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
These authorities say these things because 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.
“SICK CEREMONY Girl, 13, forced to marry man, 48, and she’ll have to care for his kids who are the same age in the Philippines,” by Imogen Braddick, The Sun, November 16, 2020:
SHOCKING pictures show the moment a 13-year-old girl was forced to marry a 48-year-old man in the Philippines.
Asnaira Pamansag Mugaling became Abdulrzak Ampatuan’s fifth wife after a day-long ceremony in the town of Mamasapano last month and will now look after his kids, who are her age.
The child bride wore a white traditional gown as she sat beside the groom during the bizarre ceremony on October 22.
Asnaira claimed she is “not afraid” of Abdulrzak because he is “nice to her”.
“I am learning how to cook because I’m not good at it now. I want to make my husband happy,” she said.
Three weeks after getting married, Abdulzrak built a small house for the pair to live together.
He works as a farmer while Asnaira carries out household chores and helps take care of Abdulrzak’s children from his other marriages, who are the same age as her.
“I am happy to have found her and spend my days with her taking care of my children,” Abdulzrak said.
The pair said they plan to have children when Asnaira turns 20.
“I will pay for her school because I want her to get an education while waiting for the right time to have children,” Abdulrzak said.
The United Nations defines child marriage as any formal marriage or informal union where one or both parties are under the age of 18.
It says child marriage compromises the development of girls and results in early pregnancy and social isolation.
In some parts of the Philippines, the Muslim Law on Personal Status, based on Sharia law, allows marriage at the onset of puberty for girls.
According to UNICEF data, the Philippines has 726,000 child brides – the 12th-highest total in the world….
CogitoErgoSum says
Why is it okay for a Muslim man to marry a young girl but not okay for him to adopt her? Oh yeah, because Muhammad was a lech who could not control his lust for a little girl or the wife of his adopted son.
gravenimage says
Yep.
Sean S Dallaire says
seen it first hand with a co worker the way he treated both his wives here in Ottawa.
gravenimage says
And never mind that polygamy is illegal in Canada. Of course, this is almost never enforced with Muslims.
Walter Sieruk says
A jihadwatch.org article explains it well where it reads 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.”.
Male Muslim marriage of an adult man to a young girl who is really only a child of common in the world of Islam. One of the “reasons” for this female child abuse in Islam is because of the corrupt and perverse wickedness in the hearts of men. This is seen and described in the Bible with reads “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9. [N.K.J.V.]
Furthermore, another “reason” girl/child marriages occur with middle aged and even old men is because the founder and prophet of Islam Muhammad married a child. Muslims throughout history as well as in current times actually view Muhammad as a “perfect man” and a “great example for them to follow.”
This well might prove the old saying to be true .The saying is that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
It’s also wise to remember prophet Muhammad did likewise engaged in brutal, ruthless murderous warfare. As do Muslims today such as the jihadist Muslim of ISIS, al Qaeda, Hezbollah Hamas and so forth. Many that old saying, just sited above, also explains the excuse for Muslim terrorism in the world today.
Jesus Himself Taught “By their fruits you will know them.” Matthew 7:20. Which might explain the vile child “marriage” of Muhammad and his violent and deadly behavior .Likewise also explains the twenty- first century Muslims who in child marriages and blood and murderous violence of Islam .As they see the prophet Muhammad d as their example of who to follow.
With all this about the fruits of Islam along with fruits history reveals about the life of the prophet of Islam, Muhammad .It thus further appropriate to make known that it might be in keeping with teaching of Jesus that Muhammad could well have been an actual prophet . Nevertheless the very most important thing to understand is the Muhammad was not a prophet send by God . Instead Muhammad was a lying deceptive false prophet send by Satan to start a false religion to lead many people astray.
For Jesus taught “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.” Matthew 7:15.
Walter Sieruk says
The Islamic practice of an adult male Muslim having a marriage with a little girl who is only a child is clearly seen by most Westerners as a blatant action of child abuse in the vilest sort.
Nevertheless this heinous Islam tradition is accepted as “normal “in most of the Islamic world. Therefore, this may serve as an example of how the influence of Islam is able to warp the cogitation of the human mind to the extent that a person who is a Muslim might not be able to understand the obvious difference between right and wrong.
Such an awful thing as not having the discerning mental power to seethe clear difference is described in the Bible. For in Isaiah 5:20. “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil…” ]N.K.J.V.]
somehistory says
I don’t give a tootie fruiti what the U.N. says about “child marriage.”
There is no such thing. It is daily rape, captivity, and abusive slavery of the worst kind. It is not”marriage.”
No ***child*** has the brain development and mental faculty to make the decision to “marry” and any male who pretends that he is “marrying” a child is just a raper of children….like the fake prophet, mass-murdering, lying scum, son of satan that is the “god” of islam…false ‘god’…who worshipped satan the devil and ordered others to fulfill that demon’s evil desires.
