A reply to Asadulah Al-Andalusi on the age of Aisha (r) | Mufti Abu Layth

right let's focus people okay let's take a look now I said a lot andalusi and just have a quick discussion on this right what's going on just to bring you guys up to speed so I'd recently had a dialogue with some ex Muslims and because the dialogues were quite friendly but they were quite intense they were quite deep I mean one was with Hari salt on its in order to it spanned several hours about four hours long the other was with Abdullah gondol in

English both are on YouTube and that was for about I think over two hours as well and so but they were respectful they were civil they were kind of friendly but they weren't I mean they were very like I obviously had my position my angle and they had these and Annie you know we I suppose our views were at loggerheads but we weren't as people I thought wasn't kind of hostile to them and they weren't hostile to me and and and I and I said that I I hope we can build bridges with X Muslims or anybody who has issues with Islam whether you

know whether you accept the faith or don't we are human beings first and foremost and we should be able to at least talk and discuss and and have a human connection you know to think about it those people who embraced Islam in the early stage of Islam they went Muslim but it was because of that human connection that they connected so so I said this and some people obviously took offense amongst them was a certain law this his name is oh he goes by the name of Allah and Allah see now he made a post saying look some people are trying

to say we should build bridges with X Muslims and so on and so forth and let it mean let it be you know let it let me be clear this is him that there's no way on earth I'll ever be friends with these people they hate Allah they hate you know he's Pro feet and I can never be friends with somebody that's like an act of betrayal and bla bla bla bla bla yeah so basically I don't build bridges I build walls and I kind of soak on myself in until we're so secluded that

we just diminish so now I responded by saying look I strongly disagree I do accept that there are some people who are Islamophobe there are some people who just hate on everything they will hate religions faiths no matter what there are bigots out there unfortunately I do accept that that said I feel that there are many people out there who are X Muslims who are maybe they appear they do criticize Islam but I said is that not our own fault that we present certain things so he had said in his initial post they

call our prophet a pedophile I said in my comment look you can't teach people that the Prophet married a six year old and then say when they say oh but that's pedophilia you you throw a fuss and say oh my god oh no you're not allowed to go sorry I meant nine like that makes it any better that doesn't change anything so and then you get all offended that they say yeah but that's pedophilia they say no nur is not pedophilia here in pedophilia everywhere else but not here

and you think well no that would be pedophilia because so so these people then get so I said look who's to blame because it's not even true this story is not true that I share was six years old or seven or nine this isn't nonsensical this story is miss related it is wrong right and I've got a little detailed video explaining that she was in her late teens a specific age we don't know because the Arabs would too accurate documenting ages but she would have been anything at that time between it comes as anything between seventeen to nineteen it comes as some people say

maybe up to 20 but that's based on all the evidence is based on all the hadith evidences in Bihari another thing her being around from a certain time I shall being older than her elder sister her elder sisters age was so much herself being allowed to go to the battlefield when Omar even home are the son of Omar wasn't allowed and he was 14 so she must have been much older than that and so all these kind of this a lot of and her saying that oh I remember when such a surah was revealed and it was revealed years before the hijra a monkey surah she says I used to be a young girl who could reason and

understand things and I remember that surah Ange area is usually a young girl not like I don't mean young like as a kid it's usually anything you could say and this is when that surah was revealed which was years before the hijra even took place and she speaks about a particular verse she says and you you might say that at that jolly is often anything let's say between 8 to early teens or at least 8 to 12 you would have they would call that acharya at least now if she was that at that stage then years later when the hijra takes place

how old would have she been the fact that she was already engaged when the proposal came according to this story because she was engaged for about three years to jebaited numata i'm now according to this story schwa she would have been engaged if she was two years old or three that's ridiculous and so this whole thing nevertheless I said look you can't be promoting you it is irresponsible of you to be promoting as a Muslim that the Prophet married a

child age six and then get all worked up when people call that pedophilia because you are to blame first of all it's false but why are you promoting this nonsense so he then responded to me to the law by saying real scholarly research shows that you're wrong that I'm wrong and I Cheryl the Alanna was just a little girl was like six so I

