Saturday, December 31, 2011
From Nothing to Something
Sahih International
And the disbeliever says, "When I have died, am I going to be brought forth alive?"
Sahih International
Does man not remember that We created him before, while he was nothing?
Sahih International
So by your Lord, We will surely gather them and the devils; then We will bring them to be present around Hell upon their knees.
Sahih International
Then We will surely extract from every sect those of them who were worst against the Most Merciful in insolence.
Sahih International
Then, surely it is We who are most knowing of those most worthy of burning therein.
Sahih International
And there is none of you except he will come to it. This is upon your Lord an inevitability decreed.
Sahih International
Then We will save those who feared Allah and leave the wrongdoers within it, on their knees.
Sahih International
And when Our verses are recited to them as clear evidences, those who disbelieve say to those who believe, "Which of [our] two parties is best in position and best in association?"
Sahih International
And how many a generation have We destroyed before them who were better in possessions and [outward] appearance?
Sahih International
Say, "Whoever is in error - let the Most Merciful extend for him an extension [in wealth and time] until, when they see that which they were promised - either punishment [in this world] or the Hour [of resurrection] - they will come to know who is worst in position and weaker in soldiers."Friday, December 30, 2011
Unbelievable Fairy Tale of Iraq
srizals
How sad. Ended up being dependent on the same monster that destroyed you. Imagine having to beg the very same people that raped and humiliated you in blatant disgrace. Fools are cursed to repeat their history. Only the dead are spared from repeating their gruesome error.
Op-Ed: Time’s up, America’s leaving Iraq, except it’s not
How sad. Ended up being dependent on the same monster that destroyed you. Imagine having to beg the very same people that raped and humiliated you in blatant disgrace. Fools are cursed to repeat their history. Only the dead are spared from repeating their gruesome error.
Op-Ed: Time’s up, America’s leaving Iraq, except it’s not
By Lynn Herrmann
" In the U.S, politicians are addicted to war, and are no different than a hooker addicted to coke. In their drug-induced stupor, each is still able to provide satisfaction on some level. For the politician, it comes in the form of knowing his or her pockets are always lined.
It would be easy enough to call the U.S. exceptional, and for some, even easier to believe the title. What is exceptional, truly, is the fact it is the world’s leading mass murderer of the last 75 years. All without a single one of its political leaders being convicted, much less tried, of war crimes.
For those unfamiliar with the concept of weapons manufacturing and its ties to the U.S. political machine, Kevin Phillips’ American Dynasty should be required reading.
Here’s what America is leaving, and it’s all in Iraq. We’re leaving behind a country where millions and millions of its citizens were internally and externally displaced, maimed, raped, tortured, killed, humiliated, and assaulted - physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Let us not forget the deformed babies.
America’s package is a bellicose attitude toward everyone in the Middle East who has a supply of oil, and always egged on by the mind-fuck called Israel, another burr under the saddle blanket of civilization.
The largest U.S. embassy on the planet is located in Baghdad, Iraq. Anyone who believes we built such a monstrosity only to turn it over to the world’s oldest culture is a complete fool."
Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/article/316263#ixzz1i1gCfoP7
Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/article/316263#ixzz1i1gCfoP7
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Deities: Which one?
Written by ibn Riaz
In our previously discussed supplication, we observed the concise speech of the Prophet (ṣallallāhu `alayhi wa sallam). The following narration provides another example of that.
`Imrān b. Ḥuṣayn narrated: “The Prophet (ṣallallāhu `alayhi wa sallam) said to my father: ‘O Ḥuṣayn, how many deities do you worship now?’ He said: ‘Seven. Six in the earth, and one above the heavens.’ He said, ‘So which of them do you take for your ardent requests and fears?’ He said: ‘The one above the heavens.’ He said, ‘O Ḥuṣayn, if you would but accept Islām, I would teach you two phrases that would benefit you.’”
