• Why Jihad Watch?
  • About Robert Spencer and Staff Writers
  • FAQ
  • Books
  • Muhammad
  • Islam 101
  • Privacy

Jihad Watch

Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

Malaysia: Islamic authorities say minimum age for marriage can’t be enforced as it is not specified in Islam

Feb 22, 2020 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

Child marriage is sanctioned in Islam.

Islamic tradition records that Muhammad consummated his marriage with (i.e., raped) Aisha when she was nine, and the resultant fact that child marriage is accepted in wide swaths of the Islamic world. Child marriage has abundant attestation in Islamic tradition and law.

Turkey’s directorate of religious affairs (Diyanet) said in January 2018 that under Islamic law, girls as young as nine can marry.

“Islam has no age barrier in marriage and Muslims have no apology for those who refuse to accept this” — Ishaq Akintola, professor of Islamic Eschatology and Director of Muslim Rights Concern, Nigeria

“There is no minimum marriage age for either men or women in Islamic law. The law in many countries permits girls to marry only from the age of 18. This is arbitrary legislation, not Islamic law.” — Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-‘Ubeidi, Iraqi expert on Islamic law

There is no minimum age for marriage and that girls can be married “even if they are in the cradle.” — Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, prominent cleric and member of Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council

“Islam does not forbid marriage of young children.” — Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology

Hadiths that Muslims consider authentic record that Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when he consummated the marriage:

“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.

“Muftis cannot enforce minimum age for marriage, say Islamic authorities,” by Hakimie Amrie Hisamudin, FMT News, February 19, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

PETALING JAYA: Muftis can only propose the minimum age for marriage, not enforce it, according to Islamic authorities in Perak and Johor.

Perak mufti Harussani Zakaria told FMT that muftis could not set a minimum marriageable age and insist on adherence since it is not specified in Islam.

The Johor executive councillor in charge of Islamic affairs, Abdul Mutalib Abdul Rahim, said muftis could propose the minimum age but added that Muslims below that age could apply to the shariah courts to get married.

He said the courts would usually approve such applications.

Mutalib also commented on former Terengganu mufti Ismail Yahya’s suggestion that shariah law be made uniform across the states.

He agreed that muftis should discuss the proposal with the state religious councils, but said there were not many discrepancies between the states.

Ismail recently said Muslims in Malaysia were being deprived of justice due to the application of different sets of Islamic laws across the states.

He said the campaign to stop underage marriages among Muslims had failed as some states could allow a girl as young as 16 to tie the knot….

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Follow me on Facebook

Filed Under: child marriage, Featured, Islamic supremacism, Malaysia, Sharia Tagged With: Abdul Mutalib Abdul Rahim, Harussani Zakaria, Johor, Perak


Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Comments

  1. European pagan says

    Feb 22, 2020 at 9:34 am

    Little black ghost

  2. Goofy says

    Feb 22, 2020 at 10:24 am

    Islamic law? Marriage by force including marrying off underage children must be a crime against humanity.

    • katherine says

      Feb 22, 2020 at 4:50 pm

      You must be Goofy – the concept of Humanity as understood in the west does not even exist in Islamic ideology. There are only believers and unbelievers and the latter are not considered Humans to begin with, just animals.

    • tim gallagher says

      Feb 22, 2020 at 11:18 pm

      Goofy, that’s exactly what I thought about this report. islam is so evil and with such a evil concept of what god is that it allows such obvious crimes against very basic civilised standards. And then you get the leftie, progressive types who must know that this is type of behaviour is part of the disgusting way Muslims behave (as in marrying very young children) and yet they defend Islam. Absolutely sickening.

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 22, 2020 at 11:27 pm

        Tim, many clueless lefties have no idea about this.

        I told a friend that the “Prophet” married a 6-year-old and consummated the marriage when she was 9–and she dismissed this out of hand as not being possible.

