Prophet Muhammad (S) Married a 9 Years Old? Historical Analysis.

[Music] is associated with the haiti institute it's an organization in the uk he's the head of the organization and a senior researcher and lecturer

he has an interest in history with the speciality in the history of islamic civilization comparative religion and hadith literature he is also a specialist in seerah he

holds an honours degree in history from the university of london and has he jazzes in hadith and from from a number of scholars

he possesses a keen interest in islamic numismatics it's one of the areas of knowledge that he says has been ignored by particularly muslim scholars from the past but is now there's a revival

inshallah that's being envisaged presently he's serving as ahadeep in a number of london mosques and is also conducting an extensive tafsir course he believes that islam is a way of life

which promotes modernity in all of its positive manifestations and provides realistic solutions for all problems facing mankind now with that kind of expertise or that kind of

background and the topic that we have we inshallah look forward to a enlivening illuminating presentation inshallah i'd like to welcome brother adnan rasheed bismuth

respected brothers ancestors i thank you all for attending this very important event as highlighted earlier

that islamophobia has become a global phenomenon it is now all around the world it can be found

everywhere even in the amazon jungle the propaganda has reached there and muslims are being tarnished by the international

islamophobia industry which dominates the global media unfortunately unfortunately this is partly because of the muslims muslims have neglected dawa

muslims have neglected two representation of their faith muslims have neglected books in general we have become a bookless people and

that has consequences we were once upon a time the most intellectually charged people in the world we were the most bookly people in

the world we had the largest libraries in the world we had the the best institutions in the world for over a thousand years muslims dominated the world economically militarily

intellectually educationally you name it we had it all after uh after colonialism things went downhill but i would go

to say i would go as far as to say that until the 18th century muslims still held the field in

technology in leading the world in technology and education and most importantly morality the greatest achievement of islamic

civilization or the muslim civilization is more moral values ethical uh uprightness of muslims and up to the 18th century we led the

world in this field you may be thinking 18th century what happened in the 18th century how the ottomans were facing decline quite early on you know in the

uh in the 17th century the autumnal ottoman decline started after the second siege of vienna failed 1687 or 1689 and uh there we lost

our dominance political educational civilizational dominance of the world right but in the 18th century in india something very special happened

there was a state called maisoor and it was governed by a man called tibu sultan who was an embodiment of religiosity

as well as if you want to call it technology or scientific advancement he was a living proof of the fact that islam

or religious conservatism or muslim identity does not contradict science or scientific advancement in in

any shape or form if anything islam is a force that encourages advancement and education and this is what our civilization stands for so we will be talking about tibu sultan

in due course in october we are planning to do a tour de force through his history and his achievements not a lot is known about this person unfortunately he is very neglected like

other islamic fields so the purpose is to wake the muslims up to reassert your civilization to stand up for your values and your heroes and your people teach your children about

them so that you can know about them to resuscitate your already dying civilization but it will not die because allah's promise is to

keep it alive we need it we need to be part of this movement this civilization not the other way around because allah

has promised to protect his way his deen will live so this is another topic which is directly linked to

our decline in education we have many intellectuals around the world many great scholars

many book collectors and libraries and i would like to thank ali class academia library for facilitating events like this to intellectually stimulate the muslims to to wake them up to the

reality and the importance of books why books are important why education why studying our sciences when i say sciences i don't mean you what you study in the university for

your stomach for your jobs what you want to do in your jobs your career that's a different thing altogether i'm talking about studying your civilization studying your literature your uh you

know your faith why should you believe why are we muslims and if we are muslims how do we actually defend our faith against attacks

so there are many vulnerable areas islamophobes attack in order to demonize and dehumanize muslims and islam

islamophobes raise certain questions and these are sound bites these are sound bites they throw at people to put them on the back foot and many times muslims unfortunately

youngsters and in some cases elderly are put on the back foot they start to become apologetic and they start because they don't have the knowledge how to defend their faith their values their

civilization they are put on the back foot they immediately become apologetic because they don't know how to defend they don't know how to defend because they don't have the knowledge to defend they're not into books they don't read

uh islamic history they don't read the history of the prophet of islam salallahu they don't read human history in general so on a positive note things are changing alhamdulillah

there is a global wind of positivity when it comes to muslims muslims have come to realize there's something wrong we are being misrepresented on the global scene by

the international media so we need to stand up for ourselves we need to create our own media we need to create our own hubs our own spaces where we can intellectually indulge in our

sources and find answers one of the questions that comes up time and time again again and again

that that question is the age of aisha islamophobes and sometimes very bigoted christian missionaries or atheistic extremists

or atheist activists they attack islam on the age of aisha they say prophet muhammad sallallahu alaihi sallam

married aisha when she was nine therefore he was not a moral man and if he was not a moral man how can you even follow him on what basis do you believe that he's

the prophet of god have you lost your minds these are the questions that come up occasionally frequently on global media

while previously there could be a nuanced discussion on the media but increasingly in the last decade since the last i mean in the last decade when i said last

decade since 2010 for some reason people who appear on the media to represent islam and to attack islam are the same they are the same type of people

those who are attacking are attacking because the islamophobes and those who are defending are also a bunch of islamophobes so it's a drama

as if islam cannot be defended so people who can give answers have systematically been put aside or being ignored

today we will see how we can we today we will give you an example of how islam is deliberately misrepresented how islamophobes

deliberately ignore straight evidence evidence that puts them to shame for attacking the prophet peace be upon

him and they all they're only successful with ignorant people and unfortunately most people are ignorant most people do not study

whether they are muslims or non-muslims they don't study books so today we will see how evidence vindicates the prophet sallallahu islam

from the accusation of um being some kind of sexual deviant auditor and there's another word uh very often used

in public nowadays on social media on mainstream media that prophet muhammad was a pedophile you know by the virtue of having

relations with a child and we will see how that works we will see whether aisha was a child whether

marrying younger women was a crime whether he did something wrong and if he did something wrong was he criticized and if he was criticized when was he

criticized for this and if he was not criticized why was he not criticized these are some of the questions we will address but before we address all these

questions something has to be established there is a modern movement now among muslims as some muslims are doing it out of their sincerity their

love for the prophet they simply wash away their hands they wash their hands away you know from hadith they throw away the baby with the bath water they say hadees literature is not trustworthy therefore aisha was not

nine she was 18. you know they come up with these theories that aisha could not have been nine and they do all these calculations they find weaker reports within the islamic literature to substantiate the

view okay and they make insinuations or they make inferences using weaker indirect vague evidence to make a specific points while on the other hand we have specific

