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A reply to atheist claim: The Prophet lusted over another man's wife | Mufti Abu Layth

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right so shall we take a t1 let's take a look at this issue of the marriage of the prophet salallahu alihi wasalam to zaynab bint josh so i'd like to give a some clarity on this issue right so first of all a bit of a backdrop so a lot of people have raised and they've tried to I don't know try to kind of

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create an entire scandal out of this this incident the issue is what is the incident as in what really happened but the allegations that are being thrown at the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam all that the Prophet married Zeynep I mean that's not an allegation because that's something that happened he married Zeynep bent Josh that the allegation is that the Prophet lusted over her she was his cousin she was the daughter of his

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aunt his actual aunt Omaima who is the daughter of Abdul Muttalib so she was his daughter zina but an actual name wasn't zina by the way whose bara but the Prophet after he married her he changed her name to Zeynep so now so she's known now as Zena bint Josh and she was somebody that at the time of Hadera she was when she moved to Medina she was in her early 30s right so this whole incident that it's been kind of like

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pieced together and sketched he's really pinned with certain allegations that the Prophet lusted overheard that the Prophet apparently saw her naked and things like this and became so infatuated with her and all of these things and they and this is utter nonsense at nonsense they say the profit became besotted by her beauty and he couldn't kind of get her out of his mind and Anne's Aid was kind of felt bad about this so because she was his wife and so saved kind of offers to divorce her for the profit and and all this goes on and then eventually the profit Maresa

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because he has a verse revealed of the Quran which is in surah ahzab to kind of fulfill this fantasy so to speak now these are utter nonsensical allocations so first of all before going into these allegations I'd like to explain briefly what actually did happen okay so yes it is factual that the and then we'll go into in more detail and we'll look at some of these what these narrations are on how these narrations crept in and what was the origin of these they're likely the kind of etiology where this

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kind of almost this virus emerges from so what happened is yes she was definitely a cousin of the Prophet she was from his family and the family were generally close with the Prophet she was from the early believers Zaid does marry her nas aid by the way is a double Haritha he is somebody who as a young boy was taken into slavery was by some kind of raiding tribes they kind of take him into slavery and they sell him some people saying sue co-occurred some

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narration signal says it was in surah Basha but the point is he gets sold as a child he's brought by Hakim abyssum who then gifts him like passes Amman this is pre Islam they are kind of that kind of time oh sorry very early into Islam gifts him to a teacher who is related the aunt of that person so he kind of passes this boy as a kind of servant says what do you you know have this boy to kind of help you do stuff so here he lee moves into the home of the Prophet so this is

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how the Prophet kind of gets to know him he really gets on with the profit to a great extent Khadija says that you know she kind of dedicates him to the Prophet says that you have him you know just take it you got an amazing kind of relationship with him now what happens is his parents actually stumble upon him they find out where he is and they come and the Prophet frees him from being a slave and when the parents come the Prophet offers him that why do you go with your family and he says that I want

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to stay with you Akhtar uka I choose you over them so the Prophet does ask him are you sure about this now and he says yes and here the family kind of accept it because they realize it's not as a slave he's kind of like a freed person and he's doing this willfully so at this stage the prophet formerly adopts him now in that day and age adopting somebody formerly was to make them you're kind of like virtual kind of blood they now carry the same tribal

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laws as your actual blood do so the Prophet says in a narration our asuka watarai sunni i that's uh you know you can now I will bequeath to you you can inherit from me this we are now like as good as blood so he became known as they'd ignore Hamid he was but he had this thing because he was spent a considerable amount of time as a slave in a society like that they really unfortunately they look down on slaves the people at large so there were certain things that later on not at that stage but later on now now he's with the

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Prophet he's known as the Prophet son they just call him a diplomat he kind of learns he grows up he matures he you know he gets much older now the Prophet wants to marry him off and break this kind of tribal custom of you know slaves are like second-class citizens these are x-rays he's not even a slave but he's carrying the baggage and the Prophet wants to break that so this is in Medina by the way now so we're not even talking this is years later the Prophet proposes to Zeynep to marry him

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now initially Xena wasn't really so keen on this marriage because of the social stigma was really strong now people today don't really understand this sometimes they think that all when and this is like sorry Muslim romanticists they think of when Islam came everybody became this kind of oh I am now a Muslim I have forgotten all kinds of prejudices I have now because it was nothing they were still the very same people they were they still had the tribal baggage they still had the same biases and prejudices they still had the same social customs they weren't actually they just embraced a faith that's all

