Ultimate Guide to Child Marriage in Islam (according to top sharia scholars)
Channel: Reasoned Answers
Date: 2023-10-02

Perhaps the most controversial issue in Christian-Muslim dialog is the subject of child marriage.  Today, it's not hard to find Muslims expressing a wide variety of opinions, ranging from it was never a part of Islam, to it was allowed but only for the past, to it's valid today.  This wasn't always the case.  For more than 1000 years, scholar after scholar openly talked about the practice of child marriage and prepubescent sex, with virtually no disagreement.  MK joins me live to take a "deep dive" into what the Sharia scholars wrote about child marriage in their fiqh manuals.  Warning: their depravity might be hard to swallow for the uninitiated.

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0:00 Introduction
1:31 The Basics: Waiting periods
2:36 Quran 65:4 - 3 Categories of women
4:02 Defining "young"
5:20 Logic of the verse
6:06 Tafsirs & scholars on 65:4
8:36 Modern objection - medical condition?
10:13 Modern objection - "nisa" means women?
12:18 Four schools of jurisprudence on child marriage
14:32 Scholarly consensus on child marriage
17:00 Any dispute on the consensus?
19:23 Sharia conditions for sex with prepubescent wife
23:01 What if the father disagrees she is ready?
25:13 Scholarly consensus summarized
25:59 What about today?
27:36 Can't trust men to control themselves
29:03 Permissible sexual activity with "too small" girls
29:51 What about Shia Islam?
31:45 Thaddeus' thoughts - why this matters today
32:26 Modern objection - orphan rule in Quran 4:6
35:30 Summary

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