MARRIAGE WITH AISHA (PEACE BE UPON HER)

The following evidences are enough to understand the main reason of the marriage with
Aisha RA and the fact that the Prophet Muhammad PBUH did not marry her for any sexual
purposes (God forbids):

1. Aisha's parents were the ones who married her to our Prophet, and that no Muslim or
even pagan objected to the marriage because it was widely practiced. (Translation of Sahih
Bukhari, Merits of the Helpers in Madinah (Ansaar), Volume 5, Book 58, Number 234)

2. The life span 1400 years ago was short. They used to live between 40 to 60 years
maximum. So it was only normal and natural for girls to be married off at ages 9 or 10 or
similar.

3. Prophet Muhammad PBUH is the best example for every Muslim to follow, for men and for
women but in the case of women, the prophet was not complete example, for example, who
is the example of a wife for Muslim women? Off course, the example would be the wives of
the prophet. So the prophet could have felt necessary to marry with Aisha at the early age
of 9 to that she could learn every aspect of life right from the beginning. And this step was
very beneficial for the whole Ummah. Now some people say that if this was the case then
why the prophet did not adopt Aisha RA? The answer of this is that the wife of the prophet
has more respect than to be the daughter. The wives of Prophet Muhammad SAW are the
mothers of the believers. Muhammad SAW also married to her to drop an example of a
good wife for Muslims women. Besides husband wife relationship is more effective for this
kind of training and living.

4. Before Aisha RA’s marriage was settled to Muhammad PBUH, it was already had been
arranged with Jabeer Ibn Matam but his parents’ afterwards rejected this marriage because
Aisha was related to a Muslim family while Matam was a non-Muslim, so his parents
rejected Aisha RA and this was the time when the non-Muslims of Mecca was in vicious
hatred with Muslims. So this clearly shows that this was a tradition in Arab.

5. The prophet pbuh did not himself go to Aisha’s parents to talk about the marriage but
instead it was Khawla Bint Hakeem who came to prophet proposes him to marry with Aisha
PBUH and prophet asked her to go on his behalf to settle the relation. Prophet PBUH did not
even see Aisha RA.

6. The engagement was done when Aisha was 6 or 7 years old in Mecca but Aisha was living
in her house and after 3 years when prophet pbuh migrated to Medina, Aisha RA’s father
Hazrat Abu Bakr pbuh realized that it would be good for his daughter to live with Prophet
pbuh so that she could live in the holy environment of Prophet. So with this thinking Abu
Bakr pbuh talked to the Prophet that now you should take Aisha RA in your house and then
Aisha RA went to prophet’s house at the age of 9. So Abu Bakr pbuh proposes to
Muhammad PBUH to complete the marriage. Now wil you say that, Abu Bakr PBUH, God
forbids, was also a child molestor?

7. If the marriage was so wrong then why didn’t Aisha’a mother object to the marriage?
Instead they gave her for marriage and prepared here for marriage.

8. Why didn’t Hazrat Abu Bakr (RA), the father of Aisha and a close friend of Prophet
Muhammad (SAW) object to it? If it was so wrong, you would expect the father to have not
allowed such a marriage to take place. But instead it was Abu Bakr who proposes the
Prophet pbuh to complete the marriage.

9. Why did the women who were present there with Aisha when she was about to be given
to the Prophet for marriage, wished her luck and were happy for her? If it was so wrong the
women present would have been sad and they should not have been happy for Aisha (RA)
and had no problems whatsoever.

10. Why didn’t the enemies of the prophet use this against the prophet? If the marriage was
so wrong, you would expect to fond hi enemies to be the first ones to start using this
against him, instead what we find is that his enemies never once brought this marriage up
in a negative way against Islam.

11. Why didn’t the Arabs object to it? It was not only the pagan Arabs in Hijaz who didn’t
object to this marriage but the surrounding Arabs didn’t object either.

12. Are we supposed to assume that all the Arabs were pedophile and child molesters?

13. Why is there not a single Hadith from Hazrat Aisha (RA) showing her being unhappy of
the marriage, showing her to e like a victim? Instead when you look at Aisha, you find no
symptoms of a victim. She became a great leader of Islam, a great scholar of Islam.

14. If Hazrat Aisha (RA) was indeed a victim and so on, then why did she love prophet so
much and would sometimes get jealous around him because she loved him so much, does
this sound like someone who is a victim? Instead we see the love between them for
example, prophet used to do race with Aisha RA to see who runs faster, Muhammad PBUH
allows Aisha RA to play with dolls with Aisha’s friends, Muhammad PBUH once asked Aisha
RA whether see wants to see the play of some kind that people were seeing, maybe it was
the challenge of aiming among men and Aisha RA said yes she wants to see the play and
then Muhammad PBUH hold her on his shoulders and she saw the show till she herself did
not say to prophet that she is done with the show.

15. Muhammad PBUH gave his daughter, Ruqia RA, to Abu Lahb’s son, Utba in Ruqia RA’s
childhood. Similarly Muhammad PBUH’s second daughter Umm Kulsum RA was married to
the second son of Abu Lahb, Ateeba in childhood. So the marriage of Muhammad PBUH’s
two daughters with Abu Lahb’s two sons in their childhood is another evidence that early
marriages was a tradition in Arabia.

16. The conclusion drawn by anti-Islamic people that Prophet married to Aisha RA for sexual
purposes is biased and dishonest. Any honest person would conclude that Prophet must
have had some reasons for this marriage because he has a clean history, peace be upon
him. All his marriages don’t like that they are done for sexual purposes neither the
personality of the prophet was like that. His whole life was holy and clean and his enemies
used to call him the righteous and truthful. So the conclusion that prophet married to Aisha
RA for sexual purposes without looking to the life of the prophet and his pure and holy
character is 100% biased and unacceptable.

Seeing that the prophet has a clean history and an inspiring character and personality, the
benefit of the doubt goes to the prophet and thus the only conclusion left is that there were
huge plans and reasons for the marriage. Accusing him is explicit dishonesty. May peace
and blessings of Almighty Allah be on the him.