The American Bar Association’s stance on the topic of your concern “The marriage of our mother Aisha to our beloved Prophet Mohammed may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him” is presented below as an added evidence that it was and still is normal. There is societal variety when it comes to the topic of age of consent for marriage. There is as well variation in the age of consent from time to time.
?10. The ’American Bar Association’ Journal [August 1996]:
“1275 English common law criminalizes statutory rape- sex between a man and a woman below the age of consent, which was first set at 12 years.
1576 Common Law age of consent lowered to 10 years.
1700s-1800s Statutory rape at common law adopted in the united states. States set the age of consent at 10 or 12 years.”
?Reference: [10] ABA [American Bar Association] Journal Aug 1996 page 87
?11. Sinikka Elliott
“The statutes governing the minimum age under which sex cannot be legally consensual, and laws concerning marriage and workers rights, were modified to reflect these changing discourses around childhood. Age of sexual consent, for example, rose from 7 during colonial times to 10, 12, and eventually as high as 14 during the eighteenth centuries. By the late 1800s, the average age of consent in the United States was 14. Across the nation, however the age of consent was raised slowly, unevenly, and with great reluctance.”
?Reference: [11] Not My Kid: What Parents Believe about the Sex Lives of Their Teenagers By Sinikka Elliott page 14-15
?12. Susan M. Ross
“According to British common law during the colonial period, the age of consent was seven. Today we are astounded that girls of this age were assumed to know enough about sex (or about sin) to make such a decision competently.”
?Reference: [12] American Families Past and Present: Social Perspectives on Transformations by Susan M. Ross page 40
Hope these evidences are enough to satisfy you. If you think they are not still enough, follow me keenly and get before you other equally thirst quenching evidences about the subject so that you would not have problem with the marriage of our mother Aisha to our beloved Prophet Mohammed may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him. In fact you can even educate others about it better than I’m doing. Be concerned about what concerns you yet seek knowledge, for ignorance is a prison wherein the inmates are those who are reluctant when it comes to seeking knowledge. When you learn, you lead others aright and save them from captivity. But you don’t just learn anything, you seek beneficial knowledge and wisdom from the right sources with the proper ethics. Look for the write up on ethics of seeking knowledge.
And as usual, when you sleep over the bed of heedlessness in your youth, then be sure to tread on the path of regret during old age.
My good friends, brother and sisters, seeking Knowledge sets you free from the captivity of ignorance.
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