Setting the record straight
We have been hearing for years that the age of Hazrat Aiyesha (RA) was nine when the Prophet Muhammad (SM) married her in 625 AD in the city of Madina. In fact, this is not true.
Hazrat Aiyesha was three years younger than Hazrat Fatima (RA), the youngest daughter of the Prophet Muhammad. Fatima’s age was 28 when the Prophet died in 633 AD, meaning that Aiyesha was 25 at that time.
And we know that the conjugal life of the Prophet with Aiyesha lasted for eight years only, indicating that she was 17 (25-8) when the Prophet married her. It now implies upon the Muslim historians to discover facts behind facts in order to remove idle speculation and controversies from the pages of mankind.
We hope that our readers will take pain to defend the truth with wisdom.
Ameer Hamzah
Dhaka
FIFA in trouble
The Swiss Police and the US FBI are jointly working to make football ‘a game of farce’ in the name of cleaning the organization from so-called corruption. Two more vice-presidents have been arrested very recently, and 32 more senior officials are on the list of netting, indicating arrival of very bad days in the horizon of world of football.
We do not know who has given the FBI and the Swiss Police authority to investigate so-called sleaze in the FIFA, the world’s most powerful sports body.
We are now in the doubt about the future of the World Cup Football 2018 and 2022. We apprehend if any of the next two editions of the World Cup is scratched citing attachment of so-called corruption into the voting to select the venue countries, the whole system will collapse and the World Cup Football may disappear as the greatest show on earth. In this situation, all the member states must be united against the US-Swiss conspiracy.
Abdullah Akber
Dhaka
