Zaynab of Jahsh was originally Muhammad's adopted son Zaid's wife. The fact
that Muhammad took her for himself has been problematic to many people,
Muslims included. (God does not break His Own Word and He never changes
His
mind. Now read Sura 33:36-38).
(The vindicated prophet Moses taught under the Old Testament, that a
minister could only marry a virgin or the widow of a minister (Leviticus
21:13-15). The vindicated prophet Jesus taught under the New Testament
that
an apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor or teacher can marry only a virgin
in the faith -- because he is a type of Christ Who is uniting only with
virgins to the Word.
Every prophet from Adam taught that any woman who has more than one living
husband is an adulteress, and her subsequent husband is in adultery with
her
first husband as polygamy was legal only for the man -- Genesis 3:16;
Romans
7:1-3).
Aesha was only eight or nine years old when Muhammad took her to his bed.
According to Hadith, she was still playing with her dolls. This facet of
Muhammad's ***ual appetite is particularly distressing to Westerners.
While in Islamic countries an eight-or-nine-year-old girl can be given in
marriage to an adult male, in the West, most people would shudder to think
of an eight-or-nine-year-old girl being given in marriage to anyone.
(Although it is condoned by the Jew's Talmud).
This aspect of Muhammad's personal life is something that many scholars
pass
over once again because they do not want to hurt the feelings of Muslims.
Yet, history cannot be rewritten to avoid confronting the facts that
Muhammad had unnatural desires for little girls.
Finally, Mary, the Coptic Christian, refused to marry Muhammad because she
would not renounce Christianity and embrace Islam. She bravely chose to
remain a slave rather than convert.
The documentation for all the women in Muhammad's harem is so vast and has
been presented so many times by able scholars that only the blind reject
it.
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