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🔍 Is Islam Wrong About the Age of Consent?

✍️ Salih Hamid Fatih

ℹ️ Modern human rights discourse often criticises Islam for not categorically prohibiting marriage under the age of 18, framing it as a violation of dignity and childhood. This article explores how Islamic law, rooted in timeless principles of harm reduction and cultural flexibility, approaches the issue of early marriage without compromising moral integrity.

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@Memekhaam

Do you have any detailed articles on slavery or the concubinage system in Islam? I am looking for explanations about its origins, how it operated, why it was permitted to continue and not abolished directly via revelation, and whether Islam intended to abolish it and if so, why it wasn’t abolished by muslims but ultimately by those outside of Islam. What were the rights of concubines? Can a man have intimate relations with a concubine he owns(either through war or state allocation or by buying one; though i have heard war was the only source afterwards) without her consent or forcibly. And i know it’s not practiced today due to international abolition, but in principle, does it still exist in Islam or do Muslims still beleive in it? Is it considered some kind of unchanging moral allowance that will remain till the end? And hypothetically, if the exact same conditions from early Islamic history (when this was practiced) were to return, would Muslims reapply the system? I’m not looking for comparisons with Western slavery, that would neither be an answer nor an argument and i know about that.

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@bitinebiti

Alhamdulillah for islam

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@Ahsan.--khan73

❤❤

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@Badneighbor-bm3vn

1- “ma3roof” or “معروف" doesn’t always mean “culture norms” or whatever, in the context of muhammad’s time he meant “what is right” For example there are hadiths from your prophet that says “obedience is only in “ma3roof”” It definitely doesn’t mean obedience to what is culturally known since it will contradict your religion Like lets take the scenario of husband and wife, in islam a wife should obey her husband in what is “معروف" (it means obeying him in what is Islamically considered correct) which according to you means what is culturally correct Which means in conservative countries the woman can be abused because she is expected to obey him in bad stuff she shouldn’t be obeying him in And in western societies the wife will not be expected to obey him in matters even if Islamically she is expected to obey him in (Like intimacy, enforcing hijab, she can travel without his permission…etc)

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@Badneighbor-bm3vn

As an ex muslim who is highly knowledgeable on this topic I want to point out other more sensitive mistakes in your document 1- islam isn’t actually what you claimed it to be, it isn’t this “flexible system” In islam there is an age of consent, which is the age of puberty, which is in islam isn’t an outcome of muhammad’s social norms, it is an objective milestone of adulthood within your religious beliefs Which means it would be applied even today, but you are coping because you can’t handle your own beliefs which you subconsciously consider outdated

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