evidence giving us the age of aisha at the time of marriage so a lot of muslims in order to defend the prophet because they don't understand their theology their literature

they start to make lame excuses or lame defenses others are outra outright modernists hadees rejecters

some people do not accept hadees entirely which is also extremism you cannot put the entire hadees literature in

to one basket or into the bin you can't do that because without the hadees literature some parts of the quran are incomprehensible hadees complements the

quran without the hadith literature parts of the quran are completely incomprehensible you cannot be a quran only muslim

you cannot be a quran only muslim that's impossible because quran itself tells you to be a hadees also muslim

because quran itself tells you that you cannot understand the quran by the quran itself no doubt the quran is the first and the best source to

understand itself quran explains the quran but then there are other sources that also explain the quran there are many reports in the quran sorry there are many verses in the quran

that highlight the point that you need the hadith to understand the quran for example in surah nahal allah subhana allah says

we have revealed zikr upon you o muhammad so that you may explain to them what has been revealed upon them

in other words you have to explain oh muhammad sallallahu alaihi sallam what has been revealed upon them so how does the prophet explain

in what language in what form that form is called the sunnah the hadith the words of the prophet are preserved

in some of the most authentic sources of the quran such as bukhari and muslim so these are some initial points i wanted to highlight and we will see how

the hadees of aisha radiolog where she herself made the statement that i was nine when the prophet consummated the marriage the marriage the betrothal was done when

she was six and it was consummated when i was nine this cannot be doubted if you are consistent about islam and islamic literature

this hadees cannot be doubted why let me clarify why that is the case so the hadith is in bukhari sahil bukhari there aisha radhiallahu anha

herself states she she is reported to have said that the prophet was betrothed to her when

she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old and then she rema she remained with him for nine years so aisha was 18 when the

prophet salallahu passed away this hadees cannot be doubted for a number of reasons as we will see in due course a lot of the these rejecters or

modernists who are who are muslim they attack this hadees by using one of the reporter's name

they claim that there is only one reporter who is in the chain who reported this hadees his name is hisham bin orwa

and he was the son of one of the nephews of aysha radhiallahu anha who was aurwa bin zubair the son of zubair bin awam so these attackers of this hadees are

people who attack this hadees and they say this is inauthentic this hadees is not authentic because there's only one narrator who narrates this hadees and he is untrustworthy because

some of the hadees authorities stated later on that in his old age he became forgetful so it is very possible that he might

have mixed up the age he might have got the age wrong therefore the hadees cannot be trusted because the only source of this

information is hisham bin orba the son of aruba bin zubair is everyone with me so far so i want you to pay attention because we're gonna go through a roller coaster ride in this right in

this in this discussion and you're gonna have to be switched on all the way so that we don't miss anything and if anything's missed you can come back to me during the q a and we can cover it

inshallah ta'ala so this hadith is in bukhari and scholarly opinion is when i say scholarly opinion scholarly consensus is that majority of the

reports and when i say the majority 99 of the reports in bukhari are 100 authentic these attributions cannot

be doubted because of the diligent criteria of imam bukhari which has also been studied by the scholars of islam he was very very diligent in

preserving the sunnah he did not willingly knowingly intentionally attribute any false information to the prophet

salallahu or to his family or otherwise everything in bukhari found with a chain of narrators is authentic the scholars of islam

formed the day one to the day last since the time of bukhari up to this day scholars traditional scholars of islam have never questioned the veracity and

the authenticity of bukhari in fact there's a well-known idea well-known principle among the scholars of islam and that principle is

that the most authentic book after the quran is sahih al-bukhari after the quran the most authentic book is sahil bukhari and there is nothing in sahil bukhari

that will directly contradict the quran rather bukhari the information therein actually complements the quran it explains the quran

so hisham bin orwa was he the only narrator those who attacked this hadees by making this claim are absolutely ignorant

of the signs of hadees because he is not the only narrator even if he was weak as an individual as a source

he is not the only narrator he was not weak he was very strong many scholars vindicated him from accusations against

him so bukhari accepted his reports he was not weak right and the fact that bukhari accepts a report from a narrator that means that narrator is trustworthy that narrator

cannot be doubted when it comes to his trustworthiness because bukhari was very very diligent with this criteria in fact imam bukhari there is a report about him that he went to collect hadees from a man

and this man was trying to deceive a donkey with an empty pot he had an empty pot in front of the donkey he was trying to lure the donkey to follow him right and bakari realized that there is nothing in the pod and he's trying to

deceive the bukhari said whether he is trustworthy or not i am not going to take reports from him why if he can deceive a donkey he can surely try to deceive others so for that reason i mean

there was nothing wrong with that man he was not doing anything wrong in sharia islamically but he was so diligent bukhari in collecting his

reports from his sources that he would never take a report from anyone if there was any room for doubt on that person's character and bukhari's rajal or the men

who bukhari narrated from are well known they are well studied and we are not blind followers of bukhari we don't in a blind way we're not blindfolded when we follow bukhari rather other

scholars have come later they have studied bukhari's chains and his criteria and the men he narrated from and he they reached the same conclusion that bukhari was

just in his treatment of narrators so hisham is one of the narrators from bukhari but is he the only one it was narrated from aisha via a number

of islands not by one is not only as some ignorant people claim the most well-known chain of narration is that of hasham no doubt

and isham the rest from his father aurova bin zubair from and he narrates from aisha this is one of the soundest narrations as aurova bin zubair is one of the most well acquainted of people

with aisha because she was his maternal aunt aurowah was the son of asma bint abhi bakker

who was a stepsister of aisha so orwa was very close to aisha radhiallahuanha the father of hisham therefore this chain is very very strong but was he the

only person who narrated no there are chains independent of aurova sorry hasham independent of hisham for example imam azahari

and it was also narrated via another chain by azori from aurova even zubair from aisha so zori is directly narrated from hisham's

father which is orva and he raised from aisha same report that she was nine when the prophet consummated the marriage and she was six when she was betrothed to the prophet salam the

engagement or act was at six and there's another question that comes from it that why did the prophet wait for three years what was going on right

why wait for three years we will address the point later on inshallah why why okay betrothal has taken place at six what's the waiting about right so we will see why

it was also narrated by another chain by al amish from ibrahim ibrahimo from alaswad and from so completely independent

the chain is independent of hisham and his father so there are independent chains that do not have hisham and aurova in the chain

then ibn amir and ibn hatim also independent of hisham and orwell his father it was also narrated by another chain from muhammad bin

from yahya ibn abdul rahman bin from so not there and hasham is not there independent narrators therefore this