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they weren't so zeyneb at first wasn't that kind of willing and she she kind of like was then the Prophet himself goes and asks her that look why didn't you marry you know I I think it would be like it he's a great person and say it was a great person he had an amazing personality so she agrees to marrying him so this is the kind of backdrop to to this now what happens in the relationship that kind of

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ensues from that is there is as in many relationships there is a lot of kind of turbulence but I mean not in many sorry but there is sometimes up up and down you got a lot of ups and downs in normal relationships but this did get quite turbulent at times the reason being a lot of the narrations have presented that that zeyneb still kind of felt this sense of embarrassment sometimes about his past him being a slave and she felt that you know he's and sometimes they would have some arguments and people have disagreed what the arguments were over some people said

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all that you know they they weren't having children and so you know he sometimes was a bit like he was kind of preoccupied with this that mm that we haven't had any children yet and it's been a while and and she maybe some people have speculated that may have kind of led to arguments and she in turn would say to him sometimes you know remind him that you know you're like I say you know you of a lower status than me at the end of the day so this is the kind of stuff that different people have mentioned certain orations is there is some speculation but what is known is that there was a lot of turbulence in

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their relationship now the prophet salallahu alihi wasalam does come to learn about this he comes to learn about the turbulence now but it's an ongoing thing it's not like there was a one incident it was going on for months and months now the Prophet has a dream now eben Asher some people said oh he this was revelation as in actual revelation abner are sure in his stuff seer highlights that this he says in these days as far as I understand had a had a kind of fear yeah okay that this was a row it was a dream that the Prophet had in this dream he sees that

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their relationship breaks down and he sees that the sorry it's not that he sees the relationship just breaking down he sees that he marries zeyneb in the future now the Prophet becomes quite disturbed with this dream okay because you see it's not about marrying zeinab the issue is that in that custom in that society there were certain traits in society which had no basis in the religion but they were still strong one of them was for example marrying slaves

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exclaves this was or a slave or a former slave this was seen by the society as an absolute no-no I like people saw it as don't be silly that's you know compares a huge that's an insult to the family the other thing was when you had somebody that was an affiliate with your family like I mentioned like a spoken-- a verbal family member so they're not actually blood but you announced them as blood so the way the Prophet had done with Zaid you could never intermarry then like so if that person because they were treated

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as so if it was a brother it's now as though he's your real brother if it was your son it's now as though he's your real son so you wouldn't marry your son's wife for example so when the prophet saw this dream it did disturb him because he felt that you know this is just ammunition for people to insult and harm the prophet sallahu salam and so he so it mentions there is a verse that is revealed later on and we'll come to that verse with where it's highlighted that the Prophet kind of he

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kind of held this within now during this times aid is having difficulties with Zeynep and he comes to the Prophet and says I want to divorce her like tell me like I want to divorce I've had enough of her like she's really kind of doing my head in I can't take this this is what Zaid comes in complains about her to the Prophet now the Prophet feel full of his vision and kind of thinking right he it's interesting the lesson that the Prophet gives us here because the

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Prophet says to him that it tequila that seriously like fear Allah and it's not fear but be mindful of God and he says I'm sick I Lika so Chuck you know hold on to the relationship maybe you can make it work not that's quoted in the Quran the Prophet saying that the Prophet on one hand having this vision but giving the lesson that is it destiny we don't know is it destiny but till the nth degree one must

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do the most best not to maybe it isn't destiny maybe destiny is what you will make of it so the prophet doesn't kind of say oh well you know he says I'm sick alakazoo Jack what a pillar that be mindful of God and persevere in this relationship don't give up and Zayde continues he does he tries for a little while now the issue is that he can't for

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so he has enough eventually and they then does divorce her at which stage later on not it doesn't mean like straight away but later on the prophet salallahu alaihe salam does marry her now the Prophet did not you see the thing was that the Prophet felt it's not about fearing people the Quran highlights that these customs you see because the Arab weren't incredibly Trent entrench society in tribalistic cultures these things of you're not

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allowed to first of all treating people like second-class in saying that oh if they're a former slave you can never marry into them this this issue the second thing them saying things like oh if a person has a kind of he's a verbal kind of relative you can now no longer these laws have become sacred when they ain't sacred so one of the things was the people calling zaid's a diploma Hamid so Allah revealed a verse although homely Abba him that called them by the father's name and hence Zaid

