Fresh start :D

[Montalban]

Oh that ...
If you meant 'physically and mentally matured' when you said 'adult', then yes. If the spouse is not ready, there's no way the marriage will be happy ending.

As for allowing them to drive and vote, this is dificult. I mean, the guardian(their wali) will certainly knew when they're ready to marry and can attest to it. And the spouse knew if they want to carry on with the marriage(no force marriage in Islam).

But if the wali said, 'my children is now ready to vote'. Who'll believe it? A nation is on stake. Not the private life just like their choice to marry. I'm not saying their marriage is not important anyway.
It goes the same way to driving issue also.

And this is my personal opinion.

Is it your intent to answer every two or more weeks?

 

[GeorgeTwo]

I can't fully follow a thread in CF nowadays. And when I've time, usually the thread had grow to a HUGE thread full of posts(in and off topics) and been closed .

I usually don't make thread. But the thread had been closed and a week old discussion is still relevan I guess . Hope I didn't resurect a dead thread or I'm sorry.

Muhammad's marriage oof Aisha in summary.
It's well known in several hadith that Aisha was 6 when he engaged and 9 when the marriage was consumated. Even though Aisha's age is still debatable among scholars(but this thread intension is not to debate what was Aisha's age), in this thread, we'll use "Aisha was 9" as most Muslims believe.

I didn't read the whole thread but this is what I think of Muhammad's marriage to Aisha.

Let's go back to the 7th century and before. Males and females married very young during those times. It could have had something to do with life expectancy and a desire to have families well before they died, I don't know what the life expectancy was back then.

I would not have a problem with young people marrying young if I lived in those times. I probably would have married young too. However, even in those times a 9 year old girl is still too young. A girl 13 or 14 years old would be better. Why? Because of their physical development. A girl develops rapidly between the ages of 9 and 13 or 14. Nine year old girls are very tiny.

The subject of Muhammad marrying a 9 year-old came up in my Bible study, which is full of mothers.

When I mentioned that Muhammad married a 9 year-old, the response was: "people married young during those times."

When I mentioned that Muhammad was over 50 years old when he married Aisha, they all went: "Ugh!!!"

And here lies the problem.

Aisha should have married someone closer to her age, but when she was around 13 and her husband should have been around the same age.

Some Muslims are embarrassed by this marriage. One Muslim told me he "closes his eyes when he thinks of it."

 

[Montalban]

Some Muslims are embarrassed by this marriage. One Muslim told me he "closes his eyes when he thinks of it."

I pray he'll open his mind.

 

[Secundulus]

And the spouse knew if they want to carry on with the marriage(no force marriage in Islam).

no force marriage in Islam

This is simply not true. As evidence, I present this news story from two days ago in Italy.

Alessandria, 3 July (AKI) - A 15-year-old Pakistani girl who jumped from a balcony in northern Italy after refusing an arranged marriage says she wants to become an Italian citizen.

"I no longer want to be Pakistani," said the girl, named only as 'Piccola' by Turin-based daily La Stampa.

An investigation is being opened into Piccola's desperate attempt to escape the future her parents planned for her - marriage to a teenage Pakistani cousin.
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