of the Holy Prophet in the second year after hijra. So if Aisha was born in the year of the Call, she would be ten years old at the time of the nikah and fifteen years old at the time of the consummation of the marriage.

__ Maulana Muhammad Ali



Peace.

Answer 6

Ok Monkey (with all due respect-your avatar) I am posting my answer from that link. Hope that brings some monkey (with all due respect) sense.

As you may know back then there was no concept of 18 being the adult age. A girl was considered a woman when she hit puberty, as you mentioned also Prophet Mohammad's (PBUH) marriage got consummated when Aisha hit that age. If Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) was a pedophile as you are trying to portray then should also know that from age 25 to 50 he was married to Khadija only and that she was 15 years older then him. He married others only after that she passed away. You can't compare this period to that as things were very different, it doesn't make sense.

And FYI Prophet Mohammad encouraged freeing slaves 1400 years back! Compare that to what our great nation was doing just 40 years ago!

Answer 7

It would depend on your culture. I don't believe it would be right in the US. But I understand in India Children are married by their parents agreement when they are very young. But are not allowed to consummate their marriage until they are adult. Why are you so down on Muslims. God bless kisses Mary.

Answer 8

I see you have no idea about Islam
first the prophet mohamed never did that
sex with the same sex or gayness is one of the biggest sins in Islam
you should check before you ask

Answer 9

I don't believe it's morally right but every culture has different standards. They also think it's wrong to have a child out of wedlock and I do not.

Answer 10

hi,first i'm no longer of Islam faith yet discovered your question very exciting. i will't remark on Islam different than if men regarded as much as her then why are female dealt with in some worldwide places as though they are no longer something.I additionally agree getting youthful exchange into ordinary worldwide extensive fortuitously we've have been given faraway from it.