82.Muhammad’s incestuous relationship with aunt:

What is striking is that this Khaula bint Hakin, "one of the aunts of the prophet, " was one of the women who presented themselves to Muhammad. We learn this from another hadith, this one found in Sahih Bukhari 7.62.48. In this hadith, related by Hisham's father, the subject involves one of the women who offered themselves to Muhammad for marriage, as allowed by the Qur'an 33:50. The woman happens to be Muhammad's aunt, Khaula bint Hakim. The prospect of Muhammad's aunt offering herself to Muhammad elicits a natural aversion by young Aisha, one immediately squelched by a Quranic revelation:

Khaula bint Hakim was one of those ladies who presented themselves to the Prophet for marriage. 'Aisha said, "Doesn't a lady feel ashamed for presenting herself to a man?" But when the Verse: "(O Muhammad) You may postpone (the turn of) any of them (your wives) that you please,' (33.51) was revealed, " 'Aisha said, 'O Allah's Apostle! I do not see, but, that your Lord hurries in pleasing you.' "

The Qur'anic revelation suggests that Aisha, or for that matter any other wife of Muhammad, ought not to feel aggrieved if Muhammad engaged in sexual relations with women who belonged to the other categories allowed him, whether they be slaves or concubines or women who offer themselves to him, even if they are maternal aunts.

83. Muhammad raped Safiya after killing her husband and her whole family.

At the Khaibar war Muhammad killed the husband, father, uncle and kinsmen of Safiya and on the way to Medina pitched a tent and had sex with her while a Muslim soldier, Abu Ayyub,  was waiting outside the tent with a drawn sword fearing Safiya would resist Muhammad. Though this behavior is in keeping with a warrior chieftain, it is not the kind of behavior that one would expect from a perfect man, one with the title al-Insan al-Kamil.

“While the Prophet was having intercourse with Safiyah Abu Ayyub waited the night at his door. When he saw the Prophet in the morning he said “Allahu Akbar”. He had a sword with him; he said to the Prophet, “O Messenger of God, this slave woman had just been penetrated, and you killed her father, her brother, and her uncles from her mother’s side and her father side, [sic] her husband, and the rest of her tripe,[sic] therefore I was so worry[sic] she might harm you.” The Prophet laughed and said “Good.” (History of Al Tabari Volume 39, Zad Al-ma’ad by ibn al Qayim page 291 Al-Waqidi page 708, as quoted by Christian Prince, Sex & Allah, Vol.1, page 84).

" Then the inhabitants of Khaibar came out running on the roads. The Prophet had their warriors killed, their offspring and woman taken as captives. Safiya was amongst the captives, She first came in the share of Dahya Alkali but later on she belonged to the Prophet . The Prophet made her manumission as her 'Mahr'.(Bukhari, Volume 5, Book 59, Number 512).

“ The Prophet came to Khaibar and when Allah made him victorious and he conquered the town by breaking the enemy's defense, the beauty of safiya bint huyai bin Akhtab was mentioned to him and her husband had been killed while she was a bride. Allah's Apostle selected her for himself and he set out in her company till he reached Sadd-ar-Rawha' where her menses were over and he married her. Then Hais (a kind of meal) was prepared and served on a small leather sheet (used for serving meals). Allah's Apostle then said to me, "Inform those who are around you (about the wedding banquet)." So that was the marriage banquet given by Allah's Apostle for (his marriage with) Safiya. After that we proceeded to Medina and I saw that Allah's Apostle was covering her with a cloak while she was behind him. Then he would sit beside his camel and let Safiya put her feet on his knees to ride (the camel).  (Bukhari, Book #34, Hadith #437; Sahih Bukhari 4211, Bk. 64, H. 251).

Muhammad did not even have the patience to get to Medina to have sex with Safiya. According to Allah’s order a Muslim man should keep idda (3 months menstrual period). He also said that a man should give his wife enough time to shave her pubic hair before he can have sex with her. Did Muhammad give Safiya time for that? Would a woman whose husband, father and other relatives were murdered be willing enough to have sex with a man who did all of that to her? It should definitely be a rape, otherwise Safiya would be an animal.

The practice of polygamy appears to have been abandoned by the Jews of the time of Muhammad. In the work by the Muslim scholar Ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi (168/784 - 230/845), the Kitab al-Tabaqat Al-Kabir, we read that the Jews, when they witnessed the self-professed prophet Muhammad marrying more than one woman commented: "'Look at this man who never has enough of food and cares for nothing else as he does for women.'" (Tabaqat Ibn Sa'd, 1:398). While the Muslim scholar Ibn Sa'd attributed the Jews' complaint to envy, he did mention that they pointed to it as counter-indicative of any claim to Prophethood: "'If he were a prophet," the Jews said among themselves, "'he would not desire women'" (Tabaqat Ibn Sa'd, 8:202). The Jews' ruminations seem rather common sense.

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