why did i say that muhammad was a murderer and a pedophile because he was he married the young girl aisha when she was six and he consummated her at the age of nine when he went from mega but muhammad was a pedophile i talked about this topic many times in detail and i thought it is very clear i thought i don't have to repeat this this is quite obvious look at this twitter wanted me to delete this tweet and lock my account until i delete it muhammad married aisha when she was six and had sex with her when she was nine this is pedophilia and pointing out this fact is not islamophobia a thousand people condemned muhammad's relationship with aisha about 100 people said that they wanted to condemn muhammad the prophet of islam muhammad may peace be upon him is said to have married aisha at the age of six and consummated the marriage with her when she was nine and that is why your average critic of islam will tell you well that's a pedophile you know the argument in this video you will also get to know why this very same argument is logically invalid and why in light of that its conclusion that muhammad peace be upon him as a pedophile is a false conclusion we will also make a positive case against the alleged immorality of such marriage and we will consider further reasons to dismiss the pedophilia accusation this video will provide you with the most complete answer you can get on this topic so far i'm the full metal theist assalamu alaikum bismillah what is a logical fallacy for your information a logical fallacy is a mistake in reasoning which renders the argument committing it invalid there are a bunch being committed in this argument and chances are that in accordance with which further assumptions are made along with this critique fallacies are more we will look into these assumptions later on suffice to say this argument is invalid and here is why we know out of common experience that a car with not enough gas is not going to start but for you to go around the streets see someone shouting at his own car because it's not starting and say well he ran out of gas well you would be committing the logical fallacy of affirming the consequent this fallacy fails to recognize that well there's more than a reason as to why a car is not starting likewise critics of islam failed to recognize that paedophilia is not the explanation but one assumption among many others as to why prophet muhammed peace be upon him not only we will see a look into these other reasons as to why this marriage happened but we will recognize that in light of these the pedophilia accusation is baseless the second and main logical fallacy committed by this argument is one called presentism according to which one would be judging past events or historical figures by modern day contemporary standards which are obviously different from those of these societies and people of the past that are so being dishonestly evaluated think about it this way if you provide a moral judgment against someone who lived in a distant past and you're expecting this person to behave in a certain way that was not permitted by his leaving conditions by his historical context then you would be committing presentism why because simply you would be assuming the existence of certain things that did not exist and not valid for these people in a way that would enable them to behave as you see appropriate an example could be to say that 70 years ago people were stupid for considering smoking cigarettes a healthy habit was saying that is actually false these people were not stupid we would simply be assuming they knew what we know today about cigarettes when they actually didn't so why would they be stupid in a similar way let's take a look at the historical conditions of prophet's muhammad times and we will find the context that not only dismisses the moral outrage regarding his marriage with aisha by the allah but also allows us to appreciate our ancestors for their efforts the middle ages that is the historical context in which the prophet of islam muhammad may peace be upon him leave the leading civilization during these times was the roman civilization allow me in that regard to provide you with some information that might put things into perspective for you consider this the average life expectancy for a working class roman citizen in late antiquity was roughly around 35 to 40 years if they leaved past infancy that is skeletal remains revealed that prior to death most laborers suffered from a set of diseases such as chronic arteritis fractures displacements and even bone cancer and this was due to the fact that they had very poor diets and that combined with harsh working conditions has this as a result and if they didn't die from their work they still had to contend with war disease and famine the female half of society didn't have it much better and due to high rates of infant mortality women had to endure 5 to 7 full-term pregnancies just to keep the population stable how crazy is that i want you to wrap your mind around the fact that child infant mortality during the middle ages was so ferocious that around half died as children just let that sink for a moment because it's crazy if you think about it and given these high mortality rates it only made sense for these societies to begin procreating as early as possible this was especially the case for young girls who at the onset of puberty were expected to transition from childhood directly into adulthood they didn't have the time to to go on family vacations they had no such a thing they didn't have school field trips no graduation no gluten-free meals no