Answering Ayaan Hirsi Ali : Did The Prophet Marry A Six Year Old Child?

Answering Ayaan Hirsi Ali : Did The Prophet Marry A Six Year Old Child?


I have just finished reading the tragic life of Ayaan Hirsi Magan @ Ayaan Hirsi Ali the precious woman from Somalia who endured so much suffering and hatred throughout her life suffocating inside a barbaric and backward culture known as Somalia.


The Somalis definitely have some seriously sick practices like FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) which is prevalent among African peoples, Arabs and even in other parts of the world.


The Somalis also suffer terrible bouts of intra-racism or intra-racial apartheid which is disguised as clan identity. As is well known throughout the world and is also well documented in Ayaan's book, the clan identity has destroyed Somalia - a terrible fate which is still going on today in that country.


Somalia is a truly backward and barbaric society, comparable with the general condition of the rest of Africa. Miss Ayaan Hirsi did not grow up in Somalia. She, her much loved but polygamous father, family and clan members were refugees in Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Holland, Canada, Germany, Switzerland and the United States.


Compounding their misery is the fact that the Somalis are staunch believers and upholders of the religion of Ahlul Sunnah Wal Jamaah - also known as Sunnis. The Sunnis like to believe that they are also the mainstream sect within the larger drama which they call Islam. In reality their belief system is oppressive, regressive and has nothing to do with the Islam that was taught by the prophet of Islam.


Understandably the barbaric and uncivilsied religious beliefs imparted to and imbibed by Miss Ayaan Hirsi Ali led her to ultimately abandon and reject her belief in Sunnism (Shiahism is no better, differing only in the degree of its barbarity). That was a wonderful which Miss Ayaan has done and may Allah (God) bless her and guide her for at last exercising wisdom and courage.


Throughout her book 'Infidel' Miss Ayaan Hirsi Magan @ Ayaan Hirsi Ali gives examples of the wrong teachings which she still wrongly believes are part of "Islam" which caused Somalia, her clan, her family, herself and a billion other Sunnis and Shiahs all around the world so much unhappiness, barbarism and uncivilised suffering.


I will try to extract from her book, some of these wrong beliefs that were mistakenly upheld by Miss Ayaan throughout her life and which she still believes is part of Sunnism.

Ayaan Hirsi's misconception that the Prophet married a six year old girl

On page 303 of her book Miss Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaks about the Prophet of Islam marrying a six year old child called Aisha. Since she had become a Dutch citizen by this time, she explained that under modern Dutch Law today, the Prophet would be deemed a paedophile.


This is a false belief and we will now provide evidence to prove why this belief is false.


Muslims believe that the Prophet taught them the Quran. Sunni Muslims believe that the advent of Islam was preceded or "kicked off" with the revelation of the Quran to the Prophet. Muslims say that the Quran is their Book of Guidance.


The Quran is indeed sacrosanct in the eyes of the Sunni and Shiah Muslims. Sunnis and Shiah also believe that the Prophet of Islam was the embodiment of the Quran. Some say that the Prophet of Islam was a 'walking Quran' (we cannot ascertain the truthfulness of this statement but that is what they say)


Well here is something from the Quran:


61:2 'O you who believe, why do you say what you do not do?'
61:3 'Most abominable in the sight of GOD is that you say what you do not do.'


This is what the Prophet said. In short, do what you say and dont say what you do not do.


What else did the Prophet say? The Prophet told the Muslims to marry women of marriageable age. The Prophet told Muslims to marry girls who have passed puberty who have intellectual maturity. Here is the evidence from the Quran again :

4:25 And whoever among you has not within his power ampleness of means to marry free believing women, then (he may marry) of those whom your right hands possess from among your believing maidens; and Allah knows best your faith: you are (sprung) the one from the other; so marry them with the permission of their masters, and give them their dowries justly, they being chaste, not fornicating, nor receiving paramours; and when they are taken in marriage, then if they are guilty of indecency, they shall suffer half the punishment which is (inflicted) upon free women. This is for him among you who fears falling into evil; and that you abstain is better for you, and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

The Prophet said marry 'believing maidens'. The Arabic word used in the Quran is 'fatayaati'.

