Prophet Muhammad's saw marriage to Aisha?

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http://www.answering-christianity.com/aisha.htm

This explains it in detail. And I am not bashing, as somebody thought I was. I am defending and trying to correct misconceptions, as well as trying to teach those who missed the class World HIstory and how things were done way back then, almost 1500 years ago. His marriage was not an exception, it was common place. Even in India, as we speak, unborn girls are being promised to old men as payment or as a deal in families. How do you ignore that but go after one person? Today, the priests are raping children. You consider them holy and better than any muslim, so how do you explain that? What allows that? God prohibited it, so what gives the preists these rights? I'm not trying to christian bash, I'm simply pointing out that others have done worse and the actual subject was extremely commonplace. As soon as a girl got her period, she was able to bear children and get married. If you deny this, you don't know history.

Answer 1

I'm with you Dear, Though I believe that - According to Ibn Khaldoun - Aysha was sixsteen years old.

On the day of Marriage Asma "Aisha's sister" brought his first baby to muhammad and he was few hours old. she was 26 and it is known that Aisha is younger by 10 years.

Answer 2

Someone has set out an intellectual journey through the world to find and know the Creator of the universe. After traveling in the realms of kinds of creatures, he said to himself: ‘I am seeking the Creator and Owner of this universe amidst these creatures. I should therefore before all else visit Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, and seek from him the answer to my quest.’ He enters by imagination the blessed age of the Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, and sees that that era really was an era of happiness for mankind by virtue of that being, who, as confirmed even by his enemies, is the most blessed of the whole creation, the greatest and the most accomplished commander, and the most celebrated ruler among them, the most exalted in speech and the most brilliant in intellect, and who has enlightened fourteen centuries with his virtues and with his Qur’an.
http://www.mohammad-pbuh.com/

Answer 3

You are wrong about many things. I do not consider priests holier than any Muslim. The fact that they have a position of authority or wear a robe doesn't make the inside of their heart any cleaner than yours or mine!

The bible says that all our righteous acts are like filthy rags to God - we cannot earn God's love by working to try to please him. God already loves us because of who he is! God loves us because we are his children and he made us for himself. That is why he sent Jesus to die, when Jesus died on the cross he took the punishment for every sin that was ever committed and ever would be committed into his own body.

Jesus suffered punishment so that you and I would never have to. We can be guiltless and blameless before God because Jesus washes us completely clean, inside and out! Praise God :D

Answer 4

there is the lamb and wolf story
the wolf was up the spring ,shouted at the lamb that his play in water get him(the wolf) dirty water
the lamb answered innocently water runs from top to bottom and he is down bellow
the wolf get angry and told him that last year he (the lamb) was rude to him
the lamb answered innocently that he is only four months old so he wa not here a year ago
the wolf get mad so he said that this would be his father who insulted him
innocently the lamb answered that his name was tally "got no father"
mad got the wolf jumped over the lamb and said
the most i hate is logic
this story is to our fellas who hates logic

Answer 5

Using other bad examples does not make an excuse for that one. Priests get punished for abusing small children. And justbecause somethingis done regularly doesn't make it good. men are murdering theirwives in India but that doesn't make it right. After already havein more than a dozen wives and who knows how many female sex slaves, for a man of that age to demand a small child is nothing more than disgusting and contemptable. Mohammed was nothing more than a warlord who raped, murdered and looted, yet you muslims worship this. No wonder your religion has so many violent members. Look where it started

Answer 6

I read the link you provided.

Good Job!

To judy_t00, I don't think you've read the link provided. It clarifies a lot of things that you think to be 'violent'.

Answer 7

It doest change the fact that it was your prophet suppose to be giving good examples to his followers.......

Answer 8

hey great site.

Answer 9

It's true.

Answer 10

well done my dear muslim brothers and sisters.i proud of u all.
n France recently, porn-lit typist Michel Houellebecq was tried on charges of inciting racial hatred stemming from his remark that he thought Islam was "the most stupid religion"--what's that in French, religion quelle idiotique? His defense was that he never expressed distain for Muslims, only Islam. I can't believe this guy is the darling of French Intellectualism. I ain't got nothing against white people, it's the Caucasian race I can't stand.
I consider myself a connoisseur of stupid religions. In my youth I was a searcher, a seeker, and I passed through the needle's eye of salvation in several denominations. When I was 6, I was actually baptized in the Mormon Church. I remember it well. I was baptized in a blue-tiled hot tub of sorts in the Mormon temple. Apparently, Latter Day Saints walk the streets of glory reeking of chlorine.

Now my name is archived in the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City for all time, which should put me in solid with Elohim, the Mormon the God of the Universe (not to be confused with He-Man).

Mormonism is a religion that tests its believers' ability to keep a straight face. Joseph Smith, an itinerant treasure-hunter armed with a magic "seer stone," found the golden Plates of Lehi in upstate New York. The plates supposedly told the tale of a lost tribe of Israelites who came to the American continent, encountered a resurrected Jesus Christ, formed a great civilization and then slaughtered themselves in an apocalyptic battle in 421 A.D., at Hill Cumorah, near Palmyra, N.Y., in a dispute over caffeine.

I was also baptized, catechized and traumatized in the Catholic Church. Catholicism after Vatican II lost much of its witchy booga-booga--no Meat on Friday, exorcism--but there's still plenty of weirdness to go around. Transubstantiation of the Host, for instance, really puts me off my lunch.

