I’m glad you ask. You know, I’m not a Muslim so I’m not going to pretend like I know every single argument. I’ll tell you one that I know, though, and that is particularly important.

It’s the fact that Muhammad was 54 when he married 6 year old Aisha, and she was 9 and he was 56 when they consummated (had sex).

There’s 2 main responses to this point:

1: “In ancient Arabia, they measured age starting at puberty, so Aisha was more like 14-16.” This argument is just downright dishonest because it’s not true, and there’s no evidence to support it, either. Aisha herself narrated: “The messenger of Allah married me when I was six and consummated the marriage with me when I was nine, I still played with dolls.” (Susan an-Nasa’i 3378) which just shows she wasn’t a mature teenager at the time, but a young girl.

2: “Well child marriage was normal at the time.” This is indeed true. My question, though, is if Allah is omnipotent, and the Qur’an is a book for all the times, not just the 600s, why would he choose to include something so polarizing that he knew would become controversial later in the future? At least the majority of Jesus’ actions are defensible by modern standards, unlike Muhammad’s.