I’m not sure where you live, but in most developed parts of the world ( I guess you’re not in a small village,you clearly have access to a computer and internet!), education is now nearly mandatory in order to get a job to obtain a source of income.
In the prophet’s time period, there were no colleges, there were no masters degrees, no doctorates, no proper knowledge on how to practice medicine, no institutions of knowledge like universities at every corner. So to apply the practice of marrying early in the teen years to present time period, is a downright fallacy.
The point is not that women at the time were married at 13, so why not do that today. The point is, that the women were married once they were at an age where they could assume the responsibilities of being a wife, and mother. It’s the concept of responsibility at a certain age that gets carried on in Islam, not an absolute age.
BTW, the Prophet himself did not marry at 13. He married at 20 something, to a woman who is 20 years older than him. Now I wonder if your son at the age of 25 fell in love with his boss, who is about YOUR age, whether you would be so willing to hand over your son to such a woman. I guess it’s easier to churn out daughters and hand them out like prize ribbons at puberty and fool yourself into thinking you’re following Islam.
Remember there is a lot in the Quran and hadith about marrying when you are ready to assume responsibility. So even today, that is location dependent. In Manhattan, you may not be financially independent and afford a home for your wife until 30 minimum. In some villages in interior sindh, you are financially independent and able to make your own thatch roof top mud house by the time you’re 13 because you just have to put some mud and bricks together with straw. :k: Those kids aren’t busy doing phd dissertations to get university jobs to afford a small apartment in Hoboken, NJ!!!
So please, before you start spewing out incorrect knowledge on how to practice Islam, and before you keep propelling our muslim progeny into further medieval thought, think about what you’re saying, and what Islam wants you to do, and think about WHY, and maybe then it will make sense. It’s not the age at which you get married that is dictated in Islam, it’s WHEN YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE.
And if you want to hold your 13 year old daughter from obtaining an education and bettering herself, so that she can write half a paragraph to actually even challenge most of the smart people who post here, who are smart because they’ve schooled themselves into their 20’s, and DID NOT get married at 13 to make parathas for a man YOUR age, then by all means, they’re your kids, you can keep them in ignorance. But then do not get upset when you see the muslim ummah in jahaaliyat, because you’re just contributing to the mess today.