Hello, KhaliL
Watched Ahmedinejad on CNN and saw the European "racists" leave during the speech.
Coming to your post, I must say that Qur'aanic verses agree with me and all other Muslims. All of us, Muslims, agree with Qur'aan. You are well aware that in the Muslim world, there does not exist anything known as an
Authorised & Approved Tafsir or Hadith. I discuss only through Qur'aan and you know that very well.
You also know that there are Shia Tafsirs and ahaadith, there are Sunni Tafsirs and ahaadith and there are even Tafsirs and ahaadith from the Ahmedis and other groups.
I have Maududi's entire collection sitting right next to my desk. I would like you to show where does he mention the word prepubescent in his explanations? I am not going to discuss Maududi here but just would like to know.
Next, I would like to know from you how do you define
prepubescent? According to my knowledge, it is the age immediately before puberty. Do you agree with this definition? Yes or No?
Let me address your points, now:
You have agreed that the Surah talks about some issues on divorce, the main issue being Iddah.
In response to my question 2, "Does it talk about divorcing a child or children?", you wrote:
2. Yes, in verse 65:4, we see Iddah (waiting period) prescribed for pre-pubescent girls too which means marrying and divorcing children is allowed.
This is incorrect. I will go into the verses, which polemicists show as if the verses are talking about prepubescent girls. The fact is that the verses are not talking at all of any prepubescent girls. This is an important point which most polemicists do not understand and conveniently ignore.
وَاللَّائِي يَئِسْنَ مِنَ الْمَحِيضِ مِن نِّسَائِكُمْ إِنِ ارْتَبْتُمْ فَعِدَّتُهُنَّ ثَلَاثَةُ أَشْهُرٍ وَاللَّائِي لَمْ يَحِضْنَ وَأُوْلَاتُ الْأَحْمَالِ أَجَلُهُنَّ أَن يَضَعْنَ حَمْلَهُنَّ وَمَن يَتَّقِ اللَّهَ يَجْعَل لَّهُ مِنْ أَمْرِهِ يُسْرًاLet us take Yusuf Ali's translation here for an easy reference. "Such of your women as have passed the age of monthly courses, for them the prescribed period, if ye have any doubts, is three months, and for those who have no courses (it is the same): for those who carry (life within their wombs), their period is until they deliver their burdens: and for those who fear Allah, He will make their path easy."
For the first part of the verse,
وَاللَّائِي يَئِسْنَ مِنَ الْمَحِيضِ مِن نِّسَائِكُمْ إِنِ ارْتَبْتُمْ فَعِدَّتُهُنَّ ثَلَاثَةُ أَشْهُرٍ, all of us agree that a three month Iddah has been prescribed for women who have had menopause and even if there was any doubt, it was still three months period of Iddah.
The end part
وَأُوْلَاتُ الْأَحْمَالِ أَجَلُهُنَّ أَن يَضَعْنَ حَمْلَهُنَّ is also clear to all of us including you also. Right?
Now, I come to the middle part
وَاللَّائِي لَمْ يَحِضْنَ, which the polemicists
and those who do not understand Qur'aan at all, claim to be talking about little girls who have not yet had started menstruating.
Let me show how hilarious is this claim by giving you the following example:
Imagine, I have four wives. The first A is 35, the second B is 32, the third C is 29 and the youngest D is 25. Also imagine that I am going to divorce them all. Each of them is fit and has regular periods, no problem there. I pronounce divorce on all at the same time but their periods are not due yet and they are also not pregnant. I have to wait for their periods to complete Iddah. Right? Also, they are not babies or children or prepubescent girls.
The middle part of the verse that I pointed above is talking about the women I spoke off.
It is not perverts (according to you LOL) say ?NISA? means ?Females?. Quran testifies it. See chapter 4:127:They ask thy instruction concerning the women say: Allah doth instruct you about them: And (remember) what hath been rehearsed unto you in the Book, concerning the orphans of women to whom ye give not the portions prescribed, and yet whom ye desire to marry, as also concerning the children who are weak and oppressed: that ye stand firm for justice to orphans. There is not a good deed which ye do, but Allah is well-acquainted therewith.[Yousuf Ali]
In the above verse ?Nisa? = ?Women? is used to signify ?Yatama? = ?Orphans? too. Besides, in various other places of Quran the term ?Nisa? is used while mentioning females in general, not grown up women in particular.
But as I said earlier, you can believe Quran does not sanction child marriage if you can overlook these facts.
We will discuss 4:127 separately as it has no relevance to the 'alleged little girsl" in Surah Talaq.
BMZ
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