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Some defenders of the Qur'an, speaking in English, claim that the Qur'an only uses the word ''Nisaa''' to refer to mature, adult women, therefore 65:4 cannot be talking about pre-pubescent females.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Quran 65:4 – The Child Marriage Claim| author = Kaleef K. Karim| work = Discover The Truth| date = | access-date = 6 January 2022| url = https://discover-the-truth.com/2016/03/12/quran-654-the-child-marriage-claim/| quote = that the Arabic word ‘Nisa’ could also refer to ‘female children’. Let us take a look in Arabic-English dictionaries. The Arabic word ‘Nisa’ has been used 59 times in the Quran. Not once has the word ‘Nisa’ been used for a ‘child(ren)’, it has always referred to mature adult women. Dr. Rohi Baalbaki, says in Al-Mawrid: A modern Arabic-English Dictionary:}}</ref> This linguistic argument does not hold water, even just on the basis of the Qur'an itself as a text. Here are some verses that use the word ''"nisaa'"'': | Some defenders of the Qur'an, speaking in English, claim that the Qur'an only uses the word ''Nisaa''' to refer to mature, adult women, therefore 65:4 cannot be talking about pre-pubescent females.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Quran 65:4 – The Child Marriage Claim| author = Kaleef K. Karim| work = Discover The Truth| date = | access-date = 6 January 2022| url = https://discover-the-truth.com/2016/03/12/quran-654-the-child-marriage-claim/| quote = that the Arabic word ‘Nisa’ could also refer to ‘female children’. Let us take a look in Arabic-English dictionaries. The Arabic word ‘Nisa’ has been used 59 times in the Quran. Not once has the word ‘Nisa’ been used for a ‘child(ren)’, it has always referred to mature adult women. Dr. Rohi Baalbaki, says in Al-Mawrid: A modern Arabic-English Dictionary:}}</ref> This linguistic argument does not hold water, even just on the basis of the Qur'an itself as a text. The word merely means "women/females" and can refer to mixed groups of women of various ages, as the English "female" or "women." Here are some verses that use the word ''"nisaa'"'': | ||
{{Quote|{{Quran|2|49}}|وَإِذْ نَجَّيْنَٰكُم مِّنْ ءَالِ فِرْعَوْنَ يَسُومُونَكُمْ سُوٓءَ ٱلْعَذَابِ يُذَبِّحُونَ أَبْنَآءَكُمْ وَيَسْتَحْيُونَ نِسَآءَكُمْ ۚ وَفِى ذَٰلِكُم بَلَآءٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ عَظِيمٌ | {{Quote|{{Quran|2|49}}|وَإِذْ نَجَّيْنَٰكُم مِّنْ ءَالِ فِرْعَوْنَ يَسُومُونَكُمْ سُوٓءَ ٱلْعَذَابِ يُذَبِّحُونَ أَبْنَآءَكُمْ وَيَسْتَحْيُونَ نِسَآءَكُمْ ۚ وَفِى ذَٰلِكُم بَلَآءٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ عَظِيمٌ | ||