a question in regards to our beloved prophet

[Miss_Noland]

@TLK

For god sake people, stop being apologetic. The simple answer is, yes he did. There were few reasons that in that culture, girls were getting married at young age.

It’s not that girls “wanted” to get married at that age, they had no idea they were getting married.

1. Puberty: In warm climate countries, girls hit puberty at very early age. That means they can conceive a child. During times where girls’ main responsibilities were to take care of household and raise a family, entering puberty is a good reason to make use of that bodily change and have them married.

Misconception. I have only heard that from muslims. All my sources explaining how hot climate affects early onset puberty are Islamic books/websites. I would seriously like to see a non-Muslim source with hard medical evidence to prove this. I have heard of precocious puberty and that’s not caused by hot climate, it’s an abnormality.

2. Less life expectancy: Normal life expectancy was about 40 yrs in those days. If you wait till a girl hits 20 years of age, half of her life is gone and if she had a girl as her first baby, she may not even live to see her daughter getting married (if the duaghter is waiting till 20 years to get married).

So marrying a child at the age of 9 to some 50 year old is ok? That’s what doesn’t make sense about the old times. It was all about what pleased men the most. If Less Life expectancy was the case, it would be 15 year old boys marrying 9 years old girls not a 50 year old marrying a 9 year old girl. Do you see what I mean? These ARE excuses!

Point is, its easy to criticize a culture when we do not know the dynamics of that culture, and no matter what anyone says, its better to marry a 9 yrs old girl than to drown her in river or burn her alive on the suspicions of being a witch (which was very common in Europe in those days)

O I know the culture, it was all about men..That’s the only truth. For the rest, you will always find a million excuses.