Pure satanic filth. She should not be forced to endure this and to be made to take care of his children.
She has a child’s body and a child’s mind. She should be allowed to grow up…normally, and not have to “grow up” overnight while being subjected to this moslim creep.
Keith O says
Somehistory, as I have stated before, as a father of a daughter, I would happily go to jail for slotting anyone who raped her. So we have to ask ourselves, “what sort of father would allow that to happen to their own daughter”?
And just how perverted have Mudslime males, (can’t call them men) become to think this is ok?
somehistory says
Keith O,
A true “man” does everything he can to protect his daughter from anyone who would harm her. These males are buckets of slime and any woman who doesn’t do everything in her power to keep her daughter from suffering this evil is no mother.
I have three daughters and four granddaughters. I cannot conceive of allowing anyone to touch them and, like you, I would suffer my own ‘fate’ before I would just stand by while this happened.
If possible, their filthy heads would be labeled “to smithereens’.”
This raping of children is one of the worst, vilest, things islam teaches, condones, promotes. It’s demonic.
Christopher Watson says
Spot-on, somehistory, but I wonder how many of these ‘rapes’ and ‘atrocities’ happen within the mudslime communities in the west. We’ve had over 1400 rapes of young British girls, how many ‘marriages’ have occurred of under-age girls?
cole richards says
don’t mince words. tell us what you really think.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Somehistory.
Yogi says
Exactly, how disgusting and evil is to reap a child , They are all pedhophiles to the core , !!, this brainless leaders ( Merkel ,Macron ) importing this scums to Europe/ Germany in millions, so can you imagine how the parents of the young girls have to be protective every minute..
Ade Fegan says
Well what sort of a muslim would I be if I didn’t follow the prophets example ?
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Pigs.
Boycott Turkey says
I read about this on the daily mirror site it’s awful isn’t the Philippines a Christian country the president should arrest him
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, Duterte has been pandering to Muslims, and even palling around with Jihadists.
Boycotting says
That’s odd I know somebody from the Philipines and they told me Duterte was getting tough on jihadist
gravenimage says
Duterte mostly gets tough on drug addicts:
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/philippines-president-duterte-war-on-drugs-thousands-killed
Jihadists, not so much:
Duterte has said that Moro dignity is what the MILF and MNLF are struggling for, and that they are not terrorists. Duterte was endorsed in the election by Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) leader Nur Misuari.
He was slow to act when ISIS took over the city of Marawi. Duterte has already allowed this region to impose Shari’ah law.
He has blamed Christians for Jihad violence in the Philippines, claiming there was peace before Christians fought their “Malay brothers”.
He has also blamed the US for Jihad terrorism against us here.
He has said things like he would “eat a terrorist’s liver”, but this is just more of his posturing.
Boycott Turkey says
Well he needs to get tough on jihad it gets on my nerves when idiots blame Christians for jihad and then Christians get genocided and the world turns a blind eye I heard there was a crack down on drugs he was critised for human rights abuses in punishing drug dealers I heard he was angry with the US and wanted to align more with Russia but then changed his mind he seems unstable I think its right to be tough on crime but he should be tougher on jihadist him allowing sharia law in some parts of the philipines reminds me when Russia allowed Chechnya to practise sharia law if I was a leader of any country I would outlaw Islam as a dangerous cult
gravenimage says
And he’s been tougher on drug addicts–calling for them to be murdered in the streets, which has indeed been happening–than he has on drug dealers. He just mostly goes after easy victims.
gravenimage says
Philippines: 48-year-old Muslim marries 13-year-old girl
…………….
Just appalling–this *poor girl*. As for her “taking care of” other children her own age, it is clear that this pedophile is more looking for an unpaid servant than a wife. Then, his waiting for her to reach the age of twenty before he begins raping her seems–shall we say–completely implausible.
The Philippines *should* be prosecuting this thug–but probably won’t, since they have allowed the impositon of Shari’ah law in many parts of the country.
peter says
The marriage between much older man and younger woman especially having children has serious implications not only sociall but also medical and economical .It is a well known fact that the mutations in sperm and ova will increase with age and chances of birth with significant chromosomal abnormalities will increase with the increased age of partners involved in procreation . The other thing Islam encourages viz marriage between cousins will significantly increase the chances of having a baby with autosomal recessive disorder in which two pairs of abnormal genes are needed for the disease to be manifest in the offspring . So much for science in Islam! God save the world from Islam
European pagan says
If you want someone who cooks and takes care of your children from your other marriages, then marry a woman, not a child
Lorensacho says
The couple registered their marriage at Toys R Us.
OLD GUY says
Islamics what a bunch of creeps. Why in the hell would anyone with half a brain want these low life criminals in your home or country. Cheap labor is not worth the price to our women and children who are targeted by these beasts.