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The story of the girl who refused to marry her cousin

The prophet Peace Be Upon Him said

1874: Hanad bin Al-Sari told us, Wakee told us, on the authority of Khams bin Al-Hassan, on the authority of Ibn Buraidah, on the authority of his father, he said: a girl came to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and said: My father married me to his nephew to raise his lowliness in me as he said, and he made the matter to her, She said: I agree with what my father did, but I wanted to: Women should know that fathers have nothing to do with it.

We take a few pauses with the hadith

The unmarried Arab girl in a modern Islamic society - a Bedouin society) Most of its people are illiterate and do not know how to read and write. In fact, she speaks loudly. Where are we who claim that a woman's voice is awrah, if she speaks with respect befitting her listeners, then she has the right to speak?


She came with a grievance (my father married me, his nephew, to raise me up: his lowliness) From this we understand that the father in the first place loves his family, loves his nephew so much that he wants to raise his nephew to the level of marriage of his daughter, and it seems that they were in a lower social level to the girl and her father, and is rare.


Is this Muslim girl some kind of arrogance? She is superior to her poor or inferior cousin in social standing, It seems that it is not arrogance but rather self-esteem, and yet she will be humbled in a little while.


All this Messenger did not speak a word: that is, he - may God bless him and grant him peace - is a good listener, who does not interrupt her. Some underage Muslim girls who are married by their fathers, Without the girl saying a word, either for money, or power, or to improve social status, or otherwise.


A Muslim girl has two rights: one of them is to speak and express her desire for something, or her lack of desire for it, and the second right: to hear it.

The position of the Messenger: There is no compulsion - there is no problem with your father. This is your business and your family, I have nothing to do with it. I am busy with the affairs of the nation and you are talking to me about these trifles. And it is the right of the Messenger of mankind, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, but he did not do it, but rather gave her his hearing.


The girl says (I got what my father did) What is this psychic power - does her personality strong? She stands in front of the Messenger and perhaps a group of Companions - senior men of the state, if the Companions are sitting: He says to her: You are mocking this great category, you have come. Let's waste our time..are you imagine that happening in our time?

The girl did a massive presentation, with a good introductory (intro) interesting (My father married me his nephew to make his lowliness ) then an exception (but I approved what my father did... and what calls her listeners either to describe her as crazy or to waste the time of senior statesmen) - Of course - if you will - (and then a surprising conclusion) I wanted to teach women after me .... What does this mean? I mean, she refused something for herself, and she thought of the women who could not accept the words of their father, nor did they do as she did, so she spoke in their tongues all.


Now: Who knew that this arrangement fit her talk, who knew her? Perhaps she could not read or write. It seems that eloquence is in the blood of an Arab who allowed her to go out and speak what she is talking about? Does her father know that she will go out or not? Does he know that she will accuse him of wronging him in front of people or not? Did she get scared when she went to the messenger?


The most important question: Is she one of the senior women of the Ansar or the Emigrants? No, she is mostly a girl in her twenties, so who is she in the Islamic community to know the women after her? And how the Messenger was silent on this and did not say to her: Be silent, do not talk about all women, be in your situation and only, for the fatwa is for you alone, or any thins a like.

Related Studies

Child marriage - when an individual marries before the age of 18 - affects 15 million girls each year, or 41,000 girls every day in low-income countries. In other words, one in three girls in low-income countries will marry before the age of 18; 1 in 9 will marry before the age of 15. UNICEF expects that without rapid progress, the number of married children on the African continent will double by 2050. This year, one of Amnesty International's Write for Rights issues focuses on child marriage in Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso ranks among the 10 countries with the highest rates of child marriage worldwide, where one in two girls - 52 percent - will marry before they turn 18, and 10 percent will marry before they turn 15. Child marriage affects every aspect of a girl's life. Girls who marry early are deprived of their childhood. Once these girls are married, they have little or no access to education and economic opportunities, and they and their families are more likely to live in poverty. Underage wives also face a higher risk of serious, life-threatening complications during pregnancy, contracting HIV, and experiencing domestic and sexual violence. Child marriage is a harmful practice that deprives girls of their right to choose whether, when, who to marry and what kind of family to form. It also deprives girls of their right to education, health and to live in safety.


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