Non-Muslims: Are you impressed with prophet MuhamMAD when you read this?

Question

Sahih Bukhari Volume 5, Book 58, Number 234
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/058.sbt.html#005.058.234

"Narrated Aisha: The Prophet (MuHAMmad) engaged me when I was a GIRL of SIX (years old). ...my mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was PLAYING IN A SWING with some of my girl friends. ... She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house.... There in the house I saw some Ansari women who said, "Best wishes and Allah's Blessing and a good luck." Then she entrusted me to them and they prepared me (for the marriage). Unexpectedly Allah's Apostle (Muhammad) came to me in the forenoon (consummated the marriage) . . . and at that time I was a GIRL of NINE YEARS OF AGE."

thanks ray for not being afraid to answer

lna,

If your definition of "spewing hate" is simply quoting Islamic text, written by muslims, then what are you suggesting that we do with the Qur'an and hadith?

412envy-

muhammad was 53 years old when Aisha was 6

your argument doesn't hold water because the world has never had an epidemic of 50+ year old men forcing pre-pubescent girls to have sex

Answer 1

Oh, I'm impressed all right...at least, reading that impresses on my mind that Muhammad was a very sick individual, with very serious issues. I don't care what culture or what society -- what (normal) 50+ year old man could honestly find a nine year old girl attractive, and wish to have sexual intercourse with her? That is ABnormal, NOT normal!
The worst part, of course, is that Muhammad is supposed to be a model for all Muslim men for all time. Which means that 50+ year old Muslim men can, with the approval of their god, marry 6 year olds and have sex with 9 year olds. Disgusting.

Answer 2

I was born in Ilayangudi a small town in South India. At the age of six I went to learn to read the Quran in a local Masjid and I completed the Arabic Quran at the age of 12 or so. When I went to college my ideas changed and I thought it was useless( astagfirullah) just to read the Quran in Arabic without understanding the meaning. So I started reading teh English translation of the Quran and eventually forgot to read the Arabic Quran fluently After reading the following Quotation from a Christian Arabic Language professor on the beauty of the Quran, I started re-learning to read the Quran in Arabic. “The Quran was revealed in Arabic. It is a matter of faith in Islam that it is of divine origin, it is inimitable and hence to translate is always to betray. Muslims have always deprecated and at times prohibited any attempt to render it in another language. Anyone who has read it in the original is forced to admit that this caution seems justified. No translation however faithful to the meaning has ever been fully successful. Arabic when expertly used is a remarkably tense, rich and forceful language. And the Arabic of the Quran is by turns, striking, soaring, vivid, terrible, tender and breathtaking. As Prof Gibb has put it, “No man in 1500 years has ever played on that deep toned instrument with such power, such boldness and such range of emotional effect.” It is meaningless to apply adjectives such as “beautiful” or “persuasive” to the Quran, its flashing images and inexorable measure go directly to the brain and intoxicate it. It is not surprising then, that a skilled recitor of the Quran can reduce an Arabic speaking audience to helpless tears.” QUOTATION TAKEN FROM THE BOOK: TITLE: Islam AUTHOR: John Alden Williams ( a non-Muslim Arabic scholar) PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall International, London 1961 The following Quotation taken from the foreword of Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall’s Glorious Quran reinforces the above views of Prof. Alden equally effectively and forcefully. “The Quran can not be translated. That is the belief of old- fashioned sheykhs and the view of the present writer. The Book is here rendered almost literally and every effort has been made to choose befitting language. But the result is not the Glorious Quran, that inimitable symphony, the very sounds of which move men to tears and ecstasy. It is only an attempt to present the meaning of the Quran: and peradventure something of the charm: in English. It can never take the place of the Quran in Arabic nor is it meant to do so.

Answer 3

I am always impressed with him. He sends me a Christmas card every year delivered by an eleven year old virgin. I am not sure where you are going with this. I can only assume that becoming a Muslim is not in your future. I am a Seventh Day Adventurist myself.

Answer 4

Why didn't the Arabs during Mohamed's PBUH use this act against him? thats because it was a common thing that time. Girls in hot countries hit puberty faster than girls in colder ones.

How old was your great grandmother when she got married? How old are girls now in America who are pregnant OUTSIDE marriage?

And probably you wont be interested in my answer but I'm doing my duty as a Muslim.

Answer 5

a few thousand years ago, it was normal for girls to get married once they hit puberty. In fact, it was very common in 1800s United States.
My great Grandmother is still alive and she says most of the girls in her day were married off by age 12.
It has nothing to do with religion, but it was a part of the culture.

Answer 6

Why do you need to spew hate against other religions? Why cant u be a good human being?
Be kind and good, why are you behaving like a sick man, full of hate?

Answer 7

no cant say that i am

Answer 8

No.

Answer 9

Far from impressed but thanks for asking..