chain or this report cannot be doubted it is multiply attested it is not from one source rather multiple individuals narrated from aisha and

their students narrated from their teachers like we see here on the screen so we have chains of arwa where hisham is not there other people are narrating from arwa

sheikh abu izhakal hawaii compiled the names of those who followed orwa bin zubair in the chain namely allah al-qasim and abdul rahman al-qasim and muhammad amra bint

reports then there are independent chains there are people who are narrating a number of people who narrate from hisham he also compiled the names of

those who followed hisham and aurora in the rating this hadees they were ibn shihab dhori and abu hamza maimun the free slave the freed slave of aurwa

then there is this accusation that because most of these people who narrate from hisham are from iraq therefore they're not trustworthy nine out of ten reports from iraq were

generally rejected by the scholars of hadees why because it is well known among the scholars of hadees because of the shayyah because of the shia influence in iraq a lot of the reports were untrustworthy

for the sunni authorities the sunni authorities sunni collectors of hadees did not trust the shia reporters right so because iraq was

a hub of shia activity a lot of the hadees authorities were very very iffy about reports coming from iraq so one of

the accusations is that most of these narrators who report this hadees from hisham are iraqis therefore these reports cannot be trusted and all of these claims are

based upon ignorance of the signs of hadees as you can see there because there are reporters from hisham who reported from madina they were in madinah and they reported this hadees

from then there were reporters in makkah by the way iran right current day tehran israel right and iran

has not always been here by the way it only became shia in the 16th century after the safavid invasion iran was ninety percent shafi iran was ninety percent chaffey up to

the 16th century it was only after the safavi invasion of iran when the population was forced into twelve shiism this is an academic point uh for you to

remember then basra there are two people from basra who narrate it from hisham so what lesson do we learn hey never trust

anything you read on the internet without checking it with your scholars is that clear

repeat after me never trust anything on the net unless you have checked it with a proper muslim scholar because on the net there are too many

philosophers out there too many self-made historians out there too many thinkers and too many um too many chiefs and not enough indians as they say yeah right

so you have to be very careful just because you have read a very eloquently written book or an eloquent speaker doesn't mean what he or she is telling you is true right all of these

accusations are embarrassing a lot of this stuff you can find apparently some very learned people will come out with this stuff just because they have read it they go on the net

and the net is infested with inaccurate unauthentic information one of the things you will read on this report of aisha is hisham is the only narrator he's

untrustworthy therefore the report is not trustworthy but that is not the case when you go deeper into these science you realize he's not the only then another idea these people who

reject this report bring up is the age of asma the sister of aisha so they do a comparison and they say asma was 27 years old or 17 years old for that

virtue by that reasoning aisha could not have been what she was like she was not nine at the time of the marriage she was older and all of these reports about asma's age

are untrustworthy amazingly so they will reject an authentic report which the scholars of islam unanimously accept they have accepted it until the 19th century

and i will repeat no classical muslim scholar listen to me carefully no muslim scholar

up to the 19th century ever questioned these reports on the age of aysha radiyallahu anaha none not one

it was after colonialism after the rise of liberalism and secularism in the muslim world when muslims felt inferior in the face of secular and liberal and atheistic

onslaught when they started to compromise some of their literature and their values this is what caused the questioning even in the western world the prophet was never criticized for

this and we will see why so it is now clear brothers and sisters this report cannot be doubted

any of you who had these ideas before that aisha was older than nine just uh to defend the prophet against accusations

of indecency and immorality immorality then let me let me tell you this now you are wrong there is no doubt that aisha was nine when the marriage was consummated

prophet sallam had intimacy with aisha when she was nine and is that wrong no i'll tell you why in today's world yes

in today's world it is if someone did that today everyone would be screaming right he was oh no that's pedophilia right that's how

people see it today because every single one of you has been conditioned every single one of us we are born in a different age we have different

uh perceptions we have different expectations from society we have never seen a 10 years old bride have you ever seen a 10 years old bride

tell me honestly have you ever seen a 10 years old bride anyone if you went to a wedding and you saw a 10 years old girl sitting in the place of the bride and there's a

40 years old man or 50 years old man sitting next to her getting married to her what would you think honestly tell me honestly sorry outrageous absolutely immoral right

today you know why because all of you were born when i'm assuming after the 19 after 1950 yes

1950 unless there's someone 19 maybe 40.

you're not gonna i don't think anyone was born before 1900.

anyone no if you if you were then tell you what you eat so all of us were born after the year 1900 when social

values were changed we grew up in an age where this is not seen it's not normal if you saw someone for example riding a

camel to join usberg what would you think tell me someone who wants to get there are cars driving past yeah there are jets there are planes

right and someone's on a camel right riding a camel to johannesburg or durban or the other trail what's the other part of south africa the other side of south africa what's the

or maybe malawi let's say malawi it's another country someone riding a camel to malawi you would think this person is mad right unless he's doing some charity appeal or some

you know some kind of penance right why times have changed expectations have changed now let me shock you what you will see now in due course may

shock you because there were people before 1900 for them a 10 years old bride was normal a seven years old bride was normal hello

are you listening a girl at seven could be married legally we'll see so these people who attacked the prophet saw for doing something he did in the 7th century which was normal

for his time are completely unaware of islamic literature islamic history islamic morality islamic ethics one second they

are also ignorant of human history and we will see how firstly there is nothing from the islamic history that

the quraishis the ark enemies of the prophet sallallahu alaihi salaam ever used this as a slur against him like islamophobes today what is the first thing the

islamophobes or the uh or the people who attack islam use against the prophet first thing number one among many other things number one what what is it

age of aisha your prophet married to nine years old right have you heard this before right so from from now on from today onwards you can tell them

to go to books and get some education go and study because what you will see now will shock you as well believe me it will shock you

quraish no accusations no eyelids were batted the quraishis never they called him a suit or fortune teller

yeah madman what else what else did the qurayshes call him sallallahu salaam they used everything they tried to

tarnish his name by any means yes right they uttered poetry about him but never did any one of them say why did you marry a nine years old girl

why did you marry are you a pervert none of them said that to him you know why because they had nothing uh you know there was nothing wrong with it

it was a common practice there is nothing from islamic literature that tells us that okay what about medieval critics

during the middle ages medieval period the prophet was criticized in europe you know who waged the crusades against

the muslims crusades crusades were waged from france england and germany okay what caused the crusades

if we go by the traditional view pope urban ii pope urban ii in 1095 delivered a speech in a place called clermont and he

encouraged the christian knights in europe who were fighting each other killing each other that why don't you unite and go and liberate the holy land from the infidels

