The problem with slavery is that its too emotional of a subject and people tend to virtue signal alot when their arguments dont hold. Slavery is bad, correct, but not all slavery was American chattel slavery. That image of slavery dominates the understanding of how we see slavery. Most slavery were wet nurses, indentured servants, could buy their way out of slavery, had access to education, and even after being freed, can have healthy relationships with their masters even taking loans and/or being apprenticed by their former masters for a trade etc. We have to look at each form of slavery by itself and be honest in our approaches. Its a throne subject but an important one
@@homarcarrion1293 According Majmoo’ Al-Fataawa 89, on the authority of Sheikh Abdul Azeez ibn Baaz, kidnapping a free person who is not at hostility with you or Islam constitutes to assault or aggression against an innocent. Essentially, it falls into the category of "crimes of aggression" [Harabah]. There are varying punishments for such a crime in the Qur'an, the most severe of which are crucifixion and dismemberment of hands and feet from opposite sides as mentioned in Surah 5:33.
@@WolphL0 What that have to do with my questions? Quran 5:33. Means you or anyone that don’t believe in allah kill them. Islam is being doing this for the last 1400 years.
@@homarcarrion1293 Here's a more detailed response for you then: islamqa.info/en/answers/41682/the-ruling-on-one-who-steals-robs-or-rapes-at-knife-point-or-gun-point As for your spin on Surah 5:33, do you not see the "penalty for *those who wage war* against God and his Messenger" part before the punishments part? Be sure to read the very next verse too. The entire chapter is about punishments for crimes of aggression.
Would anybody give viewpoint on a Shakespeares Novel never once having read it from cover to cover? But everybody has viewpoint on Islam never once having read Holy Quran from cover to cover.😂
Slavery in any form is a terrible thing. We can rationalize it as long we are not the actual victims. Wen should entourage others to comment on different aspects of Islam. If it is true religion it will withstand any test. as far as slavery goes, Islam forbade it in Surah Muhammad (47:4). Prisoners of war were slaved in those days. Islam forbids buying another human being. Islam did abolish slavery. Also it gave a code of war prisoners. Recently nations signed a treaty to regarding POWs. If you read 47:4 in Quran, it dictates the same rules. Only this rule was declared 1500 years ago.
The Essenes were the first organized group in history to reject slavery "all together". If they were connected in any way to the Ebionites, there could be a chance the Ebionites also rejected to either buy or sell slaves, like it is done in the Hadiths. It looks like to me that Essenes and Ebionites possible are by virtue the most by ideal form of religion ever, being the first ones to condemn slavery, even before the 18/19th century.
The vast collection of books you have is self-evident to your genuineness and the sincerity of your intention. May Allah the Almighty bless you and have mercy on you, Ameen!
Paul thanks again for tackling yet another issue many are reluctant talk about. It might be difficult to get all the books you have recommended in the short time I have joined your blog and you are always 10 steps ahead. Does the book address the burning Question of reconciling slavery and the reluctance or soft handling as it were of religion regarding slavery?
In his last sermon on mount Arafat, and before he died, prophet Muhammad gathered all the Muslims, at that time and asked Muslims to treat every human being equally. He said: “All mankind is from Adam and Eve. An Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also, a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not, therefore, do injustice to yourselves. Prophet Muhammad’s sermon was the final ultimate word on the topic and identified that ALL MANKIND are equal and that inequality is morally wrong.
