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.
“Marriage of 12-year-old Iraqi girl sparks outrage, mother worried,” Gulf Today, October 31, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A video clip of the marriage of an Iraqi girl, 12, spread on the social media platforms and received mixed reactions between opponents and supporters.
The girl’s mother, who is separated from her husband, appealed through a video clip, to the people and the authorities to save her daughter, but the Iraqi Ministry of Interior said that “Sharia and the law allows the marriage of a minor by proxy of her father.”
The girl’s mother, affirmed that her minor daughter’s marriage took place through a “customary and illegal contract.”
This stirred anger of activists who organised a campaign to pressure the authorities, which pushed the community police in the Relations and Information Department of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior, to follow up the case.
The community police issued a statement on Facebook which sparked widespread controversy and made matters worse.
The statement stated: “The Director of the Community Police, Brigadier General Ghalib Al Attiyah, formed a working team to find out the truth of what was in the video, and the team met the girl, her father, her husband and her brother and the girl affirmed that the marriage took place with her consent, and that no one forced her to do it. Also, the team was briefed on the legal contract under which the girl’s marriage took place.”…
jim says
Child marriage surely occurs in the West, among sects and especially among Muslims. It should be banned, but how can we. And we are not supposed to say anything bad about Islam. That is Islamophobia. And we are supposed to respect other peoples culture. How can we presume to judge, are we better than other religions? White supremacy to be sure.
revereridesagain says
It does indeed. And the Great State of Texas now forces little girls around that age who are raped by their funny uncles to carry any results to term because “it’s not the baaaby’s fault” that little Susie “seduced” Funny Uncle Fred.
Christianity therefore allows the rape and forced motherhood of a minor.
Carry on grumbling amongst yourselves. I know none of you care about this. It’s not your daughter.
gravenimage says
revereridesagain, you have said this before–that Texas has legalized child rape and blames the rape on the victim. The problem is that this is not true.
You can certainly take a “pro-choice” stance–there is no need to be dishonest about it, though.
Valhella says
Proving white supremacy as more civilised than any Stone Age pedo cult from the desert – geographical and spiritual.
gravenimage says
Iraq: Mother protests marriage of 12-year-old, but Interior Ministry says ‘Sharia allows the marriage of a minor’
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Just sickening–as if a 12-year-old child can give “consent” to being raped. Glad her mother tried to stop this appalling pedophilia, but I am not surprised that it did no good.
Note that the legal age of marriage in Iraq is 18–but this is regularly flouted there, especially on the father’s approval.
In 2014 exceptions allowing marriage of girls as young as nine with father’s approval and legalizing marital rape were passed in Iraq.
https://www.schlissellawfirm.com/marriage-laws-iraq-style-2/
How many lives and how much treasure did we waste there? We were never able to civilize Iraq.
Keith O says
In any civilised part of the world this would be openly condemned for what it is.
Child trafficking, child slavery and paedophilia.
Just proves that mudslime countries are not civilised.
Valhella says
All we can hope to do now is protect ourselves from invasion – which Europe and Britain are epically and disastrously failing at.
Johnny B says
The left went after our previous Minister of Integration here in Denmark because she separated some of the married Syrian couples back in 2015. Many of the girls were clearly underage. Nonetheless, the left wants her charged in a Supreme Court case because they believe the practice went against our constitution. In a lot of other cases they want to change the constitution, but in this particular case they obviously found it extremely important to uphold it. They have been almost ferocious in their attacks and have shown no concern for the children at all. Sorry, but I find the left increasingly appalling, almost on a daily basis..
gravenimage says
You aren’t wrong, Johnny–here’s that insane story from last month:
“Denmark: Minister impeached for separating child brides from adult Muslim migrant husbands”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/09/denmark-minister-impeached-for-separating-child-brides-from-adult-muslim-migrant-husbands
Johnny B says
@gravenimage, thank you. Yes, that’s it…
gravenimage says
Thanks, Johnny.
Infidel says
If RS’ theory is right and Mohammed never existed, then thankfully there was no girl named Aisha who was abused in the manner described in the Hadiths. That said, though, it’s barbaric that that non-event was used to rationalize eternal child marriage within islam
OLD GUY says
There is really nothing you can say that justifies child marriage of young girls. So Big MOE married a SIX year old, just shows what a pervert he was and that SICK, (I won’t call them men) pedophiles point to his behavior as a religious right. Allowing these sex offenders to come into Christian countries with their slave brides is a slap in the face of humanity. It’s just plain WRONG and should not be supported in any way.
tim gallagher says
Pathetic, primitive, outdated and totally barbaric Islam goes on believing that pedophilia is OK. Ages ago a bunch of evil creatures devised islam and they said that marrying off and having sex with young girls is OK, and yet, here we are in 2021, and the civilised people of the world know that having sex with young girls is wrong, but not islam, not Muslims, no, they still go on thinking it is quite OK. What a bunch of barbaric degenerates. They are stuck in the far distant past. Islam does not belong in the modern world in so many ways.
Valhella says
Well said tg! Why oh why cannot our political “leaders” see what is glaringly obvious to anyone with an average IQ?…
Walter Sieruk says
That awful ,terrible and vile 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 of the heinous 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.]
Valhella says
Brilliant!!
Walter Sieruk says
It really should be remembered that in a jihadwatch 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.
Valhella says
The absolute truth, sadly incompressible to the closed minds of the adherents of the Satanic cult known as Islam.
Valhella says
Incomprehensible!