who were the infidels muslims right the saracens the infidels go and liberate and one of the ways

those wars were justified was by attacking islam and the prophet of islam the prophet of islam was painted as one of the worst people who ever lived in

the history of humanity by the european clergy at the time catholic monks writing on islam they painted the light on the prophet they said all sorts of things and if anyone stood up to defend the

prophet now hold on a second they were excommunicated they were seen as troublemakers that how dare you defend someone like muhammad sallallahu alaihi

and this process continued well up as late as the 19th century when some people actually said enough is enough you have lied enough against this man and now we have to put the record

straight muhammad was not sallallahu islam but you say he was and we will see how that happened right so medieval critics never used this

against the prophet never why because it was perfectly normal about their societies as well they were getting married to younger women as young as seven eight nine as we will

see in due course okay is this something i made up no no this is what historians sociologists

anthropologists all of them are telling you this that this was the case throughout human history that was the case up to the 19th century and you will see the evidence

then what about renaissance authors during the renaissance in the 15 16th 17th century did any of them criticize the prophet they wrote about the prophet by the way because the turks the ottoman turks

were a huge source of fear for the europeans europeans during the renaissance period you know the biggest nightmare what it

was the ottomans who were around the corner they were very close so because of the ottomans europeans wanted to paint paint

the turks in a bad light and how do you do that by attacking the prophet and the faith so many renaissance writers were writing on islam and the prophet and on the ottomans

none of them criticized the prophet salallahu for marrying aisha at nine okay how about enlightenment thinkers who are enlightenment thinkers

people like people who wrote on the prophet during the 18th century the enlightenment period is usually uh

you know considered to be uh the period between 1700 to the year 1800 this was the enlightenment century when many european philosophers were born and they

wrote their philosophies philosophies the europeans lived by today right so who are the enlightened enlightenment thinkers emmanuel kant david hume

uh for example isaac newton or john locke okay uh joseph priestley right adam smith gibbon edward gibbon the author of the

decline in the fall of the roman empire simon ockley all these people some of them specifically wrote on the prophet sallam uh gibbon specifically wrote a chapter and an entire chapter in his

book his book the decline in the fall of the roman empire was published between 1776 to 1788 12 volumes were published and he wrote chapter 50 covers the life

of the prophet chapter 50 of his book and he actually specifically mentions that prophet married aisha at nine no criticism no criticism

nothing why because it was normal for them they could imagine a 10 years old bride they could imagine a nine and eight years old bride they could you cannot if you went to a wedding today as used all

testified right if you ready if you went to a wedding today but if you were alive in the 19th century no problem because their conditioning was different

industrial revolution during the 19th century any criticism no no victorian england no there were many authors who were writing on the prophet's islam during this

period thomas carlyle actually defended the prophet george george bernard shaw wrote on the prophet no criticism okay william muir who was a christian

missionary who wrote four volumes biography of the prophet sallallahu alaihi salaam in the 19th century no criticism hardly anything he said about this right he did not accuse the person of

anything william blackstone and we will see he was also an enlightenment thinker what he had to say william blackstone wrote commentaries on

the english law in the 18th century 1760s 1760s he wrote his commentaries on the english law and you will see what he said about this issue

then what about orientalist historians some of them have already mentioned preeto the one on the top actually wrote a book specifically on the prophet

to attack the prophet this book was published in 1697 when 1697 and the title of the book is the

nature of imposter a life of muhammad not muhammad muhammad this is how they spelled muhammad in that age so he wrote a book specifically

to attack the prophet to prove in this book that prophet muhammad was an imposter sallallahu he was not a true prophet and

what did he say about this issue he actually defended the prophet for marrying a nine years old he defended so a man who is attacking the prophet in the book he's defending the

prophet for doing it why we'll see how simon oakley wrote a biography of the prophet as well partly he wrote a history of the muslims

titled the history of saracens published in 1708 no criticism right then we have gibbon edward gibbon who already i i mentioned him already

then thomas carlyle actually praised the prophet he stated that muhammad is one of the most maligned figures in human history people

have unjustly in particular european authors throughout the middle ages and into the renaissance period and into the the enlightenment period they maligned him unjustly

in other words these authors are lying against him due to their religious or philosophical prejudice william muir already mentioned then there were two

very important orientalists who produced a lot of work on islam and muslims ignaz golzar who was jewish from hungary he was an hungarian jew

and theodore noldic who was german both of them they produced chunky volumes on islam no criticism on aisha so

this is the title page of piro's book the true nature of imposter fully displayed in the life of muhammad

yes so is he writing the book to prove that muhammad is a prophet what is he writing the book for to prove the

opposite to prove that muhammad swallowed was an imposter and this book was published in london in 1697 as you can see the date in roman numerals

okay so on page 52 of his book this is what he has to say on this issue can you read from the top this is shakespeare in english

so he talks about aisha's marriage with the prophet and there on the third line he writes i shall the daughter of abu bakr

the prophet married aisha the daughter of abu bakr and soda so the after the death of khadija he's mentioning this after the death of khadija the prophet married

aisha and soda the daughter uh the daughter of zamasu okay and while after he added to them hafsah the daughter of umar whereby

making himself son-in-law of son-in-law to three of the principal men of uh his party he did

by that alliance the more firmly uh tie them to his uh interest aisha was then but six years old are you listening everyone this is what it states in the book page

52 a book written to attack the prophet aisha was then about six years old and therefore he did not bed her till two years after actually it was three years

after he was wrong there two years after he did not bed her till two years after when she was full eight years old she was nine

for it is usu it is usual in those hot countries right this is interesting as it is in all india over which which is in the same climb with

arabia for women to be ripe for marriage at that age and also bear children the year following so what is he doing here he's actually justifying why the prophet

married aisha at nine it was perfectly fine in that area women would ripe in other words they would reach adulthood earlier in those areas and what reference does

he use to substantiate his point india that this is what happens in india and arabia and india are in the same climate right

the geography was not very good at the time unfortunately right because the climate is in india and arabia climate is different although arabia is hotter right so

he's making this point and the reference he uses is not this reference okay this is a travelogue he was reading which was uh written in

