Muslim cleric says fathers can marry off their newborn daughters

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Muhammad’s favorite wife was all but six when he married her, nine when he consummated the marriage.

As Robert Spencer has explained:

Few things are more abundantly attested in Islamic law than the permissibility of child marriage. Islamic tradition records that Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when he consummated the marriage:

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“The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death)” (Bukhari 7.62.88).

Another tradition has Aisha herself recount the scene:

The Prophet engaged me when I was a girl of six (years). We went to Medina and stayed at the home of Bani-al-Harith bin Khazraj. Then I got ill and my hair fell down. Later on my hair grew (again) and my mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girl friends. She called me, and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me. She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house. I was breathless then, and when my breathing became all right, she took some water and rubbed my face and head with it. Then she took me into 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 came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of age. (Bukhari 5.58.234).

Muhammad was at this time fifty-four years old.

Marrying young girls was not all that unusual for its time, but because in Islam Muhammad is the supreme example of conduct (cf. Qur’an 33:21), he is considered exemplary in this unto today. And so in April 2011, the Bangladesh Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini declared that those trying to pass a law banning child marriage in that country were putting Muhammad in a bad light: “Banning child marriage will cause challenging the marriage of the holy prophet of Islam, [putting] the moral character of the prophet into controversy and challenge.” He added a threat: “Islam permits child marriage and it will not be tolerated if any ruler will ever try to touch this issue in the name of giving more rights to women.” The Mufti said that 200,000 jihadists were ready to sacrifice their lives for any law restricting child marriage.

Likewise the influential website Islamonline.com in December 2010 justified child marriage by invoking not only Muhammad’s example, but the Qur’an as well:

The Noble Qur’an has also mentioned the waiting period [i.e. for a divorced wife to remarry] for the wife who has not yet menstruated, saying: “And those who no longer expect menstruation among your women, if you doubt, then their period is three months, and [also for] those who have not menstruated” [Qur’an 65:4]. Since this is not negated later, we can take from this verse that it is permissible to have sexual intercourse with a prepubescent girl. The Qur’an is not like the books of jurisprudence which mention what the implications of things are, even if they are prohibited. It is true that the prophet entered into a marriage contract with A’isha when she was six years old, however he did not have sex with her until she was nine years old, according to al-Bukhari.

Other countries make Muhammad’s example the basis of their laws regarding the legal marriageable age for girls. Article 1041 of the Civil Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran states that girls can be engaged before the age of nine, and married at nine: “Marriage before puberty (nine full lunar years for girls) is prohibited. Marriage contracted before reaching puberty with the permission of the guardian is valid provided that the interests of the ward are duly observed.”

According to Amir Taheri in The Spirit of Allah: Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution (pp. 90-91), Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini himself married a ten-year-old girl when he was twenty-eight. Khomeini called marriage to a prepubescent girl “a divine blessing,” and advised the faithful to give their own daughters away accordingly: “Do your best to ensure that your daughters do not see their first blood in your house.” When he took power in Iran, he lowered the legal marriageable age of girls to nine, in accord with Muhammad’s example.

“Salafist cleric says fathers can marry off their newborn daughters,” by Mariam Nabbout, StepFeed, September 18, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Last week, Egyptian Salafist preacher Muftah Mohammad Maarouf, also known as “Abu Yahya,” stated that it’s absolutely okay for a newborn girl to be married off by her father – even at such a young age.

Yes, you heard that right.

The statement was made during a live TV interview on a show that was discussing a controversial draft law aimed at lowering marital age in Egypt to 16.

According to the preacher, if no harm will be done to a female, then nothing should prevent her from getting married, regardless of her age.

“I am not the one saying this, in Islamic Sharia there is no set age for marriage when it comes to females,” Maarouf said.

When the show’s presenter pressed on with: “If this is true, then any age would be fine for marriage, 2 months, 1 year,” the preacher shockingly responded:

“Even if she’s just 1-day-old.”…

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AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago

Ban Muslim immigration.

Lee Hicks
Lee Hicks
6 years ago

This is the hatred that Satan (the real person behind the mask of Allah) has for women and children, since being informed in the garden that his defeat would come through them. There is no depth of corruption and vileness that genuine Islam won’t sink to, taking on the nature of the false god it serves.

OverIt
OverIt
6 years ago
Reply to  Lee Hicks

Yes it’s extremely hard to imagine a father being so warped as to consider his own baby daughter up for grabs, rather than want to go to the ends of the earth to protect her. It’s the things they accept as being fine for even their own families to have to go through that separates this evil cult from anything resembling normality.

Nedd Kareiva
Nedd Kareiva
6 years ago

Repugnant, repulsive, revulsing, take your pick of adjectives, though even those are not strong enough to describe this grave evil. We really have no good reason or business to allow Islam to fester in America. Ban it from our shores.

Poppey
Poppey
6 years ago

When these attitudes are introduced and protected by “hate speech” laws into our Western societies, we have a major problem, perhaps the issues can be brought into the light by constantly writing to all our local authorities, charged as they are with good governance of our affairs in our name until the truth starts to weigh more than the subjugation agenda being imposed upon us all.

El Cid
El Cid
6 years ago
Reply to  Poppey

Unfortunately, a rapidly increasing number of local authorities in Britain are now controlled by Muslims. The infiltration of local, regional and national government is a high priority Muslim objective.
Once in these positions, Muslims start pushing to change existing laws to make Britain increasingly Sharia compliant
London’s Muslim ” mayor” has already started to Islamise that city and make it Sharia compliant.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

This is islam, there is nothing shocking or surprising about it, what would be shocking or surprising is hearing of decent civilized behaviour from muslims.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

There was a documentary on US television some 8 years ago that featured a muslum who was “freeing” Yezidi and Christian sex slaves from the Islamic State. The problem is, he was making a PROFIT off every deal and what do you call someone who profits from the buying and selling of human beings?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

In the United States, organized religion, all of the lame stream Christian churches are making money off of “refugee” imports.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Not quite the same as being a slaver. Because a slaver is a person who buys and sells people he owns for profit and prophet.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

Close enough to count.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
6 years ago

They can do whatever they want IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY! Rape goats, screw donkeys, behead one another, sodomize the boys, I couldn’t give a damn as long as it’s on THEIR soil!

pipo
pipo
6 years ago

pedoslam more or less. When are we getting rid of the muzzrats. Just bomb the whole Middle East silly with nukes. We can do it but who is pushing the button. pislam has to be destroyed regardless.

solange9
solange9
6 years ago

Yeah, Muhammad was well. I’m surprised he waited that long.

Sgtsnuffy
Sgtsnuffy
6 years ago

THE NOBLE QUR’AN ????? IT’AS NOTHING BUT A HOW TO BOOK ON PERVERSION AND MURDER . EVERY DAMNED COPY SHOULD BE ROUNDED UP AND BURNED ALONG WITH IT’S FOLLOWERS . OH HOW HORRIBLE OF YOU SGT SNUFFY !!!! HELL THEY WOULD WOULD DO AND HAVE DONE THE SAME TO US FOR 1400 YEARS .comment image comment image comment image comment image

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