Mohammed's High Regard For
Women
M uch has been spoken about
the inhuman treatment of women in Islam. If one wants to know the
reason behind this, one has to closely examine Mohammed's personal
life. As far as women are conecerned, they were just objects of
sexual desire for Prophet Mohammed.
Here I expose the insatiable sexual appetite that Mohammed
possessed. This goes to show that among others, one of the main
reasons for forming this insidious religion, Islam, was so that
sex was freely available to the male followers in the name of
Allah. As I have already proved in my article, Wondrous Treatment
of Women In Islam, the Quran justifies treating a woman as nothing
but an object for sexual desire and sometimes even an ordinary
object would be treated better. Suras in the Quran seem to pop up
conveniently, so that Mohammed can justify his perverted sexual
actions. For example, when Mohammed wanted his adopted son's wife,
he suddenly got a revelation from Allah declaring it right to take
another man's wife. When he wanted to stop his wives from
quarreling or to accept more wives, he got a quick revelation for
it. My above points are illustrated from the verses taken from
Sura 33.
(Sura 33:28) "O Prophet! Say to thy consorts: 'If it be that
ye desire the life of this world and its glitter then come! I will
provide for your enjoyment and set you free in a handsome manner.'
(Sura 33:30) "O Consorts of the Prophet if any of you were
guilty of evident unseemly conduct, the punishment would be
doubled to her, and that is easy for Allah."
(Sura 33:37) "....Fear Allah. Then when Zayad had dissolved
his marriage with her (Zainab) we joined her in marriage to thee:
in order that there may be no difficulty to the believers in the
matter of marriage of the wives of their adopted sons...."
The prophet's interactions with women, his insatiable lust for
lascivious ladies, his lecherous behaviour with his wives and
concubines are components that form the model of a true muslim.
The prophet is the perfect muslim man for all devout muslims as he
is the one whom Allah chose to reveal the Quran to. And because he
is the perfect man it is every muslim's duty to follow him. For
example, they cannot eat pork because Mohammed disliked it, they
have to grow a beard like he had, they have to loot and kill like
he did and likewise they have to molest and treat women inhumanly
as he did!
The "great" Mohammed, the founder of this
"fabulous" faith was married to Khadija Bibi who was his
employer and 15 years his senior. At that time Mohammed was 25
years old. He was Khadija Bibi's 3rd husband. Khadija Bibi was a
rich widow when she married Mohammed. For the first time in his
life, Mohammed enjoyed a luxurious life.
This shows the parasitic nature of Mohammed who married his
employer so that he can live a rich life without putting in a
single day's work.
Khadija Bibi died when Mohammed was 49 years old. Between the ages
of 49 and 63 the "great prophet" married at least 11
times.
This shows how he treated the institution of marriage. For him,
women were nothing but objects for sexual fulfillment. Marrying at
least 11 women in 14 years throws light on his insatiable sexual
appetite. Read on about the "greatness" of this prophet.
Among his many other wives Mohammed also married a 6 year old
baby, Ayesha. She was his favourite wife.
This marriage is a clear proof that his pedophilic tendency
started manifesting itself after Khadija's death, because when she
was alive he did not want to offend her because all the wealth
belonged to her.
The prophet said that, "the woman can be married for
religion, her fortune, or her beauty. So marry one for the
religion" (Abu Issa al-Tarmidi, Sunan al- Tarmidi, Medina n.d.,
p.275, B: 4, H:1092)
Therefore, according to the Prophet the woman is either a creature
who will be subjected to brutal conversion to Islam, a golden
goose or a sexual plaything. Her virtues, intelligence or
personality do not matter. But Mohammed did not stop there. He
recommends all muslims to marry "one for the religion".
Now what does this mean ? It means that use the institution of
marriage to convert people to Islam. Now you know why so many
Muslim men marry non-muslims and convert them to Islam. It also
shows what high regard Islam has for the sacred institution of
Marriage.
In many occasions Mohammed did not even spare women who were
originally allotted to other soldiers of his tribe after gaining a
victory in War. One such woman was Safia Bint Huyay. This Jewish
woman was captured by lecherous muslim invaders after the Jews
were brutally murdered by Mohammed. According to a Quranic Sura
(8:41) four fifths of any booty or spoil that is won after
murdering the non-believers, is distributed to the barbaric
invaders. In Islam, women of other religion are also considered as
booty, so Safiya bint Huyay was allotted to a soldier called Dahia.
But when Mohammed the ascetic heard of her 'incomparable beauty',
he sent for Dahiya, paid him Safiya's price and married her. (Ibn
Saad, al-Tabaqat, pp. 120-123).