He said: “So when Ḥuṣayn accepted Islām, he said: ‘O Messenger of Allāh, teach me the two phrases you promised me,’ so he (ṣallallāhu `alayhi wa sallam) said, ‘Say:
اللّهُمَّ أَلْهِمْنِي رُشْدِي وَأَعِذْنِي مِنْ شَرِّ نَفْسِي
Transliteration:
Allāhumma alhimnī rushdī wa a`idhnī min sharri nafsī
Allāhumma alhimnī rushdī wa a`idhnī min sharri nafsī
Translation:O Allāh, inspire me to be rightly guided and protect me from the evil of myself.’”[1]
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Freedom of What?
srizals
Some people are really not entitled to champion anything. What they did to others and how they did it in such a sick evil way unimaginable to the decent standard of humanity strip them off from that 'holier than thou' ranks. It is like the devil calling the man devil, it is like the sadistic, rapist killer that cried foul when someone returns the favour to him.
Whistle blowers as what people called them expressed their freedom of choice and voice. But this freedom of choice is not that welcomed in certain 'elite' quarters championing unlimited freedom of getting rich while suppressing other's freedom to live in peace and harmony. People must not know how devilish their quarters are. People must only see the demonic side of the common enemies. The common enemies that are everywhere in the whole wide world, the common enemies that hate them to their bones!
The common enemies that sought for their utter destruction and thus deserved to be annihilated to utter ruins. In order to have security, everyone that oppose us must die. And that means everyone, their friends, families and even their little children. They deserved everything that they get. Who asked them to meddle with the greatest democracy of the world? Who asked them to dare to attack and bomb the greatest civilised country in the world? Who asked them to threat the security of the highly democratic people with joke bombs like the shoe bomb and the underwear bomb? That was totally ridiculous. Threat us with predator drones, tomahawks, depleted uranium bombs and Willy Petes. That's how you bomb people, silly. That's how you fight wars. Just kill 'em all! Especially those who cannot kill you back. Especially those unarmed and too young to fight you off. That's how brave warriors fight nowadays.
No one has the right to kill in cold blood our friends and families. No one has the right to torture sadistically our kins and kith. No one has the right to skin the face off our faces when we are still alive, struggling in agony, hands bound to the back and humiliated. No one has the right to laugh when they are doing such despicable things to us. Only we are entitled to be hideous and revolting monsters.
Monsters are real. Look at yourself in the mirror and you'll see one. Look at your hands. The blood, it won't come off. The Whistle Blowers saw and knew these monsters. They decided to do something about it. They decided to not be a part of the monstrosity. Bradley Manning was one of them. Maybe we should too.
Remember the Whistle Blowers. Remember their courage and sacrifices.
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/americas/2011/12/21/manning-testimony-concludes
http://www.bradleymanning.org/commentary/bradley-manning-an-american-hero-2
http://wiseupforbradleymanning.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/500-days-of-detention-without-trial-for-bradley-manning-and-10-years-of-war-in-afghanistan/
http://theweek.com/article/index/213626/rolling-stones-afghanistan-kill-team-expose-5-disturbing-takeaways
Some people are really not entitled to champion anything. What they did to others and how they did it in such a sick evil way unimaginable to the decent standard of humanity strip them off from that 'holier than thou' ranks. It is like the devil calling the man devil, it is like the sadistic, rapist killer that cried foul when someone returns the favour to him.
Whistle blowers as what people called them expressed their freedom of choice and voice. But this freedom of choice is not that welcomed in certain 'elite' quarters championing unlimited freedom of getting rich while suppressing other's freedom to live in peace and harmony. People must not know how devilish their quarters are. People must only see the demonic side of the common enemies. The common enemies that are everywhere in the whole wide world, the common enemies that hate them to their bones!
The common enemies that sought for their utter destruction and thus deserved to be annihilated to utter ruins. In order to have security, everyone that oppose us must die. And that means everyone, their friends, families and even their little children. They deserved everything that they get. Who asked them to meddle with the greatest democracy of the world? Who asked them to dare to attack and bomb the greatest civilised country in the world? Who asked them to threat the security of the highly democratic people with joke bombs like the shoe bomb and the underwear bomb? That was totally ridiculous. Threat us with predator drones, tomahawks, depleted uranium bombs and Willy Petes. That's how you bomb people, silly. That's how you fight wars. Just kill 'em all! Especially those who cannot kill you back. Especially those unarmed and too young to fight you off. That's how brave warriors fight nowadays.
