Ali Dawah - January 15, 2021
DOES ISLAM ALLOW CHILD MARRIAGES? - MUSLIM RESPONDS
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Summary
In this video, I answer a question that has been asked many times in the past by atheists. Is it possible for a woman to get married at the age of 6 and consummated at 9? Is this a good or bad thing? What does the Quran have to say about this?
Transcript
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And we're like, oh my gosh, how are we going to get out of this, yeah?
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The answer is given to you very clearly by how?
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By accepting all of that and applying it in the correct way.
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So next time, anybody, atheist, crush whoever they may be, come and ask you the question.
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You've got people, white middle-aged men, traveling to Africa, yeah?
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Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh, brothers and sisters and dear friends.
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This is a video that I've been wanting to do for a long time, but I've never got the chance to.
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And this is a topic which we have discussed in many platforms, in many venues, even in Speakers Corner.
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And I've got many videos which highlight this very question being answered in a different way.
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But there's another question that these individuals are asking.
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Are these individuals asking this because they're curious?
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They're only just using this as an opportunity to attack Islam.
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Because Islam is spreading wide and all around the world.
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And people are coming to Islam in the thousands and millions around the world.
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So they think that this is an argument to use that Islam is false.
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It's not like the Trinity where it doesn't make sense at all.
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It's not like the Trinity where the Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is not the Son.
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But they're all one and they're God and divine.
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Which many people leave Christianity because of.
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And many apologetics in Christian apologetics have actually stopped talking about the Trinity.
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They've just dedicated their time to attacking Islam and it just shows you their weakness.
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And even when it comes from atheists, when it comes from atheists, you really need to question their moral compass.
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And they're here to come and question us about morality.
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When you have no moral compass, your moral compass is all over the place.
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Soon you'll be coming and telling us that having incest, having intimacy with your own brother, sister, mum or dad.
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Which many people have said, certain atheists like Apos.
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Who's admitted that if it was harmless, he would have intimacy with his own son.
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So as you can see guys, these people have no moral compasses.
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And they come and mock Islam in the Quran and say,
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Oh, thank God Allah told us that you're not allowed to marry your mum and your sisters and your brother and your sons etc.
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So they're mocking the Quran and the laugh is on them because that's actually what's happening.
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And the Quran has come to once again tell you to get back to your senses and stop doing that.
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So yeah, that's the reason why I want to do this video.
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Now, the argument that is used by the Quran is very simple.
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If your prophet, peace be upon him, married Aisha at six and consummated the marriage at nine,
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what would you, this is a question that's asked was,
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would you allow your six-year-old daughter to get married and consummate the marriage at nine?
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And we're like, oh my gosh, how are we going to get out of this?
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Because the thing is, we've got a beautiful answer,
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which actually shook so many Christian hate-mongering apologetics.
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Even David Wood, so much to the core that he actually got so irritated that there's an answer for this.
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Because they're just lying haters, which are after just making money.
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So, here's the answer, which is going to be a big slap across their face.
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We follow the prophet, peace be upon him, and we believe he was the best mankind, best human to walk this earth.
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And we follow all his prophetic traditions to the best of our ability.
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Now, in this very argument, I'm going to answer it in a few ways,
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because there's a lot of fallacies that have been made.
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There's a fallacy of presentism, there's a fallacy of anachronism,
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and there's a fallacy to appeal to novelty fallacy, yeah?
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These three fallacies, in a nutshell, is telling you that how you are comparing something that happened 1,400 years ago to today.
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Why did the Romans travel, or the Bedouins, or whoever it may be, travel so far distances on camels?
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You know, it's that kind of fallacious reasoning that we're dealing with here,
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to think that the people back then were stupid dumb,
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and new moral compasses, or whatever it may be, which is shifting every second,
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and now you're judging the past with them, you know,
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If the Prophet, please be upon him, married Aishah at six,
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in this country, because we need to abide by the law of the land,
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Islamically, what lesson do we learn from that?
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So, when somebody comes and asks me that question,
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I say, no, because your reasoning is fallacious.
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If the Prophet did that and waited three years,
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ISIS, who would justify killing innocent people,
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because, and they get some verses in the Quran,
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or we have an epidemic of Muslims marrying young girls.