Safiya Bint Huyway was just one of the numerous Jewish women who
became prey to Mohammed's insatiable sexual desire. Regardless of
his participation in these barbaric raids Mohammed was alloted 1/5
of the booty as prescribed in the Quran, Sura 8:41. Rayhana Bint
Zayd was another Jewish woman, whom Mohammed captured after her
tribe was totally butchered. She was known to be a woman of
immense beauty. Mohammed kept her as a concubine. (Ibid., p. 129)
During Mohammed's time a lot of barbaric wars were instigated by
the muslims and Mohammed was always the receiver of at least one
fifths of the booty. This booty included captured women and
children. One can imagine how many women were made into concubines
for Prophet Mohammed's carnal pleasure and how many children were
his victims.
Maria the Copt from Egypt, was another concubine of Mohammed. She
bore him a son, Ibrahim, who died in infancy. The Prophet's desire
for Maria was so strong that it led him to violate another of his
ideals: "That a man should be just in his dealings with his
wives. A man should keep strictly to the rotation schedule and not
have intercourse with a wife, even if he so desired."
Hafsa, one of the Prophet's wives, however, caught him having
intercourse with Maria in Safiya's room. 'O Prophet of God, in my
room and in my day!' fulminated Safiya angrily. Afraid of the
anger of his other wives, and especially of his most beloved
Ayesha, he promised Hafsa never to touch Maria again if she would
keep the incident secret (Ibid., p. 213). But she spoke out, and
the Prophet immediately received orders from God to retract his
promise to Safiya; he then resumed relations with Maria (Sura
66:3).
Maria's power over the Prophet is best described in Ayesha's
words: "I never was as jealous as I was of Maria again. That
is because she was a very beautiful, curly haired woman. The
Prophet was very attracted to her. In the beginning, she was
living near us and the Prophet spent entire days and nights with
her until we protested and she became frightened." (Ibn Saad,
al-Tabaqat, p. 212)
The Prophet then decided to transfer Maria to a more secure
dwelling far from his legitimate wives and kept seeing her inspite
of their pressure.
Another woman that the Prophet married for satisfying his sexual
desires was Juwariya Bint al-Harith who was according to Ayesha's
description, 'so beautiful that whoever caught a glimpse of her
fell in love with her.' (Ibid. p.117)
Ayesha's jealousy is displayed again from the following quote:
"The Prophet was in my room when Juwariya came to ask him
about a contract. By Allah, I hated her when I saw her coming
towards him. I knew that he was going to see what I saw (her
beauty)." (Ibid)
A unique instance of the effect of female beauty on the Prophet
was that of Duba Bint Amr who 'was among the most beautiful of
Arab women....her hair was long enough to cover all her
body.'(Ibid., p. 153) Mohammed asked her son if he could marry his
mother, but later retracted when he heard that Duba Bint Amr,
although attractive, was aging.
This shows that Mohammed was only interested in physical beauty
and not in providing protection for widows or some other
charitable cuase as the Muslims have been brain washed to believe.
Mohammed's adopted son Zayed was married to Zainab, daughter of
Jahsh. But one day the prophet "beheld in a loose undress,
the beauty of Zainab, and burst forth into an ejaculation of
devotion and desire. The servile, or greatful, freeman (Zayed)
understood the hint and yielded without hesitation to the love of
the benefactor."
Mohammed was not satisfied with his own overflowing harem and had
to marry his son's wife. His son being a devoted follower of the
"great" prophet was more than happy to divorce his wife.
What a great father-in-law Mohammed was, a model for all Islamic
father-in-laws.
Muslim scholar and statesman, Ali Dashti gives the following list
of women in Mohammed's life.
Khadija
Sawda
Ayesha
Omm Salama
Hafsa
Zainab (of Jahsh)
Juwariya
Omm Habiba
Safia
Maymuna (of Hareth)
Fatima
Hend
Asma (of Saba)
Zainab (of Khozayma)
Habla
Asma (of Noman)
Maria
Rayhana
Omm Sharik
Maymuna (not of Hareth)
Zainab (third one)
Khawla
Duba
As a fitting punishment for all his heinous crimes against women,
it was a Jewish woman who poisoned him in her rightful quest for
revenge after the battle of Khaybar. During the last four years of
his life, his health declined, epileptic fits became more frequent
and his other infirmities increased. After living a life of rape,
perversion, destruction and plunder, at the age of 62, Mohammed
gasped his last breath on the lap of his 17 year old child bride
Ayesha who watched him die a slow , long and horrible death.
NOTE: Works of Fatima Mernissi, Dr. Robert A. Morey and A. Ghosh
have been used to compose this article
(c)A. Ghosh 1988
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