No one has the right to kill in cold blood our friends and families. No one has the right to torture sadistically our kins and kith. No one has the right to skin the face off our faces when we are still alive, struggling in agony, hands bound to the back and humiliated. No one has the right to laugh when they are doing such despicable things to us. Only we are entitled to be hideous and revolting monsters.
Monsters are real. Look at yourself in the mirror and you'll see one. Look at your hands. The blood, it won't come off. The Whistle Blowers saw and knew these monsters. They decided to do something about it. They decided to not be a part of the monstrosity. Bradley Manning was one of them. Maybe we should too.
Remember the Whistle Blowers. Remember their courage and sacrifices.
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/americas/2011/12/21/manning-testimony-concludes
http://www.bradleymanning.org/commentary/bradley-manning-an-american-hero-2
http://wiseupforbradleymanning.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/500-days-of-detention-without-trial-for-bradley-manning-and-10-years-of-war-in-afghanistan/
http://theweek.com/article/index/213626/rolling-stones-afghanistan-kill-team-expose-5-disturbing-takeaways
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011
A Soldier In The Shadows
Viewer discreation is advised. The photos revealed in this video are very, very disturbing and would never, I repeat, never be published in Jihadwatch, Faithfreedom or any other Islamophobic and Muslim hater 'truth' website crusaders. Oh, Danny boy didn't know about it too. The Muslims are just a bunch of thugs that hate 'the freedom of the West' and love killing heavily armed terminator-soldiers invading their homelands. Killing them on daily basis. Would this exposure get counted in "Muslim attack/terror since 9/11?
What say you Daniel Pipes? What say you?
What say you lying cowards?
And I'm afraid this exposure is only the tip of an iceberg.
Now do you understand? Now do you understand where all the hate came from?
Shame on the liars and haters. Shame on the warmongers. Shame on the hatemongers. May all of you rot in Hell.
Friday, December 16, 2011
The Sleeping Boy and The Sleeping Ummah
Syed Wali Shah, aged 7
srizals
The sleeping boy sleeps soundly
While the sleeping Ummah is restless in living nightmares
Divided and surrounded by enemies
Still busy as always
Quarrelling among themselves
Of who is right and the most bright
Until their hearts are divided
Weaken without consensus and sacrifices
Too afraid to remember their prophet's teaching
Too proud to adhere to their book of guidance
Too weak to defend themselves
Too meek to help the oppressed
The sleeping boy remained asleep
Not bothered with the noise made by the fractured Ummah
In dreams far away from harm
In dreams far away from harm
Photo belongs to www.wired.com
Rare Photographs Show Ground Zero of the Drone War
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/12/photos-pakistan-drone-war/?mbid=ob_ppc_dangerroom&pid=995
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Why do Christians accuse Muhammad of pedophilia but not St. Joseph?
Why do Christians accuse Muhammad of pedophilia but not St. Joseph?
Compiled for FaithinAllah.org
Behold the double standard that some Christians apply to Islam! They accuse Prophet Muhammad صلي الله عليه وسلم of pedophilia (lust for children) because of his marriage to Aisha, yet their own literature records that Joseph married Mary when he was ninety and she was twelve. The Catholic Encyclopedia states:
A year after his wife’s death, as the priests announced through Judea that they wished to find in the tribe of Juda a respectable man to espouse Mary, then twelve to fourteen years of age. Joseph, who was at the time ninety years old, went up to Jerusalem among the candidates…
Thus, you see them mocking and scoffing at the Messenger of Allah صلي الله عليه وسلم while they ignore the same behavior narrated concerning the husband of the Virgin Mary عليها السلام!
