(December 17, 2019 at 7:53 pm)Paleophyte Wrote:(December 17, 2019 at 8:16 am)Klorophyll Wrote: You missed the interesting part : Aisha wasn't a child.
What else do you call a 10 year old girl?
To be fair, how old you think Aisha was depends largely on which sect of Islam you follow. The Sunni want it to be more miraculous that she was able to transmit the Koran, so if she's still a child, extra ++ miracle! The Shia aren't invested in her being so young, and they tend to think she was 5-15 years older at the time. Aisha's age is not in the Koran, it's in the hadiths, and they don't all agree.
Hopefully, someday the Sunni will decide to let the 'she was just a child when she transmitted the Koran' thing go and remove the religious basis in some Sunni-majority countries for child marriage; though other Sunni-majority countries seem to manage just fine on the 'just because Mohamed did it doesn't mean you have to, who do you think you are, Mohamed?' reasoning.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.