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becomes known as a demon Haritha and this test this part to some extent did hurt Zaid because he obviously was so close to the prophet and he really loved being called the son of Muhammad even though he wasn't the son of the Prophet Allah saw him but he loved that and you see it's too console' that that his name is revealed in the Quran and they by immortalized to kind of console him on this thing of him having Muhammad removed from his name so because he's known as they didn't Haditha which wasn't about the I mean that was his father's name and he was

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proud of it in its own way but he was just so because he had this strong love for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam and this verse as you can see it's verse 37 in surat al-ahzab well it - Lulla lady animali way to hulu lil lady and i'm Allahu alayhi wa and I'm tally when you say to the person who Allah had had kind of beast out with his blessing that the faith and everything in general and you had also missed out some favors upon him the way you'd freak him from slavery's set him up in society given

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him the status facilitated the marriage right when you say to him I'm sick a lakers olgica what tequila that hold on to your spouse and be mindful of God what what toffifee Nausicaa mala who mopti and you hide in yourself like you conceal that which Allah is yet to bring into open what - an ass and you have this fear of what may happen with people right voila who Jaco and Tasha but

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rather Allah what we should all this is not like kind of reprimanding the Prophet but it's bringing to our understanding that we should all really what is it to fear about people if anything have that same that thing only of God now fala markawasi demeanor water on and when they'd had finished his affair with her his relationship with her so much newark aha that we had married you to her as in we had this destined why Allah mentions Lee kala hakuna al

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Maharaj so that other believers do not find this to be a kind of a struggle fee as were G at a year him because remember in that society marriages were not the way marriages are seen today and I'm going to just mention that in a moment acaba a that Kadam in Hoonah water on wakana Amrullah he Mahalo that when their relationships come to an end and that which Allah has decreed was surely done now it's interesting that you see and what I'm saying about marriage is

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the way they were perceived in that day nay just to kind of clarify right so if you take say there's an example now just for those people who are not familiar they'd after he divorced Zeynep he married on McCullum who is another cousin of the Prophet she's actually a belittled by law the daughter of beba who is the daughter of Abdul Muttalib so the first one Omaima who is the daughter of Abdul

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Muttalib and her sister bebo he sayd marries her daughter where I was called omeka loom and then he has from her two children Zaid ibanez 8 and rakia and then he also marries dora who's the daughter of abu lahab later on and he marries hind' bent a metal a worm who is the sister of zu bade all of them Qureshi from Quraish they buy to a great extent bringing a

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dent to that bigoted culture that existed that we can't intermarry and you can see by these kind of marriages that he was having this was a gnome it wasn't you see because today marriages are so focused on this concept of romance whereas in the past it was an element of pragmatism of social participation so it wasn't quite so today when people are looking at this they obviously seeing marriage is only done for romantic purposes but in the past that that was actually one of the least purposes it was done for it

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was actually done for pragmatism for strengthening bonds for for kind of like social participation for social cohesion for strengthening the whole kind of society moving forward things like that so now right so just to clarify that point now I want to highlight some things here people have said that the Prophet marrying Zeynep they've brought certain stories right now these narrations they've brought this about there's about nine popular kind of narrations one of them which comes from

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earnest rhodiola one the companion it actually doesn't mention any of those kind of things it just mentions that Zaid was having issues and then he divorces her and later on and the Prophet marries Zeynep and as I mentioned her name used to be Barbara but prophet wouldn't the Prophet married her he named Isaiah then there's some narrations from Qatada and now qatada now you see there are no more narrations from the companions from people now who never met the Prophet and people who are problematic I've spoken about kitada in the past and the way he would he would kind of blacks and change

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in hadith now you have narrations from qatada who starts to say that the Prophet you know what he doesn't go all out but he mentioned certain things oh the Prophet was hoping they'd would just kind of divorce her without asking him and so on and as you go further descend down this ladder you get shabby now shabby says he changes the story he says that no they'd never came to see the Prophet the Prophet went to cease aid so he adds this element doesn't add too much but he just says it's the other way round a krama now now a Croma is where the first you reach

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that rung of the ladder now this is where the key problems begin this is the same person people who imam malik warned against who I've told you time and time again this is the guy who the whole apostasy killings come from yeah it is through a trauma this person who was from the extremists in his day and age he was known as the he was a from the huar age he brings out narration he's the first person in giving some kind of he says because the question is in this verse where Allah says and you conceal in yourself and we've mentioned it was the dream some of

