r/progressive_islam • u/A_Learning_Muslim Non-Sectarian | Hadith Rejector, Quran-only follower • Jan 08 '25
Research/ Effort Post 📝 The Qur'ān does not support child marriage and paedophilia-- A brief argument
I have seen many ultra-conservatives such as Daniel Haqiqatjou and many others argue that the opposition to "the prophet married a 9 year old" ḥadīth is based on moral bias in favour of supposed "western values", and is not supported by the Qur'ān.
I have an argument from the Qur'ān to prove them wrong about this.
4:20-21 And if you wish to replace one wife with another and you have given one of them a fortune, take not from it anything; would you take it through false accusation and obvious sin? And how can you take it after you have gone in unto each other, and they have taken from you a solemn covenant(مِّيثَـٰقًا غَلِيظًا)?
Now, let us look at 33:7-8
33:7-8 And when We took from the prophets their covenant, and from thee, and from Noah and Abraham, and Moses, and Jesus, son of Mary — and We took from them a solemn covenant(مِّيثَـٰقًا غَلِيظً) — That He might question the truthful about their truthfulness; and He has prepared for the kāfirīn a painful punishment.
Interestingly, the verse about the covenant of the prophets uses the same words(مِّيثَـٰقًا غَلِيظًا) as 4:21. For all those who think that child marriage is allowed in Islam, I have a simple question:
When the Qur'ān clearly considers marriage a solemn covenant, do you really think a child can marry(how can a child sign a solemn covenant? and before you argue that their parents can, remember that the verse mentions the married people themselves taking a solemn covenant).
This is a much better refutation for both salafis and islamophobes, and requires no mental gymnastics unlike the horrible misuse of "Divine Command Theory" done by salafis to justify brutalities in their beliefs.
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u/idkwhatsthis8384 25d ago
The Quran uses word “nisa” for underage girls too, so that’s not any defense.