        • tim gallagher says

          Feb 23, 2020 at 2:53 am

          That type of attitude is amazing, gravenimage. What I mean is that if you tell someone (and I would think people would know you are an honest person) about Muhammad’s paedophilia, wouldn’t you expect them to go and check it out. It is ludicrous for a person say, oh, that’s not possible. Of course such behaviour is definitely possible. There’s plenty of such sexual behaviour with children as young as Aisha was, so it is definitely possible. I can’t understand how any person could just say, no, that couldn’t have happened. Did she think you were making it up? In what I wrote above, I was thinking more along the lines that everybody (lefties and everyone else) surely must have read about underaged Muslim marriages in news reports, whether it is in the UK, or here in Australia, where there are definitely reports about such behaviour from time to time (often about attempts to send underaged girls over to Lebanon or some such place to be married off), or, as in this report, Malaysia, or elsewhere. Maybe some people don’t bother with the news at all, but I believe most people have surely heard about the paedophilia in Islam, including the lefties. And yet, despite this, they seem to always want to defend Islam.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 23, 2020 at 5:27 pm

          Unfortunately, ti is all too common, Tim. The problem is that we face both ignorance and *willful ignorance*, where it is not just that people don’t know about the ugliness of Islam, but that they *don’t want to know*.

        • tim gallagher says

          Feb 23, 2020 at 10:19 pm

          This wilful ignorance is a strange thing. What you said about telling your friend about Muhammad and Aisha made me think about people that I have told the same thing over the years. I can recall telling a couple of my sisters, who I have mentioned before are generally fairly left wing. I’m sure they knew that if I said it then it must be true, but they just sort of let it go by and didn’t comment at all. Over time though, I have noticed (probably the weight of evidence about terrorist attacks, etc) that they are developing a dislike of Islam that didn’t used to be there. They used to be very soft and accepting of everyone from all cultures, the whole all cultures are equal caper, including islam etc. They’ve woken up to some degree. I keep thinking almost everyone should have woken up by now when it comes to Islam’s nasty nature.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 23, 2020 at 10:40 pm

          I have heard of a lot of cases like those of your sisters, Tim, and have experienced some myself. A lot of people need to hear about this many times and give it a lot of though.

          None of us want to think that there is so much enmity and threat against us–it is hard to wrap our heads around. And once you accept that there is a threat, you have to consider what to do about it.

          I understand why so many were slow to see the threat of Fascism eighty years ago, and the threat of Islam today–but burying our heads in the sands only makes things worse.

          That is why we have to keep telling the truth, no matter how uncomfortable it may be.

  3. Westman says

    Feb 22, 2020 at 10:32 am

    Imagine that! The perfect laws of Sharia lack uniformity which means they are…uh, not perfect.

    If all the unbelievers were removed from the earth today – tomorrow Muslim groups would war with each other as they have since the Sunni-Shia split. Islam is a religion of war and conflict, on every level, because its survival depends upon the physical and mental control of humans at every level. Islamic prayer, 5 times a day, is merely the equivalent of shouting communist party slogans 5 times a day with the intensity of North Koreans crying over the death of a dictator.

    • Mural says

      Feb 22, 2020 at 12:17 pm

      +1

  4. Luke says

    Feb 22, 2020 at 7:27 pm

    What the demorats and left do not understand is that they will be the first victims of the islamic cult if their numbers get large enough in our culture to start pushing the shariah law on all of us… gays & transgenders will be slaughtered first… stop all islamic immigration now.

  5. gravenimage says

    Feb 22, 2020 at 7:33 pm

    Malaysia: Islamic authorities say minimum age for marriage can’t be enforced as it is not specified in Islam
    ………………….

    In other words, raping babies is fine with “Allah”.

    God, I hate Islam.

    • Ralph G. says

      Feb 23, 2020 at 5:18 pm

      Amen.

  6. Veron Holness says

    Feb 23, 2020 at 3:17 am

    Yet, if you mention this in some EU member countries, that the Quran and the Hadiths, shows that Mohammed was indeed a paedophile, it is called hate speech, and you can be fined and/or jailed for it.

    It is hate speech for a non-muslim to point out that this is endorsing underage child marriage and sex, yet it is not against the law, for a muslim to use the very same text as a way to justify paedophilia!

  7. Linde Barrera says

    Feb 23, 2020 at 8:23 am

    I told my nice Muslim neighbor originally from Uzbekistan that the “prophet” Muhammed married A’isha when she was 9. I also said that by Western standards, that would be child abuse and Muhammed would be considered a pedophile. My nice Muslim neighbor did not like that, but did not comment to me about this topic. But he did say: “I like it better in the US than in Uzbekistan.” Maybe there is hope for him and his family?