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these people this later interpretation that you concealed in yourself within yourself this desire to marry Zeynep so Akuma is one of the first to to openly clearly open up that kind of cat this kind of this discourse in transmitting in the narrations then you've got over caribbeaner bahama who starts to say oh yeah he starts affirming these stories yes the Prophet went there yes there's this thing and they have had a hair uncovered even though by the way hijab is an obligatory at this stage but still they this is the story coming along then you've got

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somebody called Mohammed even a burn who says zeyneb when the Prophet went there zeinab wasn't actually dressed well and these are all problematic narrators and they and they continue to get worse so you've got somebody known as Kelby who is a cab this person is utterly unacceptable he says that the Prophet went they these stories and he would became attracted you've got then makka till now ma cartel says oh yes and the prophet when he goes there he instantly instantaneously becomes attracted

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attracted to to Zeynep and then to top it off Abdul Rahman is a dis narrator who is unreliable he says the Prophet sees her almost naked and that he's standing there and the wind kind of blows this the kind of curtain out the way and he could see her almost kind of naked or semi naked and he becomes overwhelmed with her beauty this is the the kind of narrations that these people are saying right now I want to highlight something here where these things come from now these are utterly unacceptable the

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narrations are weak life battle model right these are unacceptable narrations we did all this come from and why did some Muslims transmit them you see the problem is certain Muslims people like babari and this others as well but ee ee who I fear may be you know like Tiberius Tiberius of the Muslim Ummah like the Roman Emperor table read the amount of damage people like this have done to this Deen by just trying to I don't know

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be bring these nourish all of these problematic narrations in Islam which are weak unacceptable nonsense are brought by people like EE he brings them these other people bring them o the Quran The Satanic Verses that this that now so this is a problem in and of himself people like EE Tabriz book and these transmissions are really questionable but I want to get into why would these people do this why what was going on in

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their mentality now you see this didn't just the Muslims don't just come up with something I want to speak about something which I call I've termed this the kind of the reactionary reverse bravado effect okay the reactionary reverse bravado effect this is what I believe happened in that early kind of community amongst Muslims now what do I mean by this you see as Islam was spreading as it spread into the Middle East a huge amount of Christians come into Islam or they met

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or they interact they a lot of the Arabs in the Middle East were previously Christian most of them were they embrace a Salaam now some of them come to know of certain stories and they find out the things in this huge kind of polemics and debates Christians in early Islam start to come up with this story that your prophet lusted over you know there's such-and-such chain that your prophet lusted over this woman yeah now I'm not just saying this in fact right if we if

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I can just bring this now here is an example this was John of Damascus as you can see who's known as you're Hannibal Mansour now here he is highlighting that look Mohammed and Andy and he is very early on in Islam by the way so he is around he's born in 675 to 749 so you can see like he's within that century of you know of the prophets lifetime within

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that very early Salaf period so he would have been alive when several companions of the Prophet were alive things like this now he is writing that Muhammad had a friend named Jay then the man had a beautiful wife with whom Muhammad fell in love once when they were sitting together Muhammad said oh wow oh by the way God has commanded me to take your wife now you think well and he wasn't the only one bringing this kind of a discourse trying to kind of fun trying to kind of insult the Prophet of Islam you've got now here's another example of Byzantine ruler Leo the third right once

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again you know not that long within that selleth period you can see 741 which is still going into you've got that late kind of or meillard into early Abbasid kind of period going on still very early in Islam sorry still Oh May at time and later on it goes into the Abbasid he is writing to Omar Abdullah ZZZ now Omar ibn Abdul Aziz ruled from 99 to 101 Hitler which is only we're talking just really just you know less than a century after the prophesy profits arising and

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passing away in 10th in 10th hid jury and this is in 99 or a hundred history so within that 90 years he's writing saying look by the end of the 1st he reports that Muhammad's marriage to Zeynep now he does write it in strange you know he gets some of the facts wrong so he calls his either instead of Zeynep he says that look that the he refers to the prophet's seduction of zeda now this is the kind of things that the christians are saying at that time to muslims now what does this trigger on

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one hand it can trigger that muslims kind of denounce this but sometimes unfortunately we get what i'm calling this reactionary reverse bravado effect where people start to say well they in a bravado manner try and own it like yes so what and a great example of this by the way a great example of this is if we're gonna look at today in this day and age with the whole age of Ayesha thing so because non-muslims have

