Different marriages of the Prophet of Islam/1

The anti-Islamic groups criticize the holy Prophet of Islam because of the number of the wives that he had and accuse him of being a person of lust. Let’s mention some preliminary points in this regard, and then look at some philosophies of those marriages in order to remove this evil accusation.

The first important preliminary point here is that having different wives was a very common and usual custom of the people on that time and it was not only for the Prophet of Islam. The holy Prophet did not oppose many customs of that time which were not against the goals and cultural bases of Islam, and in some cases Islam changed some customs into a better form.

The other point which must be taken into consideration is that the situation of the women before Islam was so bad   and their rights were violated but when the religion of Islam emerged, it gave so much honor and dignity to the women to the extent that the holy Prophet of Islam said: “The best among you are those who have the best relation and treatment with their wives and I am the best among you who treats his wives well”, and one of the last advices of the Prophet at the time of his departure was recommending about the women to be treated kindly.

Another important point here which is so shocking and helpful is that the holy Prophet of Islam when he was 25 years old got married to Lady khadijah who was (according to some historians) 40 years old and till the time of the death of Lady Khadijah the Prophet did not get married to any woman else.

If the Prophet of Islam was a person of lust, so why did he spend his youth i.e. 25 years with only one woman that(according to many historians) was older than him?

Another witness for our claim is that if the holy Prophet of Islam was after his lust, he could reach to it when the enemies of Islam told his uncle: Ask your brother’s son to leave his invitation to Islam and as the exchange, we will give him so many properties and beautiful women, but the Prophet answered to his uncle: If they give the sun into my right hand and the moon into my left hand(meaning if they give my so many precious things) in order to ask me to leave my invitation to Islam, I will not do that. So can we ascribe to such a person who is so careful about the divine religion to be lustful?

To be continued.