Re: Prophet Mohammed nine year old wife
And I remain in such a predicament … the culture and environment determine some of these decisions. As I said … We have been given the array of possibility by the example of RasoolAllah (SAW) that what is within the domain of acceptability …
My personal orientation regarding child marriage for this climate post 2000s is very different to what it was like for my grandmother in early 1900s Pakistan. People have had no problem in the past - the contention is a modern phenomenon and I am a modern person … Just because Aisha (RA) married at her age it does not mean we follow suit without considering our climate and the norms of the day and age …
And I never implied it was a bad thing … but what is done in most places can be strange for us to see and we judge with our standards and in other cases it is genuinely bad …