Muhammad consummated his marriage to Aisha when she turned nine. He was a child molester. That's all anyone needs to know.
What you say without knowing that much is not nice.
Imagine people jumping to conclusion concerning the age of Rebecca, Isaac's wife ?
There's people saying she was 3 years old when they married.
I'm sure you would come to me explaining with verses that it wasn't true.
Imagine how it is for us having to do that all the time.
Of course I don't believe that Isaac married a 3 years old girl (so don't need to explain to me) but that what some people think.
(at least I see a lot of people asking that on internet)
So thank you for not saying the word pe***ile or child molester, this is harsh and not fair.
That some muslims believe Aisha was that young it's their problem but it's not what every muslims believe.
Just as I'm sure some jews or christians may defend some things that other will reject.
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Anyway.
Everyone can think what he wants but concerning Aicha we have few elements to determine the dates/events.
You can't jump to conclusion without trying to verify if what is said is correct.
With this we can try to have approximately the date of her marriage with the Prophet.
If someone is really interested here are what we know :
-ISLAM REVELATION : 609-610
(...)Three years later,
in 610, Muhammad started preaching these revelations publicly
Muhammad - Wikipedia
(...)
Muhammad, through the archangel
Gabriel incrementally over a period of some 23 years,
beginning on 22 December 609
Quran - Wikipedia
Muhammad's wife
Khadija was the first to believe he was a prophet.
She was
followed by Muhammad's ten-year-old cousin
Ali ibn Abi Talib,
close friend ABU BAKR and adopted son
Zaid.
Around 613, Muhammad began to preach to the public.
In the beginning the Prophet didn't preach to people except to few close people.
In general the dates are : Revelation 610, preach to people of Mecca 613
Abu Bakr was among the first people who believed in
610.
-SUPPOSED BIRTH OF AICHA : 610-614
Aishah bint Abī Bakr ( c.
613/614 – c. 678 CE)
Aisha - Wikipedia
"The idea to match Aisha with Muhammad was suggested
after the death of Muhammad's first wife, Khadija bint Khuwaylid.
After this, the previous agreement regarding the marriage of Aisha with
Jubayr ibn Mut'im was put aside by common consent."
Here there's important elements :
*Khadija died in 619 Khadija bint Khuwaylid - Wikipedia
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Jubayr wasn't muslim in the beginning and Aicha was "supposed" to be born after the Revelation and after the conversion of her father Abu Baker (610). (so wasn't supposed to marry a pagan)
Jubayr ibn Mut'im - Wikipedia
"Aisha died at her home in Medina on 17
Ramadan 58 AH (16 July
678)
. She was 67 years old"
Aisha - Wikipedia
I don't know for you but for me 678-67 = 611
She was born in 613-613 in the beginning of the Wikipedia's page. This lead to the age of 6 for the marriage.
But if she was born in 611 then she was 9 during her marriage (not consummated I precise).
-ASMA SISTER OF AICHA :
Asmā bint Abu Bakr c.
595 – 692 CE
She was
Abu Bakr's daughter.
The historians
Ibn Kathir and
Ibn 'Asakir cite a tradition that
Asma was 10 years older than Aisha; but according to
Al-Dhahabi, the age difference was
thirteen to nineteen years.
692: Death : Asma died a few days after her son who was killed on Tuesday 17 Jumada al-Ula in
73 AH".
Asma died when she was 100 years old.
Ok, let's do the maths again.
Let's say she was 10 y older than Aicha.
If Asma was born in 595 so
Aicha was supposed to be born in 605 (not 611 or 613-614)
Asma died in 692 . For me 692-595 : 97 years old not 100
As you can see we don't have exact dates ...
If the date of death is true then she was born in 592.
Then Aicha was born 10 years later in 602
Anyway 602 or 605 it's not like 613/614
This means Aicha was much older during at her marriage. (again not consummated as it was few years later)
It was said above that the son of Asma died the same year in 692 "She passed away ten days after death of her son"
Her son AbdAllah died in 692 in this page :
Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr - Wikipedia
"Aisha's age at marriage has been a source of controversy and debate, and some historians, scholars and writers have revisited the previously-accepted timeline of her life.
Some writers have calculated Aisha's age based on details found in some biographies, eschewing the traditionally-accepted ahadith. One hadith recorded in the works of some medieval scholars, including
al-Dhahabi, states that Aisha's older sister Asma was ten years older than her.
This has been combined with information about Asma's age at the time of her death and used to suggest that Aisha was over thirteen at the time of her marriage."
Aisha - Wikipedia
Of course there's other contradicting hadiths and dates but I think this is enought long.
Thanks for reading and searching the truth.