Why did Muhammad the last Prophet as per Koran, being a married man still felt the need to marry Ayesha at 9?

Question

In the Hadith, it is said that Muhammad had many wives including Khadija, at one time, his Boss. But still he is said to have married Ayesha, a 9 years old girl who was more than 35 years younger than him. He is accused of being a child molester by the non-Muslims. What could be the truth? If he is not defensible, why the Muslims protect him and his past?

Answer 1

In the present standard he was a pervert. But during his time and in his society he was comparatively a good person, because people were not sparing even their own mother, mother's sisters, own grown up sisters and other family members. The Prophet had to prevent them from such uncontrolled sexual perversion like animals by introducing provisions into Koran whom to marry and whom not to marry. He had to bring their own tribe to a decent human level with a code of conduct as if it were told by Allah to him.

The whole thing has to be seen in its proper context, then only we can properly appreciate.

Answer 2

Non-muslims do not spare a moment in accusing the prophet of Islam.
Why the non-muslims are so concerned about him.
The reason being that in this age of technology information spreads fast. People are interested to know about Islam and the prophet.
They are afraid that thier religions and beliefs may be wrong.
Remember only one religion is correct. All religions cannot be true as 2+2=4 and nothing more.

Answer 3

Just a little correction. He was 53 when he married her. That means he was 46 years older than her.

Answer 4

he had multiple wives and, yes, when he was like 58 and ayesha was 9 they got married. he started dating her when she was 6, ugh, dont want to think about it. she had just been potty trained when they started dating?!

Answer 5

i've really got sickened of speaking about that matter read it urself, if u really wanna know:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmhCT4qbLQwb.EzOM.xx5U3sy6IX?qid=20061029233753AA1yhOR

http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-AAbout_Islam/AskAboutIslamE/AskAboutIslamE&cid=1123996016508

there is nothing about islam or the prophet to be ashamed of , or to protect it.

just read and get a life.

Answer 6

http://www.muslim-answers.org/Polemics-Rebuttals/aishah.htm

Answer 7

The accusation of paedophilia regarding the marriage of Muhammad to Aisha is mostly based on the following factors:

* Misunderstanding or twisting of hadiths (in most cases, it is the former that applies - it is only the anti-Islamic 'ringleaders' that are guilty of deceit).
* Lack of knowledge regarding paedophiles, resulting in a knee-jerk reaction to this whole subject.
* Lack of knowledge or a biased viewpoint of other cultures.
* A refusal to accept, or even consider other points of view, due to a stubborn refusal to accept that their own preconceived views may be wrong.

Consummating the Marriage

The main anti-Islamic criticisms come from hadiths that state Muhammad 'consummated' this marriage when Aisha was nine years old - indeed, the assumption that this hadith means Muhammad had sexual intercourse with Aisha when she was nine years old makes up the vast majority of Ali Sina's article titled 'The Child Bride of Muhammad' (the one thing that can be noticed about his article is that in his efforts to slur Muhammad's name, many sex-based accusations are made and many hadiths are automatically given sexual meanings when they actually have none). One such hadith is:

Sahih Bukhari Volume 7, Book 62, Number 64

Narrated 'Aisha:
That the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old, and then she remained with him for nine years (i.e., till his death).

After seeing this, it is very easy to assume that this meant they had sexual intercourse when she was nine. But does it really say that?

Muslim-Answers.org give us a clue in their article on this topic, as very helpfully, they include some key Arabic words in their presentation of this hadith:

'Aishah, may God be pleased with her, narrated that the Prophet was betrothed (zawaj) to her when she was six years old and he consummated (nikah) his marriage when she was nine years old, and then she remained with him for nine years. (Saheeh al-Bukhari, Volume 7, Book 62, Number 64)

The question that arises here is "Does the word 'nikah' mean 'to have sex', or has any sexual connotations whatsoever?". The answer is no - nikah is simply a formal marriage ceremony, as explained in great detail at Zawaj.com.

Having acertained that the word 'nikah' does not have any sexual meaning, we have to ask why the word 'consummated' was used in this hadith? A quick look in any dictionary shows that it doesn't just have sexual connotation - indeed, it's sexual meaning is probably derived from a western innuendo regarding the first night of marriage - the sort of smutty innuendo that Dr Muhsin Khan (the translator of Sahih Al-Bukhari) would not have been aware of, or at least would not have intended. The other main definition of 'consummate' is a formal completion of a contract or agreement, and this fits in perfectly with the definition of 'nikah' - this was probably the reasoning behind the use of the word 'consummate' in the english translation of this hadith. Strictly speaking, this is a correct term for inclusion in this hadith, but it certainly wasn't the best one (for obvious reasons) and perhaps a word emphasising the formal completion of the marriage should have been used instead to avoid misinterpretation.
Attitudes Towards Love, Sex and Marriage

In short, the acceptability of this marriage should be based solely on the niyat (intentions) of the Prophet Muhammad.

In his article 'Moral Evaluations of the Marriage of the Prophet with Ayesha', Ali Sina acknowledges:

Although it is true that in the past people married at very young age. And it is also true that occasionally wealthy old men married very young girls. We have to realize hat these people acted on their culture. We do not condemn them for they did not know better. What they did was the norm.

Apart from the implication that Muhammad was wealthy, this statement is correct, and the common practice of marriage at puberty is detailed on many Islamic sites such as Menj's article. Sure, this sort of behaviour would probably be unacceptable if it occurred today, but does this mean that every arab alive in Muhammad's time was a latent paedophile? To my mind, you simply cannot use todays ethics a the sole basis to criticise the customs and ethics of people 1400 years ago, as people 1400 years ago had a totally different mindset to us - they thought differently, they spoke differently and they acted differently. It has already been proven that Muhammad's intentions were entirely honourable.

The best proof of Muhammad's decent intentions can be clearly seen in the simple fact that he married Aisha. Marriage for any muslim is a sacred bond, an oath to Allah to honour, support, love and protect their chosen bride. Examples of the loving behaviour exhibited by the Prophet toward his wives, and Aisha in particular, can be found at Alinaam.org.za.

If Muhammad was the evil pervert that anti-Islamic lobby has him cracked up to be, he simply wouldn't have married Aisha. Paedophiles don't marry their victims, they just rape or abuse them and leave them to deal with the mental scars. The high opinions of Aisha detailed in Sabeel Ahmed's article prove that Aisha wasn't at all mentally scarred, and so it is very extremely unlikely that she had been sexually abused. The loving examples detailed in the article linked to in the paragraph above are yet more proof of this.
Conclusion

For someone to criticise or condemn someone based totally of their own set of values is ignorant, over-simplistic, narrow-minded and bigoted. To make any sort of half-decent criticism, one has to apply an unbiased, balanced viewpoint which isn't solely based on personal opinion.

It has been proven time and time again that this particular slanderous attack on the Prophet is wholly false for a variety of reasons, and this fact is obvious to anyone who is prepared to study this subject in an objective manner. Sadly, objective study is something which isn't in the islamaphobe's vocabulary - anything which portrays Muhammad as a bad man is lauded as the absolute truth without a second thought, and anyone who suggests otherwise is immediately met with stubborn hostility lest their flames of hatred towards Islam are extinguished.

I pray that Allah, the Lord and Creator of all that exists, accepts my efforts to defend his messenger and pardons me for any errors. "Truth has come and falsehood has vanished. Surely, falsehood is ever-bound to vanish" (The Holy Qur'an, 17:81).

Answer 8

A predatory heterosexual

Answer 9

sounds like he is a perv