The accusation that Prophet Muhammad engaged in pedophilia has no basis in fact, as his marriage to Aisha was officially consummated after she completed puberty. In fact, some have characterized this charge as an example of “anthropological illiteracy.” Colin Turner of the University of Durham Middle East Studies department writes:
A marriage between an older man and a young girl was customary among the Bedouins, as it still is in many societies across the world today. It was not unheard of in Muhammad’s time for boys and girls to be promised to each other in marriage almost as soon as they were born, particularly if the union was of direct political significance to the families concerned. However, such marriages were almost certainly not consummated until both parties had entered adulthood, which Arabs in the 7th century tended to reach at an earlier age than Westerners today. It is highly unlikely that Muhammad would not have taken Aisha into his bed until she was at least in her early teens, which was wholly in keeping with the customs of the day, and in context not in the least improper.[Turner, C. (2006). Islam: the basics (pp. 34-35). London: Routledge]
So why do some Christians charge the Prophet with sexual crimes when the anthropological evidence proves them untrue? The charge is not intended to enlighten but to intimidate, to put psychological pressure upon Muslims to be ashamed of their religion. However, when armed with the facts, the Muslims have nothing to fear from these ignorant people. As Allah Almighty said:
لَتُبْلَوُنَّ فِي أَمْوَالِكُمْ وَأَنفُسِكُمْ وَلَتَسْمَعُنَّ مِنَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ وَمِنَ الَّذِينَ أَشْرَكُوا أَذًى كَثِيرًا وَإِن تَصْبِرُوا وَتَتَّقُوا فَإِنَّ ذَٰلِكَ مِنْ عَزْمِ الْأُمُورِYou will surely be tested in your possessions and in yourselves. And you will surely hear from those who were given the Scripture before you and from those who associate others with Allah much abuse. But if you are patient and fear Allah – indeed, that is of the matters [worthy] of determination.[Surah Ali Imran 3:186]
Muslims ought to be patient and forbearing in the face of such false criticism, and to return these evil slanderous charges with knowledge and beautiful preaching. As Allah Almighty said:
وَلَا تُجَادِلُوا أَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ إِلَّا بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ إِلَّا الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا مِنْهُمْ وَقُولُوا آمَنَّا بِالَّذِي أُنزِلَ إِلَيْنَا وَأُنزِلَ إِلَيْكُمْ وَإِلَٰهُنَا وَإِلَٰهُكُمْ وَاحِدٌ وَنَحْنُ لَهُ مُسْلِمُونَAnd do not argue with the People of the Scripture except in a way that is best, except for those who commit injustice among them, and say, “We believe in that which has been revealed to us and revealed to you. And our God and your God is one; and we are Muslims [in submission] to Him.”[Surah Al-Ankabut 29:46]
We Ask Allah the Exalted to guide the people to the truth.
My Coffee Tree
srizals
My coffee flowers are blooming
Showered by the pure and gentle
Thousand little drops of rain
The scent and wetness mingles
The freshness of cool sweet breeze
How I wish it would last
How I wish it would last
My coffee flowers are blooming
Showered by the pure and gentle
Thousand little drops of rain
The scent and wetness mingles
The freshness of cool sweet breeze
How I wish it would last
How I wish it would last
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Nazeel Azami - Rahmanur Rahim
Ma-nil Muhyi? - Allah
Who is the Giver of life? - Allah
Ma-nil Mu'mith? - Allah
Who is the Giver of death? - Allah
Ma-nil Hadi? - Allah
Who is the Giver of guidance? - Allah
Rahmanur-Raheem - Allah
Most Gracious, Most Merciful - Allah
Ya Kareem - Allah
Oh Generous One - Allah
Rahmanur-Raheem - Allah
Most Gracious, Most Merciful - Allah
Ya Haleem - Allah
Oh Forbearing One - Allah
Rahmanur-Raheem - Allah
Most Gracious, Most Merciful - Allah
Ya Azeem - Allah
Oh Magnificent One - Allah
Rahmanur-Raheem - Allah
Most Gracious, Most Merciful - Allah
Ya Azeem - Allah
Oh Magnificent One - Allah
So many colours bowing before You
Sisters and brothers, all grateful to You
The more we learn to read Your Signs
That are concealed between the lines
The more we're drawn towards the Light
Open my eyes so I can see
The Light of hope You send to me
The rain that brings me back to life
Rahmanur-Raheem - Allah
Most Gracious, Most Merciful - Allah
Ya Kareem - Allah
Oh Generous One - Allah
