Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 946
CHAPTER 42 The Greatest and the most Successful Prophet 946 his mission. They refuse to take into consideration the fact that during those years of his life when by nature the sexual urge is strongest, although he lived in a society like that of the Arabs, where the institution of marriage was almost non-existent, where polygamy was the rule, and where divorce was very easy indeed, he was married to one woman alone, Khad i jah, who was much older than himself, and that for twenty- five years he was her faithful, loving husband. Only when she died and when he was already fifty years old did he marry again and married more than once. Each of these marriages had a social or a political reason, for he wanted through the women he married to honour pious women, or to establish marriage relations with other clans and tribes for the purpose of opening the way for the propagation of Islam. With the sole exception of ‘ A ’ishah, he married women, who were neither virgins, nor young nor beautiful. Was this sensuality?" 17 (15) Sir William Muir (1923) in his book, 'Life of Mu h ammad' writes: "The condition of the world at the time of the advent of Muhammad has been summed up in the Holy Qur’ a n as: