If there were any danger in early marriage, Allah would have forbidden it, a Yemeni member of parliament named Mohammed Al-Hamzi told me in the capital city of Sanaa one day. Something that Allah himself did not forbid, we cannot forbid. Al-Hamzi, a religious conservative, is vigorously opposed to the legislative efforts in Yemen to prohibit marriage for girls below a certain age (17, in a recent version), and so far those efforts have met with failure. Islam does not permit marital relations before a girl is physically ready, he said, but the Holy Koran contains no specific age restrictions and so these matters are properly the province of family and religious guidance, not national law. Besides, there is the matter of the Prophet Muhammads beloved Ayesha—nine years old, according to the conventional account, when the marriage was consummated. (From the article)
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:55:46 +0000
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