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nine wives. And that lasted a few years. Besides, in those times
he was always busy with wars; the days when he stayed home
were very few. If it had been as priests write about it or as the
dishonest, who suppose he was like themselves, describe it, in
his youth he could have had as many women as he wanted by
marrying young girls and divorcing them after a short while. As
a matter of fact, his grandson, Hadrat Hasan, married almost a
hundred pretty young girls by marrying and divorcing them. One
day when his father, Imâm-i Alî, said in a khutba of his, “O
Muslims! Don’t give your daughters to my son Hasan! He
divorces, drops girls soon.” The Muslims said, “We will gladly
sacrifice our daughters to him. It will be enough for them to be
honoured by his nikâh (marriage in a manner prescribed by
Islam). We will give our daughters to him.” In Badr, in Uhud, in
Handak and in Khaybar, by attacking a superior enemy with
one signal from Rasûlullah, those lions sacrificed their lives for
him. Wouldn’t they have given their daughters to him? Yet, he
didn’t want them. On the Night of Mi’râj (his ascent to heaven),
when he entered Paradise, he never turned to look at the houris
of Paradise. Voltaire, one of the enemies of Islâm, dramatized
Rasûlullah’s marrying Hadrat Zaynab and calumniated them
with vulgar and base slander. For this reason, he received a
letter of congratulation from the Pope, who was his enemy. This
fact is written in Kamûs-ul-a’lâm, under the entity Zaynab. In a
translation of Mawâhib-i Ladunniyya, on page 459, it is
written, “Rasûlullah ‘sallallahu alaihi wa sallam’ married his
aunt’s daughter Zaynab to his adopted son Zayd. After a long
time, Zayd said that he wanted to divorce his wife. When he
was asked ‘Why?’ he said, ‘I have not seen a bad thing in her,
and I have always appreciated the useful things from her. But,
she boasts about the honour of her lineage and always reminds
me of it.’ Though Rasûlullah said to Zayd, ‘Do not divorce her
for this reason.’ Allahu ta’âlâ stopped him from preventing this
divorce. Allahu ta’âlâ married Zaynab to his Messenger and
ordered him to ask her for marriage.” Dawûd (alayhissalâm)
had one hundred wives and three hundred jâriyas. Sulaymân
(alayhissalâm) had three hundred wives and seven hundred
jâriyas. Voltaire does not even mention the names of these
great prophets, but attacks Rasûlullah for taking a wife that he
was ordered to by Allahu ta’âlâ.
One of the important reasons why Rasûlullah married many
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