Shaykh Omar Suleiman & the Yaqeen Institutes On Age of Aisha (r.a.) -Mufti Abu Layth

right the age of Aisha okay let's talk a bit about the age of Aisha people age of Asia Robbi along on her the wife of the Prophet right with the title the mother of the believers you see I recently somebody sent me a clip of chef Omar Suleiman and the Athene Institute so they have been doing a project for I'm not sure whether it's all of 2018 or a huge part of 2018 I don't know but they've been doing a project on the age of Aisha and they've run something like

so I just watched his summary khutba he's got like a sermon it's on social media and chef Omar Suleiman is speaking about okay this is the conclusion people we've done all the research they was ever to do and he says we've done it and we've done we've run for projects in parallel they've been operationalized in parallel and one of them came with the conclusion of saying well okay maybe I share was of an older age but all three overwhelmingly said that no I shall was definitely a young she was nine and then

he said well in conclusion look people that she is nine you know it's not a laughing matter I laugh but honestly I was so just disappointed she almost philemon who I have respect for as a person he's done great social work you know he stands up for the rights of people he you know puts his life on the line in America standing up for the rights of black people of Native Americans of South Americans all these

kind of things which is amazing and may Allah bless him for that but honestly I was so disappointed with what share Homer Solomon said here that look with all due respect he said like this is what he said in the end of the hood bah he said look people don't reduce I sure to a number she was a person don't worry do you say to a number what on earth are you on about age is a number goddamnit how can you what do you mean don't she's

9 years old don't reduce it to a number I mean yeah try that defense in court you know like oh well your honor don't worry you said to a number no mate daddy is a sexual offence you know it's not like what do you mean that don't reduce it or of course people are they your age at that a definitely BC okay and here's my question here's my question to these people that want to support this narrative of saying the age of Aisha was so young and what's wrong

with that this is what they're saying I asked them then okay what's wrong with 403 marrying a three-year-old or marrying a two-year-old what's wrong with that what if a person said oh I won't sexually there won't be no penetrative sex I'll just fondle her I'll just touch her would you be okay with that and what if they said don't reduce her to a number I know she's three but don't reduce it to a number she's a human being why is of course his god damn disgusting how could what what does that mean that how can it be that if if the Prophet

married this this woman and she's six six years old that is a tiny girl that's disgusting that it did not happen and this argument that oh if this if this was truly abominable and disgusting then the Quraysh would have condemned the Prophet well they didn't condemn him because it didn't happen that's a stupid argument of course that what does that even mean like an and you know they start kind of nice Americanized kind of like all you this kind of oh she's a human being don't reduce it to a number whoa I

honestly oh my god I want to hahaha this stuff enrages me that water that sounds nice I accept that sounds very cute when you're talking about adults not when you're talking about a kid that cannot sound good in any way in any capacity in any shape then then you can't what is your then why nine why not five why not four why not - if a person says okay I won't have like I said if a person says I'll just touch I won't penetrative ly have sex with the child I'll just touch it still disgust it's still an

abomination it's still there's no this kind of stuff and then to say well look and cheer Omar Suleiman said well I'm not saying you have to do it and I'm saying you can have your own cultural practices but it's not a moral judgment of course it's a moral judgment of course it's a moral judgment what does that mean what does that mean it's not a moral judgment of course it's a morality issue it's an issue that it's a kid what do you mean that's not morality it's not a textbook issue my friend it is a morality issue that is a more the slavery thing you see this is the

irony that all the reason I'll tell you why these people are not saying that they're refusing to accept the age of I said to be hi I have a detailed video detailed showing that first of all and I will in future do a on the actual hadith in my video I just show how the hadith were unacceptable I don't go too much into the chains but I will show that every these few chains they have are all unreliable all unreliable the one by other wire the one bar from his son in sham in Bihari the one in Muslim they are all unreliable but put that aside

let's just take look the thing that did this for me clearly the thing that did this for me is look at the narrative human beings we can look at we can look at human lives and we can winnow out other things and we can have a result in the year of sorrow when the prophet salallahu alaihe salam went through the most tragic of his years because he lost his wife Khadija who was a support for him and he had children at home he had children he had to look of them he had lost his wife

