/lit/ - Literature

>>12703863
That is not the Quran

>>12703599
No, six and nine are the two different ages given for her marriage to him

>>12703631
>We both know that majority of muslims believe Muhammad had sex with Aisha when she was 9 or ten
Uh, no. The majority think it was teens

>>12703389
Most agree he married her at 9, which would mean he took her into his household. Saying he consummated the marriage before puberty (which Muslims are not supposed to) is hard to support, he had plenty of wives he already could enjoy relations with. If he was actually a pedophile his proclivities would suggest such.

>>12703428
Opposed and condemned by literally all other Muslims, even Wahhabis. I won't say they are not Muslims, but they do a lot of things absolutely condemned by Islam

>>12703352
Islam stresses cleanliness more than any other religion.

>>12703266
It doesn't say that.

Islam considers puberty to mark adulthood, in both men and women. Not a specific age. Muhammad was hardly a pedophile though, his first wife was 40 and he was 25

This is a very good book if you are ignorant about Islam and desire to learn more or clear up misconception. I will quote a few passages

>Unfortunately, the way the Western media presents it, you would think that in Islam chopping off a hand or a nose or a toe was the norm in for punishing people. In fact, there are only a few crimes that incur physical punishment and even then Islamic Law allows the judge forgo those if mitigating circumstances allow. (The only physical punishments are cutting off the hand for repeated theft, flogging for certain crimes like fornication, and capita punishment for murder, treachery, and the like.)

>If we have been cast into Hell temporarily but have finished our sentence, the angels will locate and remove us, though we will be mere charred skeletons by then. A substance called the Water of Life will be poured over us, and our bodies will regenerate and be restored good as new.

>The Prophet Muhammad once told a story to illustrate the mercy of Allah. A harlot was walking down a road when she saw a deep well. As she climbed down its walls to get a drink, she noticed a thirsty dog pacing back and forth above. She felt pity for it and removed her leather sock, filled it with water, and brought it up for the dog to drink. On account of this act of kindness, God forgave all her sins.

"That will be the Day of ultimate recompense," the Qur'an declares, and Islam is very firm in promoting a full justice that is everyone's right. Even plants and animals whom we have wronged for unjust or cruel reasons will be able to make their claim.

The Shari'ah (Islamic Law) states that a fetus has rights. No one has the right to kill a baby in the womb, especially when it has no defense. Abortion is quite forbids. Islam considers it to be taking away the right of Allah to allow--or not allow--a pregnancy to come to full term. Despite popular ideas today about personal choice and freedom to birth or abort, Islam does not change with the times and stands squarely against Roe v. Wade.

>Animals and plants are also considered to be Muslim in that they follow their innate instincts, which are sort of like their programming.

>Islam allows prospective mates to meet only in chaperoned circumstances. Never are two unmarried people to be alone together on account of the dangers of temptation.

>>12702480
Muhammad (PBUH) taught Islam for a very long time before fighting, and was a shepherd prior to teaching it. You are dishonestly painting Islam as just a way to get gullible people to serve you, but the five pillars are far too demanding for that to be credible. It also would not make sense for a pillar to be about tithing to the poor rather than a clergy. Muhammad himself, despite having many wives, lead a very spartan life and died with few possessions, he did not accumulate great wealth even though he certainly could.

The Quranic idea of paradise is often disparaged as juvenile because there is wine and sexual pleasure and other seemingly crude and hedonistic joys but paradise in Islam is something fully experienced after the physical resurrection (a doctrine of Christianity and Judaism as well) as all of creation is destroyed and recreated by Allah (SWT) but until then death is a sleep although comforted by visions. And sex and wine are not as ridiculous in a physical paradise but why are these permitted and loved in paradise if they are so restricted in this life? The answer is that Allah designed them for our joy but indulgence in this life takes us away from Allah but once we can indulge freely and it simply makes us closer and more thankful then physical indulgence becomes something spiritual.