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Does the Qur'an Allow Child Marriage? -Mufti Abu Layth

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surah palak AF 4 and okay well let e know because you've written in Arabic but it's not connected okay oh well let you let me a Hitler okay right is this speaking about the - those who have not had the menses those women who have not attained some lies explaining what is the ada and for those women it is three menstrual cycles and those who have not yet had old that's one way of translating it or those who do not or

0:37

didn't have menstrual cycles now I've mentioned in my age of Aisha video as well that if you look at difference of a seed if you look at the toughest ear of the zero over hyeyeon and other people who highlight that this is to do with those women who do not have menstruation and due to illnesses okay and there are women like that that have not had a cycle on end for years for example that does and I'm not talking about because of the menopause we mean in the right

1:13

age that all women but they for some reason do not have so Allah says that they will have a need the period of three months that's what it's referring to it's not referring to - although unfortunately and I say this with a very disappointed and saddened heart that disappointingly and unfortunately many Muslims have used that verse to say that it's talking about minors and it's talking about girls and therefore then then they've couple that with the hadith

1:52

of the age of re sure to say that you can marry young girls in Islam which is categorically wrong it is haram and it is not only disgusting but it is is thrown Islam categorically under the bus and what's so shocking is why with almost a kind of arrogance a belligerent arrogance to them many religious Muslims proudly boast this feature what they feel is a feature of Islam that they say okay we won't do it but yes the Prophet did it

2:30

and you think well this I couldn't you know if the Shaitaan himself tried to harm Islam he couldn't have done a better job than these people who proudly boast that the Prophet married a six year old and a 9 year old and this is OK in Islam so this is and I've spoken about this at length before so and I've got a detailed video I've got a few but I've got one on the age of our show which you can resort to

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2018, October 13). Does the Qur'an Allow Child Marriage? -Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l3tt93owjfc/
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@misc{abulayth-l3tt93oWJFc,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Does the Qur'an Allow Child Marriage? -Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2018},
  month = {10},
  date = {2018-10-13},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l3tt93owjfc/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l3tt93owjfc/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}