1680s so he had obviously read tavernaut and evernote mentions that in india girls at 9 10 would be married as soon as they hit puberty they were married

this is the norm that was the norm in india and in those societies so this is a book written to attack the prophet sallallahu islam is full of attacks on the prophet's character and why he was

not a true prophet of god according to him right but when it comes to this point no problems in fact he's defending the prophet to the contrary right then this is the history of the decline

and the fall of roman empire by gibbon that's the first volume 1776 chapter 50 he talks about the prophet's marriage with aisha and he does not have any criticism rather he just passes through

just okay he was normal what's the problem now prepare for the shock now what i'm going to read is some

quotes from academics are you getting bored everyone are you sure is this information interesting okay there's more interesting stuff coming now watch

so what did you say before if you went to a wedding today and if you saw a 10 years old girl sitting in the place of the bride and there's a 50 years old man sitting next to her

what would you think outrageous immoral perversion madness crazy police

huh call the police yes call the authorities there is something crazy going on right now watch these are the quotes from historians

dealing directly with this issue how past societies worked pre-19th century just over 100 years ago because you have all i mean we have confirmed that all of

all of you have been born after 1900.

what was happening before 1900 when if people went to a wedding and they saw a 10 years old bride they wouldn't call the police they would give a present to the bride

and wish her well okay how do we know this look margaret wade the barge in her book a medieval miscellany

she states on page 52 it needs to be remembered that many medieval widows were not told sorry not old important hirises were often married

between the ages of 5 and 10 and might find themselves widowed while still in their teens professor richard

wurtley and professor stephen smallbone in the book internet child pornography causes investigation and prevention they state in medieval and early modern

european societies in medieval and now you will understand why those authors i mentioned earlier european authors had nothing to say on this in fact they were defending the prophet you know why this

in medieval and early modern european societies the age of marriage remained low with documented cases of brides as young as seven years although marriages were typically not

consummated until the girl reached pubic puberty shakespeare juliet was just 13.

now i'll stop there and ask you imagine today wrote a play a romantic play that involves a man and a woman and the

woman was 12.

would that play get published sorry why not huh why child abuse it promotes child abuse

right because the definition of children or child has been changed in this century sorry previous century in the 20th century the definition of child was changed right

but guess what it is still not changed as we will see in due course it's still not changed right so shakespeare's juliet was 13 and there is no imagine shahrukh khan running in

the field with the 12 years old just this this came to my mind i wanted to mention that imagine uh daniel craig james bond going off with their 11 years old

can you imagine no but shakespeare was fine with it shakespeare it was fine with it juliet is 13.

and there is no hint in the play that this was considered to be exceptional these academics are saying that the situation was similar on the other side of the atlantic borough reports that

case in 1689 of a nine years old bride in virginia at the start of the 19th century in england it was legal to have sex with the 10 years old girl no problem

people would go to weddings where they would see a 10 years old bride okay this was going on throughout history up to the 19th century all humans were doing it

right so jump back to the seventh century anachronistically and use today's standard to judge a man in the seventh century is called anachronism

and history is called anachronism right it is unfair it's unjust then in this book edited by marshall cavendish

published in 2010 sex and society is the title of the book it states until the late 20th century u.s age of consent law specifically

u.s age of consent law specifically names males as perpetrate perpetuators and females as victims following english law in

which the age was set at 12 in 1275 and lower to 10 in 1576 ages of consent in the american colonies were generally set

at 10 or 12. the laws protected female virginity which at the time was considered a valuable commodity until marriage the theft of a girl's chastity was seen as a property crime against the

father and future husband if two people were married and had sex no matter what the age no crime was committed because a woman was her husband's property

in practice too the consent laws only protected white females as many non-white females were enslaved or otherwise discriminated against by the legal system

richard a posner and catherine b silba they wrote they write in on page 44 of their book a guide to america's sex laws

the law governing the age of consent has changed dramatically in the united states during this century most states codified a statutory age of

consent during the 19th century and the usual age was 10 years old 10.

scottish law before 1900 by the way by the law of scotland a woman cannot contrabase sponsalia before her age of seven years so she cannot consent to a marriage but

when she's seven she can't consent to her she can get married 27 right according to the scottish law but by common law persons may marry at any age

and upon such marriage the wife shall be endowed if the uh if they attain the age uh of nine years or whatever what whatsoever age her husband be but not

before the age of nine so husband can be any age the girl has to be nine right in order to be able to be married completely

anthony joseph paul cortese in his book opposing hate speech states page 85 in 1962 the american law institute

recommended that the legal age of consent to sex that is the age below which sex is defined as statutory rape be dropped in every state to age 10.

this was 1962 by the way right in fact until mid 1960 the legal age of consent in delaware was seven as late as

1960 when elvis presley was right jail house rock when was it when did it come out 1962 or 1957 i think 57 right

yeah can you imagine in delaware in one of the american states the age of marriage was seven 1960.

so how do people attack the prophet sallallahu sallam for doing getting married to a nine years old who had reached puberty at the time that was the norm so why do we feel so ashamed and go on the back foot and start changing our

hadith literature start changing our literature our values no prophet saws didn't do anything wrong these people have to know the history

their own history for that matter maureen the bar she states parental kidnapping in america and historical and cultural

analysis page 128 the 19th century the minimum age of consent for sexual intercourse in most american states was 10.

in delaware it was seven are you shocked by the way did you know this by the way before now did you know it to this extent right

so now does it do does the prophet look normal in the seventh century in a hot climate right where girls when they were five they

would become you know already they are helping in the fields and they're helping in the household you know nowadays people you see what what we have is we have a conditioning when we here the age nine we think oh

little you look at your child you're nine years old right that little baby who sleeps in a very soft bed hasn't touched anything in her life you know when it comes to working in the household i have daughters

right i'm always screaming at them help your mom help and they're like babies they're like babies so in those societies

forget those societies just go to the zulu area go out there and see how five six years old are carrying their little siblings and helping out in the fields and

helping the parents malawi i've seen it right so these kids they grow very fast mentally and physically

they grow very fast mike a mills professor at the university of california these are early laws specified that a girl consenting to sex had to be at

least 10 to 12 years old in most states with a few specifically ages as old as 14 or 16. in delaware the age of consent was seven based on ancient english laws

setting the age squire okay there's a long quote there but i think it is worth reading traditionally arthur

in his book what's wrong in america traditionally across the globe the age of consent for sexual union was a matter for the family to decide or a tribal custom and this is exactly what happened

in aisha's case in aisha's case the engagement took place at six the marriage the contract and then there was a wait

when she became nine abu bakr abu bakr who's abu bakr the father he goes to the prophet that my daughter is now

ready ready for what ready for what for marriage and how did they determine whether she was ready they looked at certain signs puberty is number one

puberty is number one puberty in girl's case case usually is menstruation menstrual cycle but there's another factor that is physical maturity physical ability how is that

determined by parents right when signs of womanhood have already appeared signs of woman physicality has changed

