The Characteristics Of Prophet Muhammad

CRITICS
It is said that the very thought of having a 53 years old man having a sexual intercourse and take a bath with a nine years old girl make people shudder. In the case where Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was labeled as a womanizer, they said that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was married to thirteen women as well as having a large number of slave girls and concubines with whom he had sex. Things got worse when a filmmaker, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula or better known as Mark Basseley Youseff depicted Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) as a womanizer, ruthless killer and a child molester in his film trailer “Innocence of Muslims” released on September 2012.

EMERGENCE OF THE ISSUES
The non-Muslim Western society considers the founder of Islam, Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) as a pedophile when he married with the young prepubescent girl, Siti ‘Aishah r.a when she was only six years old. They were

The Apostle of Allah (pbuh) married a total of eleven times throughout his life with a maximum number of wives he had at once were nine. The wives of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) are Khadijah binti Khuwailid, Sa’udah binti Zam’a, ‘Aishah binti Abu Bakar, Hafsa binti ‘Umar, Zaynab binti Khuzayma, Umm Salama Hind binti Abi Umayya, Zaynab binti Jahsh, Juwayriya binti al-Harith, Umm Habiba Ramla binti Abi Sufyan, Safiyya bint Huyayy, Maymuna binti al-Harith and Maria al-Qibtiyya. The wisdoms behind the Prophet’s marriages are to seal his relationships with the Companions; to protect the widows of close Companions and captured tribes leaders, as well as Allah’s command to marry specific women in Al-Quran. During the Jahiliyyah period, it is illicit for the foster father to marry the divorced spouse of his adopted son. Islam made it admissible and to break this false custom for good; Allah instructed Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) to marry Hadrat Zaynab, the divorced spouse of his adopted son. Allah says in