I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

Oh Nujood, you and all girls deserve to have a childhood.

Child marriage is heartbreaking to me.

I was curious about the Prophet Muhammad having such a young wife, so if course I turn to Wiki:

“The majority of traditional sources state that Aisha was betrothed to Muhammad at the age of six or seven, but she stayed in her parents' home until the age of nine, or ten according to Ibn Hisham, when the marriage was consummated with Muhammad, then 53, in Medina. Aisha's age at marriage has been a source of controversy and debate, and many non-Muslim historians, Islamic scholars, and Muslim writers have challenged the previously accepted timeline of her life by claiming that Aisha was in fact 18-19 years old when she consummated her marriage to Muhammad according to historical reviews. Both Aisha and Sawda, his two wives, were given apartments adjoined to the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi mosque.”

As of June 2015, Ali, now sixteen, has unofficially changed her name from Nujood, which means “hidden,” to Nojoom, which means “stars in the sky.”

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