a child is a child and a woman is a woman based upon what physicality right you don't know what's in the brain do you you don't know what's in the brain

because a child who is 10 a girl can be as clever as someone who is 40 depending on what experience he has had in life and a woman who is 30 or 40 years old

who has had a very easy life may not have that information in the mind right but how do you determine a child as a child and a woman is a woman physicality right abu bakr came to the prophet

so tribal custom in most cases this coincided with signs of puberty menstruation for a woman and pubic hair for a man sir edward coke in 17th century england made it clear that the

marriage of girls under 12 was normal and the age at which a girl who was a wife was eligible for a dollar from her husband's state was nine the american

colonies followed the english tradition and the law was more of a guide for example mary hathaway of virginia was nine was only nine when she was married to william williams portugal spain

denmark and swiss cannons initially set the age of consent at 10 to 12 years and then raised to be to between 13 to 16 years in the second half of the 19th century historically the english common

law set the age of consent to range from 10 to 12 in the united states by the 1880s most states said the age of consent to 10 to 12 and in one state

delaware the age of consent was only seven social and social and resulting legal attitudes towards the appropriate age of consent have drifted upwards in modern times for example while ages from

10 to 13 were typically acceptable in western countries during the mid 19th century the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century were markedly

so remarked by changing i believe that a lot of our current moors come from relucta reluctance to let our children mature mentally as quickly as our bodies do keep in mind that not all

societies share western mores and to my surprise until the latter part of the 19th century children in the western nations were engaged and married at a much earlier age

the trend to give children more time to mature is relatively new in his book the emphatic civilization jeremy rifkin points out that the concept of

adolescence only emerged during the last decade of the 19th century and the first three decades of the 20th century society started to think of childhood as extending beyond puberty into the later

teenage years before that children were considered to graduate into adulthood with the onset of puberty as soon as puberty hit they were not seen as

children anymore pre-19th century societies as soon as the puberty is detected is seen

that person is not a child anymore how do we know this islamically as well islamically as well what happened

anyone will talk about it later sinica elliot in her book not my kid what parents believe about the sex lives of the teenagers page 14 to 15 he states the

statutes governing the minimum age under which sex cannot be legally consensual and laws concerning marriage and workers rights were modified to reflect these changing discourses around childhood age

of sexual consent for example rose from seven during colonial times to 10 and 12 and eventually as high as 14. in fact

now in europe some activists are campaigning to lower the age of consent did you know that

there was recently a campaigner in britain if i'm not mistaken she was actually arguing to lower the age of consent you know why because she has seen children

according to our current understanding of what a child is right children are increasingly having sex in parks on weekends they're having sex at school they're having sex

they're having intercourse because sex education is given to them at a very young age and they want to try it out a lot of them want to go and try it out and the age of consent current age of

consent in the west ignores their physical reality what is the physical reality they hit puberty and then they want to go and

have relations and this cannot be stopped it hasn't been stopped right by law what are you going to do if at 14 years old boy has sex with a 10

year old girl what are you going to do legally put them both in jail put them both in jail so these are some of the realities that are coming to light and some campaigners are actually

campaigning to lowering and they are being demonized they are being attacked by politically or morally correct people moral morality which is a relative concept

unfortunately in today's world morality is a relative concept it changes with social norms social uh you know upbringing and social development it changes it now that

our social reality has hit some people that this is what's happening on weekends now moral values are about to change again because some people are campaigning to bring it back now

bring it back to early age why because they're having sex anyway they have insects anywhere these these children right so some people are campaigning to do

that not that i agree with that right but there are people who are campaigning to do that susan m ross according to british common law during

the colonial period the age of consent was seven today we are astounded that girls of this age were assumed to know enough about sex or about sin to make such a

decision competently today we are shocked right yes and how far you want you want me to go subhanallah

let's read what carolyn koka has to say in her book adolescent sexuality historical handbook and guide at what age is a person capable of making an informed decision about

whether or not to engage in sex would it be 7 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 or 21 over the last 300 years all the ages listed above were thought to be that magic age

at which one could make such a decision and all the ages listed above have at various times being inscribed into law

as the age of consent to sex starting from seven so there were societies even 19th century england are you listening

it was very possible to see a 70 years old bride some of you if you saw that today you you would faint right if you walk into a wedding you see a 70

years old child sitting there in the place of the bride what would you would faint i would faint i would be sure what is this

seriously i have daughters i would never allow them to be married so young because i have i have been conditioned by our age i am conditioned just like you it's something abhorrent

for us it's completely mad crazy to imagine that for them pre-19th century completely normal just like if they saw a plane imagine

in 1850 in 1850 a plane flew over uh london or or let's say cape town what would they think

huh what do you think they would think sorry if they saw a plane flying over them they would think like you know

recently a tribe was discovered in amazon jungle on the borders of peru and brazil this tribe has never had contact with any

other human societies before never it's inside the amazon jungle and how did they discover it they flew over it right and they they saw these people

they looked red you know they had red paint on their bodies and you know what those people were doing they were shooting arrows at the plane they thought it was a strange bird or something and they were shooting so this

is exactly what would happen this is how it is now you see a plane okay plane yes right back in the day wasn't like that it wasn't like that

if someone said when rasulullah said came to his people and he said i was taken in one night from makkah to jerusalem and then to the seventh heaven

they and they came laughing to abu bakr you know what your friend is saying he's gone mad he's gone crazy you know why abu bakr was given the title as siddiq a siddique because he confirmed he said

if muhammad said it sallallahu then it is true as incredible at me it may seem to you if he said it it's true i believe it and

that's why he was given the title assad today you flying to the farthest end of earth in a plane right

if you told captain cook that we can do we can do this journey in one day he would he would put the bullet in you in your head you know even you crazy you're mad right you know those hand

match locks they used to have back in the day captain cook would never believe you so these are the things this is what conditioning does conditioning is not a day or two process

it is a process of lifetime certain things you cannot imagine today were happening as norm in the past right and it is very possible if they bring

down the age of consent to 10 again if they do if they do your next generations 30 years down the line if they see 10 years old brides it's

going to be normal for them and if you were put in a room for 30 years and brought out and taken to a wedding you would start screaming yeah 10 years old what's wrong with you are you crazy are

you mad it's just normal this is happening all over the place right so this is how you need to think about social conditioning meryl d smith

encyclopedia of rape page 40. to that end from ancient times

page 40. to that end from ancient times to the present many societies have acted to try to safeguard children from rape and other forms of sexual degradation though they might define sexual

degradation differently from error to error and from place to place one way societies have tried to protect young girls is through laws that designate a statutory age of consent such laws

prohibit men from having sexual relations with females under a specified a specified age on legal theory that they are too young and immature to make informed decision and therefore are

incapable of giving a legal consent historically the age of consent was set at 10 or 13 years depending on the error and the culture and tended to coincide

with female puberty which was also the age at which a female could marry without parental permission puberty similar stuff age of consent was 10 years until 1885.

