Thighing – Muslim Scholars

Thighing—or mufakhafat—is a practice followed today in many Muslim communities around the world.

Fatwa on Thighing: Number 41409 dated 7-5-1421 (August 8, 2000)

The permanent committee for scientific research and religious sanctions [in Saudi Arabia] are:

• Abdel Aziz ben Abdullah ben Mohammed Aal Sheikh, Chairman
• Bakr ben Abdullah Abu Zeid, Member
• Saleh ben Fozan Al Fozan, Member

Praise is to God and blessings on the Prophet that is the last of all prophets.

The permanent committee for scientific research and religious sanctions [in Saudi Arabia] has looked onto the request of Abu Abdallah Mohammed Al Shamry which was sent to the committee from the general secretariat of the Committee of Higher Scholars number 1809 date 3/5/1421. The requester asked the following:

• Lately, it has spread on a large scale, especially in weddings, the habit of thighing little boys; what is the ruling of the Quran on this? Especially, that God’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) has thighed Ayesha (may God be pleased with her).

The committee, after studying the request, has ruled the following:

• It is not the true guidance of Muslims throughout centuries to resort to the use of these unlawful practices, which were imported to our countries through the immoral videos that are being sent by the infidels and enemies of Islam. As for the thighing of the messenger of God to his fiancée Ayesha, she was six years old and he could not engage in sexual intercourse with her because of her young age, therefore he used to place his penis between her thighs and rub it lightly. In addition, the messenger of God had full control of his penis in contrary to the believers. Therefore, it is not permitted to practice thighing, whether in weddings, or at homes, or schools, due to its grave harm. And may God curse the infidels who brought these practices to our countries. – Faith Freedom, Sept. 23, 2011

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Thighing—or mufakhafat—is a practice followed today in many Muslim communities around the world

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, The Supreme Leader of Iran, the Shia Grand Ayatollah, 1979-89 said in his official statements recorded in The Little Green Book (Tahrir al-Wasilah, fourth edition, Qom, Iran, 1990):

• A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate vaginally, but sodomising the child is acceptable. If a man does penetrate and damage the child then, he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl will not count as one of his four permanent wives and the man will not be eligible to marry the girl’s sister. …  It is better for a girl to marry at such a time when she would begin menstruation at her husband’s house, rather than her father’s home.  Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven.

• A man can have sex with animals such as sheep, cows, camels and so on. However, he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in his own village, but selling the meat to a neighbouring village is reasonable.

• If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, a ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrement become impure and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed as quickly as possible and burned.

• Wine and all intoxicating beverages are impure, but opium and hashish are not.

• If a man sodomises the son, brother, or father of his wife after their marriage, the marriage remains valid.

• During sexual intercourse, if the penis enters a woman’s vagina or a man’s anus, fully or only as far as the circumcision ring, both partners become impure, even if they have not reached puberty; they must consequently perform ablutions.

• A woman who has contracted a continuing marriage does not have the right to go out of the house without her husband’s permission; she must remain at his disposal for the fulfilment of any one of his desires, and may not refuse herself to him except for a religiously valid reason. If she is totally submissive to him, the husband must provide her with her food, clothing, and lodging, whether or not he has the means to do so. A woman who refuses herself to her husband is guilty, and may not demand from him food, clothing, lodging, or any later sexual relations; however, she retains the right to be paid damages if she is repudiated.

• If a father (or paternal grandfather) marries off his daughter (or granddaughter) in her absence without knowing for a certainty that she is alive, the marriage becomes null and void as soon as it is established that she was dead at the time of the marriage.

• It is not illegal for an adult male to ‘thigh’ or enjoy a young girl who is still in the age of weaning; meaning to place his penis between her thighs, and to kiss her.

• If a man commits adultery with an unmarried woman, and subsequently marries her, the child born of that marriage will be a bastard unless the parents can be sure it was conceived after they were married. A child born of an adulterous father is legitimate.