Rahmanur-Raheem - Allah
Most Gracious, Most Merciful - Allah
Ya Haleem - Allah
Oh Forbearing One - Allah
Rahmanur-Raheem - Allah
Most Gracious, Most Merciful - Allah
Ya Azeem - Allah
Oh Magnificent One - Allah
Rahmanur-Raheem - Allah
Most Gracious, Most Merciful - Allah
Ya Azeem - Allah
Oh Magnificent One - Allah
Finding You is relief
Now we hope, now we believe
Hear me Lord, strengthen me
Guide me through my journey
The more we learn to read Your Signs
That are concealed between the lines
The more we're drawn towards the Light
Open my eyes so I can see
The Light of hope You send to me
The rain that brings me back to life
Rahmanur-Raheem - Allah
Most Gracious, Most Merciful - Allah
Ya Kareem - Allah
Oh Generous One - Allah
Rahmanur-Raheem - Allah
Most Gracious, Most Merciful - Allah
Ya Haleem - Allah
Oh Forbearing One - Allah
Rahmanur-Raheem - Allah
Most Gracious, Most Merciful - Allah
Ya Azeem - Allah
Oh Magnificent One - Allah
Rahmanur-Raheem - Allah
Most Gracious, Most Merciful - Allah
Ya Azeem - Allah
Oh Magnificent One - Allah
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Young Marriage In History and Culture
srizals
Young Marriage In History and Culture.
I stumbled upon a very annoying statement made by a Malay Singaporean regarding the marriage of Prophet Muhammad with Aisyah r.a. Frankly speaking I'm getting bored of it. But for boredom sake,
Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. married Aisyah r.a. between 623 or 624 and the marital age of brides during George Washington of America was 10 years old and that was around 1789-1797.
1. The 100 year war between France and Britain was ended with a similar marriage. Hundreds of years after the Prophet's marriage.
“And yet it is the case that in 1396, Richard II of England was joined in marriage to young Isabel of France, who had been 7 years old when their engagement was announced the previous year in Paris. Not only was there no uproar; there was considerable happiness expressed over the assumed probability that this marriage would end the Hundred Years War then in one of its periodic states of truce between the two kingdoms. Peace was to be ensured by joining together this man and this little girl in marriage.”
John McLaughlin, PhD
English Department, East Stroudsburg University, Now Emeritus
http://www.thedigitalfolklife.org/childmarriage.htm
2. Christian Byzantium royals married at similar age.
"Irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus, was twelve at her marriage, and empress before she was fifteen; the Byzantine princess Theodora, Manuel's niece, was in her thirteenth year when she married Baldwin III of Jerusalem; and Margaret-Maria of Hungary married Isaac II Angelus at the age of nine. Agnes's age, then, was not unusual, especially as it was customary for young engaged couples in Constantinople to be brought up together in the house of the socially superior partner".
http://www.roman-emperors.org/aggiefran.htm
3. A young lady in Thailand gave birth normally to a healthy baby and yes she's a wife of somebody and this took place in 2001.
Wanwisa Jamuk.
http://mindsparker.com/cultures/world-youngest-mothers/
4. Natrah was married when she was between 12 to 13 years old and my grandmother said that back then the Malays would marry off their daughters when they are no longer little girls since they have the ability to conceive and give birth to babies. Sadly I don't and can't find any written proof; luckily the Natrah incident shed some light on the marriage age of Malays in the 1950s.
5. Romania still practised similar marriage.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/03/07/woman-23-worlds-youngest-grandmother/
6. Roman law practised similar marriage up until the 19th century.
"Roman law gave the minimum age for marriage as that of puberty which was 14 for boys and 12 for girls; these remained the legal age for marriage until the late 19th Century in Britain though that for girls seemed to be assumed also to be 14."
http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/famhist/genealgy/marr.htm
7. In the twelfth century, Pope Alexander III ruled:
“If a girl of tender age is betrothed and delivered to her husband, and afterwards desires to marry a different man, her petition is not to be granted if her husband swears that he has had carnal knowledge of her even at the early age of eleven or twelve.”
Quoted in John Fulton, The Laws of Marriage (New York: E. and J.B. Young, 1883), 112.