A six year old girl is not a fatayaati or 'maiden'. Here is another piece of advise from the Prophet about how to see if a young orphan girl is ready for marriage and stuff :

4:6 You shall test the orphans when they reach marriageable age. As soon as you find them mature enough, give them their property. Do not consume it extravagantly in a hurry, before they grow up. The rich guardian shall not charge any wage, but the poor guardian may charge equitably. When you give them their properties, you shall have witnesses. GOD suffices as Reckoner.

'Reach marriageable age' in Arabic is Izaa Balaghu Nikaaha . Nikaah means marriage.


It is NOT ENOUGH that a young girl reaches physical puberty and marriageable age, you must also test her mental capacity before handing over her propertiy to her.


A six year old child is definitely nowhere near marriageable age or Izaa Balaghu Nikaaha. And she will certainly fail the maturity test too.


The Prophet was teaching the Muslim men to marry young women (fatayaati) who have reahed marriageable age (izaa balaghu nikaaha).


Nowhere in the Quran does the Prophet say that anyone can marry a six year old toddler.


Having said all this to the Muslims the Prophet cannot turn around and then say


'But all this is just for you guys. I am the Prophet of Islam. I am going to marry a six year old Aisha who is playing with dolls'. Why not? Because:


61:2 'O you who believe, why do you say what you do not do?'
61:3 'Most abominable in the sight of GOD is that you say what you do not do.'


The Prophet cannot say one thing for everyone else and then say something else for himself.


Somalia impoverished by polygamy

Miss Ayaan Hirsi also spoke at length about polygamy in her book. Her own father had three wives. Again this is an erroneous belief that is blamed on the Prophet.


4:3 And if ye fear that ye will not deal fairly by the orphans, marry the women off, who seem good to you, in twos, and in threes and in fours; and if ye fear that ye cannot do justice (to so many) then one (only) or (the captives) that your right hands possess. Thus it is more likely that ye will not do injustice.

This verse talks about caring for the orphans and the widows of war. What shall be the fate of the orphans and the war widows under our care? We can marry them off. Marry off as many of them as possible. Marry them off in twos, and threes and in fours.

The Arabic is unmistakable

fainkihoo ma taba lakum mina alnnisa-i mathna wathulatha warubaAAa

Fainkihoo means 'marry them off' - an action done on someone else. This is what the Prophet said. It does not mean "you can go and marry them in twos, threes and fours".

The Prophet of Islam clearly outlaws multiple partners. Here is the Quran again:


33:4 GOD did not give any man two hearts in his chest. Nor did He turn your wives whom you estrange (according to your custom) into your mothers.* Nor did He turn your adopted children into genetic offspring. All these are mere utterances that you have invented. GOD speaks the truth, and He guides in the (right) path.


The Prophet said that God DID NOT give any man TWO hearts. A man cannot say 'I can love two women at the same time'. He can try, but his heart will be torn and broken. This also means that all the stories of the Prophet marrying more than one wife are also false.


Clearly then from the evidence of the Quran itself, it is plain that the belief that the Prophet married a six year old child is false. This event never happened in history. It is a fake story hoisted upon the Sunnis and the Shiahs and made part of their belief system.

Clearly then from the evidence of the Quran itself, it is plain that the belief that the Prophet was polygamous is false. Those events too never happened in history. It is a fake story hoisted upon the Sunnis and the Shiahs and made part of their belief system.


As a result Somalia, Miss Ayaan Hirsi, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and a billion other Sunnis and Shiahs have suffered tremendous suffering and hardship in their daily lives.


Because they are ignorant about the simple truths in the Quran and ignore the simple contents of the Quran, they have gone on to imbibe false and evil stories about the Prophet which never took place in history. The net result are the destroyed lives of a billion Sunnis and Shiahs.


We will continue with exposing more of these falsehoods which have caused Miss Ayaan and her Sunni co-religionists their sanity, their happiness and their lives.


S.A.I.M. Bakar