Hinduism? Love it. Very pretty. Too much homework.

In Burma, among Buddhism's mountainous golden stuphas and gilded reclining Buddhas as long as a football field, play the nats, folkloric fairies who inhabit the ether between the material and spiritual world. And when I say fairies, I'm not just whistling Dixie. The nats are gay--and not just gay, but raving bathhouse slatterns and around whom the chrome on bumper hitches is not safe. Think leprechauns in a production of La Cage aux Folles.

I've read the Egyptian Book of the Dead--actually it was Egyptian Book on Tape of the Dead. And I've quite enjoyed Hakim Bey's shamanistic babble in Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism, the seminal text of a generation of X'ed-out blissmongers and rave rugrats. A sample:

"Avatars of chaos act as spies, saboteurs, criminals of amour fou, neither selfless nor selfish, accessible as children, mannered as barbarians, chafed with obsessions, unemployed, sensually deranged, wolfangels, mirrors for contemplation, eyes like flowers, pirates of all signs & meanings."

The point is fairly made: Islam is not a stupid religion.

Islam is the stripped-down show plane of the Abrahamic faiths. The Big Guy--that is, Allah--is all seeing, all knowing, all powerful, and all alone--no ontologically hamstrung concepts like a Trinity, a Son of God incarnated, virgin birth, or blood atonement on the cross (a concept that was so totally plagiarized from the Greeks).

Theological arguments are pointless--I believe my coffee maker is the Supreme Being; prove me wrong--so let's move on to Al-Shahadah, the first tenet of Islam, the profession of faith: "There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is His Prophet." Every major religion I can think of has one of these secret decoder ring shiboleths. In Christianity it's in John 3:16--the only Bible verse millions of football fans have committed to memory. Encompassed in Al-Shadahah is a solemn belief in general resurrection, the final day of judgment, in all the prophets of God--including Jesus--and total submission to the preordained will of Allah, be it good or bad.

And there you have it. Islam is Calvinism Lite.

The second tenet of Islam is Al-Salah, which means "prayer." Good Muslims rise with the call of the muezzin and live their lives to the pentameter of daily prayer. Stand on a balcony above the medina in the holy city of Fez, Morocco, before dawn, its minarets rising out of the dreamy blue cedar smoke, and hear these passionate and lovely quarter-scale melodies vine together into a tremulous, delicate devotion. If that doesn't fill you with awe and wonder, you haven't got a red blood cell to your name.

Good Muslims walk with God. It doesn't really matter if there is or isn't a God--in fact, let's stipulate there's not. Islam reminds its adherents to stay acquainted with their better angels, to be wary of pride, to keep a vigil over baser instincts.

These are habits of mind that the most jeering atheist can respect, and ones we would wish upon the most sanctimonious evangelicals, like North Carolina's own, spiritually uncredentialed Franklin Graham, who has called Islam an "evil" religion. "It wasn't Methodists flying into those buildings. It wasn't Lutherans," the uncannily narrow Graham told NBC News last year. "It was an attack on this country by people of the Islamic faith."

And the Crusades were all a big misunderstanding.

Of the remaining tenets of Islam--Al-Siyam (fasting at Ramadan), Al-Zakat (almsgiving) and Al-Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca)--the one that stays with me is almsgiving. Charity to the poor is not something Muslims do for their tax returns. An entire street economy is based on it. Westerners seem repulsed by begging when they should look upon it as an opportunity. Stick five bucks worth of Turkish lira, or Indonesian rupiah, or whatever, in your pocket when you leave your luxury hotel. Give it away. It's fun.

Why is Islam growing all over the world? Islam is a religion of and for the poor, and poverty is the West's greatest export.

I'm not a Muslim. I'm not even sure I believe in God. But I've never met a Muslim who wasn't hospitable, wry, thoughtful, with his or her eyes on a more distant horizon of salvation and atonement. The despicable caricature of Islam being marketed by the pitchfork-wielding yo-yos of the American media--the host of The O'Reilly Factor ought to be dragged before The Hague--is utterly inconsonant with the reality of Islam of the ground. Sure, there are crazy imams, war-mongering madrasahs, and teenage Jihaddi, but the Arab world--indeed, the whole of the Third World--has more than sufficient cause to hate us.

I have a theory. Far from being the theological match that ignites a religious war, Islam is, I believe, a tempering influence that keeps the besieged millions around the world from exploding in post-colonial rage. We should cherish Islam. We need Islam.

How intolerant are we? We can't even require incoming college freshmen at UNC to read the Koran, which is only the most sensible and modest effort to help 18-year-olds grasp the nature of those who might object to America's swaggering hegemony. Are we afraid of seeding the class of 2006 with Bubba bin Ladens?

The Koran is, like the Bible, rife with obsolete cultural norms and social mores, some of which are anathema to our current values of gender equality and secular justice. But it was written more than a millennium ago. Go back and read letters you wrote in college and see if they too don't sound crazy.

The true enemy is people's belief in their own divinely ratified rectitude. God says I'm right and you're wrong. Look here, it says so right here in my book.

Fundamentalism of any stripe--Southern Baptist, Islamic, free-market--plays havoc with our understanding of the shifting dynamism of human experience. The world is written in calculus; fundamentalism is a bludgeoning arithmetic of ignorance
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