• Ali [son-in-law of Mohammed], having cut off the hands of two thieves, treated their wounds and offered them his hospitality, and this affected them so much that they became utterly devoted to him; or again when he heard that the marauding army of Muawiyah had abused a woman of one of the tribes, he was so upset and moved to pity he declared: “If a man died after such an occurrence, no one could blame him.” And yet, despite a nature as sensitive as that, Ali bared his sword and hacked the perpetrators to pieces. This is the meaning of justice.

• From The Sayings of Ayatollah Khomeini, Political, Philosophical, Social and Religious, Bantam Books, New York/London, 1985, ISBN 0-553-14032-9. Download the English version of The Little Green Book here.

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Prophet Muhammad and his child-wife Aisha – Yahoo Answers

Muhammad married Aisha when she was six years old in Mecca and she joined him in Medina three years later when he was 53. He began having sex with Aisha when she was nine years old and still playing with dolls.

This is the original story told by the only valid biographers of Muhammad and Islam, Ibn Ishaq and Tabari, and the hadiths of Bukhari and Muslim. Refer also to the works of the Qur’an commentators Ibn Kathir and Ibn Qayyim and Ibn Kathir, The Life of the Prophet Muhammad, Al-Sira al-Nabawiyya, Volume II, translated by Prof. Trevor Le Gassick, Garnet Publishing Limited, UK. The Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization, 2000. pp. 93-94, and Ibn Qayyim Al-Juaziyyah, Zad-ul Ma’ad fi Hadyi Khairi-l ‘Ibad, Provisions for the Hereafter, From the Guidance of Allah’s Best Worshipper, translated by Jalal Abualrub, Madinah Publishers & Distributors, December 2000, Volume I, pp. 157-158.

• Muhammad said that he had dreamed of Aisha before demanding her from her father, and his own brother in Islam, Abu Bakr, claiming special “prophets rights” when Abu Bakr was reluctant to give her to him.

• Bukhari, Volume 5, Book 58, Number 235: Narrated ‘Aisha: That the Prophet said to her, “You have been shown to me twice in my dreams. I saw you pictured on a piece of silk and someone said to me, ‘This is your wife.’ When I uncovered the picture, I saw that it was yours. I said, ‘If this is from Allah, it will be done.”

• Bukhari, Volume 7, Book 62, Number 18: Narrated ‘Ursa: The Prophet asked Abu Bakr for ‘Aisha’s hand in marriage. Abu Bakr said, “But I am your brother!”

• The Prophet said, “You are my brother in Allah’s religion and His Book, but she (Aisha) is lawful for me to marry.”

• Marriage to a female already offered to another was illegal in Arab law. Abu Bakr had already arranged for Aisha to marry Djubayr Mutim.

• “Muhammad married ‘A’isha in Mecca when she was a child of six and lived with her in Medina when she was nine or ten. She was the only virgin that he married. Her father, Abu Bakr, married her to him and the apostle gave her four hundred dirhams.” See Ibn Ishaq, Sirat Rasulullah, The Life of Muhammad, translated by Alfred Guillaume, Oxford University Press, p. 792.

• Tabari VII:7 “The Prophet married Aisha in Mecca three years before the Hijrah, after the death of Khadija. At the time she was six.”

• Tabari IX:128 “When the Prophet married Aisha, she was very young and not yet ready for consummation.” See The History of Al-Tabari: The Foundation of the Community translated by M.V. McDonald and annotated by W. Montgomery Watt, State University of New York Press, Albany 1987, Volume VII, pp. 6-7, and The History of Al-Tabari: The Last Years of the Prophet, translated and annotated by Ismail K. Poonawala, State University of New York Press, Albany 1990, Volume IX, pp. 129-130.

• Bukhari, Volume 5, Book 58, Number 236: Narrated Hisham’s father: Khadija died three years before the Prophet departed to Medina. He stayed there for two years or so and then he married Aisha when she was a girl of six years of age, and he consummated that marriage when she was nine years old. – Yahoo Answers

Further reference

• WikiIslam
• The Little Green Book by Ayatullah Khomeini (read on-line)
• An English translation of Bukhari’s Hadith 
• Understanding Islam through Hadis: Religious faith or fanaticism?
• Muhammad in Islam’s own writings: His sex-life, sexual abuse, and paedophilia