azaam wrote:
The Prophet Muhammad PBUH was so poor that he slept on the ground and he refused to accept large sums of money from his companions to better his life style. He was married to many wives because Allah ordered him to in order to keep the prophethood going. Remember being a Prophet requires diplomacy with other tribes and such. His later marriages were for various reasons. Some marriages were with the view to help the women whose husbands had been killed while they were defending their faith. Others were with a view to cement relationships with devoted followers like Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him. Yet others were to build bridges with various tribes who were otherwise at war with the Muslims. When the prophet became their relative through marriage, their hostilities calmed down, and much bloodshed was averted.
Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), instead of taking concubines, entered into lawful marriages based on reason and wisdom. Maria the Copt was given to him as a present, but rather than taking her as a concubine, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) married her, thus elevating her status by marriage.
I don't need to be apologetic to how many the wives the Prophet had. His lifestyle does not concern you and your hate for the Prophet is unnecessary and filled with bigotry as I was only quoting something from him and there was no need for you to go into things that you think is flawed about his lifestyle Prophet Muhammed PBUH.
If you studied his biography, you would know too well that the Prophet Muhammed PBUH had a very simple lifestyle and He was very poor.
I have studied Muhammad's biography thoroughly and actually overall like the philosophy of the man, and understand the cultural issues that made some of his behavior necessary, as yes, he was just a man and flawed like the rest of us.
But no, it is clear he did not repress his sexual nature. That was my only claim about the man Muhammad. If Muslims as a whole, actually carried on his original philosophy of equality between men and women, the Muslim world would be a much more harmonious place, for women at least.
And to be clear I have many Muslim friends including females that are married too, who completely agree with me on these points. They see the problems clearly of how falsely the Muslim religion is effected in the real world now. A religion of hate it has become for many, if one is a woman subject to stove burnings for insufficient Dowries and such as that. Not so bad for a man though, obviously.
But no that's not Muhammad's fault. If there is one thing that is clear, that was one man who really liked women. And that's OK, within the guidelines of the law of course. Today he would be in prison, for the under 10 year old thing, at least in the US. But that was then and now is now.
But NO, no matter what time it is, I for one never condone THAT. It's obvious to me he had some issues too, if that is true.
But I don't like to armchair analyze historical folks, especially when we really cannot be sure we have all the facts at this point; yes, much of the man's life is conjecture at this point a century and a half ago, not unlike the over 2K issue with the man Yeshua aka Jesus.
18 Sep 2014, 11:11 pm
