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How Old Was Aisha in Islam?
How Old Was Aisha in Islam?
The Moderate Case
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Islam does not allow child marriage.
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>> It in fact does.
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>> Let me debunk this for you. So people
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say Aisha who married Prophet Muhammad
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peace be upon him was 9 years old when
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they got married. Yes, this is true.
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>> Well, then you've already destroyed your
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own argument. And technically the
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traditional account is worse than how
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you presented it because Sahi Abakati
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says that the marriage was contracted
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when she was six and was consummated
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when she was nine. So six at the
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contract, nine at the consummation when
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your prophet engaged in sexual
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intercourse with the 9-year-old who
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you're saying is not a child. But we
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also have in the text that she was past
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the age of maturity. We know that she
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was mature.
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>> Okay, show us. Because you don't have
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that. There is no hadith that says Aisha
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possessed adult mental maturity or gave
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informed adult consent. Your text simply
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do not say that. You added that because
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the actual report is indefensible by
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every possible modern standard. Again,
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the authentic Hadith Bkati literally
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places this narration under a chapter
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that's titled giving one's young
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children in marriage. Other hadith and
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canonical reports describe her playing
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with her dolls and playmates.
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>> And in Islam, you are not allowed to
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marry a woman until she is past the age
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of maturity and mentally there. A child
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is not mentally there.
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>> I agree. A 9-year-old is not mentally
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there and you have no sources. You have
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no authentic text, anything like that
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that indicates that Aisha was mature.
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>> Now, fun fact, what most people didn't
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know is she was engaged before she got
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married to Prophet Muhammad peace be
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upon him, right? Does a child get
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engaged and then marry someone? No.
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>> Yeah. This means nothing because
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historically children were in fact
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betrothed all the time. And your logic
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is completely backwards because if
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Aisha's marriage to Muhammad was
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contracted at six, then any previous
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engagement happened when she was even
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younger than that. Your own sources call
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her young. Okay? You're the one that's
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trying to redefine her as an adult. Your
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original sources and scholars don't say
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that. What you're doing in this video is
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not proving that Aisha wasn't a child.
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No, you're trying to change the
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definition of what an adult is. Also
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note, puberty, even assuming that it had
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occurred with Aisha, is not the same
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thing as adult mental capacity. A
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biological change doesn't suddenly give
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a 9-year-old in the 7th century the
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judgment of an adult. As for you saying
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that in Islam, you're not allowed to
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marry a woman until she's past the age
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of maturity and is mentally there,
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that's wrong, too. That's simply false
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as a description of classical Islamic
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law.
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>> Islam does not allow child marriage. If
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you look into the hadith, if you look
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into the Quran, there is nothing in the
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religion that allows you and says that
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it is halal and permissible to marry a
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child.
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>> That is a lie. Quran 65:4. What you will
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read here is that there is an
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established divorce waiting period
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referred to as ana for females who have
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not yet menrated. The classical
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commentators such as Iben Cir explicitly
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understood that to include young girls
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who had not yet reached ministration.
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The classical jurists then used that
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passage along with Aisha's marriage when
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ruling that guardians could arrange
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marriage for minors. The Quran doesn't
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need to contain the exact modern English
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sentence. Oh, child marriage is a law.
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That's not how legal interpretation
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works.
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