advanced healthcare facilities no vaccines no running water no electricity they were busy trying to survive and if this was the situation for common people in the most advanced civilization at the time what on earth could we possibly expect from desert dwelling a-raps case in point all the seven children of the prophet muhammad may peace be upon him died as either infant or didn't make it past 30 years old so the rationale behind maximizing fertility was really something nobody could argue against considering the likelihood of young women not living long enough to see their first child reach maturity the idea that aisha's marriage with the prophet peace be upon him was contracted at the age of six and ultimately consummated by nine is seen as an affront by most people however when considering the just mentioned evidence and historical context it shouldn't be so difficult to understand why this practice was perfectly acceptable at the time was not married to the prophet may peace be upon him because he was a pedophile no she was merely following in the footsteps of so many girls before her who had reached puberty and were ready to start their adult lives when it comes to childhood maturity in marriage our ancestors established them in various ways which are different from contemporary western definitions but nonetheless justified by their own circumstances and the fact that these living conditions they found themselves into did not allow them to adopt the definitions of childhood maturity and marriage that we have nowadays and to maliciously accuse the prophet of islam muhammad may peace be upon him because of his marriage with aisha is equivalent to affirm that societies and cultures on a worldwide scale prior to the 20th century somehow all suffered from a mental illness called pedophilia would you rather believe such an absurdity just because you aim at criticizing this man or would you actually be realistic enough to consider how the historical context of these societies had them into defining childhood and adulthood differently welcome to a taught experiment where i will be your guide imagine yourself in the future at a about a thousand and four hundred years from now and let's say this future is awesome there's workpiece flying cars technology so developed and medicines so advanced that now humans leave to the age of 200 years and more and you you're sitting in your hyper technological room when you decide to say alexa tell me some historical gossip from i don't know 2021 in 2021 the 60 years old steel magnate richard swisson married the 20 years old hollywood star taylor frey oh my god alexa he married a 20 years old girl ew why would he marry a miner was him a pedophile not really the age of majority back then wasn't set like today at 29 years of age since the average life expectancy in 2021 was 70 and not 200 like today their definition of minors and childhood was different we can't really call them pedophiles only because of that and this is exactly the falacious sort of reasoning critics of islam commit nowadays in regards to the prophet of islam may peace be upon him historical reports have us know that aisha was already betrothed to a man before the prophet peace be upon him his name was jubair ibn mautim this goes to suggest that this kind of marriage was not an isolated case related to prophet muhammad peace be upon him for reasons of pedophilia yet an accepted practice within his society it is also historically well established that early islam had many enemies that antagonized the prophet in many ways none of these ways though was centered on aisha's age his goals to further confirm that muhammad's marriage with aisha was not an isolated case yet common practice within his culture and time even when looking at external sources of criticism the first condemnatory note regarding isis age only comes in 1905 and by british orientalist david margolie did you hear that 1905 the question is why did it take so long was every enemy of islam between the rise of islam in 1905 not creative enough not hateful enough towards the prophet of islam no the answer is simple this critique is once again this critique by islamophobes is only the product of a change in historical context and their inability to see it was one of the daughters of the prophet of islam may peace be upon him and she was given into marriage to atman ibdahfan at the age of 10. this only goes to additionally suggest that it was a common practice within that society and time and not an isolated case motivated by immoral reasons such as pedophilia you also have to know that this marriage didn't lack parental consent both mom and dad of aisha agreed to have their daughter married to the prophet peace be upon him not only they were friends of the prophet peace be upon him and even after the marriage took place the friendship did not end abu bakr the father of aisha was muhammad's best friend and that goes to suggest that much likely the girl was not under a regime of abuse otherwise the marriage and the friendship would have been cancelled out by the family of aisha years later the prophet of islam gave aisha and all his wives the option to cancel the marriage with him and leave him but none of them did not a single one of them left the prophet of islam heard enough now even if we were to admit to the complexities of childhood and development over time these realities seem to suggest moral relativism the idea that moral principles are only valid in relation to a specific time place or culture the truth is that you can validly hold in changing moral principles while believing in