8. "Traditionally the age of consent for a sexual union was a matter for the family to decide, or a tribal custom. In most cases this coincided with signs of puberty, menstruation for a woman and pubic hair for a man"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent
Sadly we would never know all the age of the brides of the years after the Prophet’s marriage. Why? Because they were insignificant to history writers, that’s why. It does not mean that young marriages did not occur as certain events do get written down the history lane.
Others point of view regarding the marriage of the Prophet.
a. According to ibn Sa’d (The Women of Madina ) Aisha was in fact already promised in marriage even before she was married to the Prophet. It shows that arranging marriages at young ages was quite normal.
http://www.rasoulallah.net/v2/document.aspx?lang=en&doc=6416
b. "But do you mean to tell me that the man who in the full flush of youthful vigour, a young man of four and twenty (24), married a woman much his senior, and remained faithful to her for six and twenty years (26), at fifty years of age when the passions are dying married for lust and sexual passion? Not thus are men's lives to be judged. And you look at the women whom he married, you will find that by every one of them an alliance was made for his people, or something was gained for his followers, or the woman was in sore need of protection."
- Dr Annie Besant (Dr Annie Besant in 'The Life and Teachings of Mohammad,' Madras, 1932)
Further reading,
http://d1.islamhouse.com/data/en/ih_books/single/en_Why_did_Prophet_Muhammad_Marry_Aisha_the_Young_Girl.pdf
http://www.faqs.org/childhood/A-Ar/Age-of-Consent.html
http://www.themodernreligion.com/prophet/prophet_aisha.htm
One last thing, the Prophet married other wives and Aisyah r.a. was the only one of a young age. A husband that marries a woman with approval from the woman, the parents, the society, the law and norm of the society and culture is not a criminal. Would you dare to say that we were born out of a freak law of nature?
Free sex or sex outside of marriage is always a crime in almost all good abiding moral society regardless of faith and religion. Regardless of age for that matter.
Do read on and thank you for your kind attention.
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Polemics/aishah.html
Young Marriage In History and Culture.
I stumbled upon a very annoying statement made by a Malay Singaporean regarding the marriage of Prophet Muhammad with Aisyah r.a. Frankly speaking I'm getting bored of it. But for boredom sake,
Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. married Aisyah r.a. between 623 or 624 and the marital age of brides during George Washington of America was 10 years old and that was around 1789-1797.
1. The 100 year war between France and Britain was ended with a similar marriage. Hundreds of years after the Prophet's marriage.
“And yet it is the case that in 1396, Richard II of England was joined in marriage to young Isabel of France, who had been 7 years old when their engagement was announced the previous year in Paris. Not only was there no uproar; there was considerable happiness expressed over the assumed probability that this marriage would end the Hundred Years War then in one of its periodic states of truce between the two kingdoms. Peace was to be ensured by joining together this man and this little girl in marriage.”
John McLaughlin, PhD
English Department, East Stroudsburg University, Now Emeritus
http://www.thedigitalfolklife.org/childmarriage.htm
2. Christian Byzantium royals married at similar age.
"Irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus, was twelve at her marriage, and empress before she was fifteen; the Byzantine princess Theodora, Manuel's niece, was in her thirteenth year when she married Baldwin III of Jerusalem; and Margaret-Maria of Hungary married Isaac II Angelus at the age of nine. Agnes's age, then, was not unusual, especially as it was customary for young engaged couples in Constantinople to be brought up together in the house of the socially superior partner".
http://www.roman-emperors.org/aggiefran.htm
3. A young lady in Thailand gave birth normally to a healthy baby and yes she's a wife of somebody and this took place in 2001.
Wanwisa Jamuk.
http://mindsparker.com/cultures/world-youngest-mothers/
4. Natrah was married when she was between 12 to 13 years old and my grandmother said that back then the Malays would marry off their daughters when they are no longer little girls since they have the ability to conceive and give birth to babies. Sadly I don't and can't find any written proof; luckily the Natrah incident shed some light on the marriage age of Malays in the 1950s.