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 23, 2020 at 5:33 pm

      Maybe, maybe not, Linde. He may just like the standard of living here better.

  8. Eric J Rose says

    Feb 23, 2020 at 9:15 am

    Why do muslims want to marry little girls?
    Do the math. 1 man with 4 wives = 3 lonely, horny men with ‘0’ wives.
    Polygamy is the equation that creates child-brides.
    Read more here: https://the32112020.com/1_27_muslim-math.html

  9. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Feb 23, 2020 at 9:51 am

    Don’t forget the ahadith showed that Dirty Old Moe had (at least) once lusted after a newborn baby, too!

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 23, 2020 at 5:55 pm

      Also true. He died before he could rape that little girl.

  10. CTTV15@Hotmail.com says

    Feb 23, 2020 at 11:12 am

    Of course… ..because Ali-babba-babba-babba-babba says so.. Wow!

  11. CTTV15@Hotmail.com says

    Feb 23, 2020 at 11:14 am

    …A sponge in the deep blue sea has more intelligence and character..

  12. Ralph G. says

    Feb 23, 2020 at 5:22 pm

    “The greatest crimes against humanity are committed in the name of religion”, as Karl Marx reportedly said. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

  13. toomanyhobbies says

    Feb 23, 2020 at 8:25 pm

    so this CULT of sociopathic pedophiles can now marry a new born baby???

FacebookYoutubeTwitterLog in

Subscribe to the Jihad Watch Daily Digest

You will receive a daily mailing containing links to the stories posted at Jihad Watch in the last 24 hours.
Enter your email address to subscribe.

Please wait...

Thank you for signing up!
If you are forwarding to a friend, please remove the unsubscribe buttons first, as they my accidentally click it.

Subscribe to all Jihad Watch posts

You will receive immediate notification.
Enter your email address to subscribe.
Note: This may be up to 15 emails a day.

Donate to JihadWatch
FrontPage Mag

Search Site

Translate

The Team

Robert Spencer in FrontPageMag
Robert Spencer in PJ Media

Articles at Jihad Watch by
Robert Spencer
Hugh Fitzgerald
Christine Douglass-Williams
Andrew Harrod
Jamie Glazov
Daniel Greenfield

Contact Us

Terror Attacks Since 9/11

Archives

  • 2020
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2019
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2018
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2017
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2016
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2015
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2014
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2013
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2012
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2011
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2010
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2009
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2008
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2007
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2006
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2005
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2004
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2003
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • March

All Categories

You Might Like

Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Recent Comments

  • Walter Sieruk on Iranian Kurdistan: Muslim brothers behead their sister in honor killing over her romantic relationship
  • J. Morgan on Iranian Kurdistan: Muslim brothers behead their sister in honor killing over her romantic relationship
  • ELI on Uighur leader: ‘We’re actually quite worried’ about what Biden might let China get away with
  • revereridesagain on Erdogan: ‘Turks must defend the rights of Jerusalem, even with their lives’ for ‘the honor of the Islamic nation’
  • James Lincoln on Erdogan: ‘Turks must defend the rights of Jerusalem, even with their lives’ for ‘the honor of the Islamic nation’

Popular Categories

dhimmitude Sharia Jihad in the U.S ISIS / Islamic State / ISIL Iran Free Speech

Robert Spencer FaceBook Page

Robert Spencer Twitter

Robert Spencer twitter

Robert Spencer YouTube Channel

Books by Robert Spencer

Jihad Watch® is a registered trademark of Robert Spencer in the United States and/or other countries - Site Developed and Managed by Free Speech Defense

Content copyright Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch claims no credit for any images posted on this site unless otherwise noted. Images on this blog are copyright to their respective owners. If there is an image appearing on this blog that belongs to you and you do not wish for it appear on this site, please E-mail with a link to said image and it will be promptly removed.

Our mailing address is: David Horowitz Freedom Center, P.O. Box 55089, Sherman Oaks, CA 91499-1964

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.