I just found ur site and I love your videos Can you do a video on the word Muslim used in early religions like Judaism I think the word they used was Meshullam and i think it represents someone who submits himself...but can u go in more detail into it please
sometimes people today look at the past with a view of the day. the issue of slavery in the past is a necessity created by humans. Therefore, God sent a prophet to change it slowly with the rules adapted to the times. the prophets certainly acted on God's orders, what was not ordained by God would not be conveyed to the people. that is why at the time of Jesus PBUH / Prophet Isa (as), the Bible did not condemn slavery strongly. then when the Qur'an was revealed, Allah SWT regulated what had not been regulated, canceled and perfected the moral and legal rules when Isa (as) was sent because there was no more prophet after the prophet Muhammad. The Qur'an is the legal and moral foundation for the abolition of slavery.🙏
At one point, the author mentions that the Prophet ﷺ had fifteen slaves. In a rebuttal of that claim, I present Surah Ahzaab, Ayat 28 and its explanation below: یٰۤاَیُّهَاالنَّبِیُّقُلْلِّاَزْوَاجِكَاِنْكُنْتُنَّتُرِدْنَالْحَیٰوةَالدُّنْیَاوَ زِیْنَتَهَافَتَعَالَیْنَاُمَتِّعْكُنَّوَ اُسَرِّحْكُنَّسَرَاحًاجَمِیْلًا وَ اِنْكُنْتُنَّتُرِدْنَاللّٰهَوَ رَسُوْلَهٗوَ الدَّارَالْاٰخِرَةَفَاِنَّاللّٰهَاَعَدَّلِلْمُحْسِنٰتِمِنْكُنَّاَجْرًاعَظِیْمًا (33:28) O Prophet, tell your wives: “If you seek the world and its embellishments, then come and I will make some provision for you and release you in an honorable way. (33:29) But if you seek Allah and His Messenger and the Abode of the Hereafter, then surely Allah has prepared a great reward for those of you who do good.” One of these incidents is reported from Sayyidna Jabir ؓ and appears in the Sahih of Muslim and elsewhere as well. It is said there that the blessed wives got together and asked the Holy Prophet ﷺ that their sustenance allowance should be increased. Abu Hayyan explains it in Tafsir al-Bahr ul-Muhit by saying that the victories of Banu Nadir and Banu Quraizah after the battle of al-Ahzab coupled with the distribution of spoils had generated a certain improved economic wellbeing among common Muslims. At that time, the blessed wives thought the Holy Prophet ﷺ would have also set aside a share for himself in the spoils. Therefore, they appealed to him jointly saying, "ya RasulAllah, the wives of Cyrus and Caesar are laden with all sorts of valuable ornaments and dresses and have maids appointed to serve them while you see how hungry and ill-clad we are. Therefore, some liberal treatment in our case seems to be in order now." When the Holy Prophet ﷺ heard this demand from the blessed wives that they should be treated at par with the life styles of kings and the worldly-wise rich, he was grieved about how much they had missed to appreciate the worth and value of living in the home of a prophet of Allah. On their part, the blessed wives never thought that their submission would cause pain to him. It was simply because of the wellbeing of common Muslims around them that they had also thought of the same for themselves. Abu Hayyan says that the description of this incident after the battle of al-Ahzab also supports the likelihood that this very demand of the wives became the cause of the choice of divorce given to them. According to some Hadith narratives, following the event of having a honey drink while at the home of Sayyidah Zainab ؓ which will appear in detail later under the commentary on Surah At-Tahrim, 66:1-5, in Ma’ ariful-Qur'an, Volume VIII- a situation created by the mutual sense of importance among the blessed wives became the cause of this choice of divorce. If both of these happened close in time to each other, then, it is also not remote to believe that they both could be the cause. But, the words of the Verse of Choice (1) are more supportive of the understanding that some financial demand had become its cause - for it was said in this verse: إِن كُنتُنَّ تُرِدْنَ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا وَزِينَتَهَا (If you intend (to have the pleasure of worldly life and its charm - 28). With this knowledge, why would one think or infer that Prophet ﷺ would own slaves?
