Re: Saudis rethinking on Tribal traditions of child marriage
^ Peace Croquet
Without going in to the topic too much is it not even weirder that Saudi have adjusted the law of child marriage on the basis that children are not responsible enough to make contracts therefore nikkah being a contract children cannot be married? If this reasoning is sound then the hadith has been misunderstood and misrepresented for centuries.
What we need is consistency ... are Saudi right or wrong for changing the law and if they are wrong then do we seriously allow a pointless practice of child nikkah to proliferate?
This is where some people have gone wrong either intentionally or not ... some hadith are markers for the limits in Islam and others are recommendations for something to be practiced regularly. The areas and regions which practice young marriages are such areas of people who have turned a limit into a desirable and recommended practice without due thought or authority to do so. Hence you come up with the problems we see. This is only on the basis that the said hadith is correctly interpreted.
If however the said hadith is incorrectly interpreted then we have other issues.