Aisha was Muhammad's child bride of age 9?!?

Question

As a muslim it's annoying to have to defend this action.

It's true her age is in despute in various texts but according to HER OWN ACCOUNT in hadith she was 9 years old.

Well you have to understand at that time 9 was like...18. Yeah, right. I don't ever know what to say to it except that's some gross sh*t right there.

I'm not wearing any desguises except the ones you choose to see.

Answer 1

At the age of 9, women and men were mature physically and mentally during that time.

IF you see something wrong with getting married to a physically and mentally matured people, then this marriage will trouble you.

Muslims, Christians, Jews, Pagans, and everyone didn't say any thing wrong about this marriage. Muhammed was called Magician, Liar, Poet, Crazy, but not a Pedo!!

Answer 2

did u know how much a "YEAR" at the time of nomadic Arabia was ..... : / she was not,9 she was probably a little older maybe 13 or 15 and yes women got married at that age back in the old days :OOOOOOO .... shocking hehe people now a days are just silly really.

check and see that the Arabs before Islam were not known for their prowess in astrology or keeping a very accurate calender, and brush up on biology

Answer 3

Not sure you have to defend anything. Child brides weren't all that uncommon in many religions/cultures. I don't like the idea of a 9 year old getting married either but it's not like you're personally responsible for it.

Answer 4

There is no age limit for marriage in Islam. Though this may seem weird in our time but at that time, it's common to marry at young age. Plus, people mature faster at the time. She could pass for at least as a teenager today...

Answer 5

Muslims are not supposed to discuss about the personal life of Muhammad (SM, PBUH). Just for the record, this is not true. I urge all sane people to report judy_.... for his/her insane answer.

Answer 6

non-muslim propaganda.

Prophet's Second Marriage After Death of His First Wife:

During this time when he was of fifty years Khawla advised him to re-marry, because after death of his wife he was lonely. He agreed, but asked with whom? She said that there is one widow Sauda bint Hakim. She embraced Islam and her husband has died after migration of Habsha (Ethiopia) and secondly daughter of Abu Bakar have more right over you. As Abu Bakar is your very faithful friend and his daughter is among the first believers. Marriage with the widow, Sauda bint Hakim was arranged very soon. When Sauda was asked about marriage, she expressed willingness and her father expressed with joy, "What a nice couple". She was fifty five year of age being five years senior to the prophet pbuh. This was his second marriage after death of his first wife. Marriage with Aisha daughter of Abu Bakar (may God be pleased with him) was also arranged but not culminated and she went to her home a few years later. At this point one thing is necessary to point out that in start of Islam she embraced Islam with her sister Asma. Surely she was a girl of some understanding at that time. And at tenth year of prophet-hood she was engaged to Apostle of Allah. And then she went to her home a few years later. It made clear that her age was sufficient young at the time of her marriage. It is not like mentioned by critics of Islam. And during those times, age difference was not taken into more consideration among Arab society, for marriage ties. As we have already read that at the time of first marriage of prophet (peace be upon him) was twenty five years while his wife Khudija was forty years old. And we see that Um-al-Mominen Aisha was much loving to her husband. And being an intelligent and having poetic wit served Islam more than any other woman. She is like a teacher of all Muslim women in future for their family life. Since message of the Apostle of Allah was for all nations, all ages, situations and for all classes. We can find the biggest orders beside minutest matters of life. There are orders for king and subjects, for free and for slave and for criminal and prisoners of war, about wives and about relatives, and about all spheres of life.

Answer 7

Look, 9is 9, no matter how long ago it was, and he actually started sexually molesting her at the age of 6. lets face it, the guy was a----I'd call him a pig, but that would just insult the pigs! he was justa pervert who got off on rape, murder and torture. history proves it, even if muslims refuse to look it up in a book

Answer 8

I have the feeling you are a troll that is posing as a Muslim.

Most Muslims don't even bring this subject up, with good reason......