Allah allowed slavery at some level but treat slaves with respect and humanity, that happened to Bilal MAPWH, which he was slave but excel at the end of his life he was a scholar and governor in Damascus, Islam allowed the freedom a choice for slaves protect their right the best part slaves in Islam can pay for their own freedom and thier owner were encourage to free slaves with love. Islam is very practical religion Islam, Islam are not shameful about slave , instead embrace them with greatness & kindness. Rasul allah himself had slaves , treat them with dignity and give them choice & finally freed them
The Qur'an considers emancipation of a slave to be a highly meritorious deed, or as a condition of repentance for many sins. The Qur'an and Hadith contain numerous passages supporting this view e.g. Q90;13. In chapter 2 , verse 177, God says most emphatically: Surah Al-Baqara, Verse 177: لَّيْسَ الْبِرَّ أَن تُوَلُّوا وُجُوهَكُمْ قِبَلَ الْمَشْرِقِ وَالْمَغْرِبِ وَلَٰكِنَّ الْبِرَّ مَنْ آمَنَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ وَالْمَلَائِكَةِ وَالْكِتَابِ وَالنَّبِيِّينَ وَآتَى الْمَالَ عَلَىٰ حُبِّهِ ذَوِي الْقُرْبَىٰ وَالْيَتَامَىٰ وَالْمَسَاكِينَ وَابْنَ السَّبِيلِ وَالسَّائِلِينَ وَفِي الرِّقَابِ وَأَقَامَ الصَّلَاةَ وَآتَى الزَّكَاةَ وَالْمُوفُونَ بِعَهْدِهِمْ إِذَا عَاهَدُوا وَالصَّابِرِينَ فِي الْبَأْسَاءِ وَالضَّرَّاءِ وَحِينَ الْبَأْسِ أُولَٰئِكَ الَّذِينَ صَدَقُوا وَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْمُتَّقُونَ It is not righteousness that you turn your faces towards the East and the West, but righteousness is this that one should believe in Allah and the last day and the angels and the Book and the prophets, and give away wealth out of love for Him to the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and the beggars and for (the emancipation of) the captives, and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate; and the performers of their promise when they make a promise, and the patient in distress and affliction and in time of conflicts -- these are they who are true (to themselves) and these are they who guard (against evil). via iQuran Muhammad encouraged manumission of slaves, even if one had to purchase them first. Traditional biographies of Muhammad give many examples where Muhammad's companions, at his direction, freed slaves in abundance. Abul Ala Maududi reports that Muhammad freed as many as 63 slaves. Meer Ismail, a medieval historian, writes in Buloogh al Muram that his household and friends freed 39,237 slaves. It was a practice and tradition of Muhammad to release from captivity those females who would face the risk of being disgraced or humiliated as a result of being held as captives or slaves, and those who came from respected backgrounds that were known for their philanthropic contributions to the general masses, regardless if their charitable deeds benefited Muslims or non-Muslims.
Morals get extrapolated from our limited understandings, we can't infer morality through nature or the observation of phenomena. Brown was being a pseudo intellectual, in some other video he made about Slavery. Saying slavery is an absolute moral evil, by itself. Can't see that being true. Islam puts limits on slavery, though. Better off freeing slaves. And if Muhammad owned slaves, then that's tricky. Since it would make owning slaves Sunnah, and most likely would validate it . Under Islamic law. So it's very paradoxical to think about. Most Muslims don't agree with Slavery I think, hopefully.
Subhana Rabbi al A'laa. Slavery predates Qu'ran, Bible and Torah. The Qu'ran regulated slavery and by far encouraged to release them. The legal status of a slave is not equal to western ideas of slavery. How they are treated is far different than what we know of slavery by Europeans. Slavery, Now can only come about in an islamic sense is through War. With regards to war, we do not pursue this course initially, we enter war when there is no other logical choice.
السلام عليكم Why don't we speak about slavery in Mauritania , resurrected slavery in Libya ; the racialization of slavery in Islam , like in the slavery in the west. The problem is, we can defend the Quran and Hadith but what muslims practiced is far from what the Quran and Hadith suggest. You will find more brown and black people , than any other group Enslaved in many Islamic civilizations and subtle justification for it in many accepted books by Islamic scholars. I think Johnathan Brown book and speeches have great points but what muslims practiced and still practice became a lot like what Europeans practiced. This must be exposed and dealt with not ignored or glossed over. May Allah defend the oppress. May we do better.
Interesting topic. This is example of how Quran deals with issues in the society tactfully depending on the severity of the problem. In the case of slavery, there’s one direction i.e. towards their freedom. It is interesting also to note how Quran gradually prohibits drinking of Wine/Qamar which was rooted in the society through 4 separate verses. Verses on prohibition of killing of infants (pagan practice) & Aurat in the Quran are different as they are for immediate implementation. We have to remember that the pagan arab (Jahilliah) was chosen as the place for our last prophet not by chance but on purpose.
Great video as always,but dr JB is not a scholars of islam,he is a doctor yes,but not of islamic studies and research,he has many maaany false informations/interpretation about the doctrine and religion of islam,and there are many scholars that made videos showing his mistakes and there are on youtube for everyone to see,don’t believe me see for yourself and be the judge,the are many sources that wrote on the subject with proof and objectivity,anyway,keep it up with the excellent content.
