நபிகள் நாயகம் (ஸல்) அவர்கள் பல திருமணம் செய்ததை விமர்சனம் செய்து எழுதிய (ஆங்கிலத்தில்) ஒரு ஹிந்து நபருக்கு நாம் அனுப்பிய மறுப்பு
Dear Varun,
Firstly, If for us to doubt whether Muhammad may be a Womaniser (May Allah forgive me, Navoodhubillaah) , we have to take out his complete history and analyse. A single verse will not give a complete scenario of one's life. As you might know, Muhammad's life is an open book and is readable to all. Michael Hart, 20th Century Christian writer, has read Muhammad's entire life history and had given him First rank among the world's most influential persons. So, let us analyse his life completely to know his character, and then understand what this Quranic Verse 33:50 actually tries to say.
As Quran says, and Muahmmad's life history says, Muhammad was born and brought up in Makkah and until his age of 40, he was as common a person as anybody else in the town. He was a businessman, mingled with all those are there in town and at the age of 40, he attained prophecy from Allah. After proclaiming to the same society that he has become a prophet and that everybody should believe in him, many of the people disobeyed him.
And for disobeying, the pople there could not tel any reason ! they disobey him because of no reason. The people there were worshipping stones, fire, Sun etc and the Islam brought by Muhammad had strong opposition on this. Muhammad made a very clear statement without fear or favour, that there is only one God and that no other creations in this world has the eligibility to be Gods.!!
This statement by Muhammad made the people very angry who tried in all ways to disprove him. They tried to preach that Muhammad had gone mad, they said Muhammad is a lier, They challenged him whether if he is true, can he do miracles etc etc.
Why I say this is, If such was the situation there and if Muhammed's personal character is being a womaniser, then during his 40 long years of youth life, he could have earned a lot of bad names amidst the people around and finally when he proclaimed himself to be a prophet of God, the people would have thrashed him by words stating such a character of his, as the major reason for him to be called a lier. But, not even a single person could raise such complaints on him which clearly shows, Muhammad's youth life was very cultural & Decent. Any person, who could be called a womaniser would not be so decent till his 40th age !!
Moreover, being an upper class family (Though there is no class system in Islam, the belief among the people of that times was this), Muhammad could get ladies for marriage of any age but his first marriage was at his age of 25 with Kadhija, a lady who was 15 years elder to him. If he could be called a womaniser, he, at his 25th age, wil never marry a 40 year old woman !!!
And, he lived with her till she died, which was at her age of 65 and so, Muhammad's age was 50 !!!
Let us think, leave a womaniser, even a normal person like you and me will not live such a life, spending our youth age (Between 25 and 50) with a 15 year elder woman !! So, Muhammad, in this scenario can never be called a womaniser.
Later after Kadhija's death, at Muhammad's 50th age, he married another girl (Sawtha) who was again 5 years elder to him!!
Similarly, he married a 6 year old girl, he married a 3-time widow (One who had got married to 3 husbands consecutively after each of their deaths)., again married to another widow, etc.
So, the point which I try to emphasize here is that, Muhammad, if he was a womaniser, will never in our dreams could have lived such a life ! Even a very normal person like you and me cannot live like this, we wont marry a 40 year old lady, a 3-time widow etc.
So the reason for this, and for that Quranic statement should be something else. There are two reasons.
Islam got spread in the city of Makkah slowly and steadily amidst lots of hardships. The enemies of islam too had parallely grown, giving immense troubles to them both with life and property. More the importance of spreading islam, equally important is to sustain the relations of the newly converted muslims. By having marital relations with those new muslims, the relations among the muslims and with Muhammad will sustain and grow deeper which may be the main cause of these marriages!!
Second, Islam is not only the Quran but also Muhammad's preaches. Muhammad's Preaches is not only his social life but also his personal life. More of our day to day life is to be copied from Muhammad's life, be it going for toilet, be it sexual relation with our wives or be it cutting our finger nails. Each and every aspect of one's social and personal life has an impact in Prophet Muhammad’s life and if that has to be made worthy, his personal life too needs authentication and has to be put forward open. This could only be done by his wives. Absence of a wife at any point of time would stop exposures of his daily homely affairs to the public. We need to follow his footsteps not only as a social activist but also as a father, a son, a husband etc. which would be possible through the teachings his wives got from him. !
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