he had he used to earn for the family he's got that to worry about he his his social protection came from his uncle Abu Talib or the Elan and Abu Talib died in the same year within months and now his social so he became vulnerable to attacks to boycotts and then the Prophet goes to a party and is humiliated and attacked now that there is nothing more than that as a nail to seal that kind of depressive catastrophic atmosphere for

the Prophet at this stage he is approached by Holland this is in the sight you this Asahi Adid he is approached by halle who has who is like an aunt to the Prophet she has a very maternal role in the prophet's life and she says to the Prophet look I see you very depressed why don't you marry and the Prophet kind of he says to her well who do you have in mind and she says I've got two people in mind and one she says a young a young lady and one she says somebody a divorcee and the Prophet says well who's the divorcee and she says soda and the prophesies and who's

the young lady and she says well the daughter of your friend of work arise sure so the Prophet sends a proposal to both now let's just pause there for a moment Isis doesn't go through immediately because she was already engaged and hence the Prophet Marie so the first who was the prophet's age now let's just pause there for a moment how lessees the Prophet depressed because of this tragic year so she advises marriage what could marriage do marriage could help the profit in full aspects okay it could

help the profit first of all through by taking care of the home a woman in the home could look over his children help him with his children to to free up some time and space for the property could help that's one way another way is there could be emotional support and companionship for the Prophet he could find some solace with with the wife he could he could do that that's another way there could be intimacy and sorry with the emotional support they could be intimacy and providing not only emotional support but also peace

tranquility and intimacy as well another way right that she could be looking it would free up time for the Prophet to be working okay so the Prophet could go to work he could do these things and but perhaps she could help the Prophet with the Dawa with the mission so these aspects are well how a wife could have helped the Prophet at that time of tragedy now let's just take that into perspective that's a real you don't need to be a genius to understand that that's this common sense that a wife coming

could help you emotionally she could give you intimacy fine that's excellent she could take care of the kids and she could help you in your Dawa these are four key areas now let's just go back to this picture that they painting the Profi approaches Ayesha according to Bihari and she's six that's younger than his own children what is the point of bringing another child home like what was the point like I know I've got children to take care of let's just bring another child home well she can't help you emotionally she's younger than your own children and she can't which is

not incapable of intimacy she's she can't really take care of the children the children would do a better job of taking care of her some of the property while much older than Ayesha at that stage if she was six right and she definitely can't help with the Dawa she's just a six year old kid so in every way that is a stupid suggestion to say well I know oh you seem really stressed out why don't you just take another kid home and babysit that kid that makes no sense it makes no sense let alone now you look

at the other evidences and with that narrative in mind you look at the hadith in Bukhari how how other people couldn't go to war and share Omar Soliman speaks on this as well and other people and they say yeah but you see there's a difference because I sure when she was in war when she went to the Battle of Badr or heard when she participated in these battles she was helped carrying water to the sick and the wounded and helping dragging bodies and stuff like this she was attending the wounded she wasn't fighting and when Oklahoma asks inside Buhari and the Prophet says no and in the Battle of a head in Bihari he

allows him by asking him how old are you now and he says now 15 and the Prophet says okay but he was going to fight so they tried to draw this distinction but tell me having a fourteen-year-old boy helped drag bodies and carry water is much better than a ten-year-old girl by any standard on a battlefield a boy that is 14 running around dragging bodies or bringing water is still much more helpful than a 10 year old then 10 year old little girl everybody would agree I mean if you had a choice to say well all right I've got to take right okay I need

somebody that can run fast that can bring water that can carry things that can draw maybe bring armor that can bring arrows that can draw would you would you say I know I'll take that ten-year-old girl or would you take a fourteen-year-old boy so the arguments don't match and then the fact that I shall was already engaged and she'd been engaged for a few years to jebaited no more time what was she to when she got engaged and then when Jo Bates from he call off the engagement what does jemaine's mother say she says we don't want her because we're afraid she's gonna convert our son what a six-year-olds gonna convert a man Joe bade was a grown man he's worried that a

