Since Prophet Mohammed is the best of examples as Allah tells us in the Quran, then naturally it follows that we , if believers in our religion, should understand his examples. Muhammads first marriage was at the age of 25 to the 40-year old Khadijah. He was married to one woman until the age of 50, after which he is believed to have had multiple wives for the four reasons explained above. With the exception of Aisha, Muhammad only married widows and divorced women. There were four main reasons why he married. 1.Helping out the widows of his companions. 2. Creating family bonds between him and his companions (Muhammad married the daughters of Abu Bakr and Umar, whereas Uthman and Ali married his daughters. He therefore had family bonds with all the first four Caliphs). 3. .Spreading the message by uniting different clans through marriage. 4. Increasing credibility and sources for conveying his private family life. If he only had one wife, then it would have been a tremendous responsibility on her to convey Muhammads private acts of worship and family life, and people would try to discredit her to destroy the credibility of these practices. However, with multiple wives, there were a lot more sources to the knowledge, making it more difficult to discredit. Therefore his marriages gave more women the opportunity to learn and teach the matters of his private life.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 22:45:25 +0000
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