Was the Prophet (s) was just after women | Mufti Abu Layth

Right, so okay, I hope that because the reason I want to explain this was some people say, "Oh, look, the prophet was after Oh, was he trying Was he after women?" In all honesty, seriously, the pro- you know, in a day and age like the prophet's time, which was a patriarchal society, and sex was like a very natural thing. It wasn't like a taboo. Even in our day and age, it's a taboo.

It wasn't a taboo in their society. It was very natural. Right? The prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam, if he was after women, he had innumerable He had so much access to to take that route. People were offering him money, women, sovereignty. Quraysh were offering him from the top, "We will offer you everything that look, you just need to stop this dawah." And I feel that that's a very unfair, prejudiced, um, a biased angle towards the prophet just

to kind of hate on him or attack him as people, "Oh, but why did he marry these women?" In most of the cases, look, in most of the cases, when the prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam married, he married many people. He married people women who were old. He married I mean, he himself was of age as well. He married old women. Sawda was very old, arguably older than the prophet. Uh, now, you you know, he married He married other women that were kind of uh, destitute.

He married But, it wasn't all I'm not saying they were always sympathy marriages. I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that at all. The prophet did like people, and they liked him, and they were in a culture that accepted plural relationships. Now, I don't understand what the big deal is when we today are saying, "Look, oh, we should be accepting of LGBTQ. We should be accepting of this. You know, if a man and a man love each other, a woman and a woman love each other, what's wrong with that?

You know, what's wrong with this? What's wrong with" And fine. But, what's wrong with plural relationships? You know, why can you be Why Why where societies accept them? Wherever people accept them. Now, somebody may say, "Well, I don't accept that." Well, don't accept it. And nobody's telling you to be a part of it. It's like saying, "Oh, just because I'm not gay, well, I don't accept a homosexual relationship." Well, fine.

Don't be a part of one. You know, it's not a So, just in these societies, the irony that where we move towards so much liberation and liberating people, we become so judgmental on societies that accepted certain relationships. It's It's up to them. You know, if they If they accept it, they accept it. You know, the the prophet gave his wives always a choice. In fact, it's a verse of the Quran that, you know, that you have Ya nisa'an nabi, that if any of you wish to leave, just leave the prophet.

That you have no There is no compulsion for them to stay. There was no, you know, it wasn't like, "Oh, they were being forced to stay and stuff like this." So, just because our view of relationships today is is very kind of usually, you know, one-on-one. That's our relationship understanding. Okay, fine. I'm not saying that's wrong. Um, that's fine. That works. But, what I'm trying to say is why be so judgmental against other people where that works for them.

People today live in open relationships. They're like, "Don't worry about it, you know. Uh, uh, I'm with this person, but we're both in an open relationship, you know. Chilling. You know, we're chilling in our free time." So, the thing is that if if that You know, you can be very open to accepting even open relationships. So, why hate on just something and say, "Oh, but the prophet was a part of plural relationships, and and he must have been misogynistic." Why?

So, So, I wanted to say that, look, and and by the way, people don't need to accept him. I I understand the fact that Muslim non-Muslims obviously don't accept the prophet. That's their choice. And they do not need to accept his ways. They do not need to accept his But, I just feel that they should be as objective as possible. That's all That's all I'm saying. Okay? I hope that can, inshallah, uh, shed some light.