melissa hope did more okay same 10 to 13 years and during colonial times in the united states the age of consent was 10 except in delaware where the age of consent was

seven according to martha rosenthal who is this i don't expect you to know he's a man from the ninth sorry 18th century he's a man from the 18th century

his name is william blackstone what is his name william blackstone he wrote commentaries on the english law his commentaries became the authoritative

view on the english law and a lot of his commentaries are still used to understand some parts of the english law his commentaries were published in the 18th century and they continued to be

published even as late as the 19th century as late as 1867 a student's blackstone commentary on the

laws of england in four books by sir william blackstone abridged and adapted to the present state of the law that's the important part i want you to

remember keep in mind what adapted to the present state of the law what date are we looking at

1867 there on the title page and that's the page i want you to look at 110 page number 110

published in 1867 london commentaries on the english law william blackstone adapted to the present state of the law so what was the present state of the law

in 1867 which is what 120 150 years ago right 150 years ago that's the part which i magnified for you

okay so here the third last line read from here a female also

at seven at seven years of age may be betrothed or given in marriage did i read that correctly

yes 1867 british law english law she would be given in marriage at nine

is entitled to dower at 12 is at years of maturity and may consent or disagree to marriage okay but at seven she may be given in marriage that's the minimum

legal age of marriage in england seven are you listening to zerubai yes seven so having seen all of that

those people who attacked the prophet sallallahu alaihi for marrying a nine years old are they fair are they doing justice

if he was wrong then the entire humanity up to the year 1900 was wrong all of them were

doing the same crime and to condemn them all is what extremism to see this to say the least if not madness to say the least

so do not separate the prophet from the rest of humanity so this is what these atheists christian missionaries and islamophobes

and muslim modernists do they have no idea what this history is seriously they don't know about this what we went through they don't know about this they need to know about this anyone who does this today anyone who

attacks the prophet sallam today for okay so anyone who attacks the prophet of islam for this today is guilty of anachronism okay they're being unjust

and it is nothing but hate hate is usually blind it is really it doesn't seem reason so this is why you have to reason with people this content needs to be out you

need to learn it you need to know about it you need to convey to people we do not need to abandon any of our literature we don't need to change it we don't need to throw away the baby with the bath water every single thing in the

quran and hadees in authentic hadees can be justified intellectually socially okay in all shapes and forms right you

can justify everything all the attacks they launch against the prophet and islam can be defended every you you bring a question and we'll see if we cannot answer it

we will see if we cannot answer it you just have to know how to answer it you have to go and read books you have to study you have to think and you will find answers so why today why is this question being

raised today why are people so so shocked and so you know awestruck by this today the prophet married at nine years old why today a

number of reasons colonialism colonialism came with this liberal and secular laws and people assumed that these laws are the criteria to judge

norm no they're not liberal secular laws are relative they change with time they change with place they may change to anything

so we cannot regard them as the end or as the criteria or as the yardstick as they say liberal secular laws are not the not the yardstick for humanity currently they are dominant laws because the west is

dominant culturally politically economically the west is dominant so we are all conditioned by that way of thinking all of us so we think everything has to measure up to the western

way of thinking everything has to measure up for it to be normal norm is being westernized even now you know there are so many things

we can look into liberal secular moral relativism is another reason which i mentioned earlier mentally colonized muslims

muslims are put on the back foot because they're mentally qualized and there are two reasons to be mentally colonized two reasons they are completely ignorant of islam and islamic civilization and islamic moral values in

islamic theology and second they know more about their colonizers than they do about the prophet sallallahu alaihi and the history of islam and history of humanity for that matter

so that's why they mentally colonized it is very normal to be influenced by a civilization christian missionaries are spreading a lot of misconceptions and hate and lies

about the prophet of islam deliberately it started in the middle ages is continuing to this day there are very unpleasant untrustworthy you know abnormal people out there

atheist extremists they are extremists because they do not take human societies the history of human societies into consideration when they attack islam in the prophet salla

islamophobes and hadees rejecters all of these people are guilty of the same and not many so not so many words they are guilty of the same

problem now is it pedophilia technically speaking even by today's standard is it pedophilia first of all it cannot be public otherwise all of humans are purifiers do

you agree pre-19th century every single victorian gentleman walking with the stick and hat you know like that in london was a pedophile right potentially william blackstone was

a pedophile king all the kings all the victorian thinkers or including all those who wrote on the prophet didn't criticize them they were all pedophiles every single person who

believed in these laws thomas jefferson adam smith you know george washington right all the major

thinkers you know leonardo da vinci michelangelo right galileo all the popes everyone

every single human because they had no problem with it if there were problems they would write books on it right produce one form of literature you know victorians wrote

hundreds of thousands of volumes and they published millions of books victorian england was very ripe with literature very very rich period victorian england

produced one book or one pamphlet or one leaflet where someone actually wrote something on it that this is too young man this is too young no none of them

nothing so what is the definition of a child pedophilia actually means pedophilia pedophilia is a greek term philia means

love pedo means child so literally translated it means child love technically it means a person who wants to have sex with

children right it's a crime it's a crime today but if it means having sex with children what is a child according to the oxford university a child is a young human

being below the age of puberty is that clear a child according to the oxford university oxford dictionary a child is a young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of

majority right that's the first definition right let's see now by today's standard what is

puberty a child is someone who reached puberty on the national health service website british national health service nhs on their

website this is how puberty is defined puberty is when a child's body begins to develop and change as they become an adult when do they become an adult girls develop breasts and start their

periods boys develop a deeper voice and facial hair which start to appear the average age of for girls to begin puberty is 11.

while for boys the average age is 12.

