Fatherly Duty Quotes
Later in the same document, he calculates the age by which a girl should be married as nine (9) years old. However, many Islamic countries have been under pressure from their educated populations and women’s groups to set a higher age as a minimum. Sharia scholars in the latter part of the 20th century tend to have moved the age up to 12, but many countries will not even make that a minimum. Yemen for example ‘recommended’ 15 but leaves it up to the girl’s parent to pick the exact age which very often is under 15 and in some cases as low as the 9 that Khomeini recommended.
