The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times, Issue #27, February 2015 | Page 8

the nine year old girl in Islam,
it is a statement of the
boundaries regarding the
legitimate case, and it is not
the law that the divine
government would practice if
the vicegerent of God were to
have the opportunity to rule
and enact a law concerning
personal status law. If the
matter is left to the vicegerent
of God, he can place restrictions
that prevent the marriage of a
girl under the age at which the
complete development of the
human female’s reproductive
organs is usually ensured. For
example, he can place a
condition that this marriage
must have a necessity, and that
the physical state of the girl is
suitable for marriage based on
an official medical report, etc.
Generally speaking, the
jurisprudential permissibility of
this type of marriage in Islamic
jurisprudence does not mean it
is the natural case, as
demonstrated above. Rather, it
is simply the minimum age at
which a girl can marry when
necessary. For example, if we
imagine that a catastrophe
happened on earth, and only a
few individuals of the human
race or of the believers

survived, then the issues of
early marriage and early
childbearing — while taking
the safety precautions — are a
necessity to preserve the
human race or to preserve the
believers. Otherwise, the
chance of extinction of the
human race increases. Whoever
understands the theory of
evolution and how the genetic
organization functions in
nature understands what I am
saying. If early marriage — or
let’s say the preparation of the
human female for fertilization
at an early age — was not
important in preserving the
human race at an earlier time
period of Homo evolution, the
female body would not evolve in
this way, such that it is
prepared for fertilization at an
early age. As for some Muslims’
independent application of this
jurisprudence without
restrictions, and their causing
of physical harm to girls, that is
their mistake and not the
mistake of the jurisprudence.
Neither they nor their clerics
are qualified to apply the
jurisprudence or know its
complete boundaries. That is
why God made its application
the task of the vicegerent of