six year old girl's gonna convert him ideologically at that time when the Prophet approached her she was at least seventeen at least that's what the maths show now most people say I mean everybody pretty much accepts that Aishah passes away in fifty he jury and she is 67 years of age now you just work that backwards and how old does that make her so and some people disagree but they put it a bit forward a bit back but what I'm trying to say is Luca even when

you look at the maths now then you've got verse then you've got hadith about Ayesha saying things like I remember when surah Tamar was revealed this verse in surah Tamar I used to be a year a young girl that could understand things and that verse was revealed like something like eight years before the hey Jenna and the word Jharia is used for a young girl like somebody who's at least something like ten onwards and she says come to Julia Upton I was a jarir who could understand things yet they and I just want to put all this aside and

say look even if your research was like and the only reason these people are not saying that I sure was older I'm telling you what Allah he this is the only reason is lets truth there's two things this is for the sensible shares I'm saying there's other idiots who are doing this just because they know it provokes the West and that is the worst kind of people right and that is the worst kind of people but these shifts are not doing it for that reason AHA inshallah like not like people like cher Homer Solomon or yes there are thee and these kind of people they're doing

it just because they haven't got the courage to be the because they don't feel they have a precedent I guarantee you if one salaphi shell had said this just one if they had the precedent they just worried that we haven't got a precedent and our sect will kind of condemn us that's all because if let's say Albani had said this they would have all said it now because Albanian said it basically all they need is somebody like they don't have the courage to stand alone and they

need somebody that said it so they say yeah but all the scholars in the past I don't want to go against them I don't want to go against all this number of scholars but the truth is this was not a debate back then and people in the medieval ages but let's just look at what all the scholars in the medieval ages said they all said slavery was okay they disagreed today they wouldn't dare say slavery is okay today all the scholars in the past said slavery was fine they said there's consensus on this they go against that they say well oh yeah but it's okay no and don't and will

they dare say slavery is not a morality issue of course it's a morality issue so all the scholars do you know what even at a mere rights able it's a mere right that there is a Jamaa he says there is a consensus that if a Muslim unlicensed that means without permission of the Imam or the leader of his state sneaks into non-muslim territory whatever he steals this is what he writes whatever he steals when he comes back is halal for him he says because

the kuffar have no indemnity when it comes to their wealth when it comes to the property and stuff like this because they are non Muslims living in that'll harm he says there is each man on this they you just have to Google he'll come right up Ignat Amyas fatwa that the wealth of all ku far in their territory so long as they don't have an agreement with us right in Muslim lands is halal so if anybody sneaks in he can steal it if he steals it and comes back it is that is utterly Haram but even the

taymiyah says this it man most scholars in the past would have thought that's fine I will I wouldn't be surprised if almost all of them thought that because you see back then the world was a different place they had dehumanized non-muslims just as non-muslims had dehumanized Muslims so my point of saying this is just because the scholars in the medieval ages didn't say this doesn't give you the license and today this is such a big deal and hadith aha bro I had anyway no hadith can provide certain knowledge they are

huh bro I had so the honour of the Prophet is conclusive if anything will bring a blemish to the honour of the Prophet and it is inconclusive it's based on huh bro a hard we reject it let alone the fact that this argument has so many holes in this in this argument anyway right so that's my point of making that so I was really disappointed honestly in listening to because I was kind of thinking of hamdulillah at least eight you know they're either rooster that even though they've said this after a while but al hamdulillah at least now they're gonna say as well openly that look we can't say stuff like these there

isn't enough evidence there is problems in this chain and the honour of the Prophet and stuff like this and they just came and said the same thing that oh no she was nine but and the Prophet married her when she was six but but hey don't reduce her to a number she was a human being well your honor and that your honor is my defense I'd just like to say that how dare this court have reduced these victims to a number they were human beings goddamnit

[Laughter] well that obviously won't work well with the jury so look that's I hope in Charlotte people can hear this message in please this is so disappointing but yeah let's [Music]