I’m not sure what I expected, but I’m now beginning to realise why many refer to Sam’s entourage/ group of minions as graduates of clown college. In discussing the age of our Mother ‘Aisha (may Allaah be pleased with her), I demonstrated quite simply that she herself admitted to having been in the state of puberty, i.e. sexual maturation – that is to no longer be a child but to now be a young adult in relation to her marriage with the Prophet (peace be upon him).

I indicated in the hadeeth it literally mentions her reaching puberty:

Narrated ‘Aisha {ra}: (the wife of the Prophet) I had seen my parents following Islam since I attained the age of puberty. Not a day passed but the Prophet visited us, both in the mornings and evenings. My father Abii Bakr thought of building a mosque in the courtyard of his house and he did so. He used to pray and recite the Qur’an in it. The pagan women and their children used to stand by him and look at him with surprise. Abu Bakr was a soft hearted person and could not help weeping while reciting the Quran. The chiefs of the Quraish pagans became afraid of that (i.e. that their children and women might be affected by the recitation of Quran).” – Sahih Bukhari :: Book 1 :: Volume 8 :: Hadith 465.

The hadeeth itself says:

” زَوْجَ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَتْ لَمْ أَعْقِلْ”

That the wife of the Prophet (peace be upon him) gathered or attained the age of reasoning, i.e. puberty. Age of reasoning is a euphemism in almost all known languages to refer to a child entering into a state of adulthood/ sexual maturation, the definition is provided here:

The age at which a child is considered capable of acting responsibly.

Under Common Law, seven was the age of reason. Children under the age of seven were conclusively presumed incapable of committing a crime because they did not possess the reasoning ability to understand that their conduct violated the standards of acceptable community behavior. Those between the ages of seven and fourteen were presumed incapable of committing a crime, but this presumption could be overcome by evidence, such as the child having possession of the gun immediately after the shooting. The rebuttable presumption for this age group was based on the assumption that, as the child grew older, he or she learned to differentiate between right and wrong. A child over the age of fourteen was considered to be fully responsible for his or her actions. Many states have modified the age of criminal responsibility by statute.

Unfortunately, the owner of the blog at which Sam is currently frustrating himself over me on, made this comment:

Note, obviously this isn’t what I said, what I did say is that it is commonly known that children are not responsible for their actions until they are baligh or mature, i.e. attained puberty. Thus when puberty occurs, by this time, they can exercise their mental faculties to differentiate between right and wrong, hence why it is also known as the age of reasoning. Apparently, according to this highly educated individual, who has quite funnily, never seen this term before, assumed I was demeaning women. Guess he needs to read a science, law or political book or two. Just goes to show that clowns really do attract each other. Now I’m stuck here wondering why I’m arguing with individuals who can’t comprehend basic terms taught in High School….

Let’s remember for a second that Sam Shamoun is an Iraqi Assyrian immigrant to the USA, whose been writing about Islam for about more than 15 years, I’ve just only began to write about Islam. It must be very embarrassing for him to be experiencing this whooping.

and Allaah knows best.