mike , before answering your question let me remember you of something all muslims suna and shia believes prophet commited no mistake in revealing the religion and in transforming quran and rules of god . some of them say that even in his presonal life , he was guided by his lord , and some said in his personal life , he was like any ordinary man . he can make mistakes . if you ask me about my opinion , I would say I am from the first group . now ,your answer
I know may be two things that are used to criticise prophet's personality , and are considered as his faults and weaknesses for many non muslims . let us speak about one of them . than move to another one in fact , prophet is critisized now for having many wives . he acused of being lusty man . polygamy is something not accepted now as before in his time . honestly , I had this thought as will until I got the convinced answer which release me let us see : does prophet purpose of marrying many wives was the sexual pleasure . I know from his life that it is not . I am not saying this because I was brain washed , but because I read and had the answer for my questions ? and these are some of the evidences that convince me : 1 – prophet did not marry until he reach 25 years old . before that he did not involve in any relation with any woman . 2 – he did not marry until he had been engaged by 40 years old woman called kadija , this woman married twice before the prophet and had children from her ex-husbands . 3- he remained with one elderly wife since he was 25 until 50 years old , she died when he was 50 4 - he remained 2 years with out wife after her death and was so sad that he called the year in which she died in ( the year of sadness ) 5 – the first woman he married to after two years of Kadija's death . was 80 years old widow . 6 - Most of his wives were either widows (older than him in age too) or divorced women (also most of them were either older or same age). Only one of his wives was a virgin, and he only married her because her father was his best friend. He wanted to strengthen that relationship. And it was her father who offered her to our Prophet .
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