While providing no evidence that child marriage is “fundamental” to our religion, the absence of which would “violate” our ability to practice—since there is no such evidence—let me at least attempt to objectively describe the process of history and culture as it might lead to such a misconception. There is sufficient evidence that one of the Prophet Muhammad’s wives was under 18 when they were married. That was neither unusual nor disrespectful at the time and place where this took place. My mother was under 18 when she and my father were married, and this was in the 20th century Democratic United States. While I acknowledge that this did happen, I do not sanction it as a model for what should continue to happen. What I will point to here is the kind of skewed logic that finds some advocates exerting that this must continue to happen. We start with the evidence above, proving that child marriage is harmful, potentially fatal, and also provide the intra-Islamic methodology. Let us start with the Prophetic example.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 15:55:11 +0000
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