Now after the introduction let me introduce you with the new Rafidi trend (championed by all contemp. Rafidis today, the Khomeini camp, the Shirazi camp, really no exception except few):
Modern day Western Kuffar (unlike their forebears) have problem with early marriage, so apologetic Muslims today dutifully jump through hoops to try to explain it away. However, even Sufi groups have crushed the Kuffar and orientalists in their attack (quote from my other thread):
Now guess which is the only sect that keeps repeating the cheap shubhah (false argument and doubt) of the orientalist kuffar? Yes, it is their bredrin in kufr, the Rafidah. This is despite the fact (as mentioned before) that Rafidi sources never ever made a big deal about this marriage so it seems pretty clear that back then the norm was that once a girl entered into puberty, even before puberty, she was to be married and delaying it further than that was looked down upon. So if, as the above narration clearly states, the Prophet (pbuh) was married to Aisha (ra) at a young age, this was pretty normal. I mean, just look at these narrations on the matter:
[ 25036 ] 1 ـ محمد بن يعقوب ، عن محمد بن يحيى ، عن أحمد بن محمد بن عيسى ، عن بعض أصحابه ، عن أبي عبدالله ( عليه السلام ) قال : من سعادة المرء أن لا تطمث ابنته في بيته .
1 – Muhammad b. Ya`qub from Muhammad b. Yahya from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. `Isa from one of our companions from Abu `Abdillah عليه السلام. He said: From the felicity of the man is that his daughter
not menstruate in his house.[ 25037 ] 2 ـ وعن بعض أصحابنا قال الكليني : سقط عني إسناده ، قال : ان الله عزّ وجلّ لم يترك شيئا مما يحتاج إليه الا وعلمه نبيه ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) ، فكان من تعليمه إيّاه أنّه صعد المنبر ذات يوم فحمد الله وأثنى عليه ، ثم قال : أيها الناس ، إنّ جبرئيل أتاني عن اللطيف الخبير فقال : إن الابكار بمنزلة الثمر على الشجر ، إذا ادرك ثمارها فلم تجتن أفسدته الشمس ، ونثرته الرياح ، وكذلك الابكار إذا ادركن ما يدرك النساء ، فليس لهن دواء إلا البعولة وإلا لم يؤمن عليهن الفساد لانهن بشر ، قال : فقام إليه رجل فقال : يا رسول الله ، فمن نزوج ؟ فقال : الأكفاء ، فقال : ومن الاكفاء ؟ فقال : المؤمنون بعضهم اكفاء بعض ، المؤمنون بعضهم اكفاء بعض .
ورواه الشيخ بإسناده عن محمد بن يعقوب .
2 – And from one of our companions, al-Kulayni said: Its isnad is dropped from me [from Abu `Abdillah عليه السلام – in al-Kafi], he said: Verily Allah عزّ وجلّ did not leave anything which is needed but that He taught it to His Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله. So from His teaching to him was that one day he ascended the minbar, and praised and eulogized Allah. Then he said: O people, verily Jibra’il came to me from the Subtle, the All-Aware, and he said: Verily the virgins are of the status of the fruit upon the tree. When its fruits ripen and it is not harvested, the sun spoils it and the winds scatter it. And likewise are the virgins. When they mature (or, apprehend)
what the women mature, then there is no cure for them but having a husband, and otherwise they not safe from corruption as they are human. He said: So a man went to him and said: O Messenger of Allah, so who do we marry? So he said: The equals (al-akfa’). So he said: [O Messenger of Allah – in al-Kafi] and who are the equals? So he said: The believers, each of them are the equals of the other. The believers, each of them are the equals of the other.