historically contingent moral dilemmas in simple terms i'm telling you that there are correct and incorrect choices regardless of varying circumstances murder is still murder and rape is still rape doesn't matter the time or the place but how we judge situations of murder and rape depends on the context in which they were committed for instance it's one thing to read that a historical figure killed another person but it's another to know that they did so because of dire need or just causes for example self-defense it's one thing to say that a man married a child a thousand and four hundred years ago therefore he's a pedophile but it's another to know that a thousand and four hundred years ago societies and not just a man societies used to hold marriages at the onset of puberty due to their living conditions and because of that their understanding of childhood was necessarily different therefore the pedophilia acquisition is just modern individuals embarrassing themselves with an anachronistic falacious interpretation of history for the sake of criticizing a man they don't like the muhammad peace be upon him as a pedophile is a false conclusion because based on a falash's argument so here we are back to square one is the video over no i want to break the neutrality and provide you with further reasons to consider that we actually have more to believe this marriage and the intentions behind it as void of evil or abuse the first argument is one i call justification from prophethood and it goes to address questions like isn't your allah all knowing and all just doesn't he know the harms aisha could have gone through at such a young age regardless of historical context and from this question come to the conclusion that muhammad peace be upon him was not a true messenger of god i mean this is all the argument is about pretty much and what is about to come especially if you're a muslim will prove you that this marriage was not immoral if allah is the only one true merciful just god and he did not condemn his messenger's marriage with aisha according to the historically reported dynamics of such marriage then such a marriage was void of evil intentions abused and served a greater good allah is the only one true merciful just god therefore his messenger's marriage with aisha according to the historically reported dynamics was void of evil intentions abused and served a greater good i know that this rests on the assumption that islam is the truth but i also want you to consider that we as muslims have reasons to believe muhammad a prophet of god which are external and beyond his merit with aisha we do not believe this marriage to be invalidating his claims to prophethood because his prophethood and the claims behind it lie on reasons that are not dependent on the dynamics of his marriages but rather we explain this marriage and any other event of his life where there is stuff to assume in light of his holy prophethood so we only assume the best out of him because he is the messenger of the only one true all merciful all just god so in simple terms to make it easier for you if your question is why hasn't your all-merciful allah condemn this marriage if he is all-merciful and muhammad a peace be upon him is his messenger well the answer is that if he did not condemn it and that means there was no abuse and no bad intentions and it served a greater good and good lord we can pinpoint that greater good with such a precision this woman aisha is behind practically more than 2 000 narrations narrations upon which much of the islamic tradition is built i can see it you can see it if you don't like it well let's move the talk on whether islam is the truth or not we enter now the final part of this video we have seen so far how the pedophilia accusation against the prophet of islam in light of his marriage with aisha is to begin with not an established conclusion like the islamophobes want you to believe yet an assumption among others then we saw how it's actually a falacious conjecture based on anachronistic interpretations of history and we then proceeded to explain how given islam is true we can logically deduce how such a marriage was void of evil or abuse now i would like to present you with more and more considerations to confirm what we logically just deduced here's something that you need to keep in mind every explanation suggested for a certain experience or event may be consistent with it yet at the same time it implicitly suggests the existence of relevant facts or predictions that are necessary for the very same consistency of set explanation i know it sounds a little bit complicated so let me break it down for you with an example if we accuse someone of having killed someone else with a gun then we can't predict the existence of a gun and of reasons for which the murder was committed and finally we would expect an investigation to confirm the existence of these things because their existence is necessary for the consistency of our explanation slash accusation so if the person under investigation turns out to have never had a weapon whatsoever nor reasons to kill the victim a complete stranger nor any of the further facts we would expect to be real in case this person was a murderer then the obvious conclusion is that he's not the one who committed murder why am i telling you all this stuff this is called inference to the best explanation and i want you to keep it in mind because we're about to do the same thing with allah and muhammad peace be upon him was the victim of child sexual abuse if her marriage was based on intentions of exploiting her sanctuary