said I said gee I said look escuchame hermano that if you when you're saying this are you simply blind following or is this your research as well because if this is your research and you're not blind following then bring me the solid undisputable chains of hadith that prove

this bring them to me I will show you how each and every one of these chains that you bring is massively flawed it is unacceptable they have criticism you base your trying to this you're stating this as a fact based on so many problematic narrations now you might say oh I blind fall such-and-such chef said the hadith is okay also you're blind following fine if you're blind following then don't raise your voice you just a

blind follower you know you can continue this kind of advocacy of this ridiculous propaganda by Wahabis it's not only pushed by Wahabis but mainly by them and it's pushed also unfortunately by some do Bundys and some other people as well who lost their mind right and they think they're doing some kind of service to Imam Bihari

you right I was just waiting for that to reconnect so these people feel that just so they can preserve the sanctity of body it's okay to throw the honor of the

Prophet under the bus and that is utterly unacceptable bring me these goddamn chains that prove the eyes showers and I want something that cannot be criticized we wick chains can you bring wheat chains can you bring based on his Shan who Imam Malik refused to accept from him based on at mush I'll tell you they don't even I'll tell you they rest on they rest on at mush Hisham they rest on Zuri mom were coming from maqam are they rest on a booze haka

severe eye all of these are floored major mood only seemed a boost after severe ie much major modernly scene they blacked so many everywhere they used to pretend they heard them ah pretend you heard them a cha-cha cha-cha let's pretend look they may have been good people they may have had some reasons for why they did things but let's just speak facts how much a moussaka sell bie right sorry

bring me your chains let's talk Heidi talk you want to talk a deal let's talk a deal the truth is these people haven't even studied at these they can't bring me any chains bring them jump Jaheim or Karbala joy whenever they want bring them let's talk I will rip these chains into pieces that they bring they come on lie become black these change just because I know why they're doing it because they their allegiance to their

sect they allegiance to they can't question the sanctity of a book called Sahil body right so they can question the integrity of the Prophet it's ridiculous and all of these narrations just come from you've got they just come from Ottawa that's it really then the nephew of I shall of the alone on her and they are either made up all these props somebody's misheard them all that this was a false narrative that was then spread and the reason being is because yes it is true that some people some

elements in early Islam in the early first century of Islam did have issues with the wives of the Prophet and some of them fabricated stories against the wives of the Prophet especially aisha and they said things like she had had affairs with men and things like this and you know well I gather beloved likes on rates in the Quran but still people had issues with Aisha and they made up these stories and so it's very likely if this if they can trace this back to Ottawa that Ottawa may have said something like this to push her age back

just so it comes across no no she obviously she was way too young to have been with other men and things like this that's a possibility but they cannot prove these chains to begin with okay and then the other thing is that these people have a conflict of interest if they use these hadith to justify their all marriages to little children because they say well I Shama was only nine and that's the truth that's the God's honest truth many of them have done that and

maybe they don't I'm not saying they all do that today but that they use it as a justification and it's nonsense it's nonsense utter nonsense okay so I did say you know to a certain law andalusi and I know he was referring to you clean Institute and I say to them as well that look if this is what you're promoting you need to seriously revisit yourself okay because first of all these people haven't even studied Islam like that these people you know these these kind of institutes they're good for social

work they do I respect chef Omar Suleiman in all the great social justice thing he does in he goes out on protests he leads protests he rallies the cries of people being discriminated against against black people suffering against Latin American people suffering they were the Native Americans in their rights and and I highly I applaud that I think that's amazing what he does but the truth is these people haven't really studied Islam to that depth you know they get the title shirt and stuff like this they haven't really liked they haven't studied the books like Pahadi Muslim

things like this they've never really been through a formal Institute of learning they have not really qualified in any Islamic way they just give nice sermons and preach and and they're intelligent people I'm not saying they're not intelligent and then they get given a pedestal and then now because they've been put there by the institution by the clergy they back and they have to then cement the institution and most of these people were at one point anyway very Wahhabi inclined I don't know about today maybe they slightly distance themselves today from

