THE POLITICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WISDOM BEHIND THE MARRIAGE BETWEEN THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD (ﷺ) AND THE YOUNG A’ISHA
The greatest man to have ever walked on the planet earth, the most mature one, equipped with the most sound and perfect intellect, and a leader of the highest form is often accused to have consumed a marriage which seems to contradict the above-mentioned qualities, that it, his marriage to the young daughter of Abu Bakar, that is, A’isha (God be pleased with both of them).
What makes this issue even more misunderstood and misleading is the apologetic approach of many Muslims, including so-called scholars and intellectuals, by trying to reinterpret the biographic narrations, or attempting to classify them as non-authentic, or even those who accept them, but, by trying to justify this fact with a culture context, indirectly admitting as something not to feel proud of, let alone for a man who was appointed by God as the greatest prophet of all time, the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ).
I could point out two prerequisites for understanding the wisdom behind this particular marriage of the greatest prophet. First, he (ﷺ) has the highest standard of morality, so it is not satisfiable to test his lifestyle against a low-bar morality, such as ‘also others did this’ – there must be more wisdom is that than the culture itself, and second, one of the most important roles of a prophet is to liberate people from human oppression, as Allah summarizes in the Qur’an the mission of Moses, for example, “go to Pharaoh, for he has transgressed.” [Suran an-Nazi’at, 17].
Thus, the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) was sent by God to the entire humanity, not restricted to the Arab people, in order to liberate all humans from injustice, oppression, exploitation, and political tyranny, by reciting to them the Qur’an [the verbatim word of God], giving them instructions, living a role model as a prophet, as a free person, as a leader, husband, and father, teaching them the divine law and morality – all for one purpose: to liberate people from the oppression of other fellow humans to the light of God, which is known in the religious terminology as worshipping God.
The preoccupation of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was to serve as a role model, to teach wisdom, to promote strength in the community of the believers, to teach them maturity, power, and to quip them with all the necessary means – ideological and psychological – in order to free themselves if oppressed, to resist, and be ready to cope with the difficulties of life where humans are after the enslavement of each other.
On the other hand, the American-British Secularism, for example, is a political system which manufactures a society easy to be controlled, exploited, and enslaved by the ruling elite. The average western citizen is a slave and a weak person. The purpose of Islam is exactly the opposite: strength, power, and maturity.
For example, in the West, people are taught that they are apparently evolved monkeys, that men and women are the same implying even biologically, that gender is a fluid trait – people can assume any gender they want, and that children mature at 18 years old. Besides, the western American-British culture or lifestyle is full of elements which induce and propagate weakness, lack of maturity, division, political submissiveness, and a slave mentality, such as in the way people talk, eat, drink, and behave in public. For instance, seeing a man in his sixties wearing shorts in public while licking his ice-cream is not the appearance of a mature and strong man who would be able to resist and protect his family from the Government, but the prospects of a slave.
The goal of the religion of Islam is to raise strong people, mature, who refuse slavery, and who live with dignity and free. Teaching the society to treat respectively girls and boys who have reached their puberty as mature women and men, this is the mindset of a free society, who promotes strength, contrary to the enslaving societies who teach people to appear as weak and immature.
The Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) got married to the nine-year-old A’isha, who had reached her puberty, to value her position, to treat her as woman, definitely knowing that evil agendas of the slave masters across human history are to render a society weak, a society of children who are grown up biologically, but not mentally and psychologically. Slave masters teach girls and boys to remain as such even when they grow up biologically, so they could be enslaved easily. This is not Islam; this is America and the West in general.
Likewise, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) appointed the teenager Usama bin Zayd, arguably 16 years old, as an army commander to fight against Romans while senior companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) were part of his battalion. This is not the outlook of an oppressive and enslaving society consisting of submissive and weak members, but the product of the great teachings of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) who built a free society, with mature men and women, who were ready to fight against oppression and whose teenagers were ready to lead armies, like Usama, who was one of the most beloved people to the Messenger of God, raised in his household.
To summarize, apart from its biological aspects, such as puberty, maturity is also a cultural mindset and a psychological manifestation taught to the members of the society. Free societies give rise to mature people while the oppressive and enslaving ones impose on people weakness, foolishness, and submissiveness, as it is the case in the West.
A’isha (رضي الله عنها) was treated as a woman when she reached her puberty, and she demonstrated to the world to be one of the most important and smartest women ever existed. She became a great scholar with high and strong intellectual capacity to give strong opinions among the companions of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ), and to even criticize or correct the views or legal opinions of other companions. Apart from that, she demonstrated a high level of maturity when she led a military expedition from Mecca to Basra (Iraq) in 656 CE (36 hijri) as an attempt to capture and execute those rebels who participated in the assassination of the caliph Uthman (may Allah be please with him).
To conclude, the marriage between the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) and A’isha (رضي الله عنها) was not simply a detail of the biography of the greatest prophet, about which we should try to give an apologetical context in order to justify it as if we should feel embarrassed. On the contrary, there is much wisdom behind this marriage between the greatest prophet and the famous daughter of a very important man, namely, Abu Bakar. This marriage was meant to be famous and vocal. The chastity and honor of A’isha was even mentioned in the Qur’an, so the details of this marriage constitute legislation as well as they embody precious wisdom.
We ourselves are direct witnesses of a society or a political system, as it is the case of the American-British Secularism, which imposes on people lack of maturity and weakness by convincing young people that they are still babies (even wearing diapers) even though they are biologically grown up. The result: oppression, exploitation, corruption, immorality, enslavement, division, and political tyranny.
While the western tyrants want to enslave people, the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) came to liberate us, to teach us strength, to teach women to act as women and men as men, not as babies who reach their 20s or 30s and they’re still not ready to show responsibility, to raise a family, or even to be able to protect themselves from human oppression.
A’isha is one of the most precious and valuable details of the biography of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). He did not get married to her out of lust or bad judgment. Never! The Messenger of God (ﷺ) is the most intellectually matured man of human race; therefore, he taught us how to be mature, strong, and ready to live a successful life while the West promotes slavery and political exploitation of people.
The Muslim scholars are unanimously in agreement that A’isha is the greatest female scholar and the smartest woman of human history. There is no doubt that her demonstrated intellectual, political, theological, and even military maturity and capacity were a result of the fact that she was treated as a woman at the right biological stage, so much so that she got married to the most mature man, that is, the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ).
In short, the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) did get married to a young lady, but treated someone who had reached her puberty as a mature woman. Her life proved that the decision was right: she became a strong and mature woman, who even had the power to lead armies, share her scholarly opinion, disagree, and enjoy the highest level of respect and scholarly reverence among Muslims.
Sabri Lushi
August 10, 2026
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