Ahmed Idris is a fine, upstanding citizen. 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.
“Nigeria’s accountant-general buys child bride 45 years younger in Kano,” National Daily, October 5, 2021:
Hussain, 16, just lost her mother, and somehow, got a replacement and love in the waiting embrace of a man 45 years older than she is.
The family has kicked against the marriage.
But nothing has changed.
In fact, Hussain is now married, secretly, to the 61-year-old man, a husband of five now, and Nigeria’s accountant general.
A source which Sahara Reporters quoted said Ahmed Idris pulled his clout, and used his wealth to nail the sweet sixteen in Kano.
“This is our late sister’s daughter by name Hussain; she’s just sixteen, not long that she clocked sixteen years old but it’s very unfortunate that a lady called Amina was the one that linked or brought the Accountant-General to our house in order to seek her hand in marriage.
“This, she did, knowing that this is a very young girl, what does that mean? It shows the accountant general is just after that small girl to take advantage of her youthful age.
“Immediately I heard, I messaged him because when I was working with the then Head of Service, I had the opportunity of having his contact when we met over a serious matter about the country. So I messaged him on WhatsApp regarding his wedding; I sent him my picture, that of my son, my late sister and the daughter, Hussain. He replied that it’s a small world which confirmed the wedding was true,” a top family source confided in SaharaReporters.
The family source added that the Accountant-General had bribed some media organisations they contacted for help and their request to expose his atrocities was therefore turned down.
“He went as far as bribing this girl with a gold of over N200million, iPhones, buying cars for her, giving her millions of naira – all to buy her attention. He started meeting different people that he wanted to know the girl’s family; he married the girl, just like that.
“There was no investigation just because he is the Accountant General of the Federation. Why are things happening in this country like this? He even told the girl to go and look for any house of her choice in Abuja, that he is ready to purchase it for her….
Shawn says
I’m 53 and most of these years I didn’t realize a portion of this world of ours is stuck in the 6th Century.Whats much worse is traitorous Western so called Leaders want us there as well.Sadly,my children are going to see War because of these fools.
mortimer says
There are many things in standard Islamic law that are illegal in the modern world … jihad is one of them. Civilized countries have evolved standards to protect human rights, but Muslims resist them on justifications found in Sharia law. So what? They can claim what they wish, but no one is required to believe in discriminatory Sharia law.
PMK says
I can remember a time in the US, in the 1960s, where many states had 16 as a minimum age of marriage for a girl. The boy had to be at least 18.
I thought contemporary Islam recognized a limit of four wives for one man, but the man here is described as ‘a husband of five now’.
somehistory says
I noticed the “husband of five” also. He’s able to break his own rules because he’s *wealthy*….”wealth has its privileges”…I believe the saying goes.
When standards of behavior are in the toilet in the first instance, there is no low to which those devoted to the low standards will sink.
What happened to the “father giving the bride away” so that when her family complained, it did no good? mozlums ruling mean they have their own filthy way, no matter what.
Kagman says
And liberal filth line up to support this outrage of a ‘faith’… they are complicit in child rape.
Shawn says
“Liberal filth”,exactly.Their ideology is very twisted.Hard to believe so many are on board with such thinking.An ideology willing to sacrifice people it is suppose to make first has to be ended,period.I watch a Cult conquest and White leaders helping them.How can this be?
somehistory says
“lost her mother, and somehow, got a replacement and love in the waiting embrace of a man”
Is this a **gender** thing? Her “mother” is “replaced” by a **male**? Impossible! No way, no how.
“love”? Not by any stretch of the imagination will she be getting “love” in the slime’s “waiting embrace.” It’s all filthy lust for sex with a young child…and 16 years old is still a “child” whatever the filth of islam has to say about *age* and the allowing of sex at any age…and it’s not “marriage,” nor is the child a “bride.”
This poor girl has been bribed to become a slave for sex with this nasty mozlum.
Some day, he and all others like him, will get what’s coming to them.
PRCS says
Despite the National Daily article’s assertion that the (Muslim?) family allegedly “kicked against the marriage”, the gold, cash, house, cars, etc., the accountant-general bribed the girl with total millions in USD stolen from Nigerian tax monies.
Hard to imagine good ‘ole dad won’t benefit from the girl’s new wealth.
The payoffs made to news outlets to suppress the story probably came from tax coffers, too.
For those who might say “they’re all Muslims, so eff ’em”; Nigeria’s many non-Muslims pay taxes, too.
Nigeria by religious %: Muslim 50, Christian 40, other 10.
fadeye@yahoo.com says
This pedophilia is exactly Why leftists love islam & their terrorism.