because the prophet of islam was a pedophile then we would expect the existence of relevant facts that would confirm such a theory the american college of obstetricians and gynecologists can help us identify some of these facts let's check them out from the paper adult manifestations of childhood sexual abuse we can read that a child who got sexually abused generally faces traumas on both a physical and psychological level and these are long-lasting varied complex and often devastating they go on to say that the primary after effects of childhood sexual abuse include post-traumatic stress distorted self-perception having nightmares or flashbacks emotions such as fear shame humiliation guilt and self-blame would be dominant on a physical level the situation is more severe and i quote gynecological problems including chronic pelvic pain dysperonia vaginismus and non-specific vaginitis are said to be common diagnosis among survivors they also add anxiety and depression self-neglect eating disorders all these have been attributed to childhood sexual abuse adoles abuse that children are four to five times more likely to have abused alcohol and illicit drugs they are also twice as likely to smoke be physically inactive and be severely obese now this is the profile of a child who's got sexually abused and if it's true that aishara de la hanha is a child who's got sexually abused then this is what likely needs to be her profile so all we need to do is take a look at her character from the same source critics of islam used to claim she's a victim of child abuse we're not using something different here first of all we know that aisha died at her home in medina on 16 july 678 when she was 67 years old you would agree with me now that's quite long-lived or someone who's expected to have a series of gynecological problems during the middle ages on top of it we also know that she was an extremely intelligent and brilliant individual who grew up into being a very prolific influential scholar during her times we have reports also stating how she was incredibly active someone who loved racing running and watching sport-like events she was charismatic she would tease her husband in conversation despite his status as a prophet she didn't shy away from confrontation and she was a brave woman during a controversial battle in muslim history she emerged riding a camel to lead the troops she was known for her assertive temperament now in light of this wasn't she supposed to be the press to be anxious to be obese suffering from post-traumatic stress suffering of shame humiliation in a series of physical impairments chronic impairment wasn't she supposed to be the victim of sexual child abuse the character of aisha being that of a sexually abused victim is not coherent with what historical reports tell us about her therefore such hypothesis loses further credibility aisha was someone who defended her husband even after he died and if your best answer to this is stockholm syndrome the know that such a syndrome presupposes abuse the very same abuse of which confirming and expected evidence we just didn't find the same goes for the prophet of islam he was a man with friends and companions he didn't suffer from loneliness or lack of empathy he was not anti-social he did not make use of drugs or intoxicants it didn't suffer from lack of self-esteem he loved his previous one in brief he's not reported of suffering from any negative personality trait you could expect to find in a pedophile that said here's what you would expect a pedophile to do to stalk and seek victims to satisfy his deviancy it is not uncommon for them to be developing a long list of potential victims at one in the case of the prophet of islam influential and authoritative as he was you would expect him to be easily satisfying these mentioned points if he was a pedophile did he the story goes that the marriage with aisha was not even initiated by him he never brought it up it was suggested by someone else one of the female companions to his prophetic mission khaola bint hakeem a female suggested that he should marry aisha and then he simply agreed to it when muhammad peace be upon him stipulated a contract of marriage with his father as i mentioned before abu bakr his best friend aisha was only six and they decided to wait till she reached puberty because back then that is how they defined the age of majority and for her that happened when she was nine well think about it they didn't decide to wait till she was nine what they decided to do is to wait till she would have attained puberty which if you think about it in that moment they had really no way to know that that would have happened by when she was the age of nine so if you're a pedophile and you're met with the perspective of having to wait indefinitely till the child you're attracted to would stop being a child then what kind of move is that for a pedophile you would expect him to wait nothing not even those three years because that that was not waiting three years that was from their perspective indefinite waiting that's what it is it doesn't make sense from the perspective of hypothetically him being a pedophile and that aside why would someone who's got an absolute alternative in his community and he's supposedly a pedophile not just simply surround himself with child brides if you are a child predator why have this marriage only happened because it was suggested to you by someone else why stop at isha why not get further why respect the way till puberty principle if you're attracted to having sex with children why why why why why [Music] [Music] you