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brought this age of our issue to Muslims and highlighted it what happens instead of Muslims actually saying oh well you know this they've actually got a point here we need to look into our tradition and see all these things don't make sense they there's a reactionary reverse bravado effect like yeah so what this is our way what are you gonna do about it you know we you know you can't tell us this kind of reverse bravado takes place now so what some of the early Muslims start to do is they start to say well yeah but so what the way David in your

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sources biblical sources took Bathsheba right so if those of you that remember Beth Sheba was the wife of uriah and David according to the biblical story caesar and she's so beautiful that he's overwhelmed with her beauty that he sends her sends Araya away on some battle to hopefully get killed and he takes Beth Sheba as his wife and then you know the Prophet Nathan comes and kind of gives him that story now this isn't the biblical sources we don't believe that as Muslims but you see some Muslims started to say the way David

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your prophets did this so the Prophet married Zeynep and and what and you can see this in very early sources like look right here is an account from several more facili and bring this this is show canyon is fertile a deed you can see here that translating or interpreting these verses that sue not Allah - ladina Kalam in Kabul that the son of a line those who went before that yeah and yet as a watchman in nursery Masha that he can marry who he wants from women and what he's a man you know this kind of attitude so and you can see here that

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them saying and this by the way is Muslim sources even Assad is transmitting it from Hamid applicable karate you know from the offspring of Bani querida he says the way Solomon had a thousand women so what our prophet took Zeynep here image or age which is transmitted by blood moons ear and table Rani and you can see this is another nightmare in and of itself even at your age is a huge calamity in hadith by the way one of the transmitters of Jesus is gonna come back obviously some of the narrations go through him because you can see this now look at what even at your age is saying he says Oh son that's a life in lovina Holloman Coble he says

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Khalid Dawood Willmar are the way David took the lady well let's see naka and he says and he married her was whija-- her is maja ELISA he comes out with maybe some of them say transmit her name is ELISA generally Bathsheba according to the biblical sources he says Fedeli casona Fidel Castro not on FEMA Hamid was aina Makenna Amaral aji ah Durham mcdr and and allaha destiny and look he goes on to say here cuz I Lee come in so naughty he feed the wood well more I wanna be was a nib so this is a mature age who's alive around that

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time of Omar ibn Abdul Aziz and when that King is writing and he's in early kind of Islam that kind of young turba age this is him now he is openly embracing this vision he's saying that yes so the way David took you know Beth Sheba and our prophet you know he he found zeyneb attractive and took her so you can see guys that when I say that how the Christian narrative creeps into Islam it unfortunately does on several occasions

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we don't understand that most of the most of the early Muslims when in Islam spread into the Middle East were Christians so this was something I want to highlight and just to take a look at let's just coming to some of the questions I want to kind of like highlight some of the questions here

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right so those people having a kind of digressing on the those people did die Gress in if you just pay attention people right so this is quite important now you see let's take a look at some of the key criticisms the question so one of them they've said oh well the Prophet this verse of the Quran says were and you were concealing within it was actually to do with this lust if that was the case let's say that is the case right that the the Prophet was

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concealing lust what and then the Prophet makes up the Quran to reveal it to people too so he can legitimize him getting married to Zeynep why would he reveal it like that why would he make it up to criticize himself to say oh you're concealing something and Allah is about to bring it into the open if it is lust that he's concealing why would he do that to himself because since according to the a lot of these atheists the Prophet is making these verses up anyway so why make it up where you're going to you know why shoot

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yourself in the foot so this is one point secondly if Allah is saying in this verse that look and whatever you're concealing Allah is about to bring out into the open we did Allah bring out that oh the Prophet listed Allah brought out was the wedge Makaha and we married you to her so that's to highlight that the other point is that the Prophet lusting over her right now I want to highlight something here Zeynep was the cousin of the Prophet who grew up around

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the Prophet she was somebody that was very close to the prophet's household there was no barrier at all categorically in the Prophet marrying her in fact the narrations say when the Prophet came to propose on behalf of Zaid she actually thought oh the Prophet had come to propose for her and she was totally elated if the Prophet want her marry her he could have married her it was not there was no it's not like she was somebody who came from Persia or Rome or some way from her she was from the prophet's household the prophet knew

