Why Prophet Muhammad Did 11 Marriages

Enemies of Islam have always made the 11 marriages of Prophet Muhammad a topic of discussion against Islam, whereas if they read the biography of Muhammad Sahib, even the Devil (Shaytan) would have no chance to make any wrong comments about Prophet Sahab.

Not in detail, but in the biography of Muhammad Sahib, I will mention only a short history of his marriages, which will make it clear to the world that the 11 marriages of Muhammad Sahib (God’s Refuge) were not due to any interest in sexual relations, but for other reasons, which will be mentioned below Insha Allah. Before this, let us know a brief history of the marriages of Muhammad Sahib.

A Brief History of Muhammad Sahib’s 11 Marriages

The Prophet Muhammad Sahib first married at the age of 25 years to a 40-year-old widow as Muhammad Sahib had married two persons before and after the death of both their husbands, Muhammad Sahib came into Nikah. Muhammad Sahib spent his entire life with his widow whose name was Khadijah, and when this wife of Muhammad Sahib passed away when he reached the age of 50, Muhammad Sahib did not marry again.

After the death of Hazrat Khadija, at the age of 50, Prophet Muhammad Sahib married a second woman named Sawda, also a widow, and then married Hazrat Aisha, who was a virgin but did not divorce, at the age of 54, after Muhammad Sahab arrived in Madinah. When Hazrat Aisha passed away, it was discovered that Muhammad Sahib had two wives at the age of 54, which was the age at which the amount of sexual intercourse almost decreased. Then a year later at the age of 55, he was married first to a woman named Hafsa who was a widow, and a few days later to a woman named Zainab bint Khuzayma, who was also a widow and died within a few months.

Note:- By the time Muhammad Sahib reached the age of 55 years, he had had five marriages, including one virgin and four widows, two of whom died while three were alive.

He then married a woman named Umm Salamah at the age of 56 or 57 and a woman named Zainab bint Jahsh at the age of 58, both of whom were also widows, the total age of Muhammad Sahib was 63 years, from 58 to 63 years i.e., four marriages in the last five years had taken place, making a total of 11 marriages in which 10 women were widows and one was a virgin.

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Conclusion

After seeing the above brief history, even a blind person would believe that the reason for so many marriages could not be due to sex or lust, otherwise, Mohammad Sahib would have married more than one virgin beautiful girl in his journey, while Mohammad Sahib had only one Nikah in his entire journey that too with a widow who was 15 years older than him.

And all the others who got married were at the age of puberty which included a virgin, when this was the age at which a person’s level of sexual intercourse is greatly reduced.

Wisdom of Muhammad Sahib’s 11 marriages

The main purpose of sending Prophet Muhammad Sahib as a prophet to this world was to convey the orders of Allah Ta’ala to the people and to purify the hearts, then Prophet Muhammad Sahib conveyed the orders of Allah Ta’ala to the people in both ways. Explaining and doing itself, on the other hand, there is no department of human life which does not require prophetic guidance. From Namaz to Nikah, child rearing to urination, likewise from husband-wife relationship to household chores, Prophet Muhammad Sahib trained people by persuasion and by doing it himself.