that the kind of but they still that is their religion that is with the kind of views that these people kind of learnt initially about Islam and even this Assad Allah and never see here is ridiculous views on how you should kill X Muslims and apostates and he had this channel called our films and the ludicrous stuff the nutcase things that that were being said I think he he's turned away from that and it was a proper he was just basically like the poly bond what was this about yeah this is another problem which sometimes

comforts and I'm not optimal sizing comforts and many people who embrace Islam it's a magnificent look you guys take a step which I think seldom like IIIi don't think many Muslims would take that step if they were to exchange places so I applaud that I think it's amazing and some of them have gone out to study Islam deeply and they've made great profound changes within Muslim societies and in touch the hearts of men like Sheikh Hamza Yusuf who many of us are highly indebted to there's other great we've shared nor other great you know people they've

converted to Islam they've done now studied so much and done things and made great kind of pathways but then you get some people who they become very passionate about Islam because they've embraced it may be because they background was very turbulent and they needed a cause and now they find a cause which is now oh I found a new religion

and then no sooner do they embrace it they start teaching it to us what does that say he says manzil been upon Chelsea Restonic torch Arak Adams elliniko chal nani you know this this this the path that doesn't lead to a destination this this route is not called upon and by taking simply two or three baby steps you have not accomplished a journey you

understand it coming Jocasta here they don't go be open on it - mojo up no copy up Nanak you know we that with this we embrace even those who are not part of us and you don't even embrace those who are us you know it's so it's so true you know it's an amazing poem that monarch what is a monarch and mia hamm tuberose everybody

he says mana Khemia hum to bronze everybody kuch locha chunk o be a channing you know it's true that okay we may be so really bad and wretched and I'm not saying I'm a good person I've never made a claim of piety but they are some who even if they even if there were good people out there they won't call them good manzil open up on Chelsea Restonic door char Kadhim Charlie coach Alan Annika

you know this it's great that you've embraced Islam and done this but you know as a losses in Iran iam unknown aleca and Islam s anchor they do you a favor that they become Muslim so this it bothers me sometimes when I see and it's not to be faith it's not just exclusive to people who embrace this unfortunately many Muslims who tread this wretched path but uh my point of saying this is look this is a journey Islam is about

humanity not about boxing other people off if people have a hatred for you meet meet it with love you understand see that is how Islam actually was spread in the early time if somebody hates on your prophet question first of all where did he get that story from because he never met the Prophet neither did I so did he just make that story up if he did inform him that that last that didn't even happen did he get it from us then we need to sit ourselves down and

question what are we doing have we betrayed the Prophet why are we forwarding stories like this so don't you know and if if somebody to me if somebody says to me I hate Allah I hate God take it yeah stop being you know the thing is look if you hate God it doesn't hurt God it's fine like I don't God doesn't need me to hate you this is not that's a personal journey you need to take you are still a human

being you are still God creation you know I don't need to kill you I don't need to attack you or unleash I don't know a tsunami of abuse against you so you hate God even more so I just prove your point that religion is bigotry religion is hatred religion is this why should I prove that point I can extend a hand of humanity a bridge of compassion so let us at least be human beings on that human connection let us connect I can

still be friends with you I can still you know that all these people who hate know there are some people unfortunately who are just bigots they will hate anything you know it could be a beautiful picture of something and they're just the Lord's it's wretched because that's the wretchedness within them that they reflect out okay many of these people atheists are people who really the issue was that they had such a great expectation of faith

you right okay it's live I'm not saying this to look I I'm not saying to X Muslims or atheists that you should become Muslim I've never said that

okay but the truth is many of these people are simply hurting okay they just you know that they wanted so much which from the faith which really was they but they couldn't reach it maybe because some people became a wall being between them and the faith so I feel that if anything if you come if you can try to understand them they're suffering why do they have these issues

with God at the very least just extend a hand of humanity you can be friends you can be a decent human being you don't have to hate them you don't have to kind of abuse them you don't have to kind of say oh in an ideal Islamic state I would kill in an ideal Islamic state I would kill you what kind of nonsense is that of course and then you expect them to

then you expect them to love you of course not you know so ah well people I hope that I hope you know these words find you know some that they that you that you can rest that they resonate with you that you find some understanding and comprehension in them guys let's wrap it up it's