5. Romania still practised similar marriage.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/03/07/woman-23-worlds-youngest-grandmother/
6. Roman law practised similar marriage up until the 19th century.
"Roman law gave the minimum age for marriage as that of puberty which was 14 for boys and 12 for girls; these remained the legal age for marriage until the late 19th Century in Britain though that for girls seemed to be assumed also to be 14."
http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/famhist/genealgy/marr.htm
7. In the twelfth century, Pope Alexander III ruled:
“If a girl of tender age is betrothed and delivered to her husband, and afterwards desires to marry a different man, her petition is not to be granted if her husband swears that he has had carnal knowledge of her even at the early age of eleven or twelve.”
Quoted in John Fulton, The Laws of Marriage (New York: E. and J.B. Young, 1883), 112.
8. "Traditionally the age of consent for a sexual union was a matter for the family to decide, or a tribal custom. In most cases this coincided with signs of puberty, menstruation for a woman and pubic hair for a man"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent
Sadly we would never know all the age of the brides of the years after the Prophet’s marriage. Why? Because they were insignificant to history writers, that’s why. It does not mean that young marriages did not occur as certain events do get written down the history lane.
Others point of view regarding the marriage of the Prophet.
a. According to ibn Sa’d (The Women of Madina ) Aisha was in fact already promised in marriage even before she was married to the Prophet. It shows that arranging marriages at young ages was quite normal.
http://www.rasoulallah.net/v2/document.aspx?lang=en&doc=6416
b. "But do you mean to tell me that the man who in the full flush of youthful vigour, a young man of four and twenty (24), married a woman much his senior, and remained faithful to her for six and twenty years (26), at fifty years of age when the passions are dying married for lust and sexual passion? Not thus are men's lives to be judged. And you look at the women whom he married, you will find that by every one of them an alliance was made for his people, or something was gained for his followers, or the woman was in sore need of protection."
- Dr Annie Besant (Dr Annie Besant in 'The Life and Teachings of Mohammad,' Madras, 1932)
Further reading,
http://d1.islamhouse.com/data/en/ih_books/single/en_Why_did_Prophet_Muhammad_Marry_Aisha_the_Young_Girl.pdf
http://www.faqs.org/childhood/A-Ar/Age-of-Consent.html
http://www.themodernreligion.com/prophet/prophet_aisha.htm
One last thing, the Prophet married other wives and Aisyah r.a. was the only one of a young age. A husband that marries a woman with approval from the woman, the parents, the society, the law and norm of the society and culture is not a criminal. Would you dare to say that we were born out of a freak law of nature?
Free sex or sex outside of marriage is always a crime in almost all good abiding moral society regardless of faith and religion. Regardless of age for that matter.
Do read on and thank you for your kind attention.
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Polemics/aishah.html
Monday, December 5, 2011
Cahaya: The Light: Rabbani
How beautiful are the stars in the sky
Blessed is the earth
The light of love reaches everywhere
The grace of Your creation
Here I have found
Your Light O my Lord
Opening the door of the heart
To the path of righteousness
Your Light is full of dignity
Your light is full of love
Guiding us in upholding the flag
Smiling with one another, in approval
Teaching us the meaning of virtuous
Teaching us the meaning of patience
Whitens the worrying heart
The elixir for the suffering soul
Even though the eyes would shut
The love remains in the heart
Sculptured in the personality
As cheerful as the sun
Shining my heart and soul
Glittering, Lighting the way
The words would never be severed
In the glance of the light
It's all in my strength
From You O Allah
Showing the right way loved by You
As a torch for the dark night
The light, The light, The light
The light, The light, The light
Even though the eyes would shut
The love remains in the heart
Sculptured in the personality
As cheerful as the sun
Shining my heart and soul
Glittering, Lighting the way
The words would never be severed
In the glance of the light
It's all in my strength
From You O Allah
Showing the right way loved by You
As a torch for the dark night
How beautiful are the stars in the sky
Blessed is the earth
The light of love reaches everywhere
The grace of Your creation
Here I have found
Your Light O my Lord
Opening the door of the heart
To the path of righteousness
Even though the eyes would shut
The love remains in the heart
Sculptured in the personality
As cheerful as the sun
Shining my heart and soul
Glittering, Lighting the way
The words would never be severed
In the glance of the light
It's all in my strength
From You O Allah
Showing the right way loved by You
As a torch for the dark night
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