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Muhammad and Aisha

Muhammad married Aisha when she was six years old and consummated the marriage while she remained pre-pubescent, aged just nine years old. Consequently, while following their prophet's example, Muslims throughout the world and throughout history have married girls as young six, and in modern times many Islamic states have set the minimum age of marriage for females to be six or nine years of age.

Sahih Bukhari 7:62:65
Narrated 'Aisha: that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old. (read more)

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+<option weight="1">{{Pictorial-Islam|1=The Meaning of Nikah|2=[[File:Lane's Lexicon.jpg|165px|link=The Meaning of Nikah]]|3=This page references and quotes numerous scholarly and/or reliable sources that define or describe the Arabic term nikah (or the root n-k-h) as meaning "sexual intercourse", or the contract of sexual intercourse, or marriage as a contract for sexual intercourse.
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+Literally the act of sexual intercourse, nikah is the term by which marriage is referred to in the Qur'an. Islamic law defines nikah as a civil contract whose main function is to render sexual relations between a man and woman licit. Any sexual relations outside the nikah contract constitute the crime of zina (illicit sexual relations) and are subject to punishment." ([[The Meaning of Nikah|''read more'']])}}</option>

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