Answer 9

Prophet Mohammad SAW married to his first wife Khadijah at age 25 when she was 40 and twice widowed and had few children from prior husbands. She was from one of the noblest families in Mecca. She hired Mohammad at his young age to lead her trade caravans to syria. She sent one of her servants with caravan to watch Mohammad and report his dealings. Servant report nothing negative and lots of praise. Muhammad gave her more profit than any previous caravan leader. She fell in love with him and sent him proposal through her female servant for marriage.
Muhammad consulted his uncle for advice. He liked the proposal as Khadijah was from noble family and a very beautiful woman and would be a great wife. Those days in Arabia and even today age difference is not considered top very important in marriage.
Khadijah happend to be the best friend and most loving wife. Until she died at age 65, Prophet never looked at other woman and loved her very much. He had two sons and four daughters. Sons died in infancy.
God assigned Muhammad Prophethood at age 40. He was terrified and trembling when he came home after seeing Angel Gabriel first time in the cave where he often went to meditate. Khadijah covered him with blanket and removed his fears by saying him, 'you feed orphas and poor people and never hurt any one'. This has to be the Angel of God. No deamon could come to person like you. After Khadijah died at age 65, some lady advised him to marry some widow to take care of his daughters while he is busy preaching Islam. So he married to a widow woman named Saudah on her advice. Within a year God showed Aisha in vision more than once ordering him to marry her. He told about the dream to Aisha's father Abu Bakar who was his best friend and first man converted as Muslim. For Abu Bakar this was a great honor that Muhammad SAW will become his son-in-law. He immediately agreed and Aisha was married to Muhammad at age 7.

Arabs had custom to marry girls very early and would send the daughter to her husband's house soon after her first period. So Aisha was sent to Prophet's house in Madia at age 9. Prophet was 53 years old and had very little time for his wives for being all the time busy in preaching Islam, meeting delegations visiting him from other cities, discussing how to defend in the wars imposed upon him by Aetheists of Mecca. In Madina he married many more widowed women to take care of them who had no one else to turn to and some marriages were for political reasons. In Arabia an entire tribe would become in-laws of a man who marrys one of their women. Few women who belongs to his enemies accepted Islam and he married to them so his enemies would no more be hostile to him.
Abu Sufyan the Quraish leader was one of them whose daughter married to Prophet after she converted. Abu Sufyan also later accepted Islam.

First thing in the minds of Christians and other enemies of Islam comes is that Muhammad SAW married a minor and slept with her. They speak their mentality. Truth is that he did not have sex with her, until she was old enough and asked herself to Muhammad for sex in a very nice way. She herself reported later how she approached her husband to get her right being his wife.

It is reported in the Hadith which I have read myself.
Aisha asked to Muhnammad SAW why a person grazes her goats in the field where goats have already grazed but doesn't graze his goat in the field where no goat has ever grazed before. Mohammad smiled for the way she approached. This report doesn't say at what age Aisha said it.
The reason God wanted Prophet to marry her is that God gave her the intelligence and photographic memory that no other woman had in that era. God wanted Prophet to raise her in his household so she can learns about Islam and
remembers every thing what Prophet says and does and how he deals with his wives. She lived until age 80 and reported more sayings of Prophet than any other companion of Prophet. She often answerd questions of fellow Muslims from behind the curtain about Prophet and how he dealt/handled in many instances of his Prophetic life. She was the best and the most accurate source of information as compared to all other companions. Her statements are considered most authentic in the collections of sayings of Prophet. She also taught men and women behind curtain meanings of Ayahs of Quran which they didn't understa. She often solved most difficult issues of Islam for which Muslims didn't have precedents and the pright answers.

This was the purpose of God to order Propphet to marry Aisha at young age. In Islamic way of life a Muslim can not also have a girl in his household who is not his daughter, wife, neice with whom he is prohibited to marry. We call such persons 'MEHRAMS' and those women whom he is allowed to marry are called 'NONMEHRAMS'. Since Aisha was not one of the Mehrams, he couldn't keep her in his household and raise her without marrying her. For this reason God ordered him to marry her.