now it makes sense why in the past they had such lower ages 10 11 12 even 7 7 is i think extreme right but

average was 10 11 12 10 11 12 in human societies generally right why this is why because by that age girls would usually reach puberty right but it's different for everyone so don't worry if

your child reaches puberty before or after their friends it's completely normal for puberty to begin at any point from the ages of 8 to 14. the process

can take up to four years so biologically scientifically someone who reached the age of puberty cannot be technically called a child

according to these uh definitions but i do understand that laws legal systems see it differently they define child differently a child

is depending on what what the age of consent in a given country is it may be 16 it may be 14 it may be 17 18 depending on the country you live in and this is why those countries the laws

have to be uh considered they have to be followed and uh this is why people would not get married to girls um given the age of consent in that country

would they would not get married to anyone younger than that age of consent today right but you cannot use the current legal system

as the yardstick to condemn the entirety of humanity that lived before the 19th century or before the year 1900 actually before the 20th century so i'll repeat

you cannot use the current legal systems and the age of consent they define to condemn the entirety of humanity

before the 20th century do you agree okay so now when someone comes to you and tells you the prophet married nine years old

aisha what would your response be sorry it was normal for the time and then they will ask you to prove it and then what would you do take them

to the sources and tell them go and read the histories social histories of humanity pick up any book and see the ages of consent even in britain one convenient reference you can give is

this one william blackstone commentaries on the big english law remember this william blackstone commentaries on the english law the legal age of marriage is seven in

england as late as 1867. that's it

okay so to summarize everything number one hadees of aisha is not untrustworthy it is authentic

there is no doubt that aisha said what she said she was nine when the prophet consummated marriage so you don't need to throw away the baby with the bath water right you don't need to do away with your literature your hadith

literature it is powerfully preserved do not doubt any hadith bukhari that comes with a chain any adhesion sahil bukhari with a chain do not doubt it and don't try to water it down don't start to change it because you don't know how to

defend it you don't know what the context is you don't know what the commentaries are you don't have the knowledge to understand it if you are finding it difficult to fathom then it's your knowledge it's your lack of

knowledge and intellectual ability to understand it there's nothing wrong with the literature right and you saw a demonstration of that today do you agree okay so

are we obliged to do it today are we obliged to get married to nine years old because some people will now come back having heard all of that they will say but your prophet is a model for you

until eternity he is he is a mercy for uh all the worlds and you have to follow him until the day of judgment so you should be getting

married to 9 and 10 years old girls no no because we tell them our prophet rode camels to makkah and if we did that today our prophet would be telling us are you mad

if the prophet was here today do you think he would choose to go on camel if the prophet wanted to go for hajj in 2019 he was in cape town huh if he happened to be in cape town

we're not so fortunate to have him among us but allah has blessed us with with other things you know we rasulullah said uh my brothers who will come after and the

sahabah said ya rasulullah the ones who were around him are we not your brothers he said you're my companions but those people who will come after me they they haven't seen me and yet they will love me and they will believe in me believe

in me they are my brothers and a good one of them a good one of them will have the reward equal to 50 good ones of you can you imagine brothers and sisters the the

the fact that we don't have his company salallahu but that doesn't mean we cannot have the reward and the honor to love him and to be with him on the day of judgment or after we die

right and there are many ways to do it one of the ways to is to uh care for an orphan anawa kaffir teamville janna the prophet said i am the one who takes care of an orphan will be in paradise

like this you can be with the prophet after you die on the day of judgment taking care for my mother-in-law died just yesterday rahmatullahi alayha and i'm traveling to london tonight

i had to cut my trip short alhamdulillah most of the work is done my lectures are finished now so she took care of orphans specifically we know a family

they were orphans she bought a house for them she put their entire family in the house she's not here today so i'm not showing off for her i'm not the one doing it so there's no showing

off right she did it so i'm telling you this to encourage you and wallahi there are signs we can see that that was a special woman the amount of condolences and the amount

of prayers coming our way from all around the world is unbelievable the amount of acceptance allah gave her she died in ramadan she was fine walking around i left it two three days

ago in london walking around i spoke to a smiling walking and before ramadan doctors said you will die soon right and she was walking around we thought she may take three months four months but in ramadan

this is how she deteriorated as if allah wanted to take her in ramadan allah wanted it because she was special so rasool allah told us he gave us these incentives and she took advantage of one of them

orphans and i believe in shall if that deed is accepted that alone will take her to jannah i mean inshallah that alone will take her to jannah so we're not obliged to do

it today because the prophet it is the pro same prophet muhammad sallallahu islam who taught us to be very be sensitive of the cultural norms of the people you live with

how there's a report from the prophet salla i have to end very soon so that we can take some questions and leave for the airport um the prophet salallahu said to aisha

allah in makkah that o if it was not for your people who aisha's people who were there they were also the prophet's people quraishis so

he's making a point here if it was not for your people aisha your tribe quresh i would bring the door of the ka'ba down at the moment where is the door is seven feet above right

yes the prophet wanted to bring the door down but he didn't do it he didn't do it why why

it was perfectly halal for him to do it he wanted to do it but he abstained why to avoid controversy to avoid unnecessary controversy because

if he tried to do it the meccans the quraishis they would have had a problem with it so prophet knew his situation well he said aisha if it wasn't for your people i would have brought the door of the kaaba down

right so what lesson do we learn from this maslah and mafsada the concept of muslim masada that when you live in a society you have

to consider their norms you have to be very insensitive right not everything the prophet sallallahu islam did is sunnah not everything he did a sunnah it may be for that time for that specific

situation sunnah is something he did consistently continuously yes he did certain actions to highlight that it is perfectly halal to do it so if you

were to get married like previously muslims did to younger women as soon as they hit the age of puberty the prophet was defining what is halal and what is haram so the prophet sallam

came to highlight to clarify what is halal and haram so when jibril came to determine the times of salah what did he do he came at the early time and he came at

the latter time only for maghrib he came one time so jibril did this for what reason so that muslims can understand there's an early time for each and every single salah and there's a letter time you have

to pray your salah within that time right likewise the prophet saw was sent as a model right so he came as a model so he

married a very uh you know not very but an older woman than him himself she was older than him right she was not of course she was

young for her age at that time 40 years old and prophecy was almost 25. so here

he is teaching his ummah that it is perfectly valid perfectly fine for you to get married to older women right likewise he got married to aisha as soon

as she reached that age of puberty 9 okay so that he can highlight for his ummah that this is the minimum this is the minimum that's the maximum but do we have to do it today no we don't have to

do it today because expectations social norms have changed changed so we don't have to write camels today yeah we don't have to uh you know draw

water from wells today right you can do that right today yeah how many of would you do that today go you need water go and draw water from well because in the time of the prophet you love the prophet so much that you want to do it

like that right the prophet will tell you what's wrong with you what's wrong with you right prophet salallahu moved with the times he taught us to move

with the times we do not change our morality we do not change our ethics we do not abandon our literature our theology but we move with the times

and we consider the norms of the times we live in and the people we live with thank you so much for listening alhamdulillah