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her all of her life it wasn't something that you know she was in her early 30s when she migrated from Makkah after that with the Prophet she was a grown woman a mature woman it wasn't something and this thing that the Prophet became so overwhelmed with her beauty I'm sure look she I'm sure look they were all beautiful women it's I don't mean in any sense like that but let's just be realistic if this was the case the Prophet was so overwhelmed with her beauty this was never highlighted by any of the other

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wives as oh that was something that she was such a beautiful woman that the Prophet it was never whereas he is highlighted sometimes with other wives of the Prophet the other thing is that if she was so beautiful the Prophet or had already seen her on so many occasions but way before he'd married her off he knew her you know so how is it that somebody you've known and seen all you know most of you mature life and they so close to your household they come and go you come and go and the whole thing and then one day you see her without her hair covered and oh my god

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you're enamored I mean just let's just be real on that I mean I could the story could add up if you're saying this is a total stranger you've never seen this person you see her one day and you're like wow does this even make any sense right so these are nonsensical just people are just trying to get a lot of mud and throw it on the honor of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and i say something you know that it's interesting that the Prophet in that verse he highlighted you know what Russian ass our luck went arshad the

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Prophet he it's not that he feared people but he just felt that this is only going to give ammunition to try and hurt him but the Prophet didn't really think that marrying her would be a good thing as a not that she wasn't a good thing but that she was a she was a great person but the social thing he didn't want he was already struggling with the amount of resistance against the message people making up rumors doing this doing that he didn't want more kind of like social drama now yet the Prophet marries her to put this

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bigoted kind of prejudiced cultural practice at bay to kind of do away with it nip it in the bud and this fear that people will use this as ammunition well lie if anything is so true that till this very day they try and hurry as an insult against the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam so i I would say you know if anything I would plead to the voice of reason that just being feared like I mean this is if

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people are not Muslim that does this really add up that you know just trying to say oh just trying to insult the Prophet based on these things based on oh he must have become so enamored he must have become this just makes so much sense the narrations are baseless okay and really more so this is an explanation especially for Muslims who wanted some kind of a background that who was a no first of all that she was the cousin of the Prophet Elisha who was 8 and how close he was and his relationship with the Prophet and how he was known as his adopted son and how the

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Prophet initially wanted to break the social taboo of marrying from the different classes and he did and they'd went on to successfully even after Zeynep marry so many other Arashi women right and and and I've said that marriage in that day and age didn't quite reflect marriage today which is centered around romance whereas then it was more around practicalities and pragmatism and also understanding so what we've understood most of the narrations all apart from the one which is from a companion earnest which says nothing about this just mentions as a does having issues and he divorces and later on the Prophet Marisa but all the

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non companions like Katahdin an Akuma who is a key problem and I've always warned against this narrator Akuma right and people like this and RTL and kill be and you know you've got even is aid and these people bringing fabricated narrations and when you look at the verse of the Quran so these are things that I'm just summing up that we've taken a look at and what we did this originated from it originates with that Christian polemics that the kind of debate the discourse where people are finding faults with Islam where they trying to criticize the Prophet where they were even getting the names wrong oh this woman calls zetas

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Abe whatever they're mixing things up zeda oh it's Zeynep now this is the Prophet seducing women these kind of allegations are being thrown and then we have a kind of reactionary reverse bravado effect where people instead of kind of saying mmm you know well we need to kind of realize that this stuff they they unnecessarily try to own stuff out of this kind of almost this bravado attitude and they by causing more adding you know insult to injury really to the Islamic heritage so and this is how it

43:05

then creeps into our books like the berries book and listen which are not reliable books anyway by the way but it creeps into them so this was an overview of this whole thing so I hope insha'Allah it gives some clarity to people who are unfamiliar especially Muslims who have you know just had a lot of questions around this topic that to us as Muslims the honor of the prophet salaallah solemn is obviously first and foremost so and I always say look within reason we should always look at these kind of things and not just even if certain Muslim scholars have said them

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if it compromises the honor of the prophet salaallah Salaam you know we do not throw the Prophet under the bus those people that's just their opinions we are not kind of bound to follow them cool guys I hope that's of some help let's move on to some other questions

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@misc{abulayth-KAq80KOP3hA,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{A reply to atheist claim: The Prophet lusted over another man's wife | Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2020},
  month = {2},
  date = {2020-02-21},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kaq80kop3ha/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kaq80kop3ha/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}