Just wanted to add something. Slavery is by defenition the owning of another person and treating him in an inferior manner which includes torturing, abusing, beating, etc. When we look at what Islam permits about having a slave or a servant: First, no one is allowed to hit his slave by any means and if he did that deliberately or by mistake then he should free that slave. (Sahih Muslim 1657) Second, it is prohibited to call your slave by "My slave" instead you must call him "My son", "My boy" etc. (Sahih bukari 2552) Third, if you have a slave you must feed him from what you eat and dress him from what you wear and not bear him something that he hates and don't overwhelm him by things he can't do and you should help him if he's overwhelmed (Sunan Ibin majah 3690) Fourth, as mentioned in the video, Islam always encourages people to free thier slaves there's not a single verse that encourages having slaves. The propeht freed many slaves and so did his companians. We can say that the relationship between a man and his slave in Islam is the same as a boss and his employee, he can't hit him, he can't call him names, he must help him etc. (Surah Al Nisaa 36) , clearly states that you must treat your slave by the best manners. There are many other hadiths in which Gabriel told the propeht to tell his nation to treat the slaves in the best manner.
You should also read a book called al-Jihad fi al-Islam, it was written by the late Maulana Maududi, may God have mercy on his soul, It also touches upon the subject of slavery in Islam and explains Jihad and its rules. There is an English translation, You should also read some other books of Maulana Maududi, for he is said to be a revolutionary thinker, and philosopher.
The prophet (pbuh) had concubines? Is this correct or a western understanding of the situation back then. Can anyone expand on this? Did he marry the two women mentioned?
Dear Assalamualaykum rahmatAllahi wa barkatahu another good blog as Hazem Adi mentioned in his comment the ISIS has nothing to do with Islam they are Muslims only for name sake.
Wrong is Wrong. Whether Muslim or Christian or Anyone. Allah says I shall Judge everyone even All the messengers of Allah. A smile to one son and not to the other is oppression. We are alive so we can first correct ourselves or ask forgiveness to the person that is wronged. I want everyone to go to the never ending Paradise. Ameen
24:33, quran allows for freeing of a slave of they wish to be freed but has left full discretion to the owner, showing that slavery is not morally wrong in islam
I think that there is a hige misunderstanding of the coted verses. First of all there is a confusion in defining slavery which is definef in the Coran as. عبدا مملوكا for male and امة for females. There os also another word for people captured in war اسير in arabic. But the problem became more complicated for ملك يمين which has many meaning. according to Mohamed Chehrour, this word has many meaning but in any casw means slavery. It means in some cases a relashionship between man and women which is a marriage but without any financial responsabilities and the other meaning is for a person working for somone (called employee in our days). So be careful to this word. If you are interested I can give you more detail about this subject l.
What do you mean that there is a universal consensus that slavery is not to be practiced today? It can't be practiced because there is no real Islamic state but if there is then no one can say that slavery can't be done and if a consensus happened then it's worthless since that doesn't count as an ijmaa, an ijmaa only counts when no scholars before this generation opposed the opinion that got a consensus on(a dead scholar's opinion isn't dead). Saying it isn't to be done is just really conceding to western wants and is like making haram what *Allah* has made halal for us. Also jonathon brown isn't the best to trust on such controversial issues as his mindset is affected to a very high degree by the west. He made many shocking remarks like one about supporting gays' right to gay-marry. He also showed things like nationalism(or patriotism) to, of all countries, america. There are other problems with him so he isn't to be trusted on these things.
It's also worth noting that Mohammad clearly encouraged the freeing of slaves and that if a slave has no master they die of hunger. Not an easy thing to fix. Slavery existed because of the corruption of the rulers before Mohammad.
🌟 Dr. (Craig Considine), an Irish-American researcher, and a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at Rice University: "The Messenger Muhammad (ﷺ) is the first anti-racism recorded in history."
@@tonydimera282 No ! If the female slave is married , any sexual relationship with her master is ZINA (adulatory) .. If he had sex with her while she is married with another man, she became legally a wife and her children are his .. What Islam says is not always what muslims do !!
@@tonydimera282 If she wasn't married, she's his slave , and he would take care of some points ; i. if she was a slave of his father before him , ii. If she or her mother milked him or his wife, iii. Or she had requested a MUKATABAH to him or his father .. otherwise, she's his own !! That's the answer without diplomacy .. I am Muslim and I like to preach to my religion!.. but not with hiding something that is not going with values of today .. I give Islam as it is and I know that Islam is the only accepted religion to Allah Almighty ! Thank you for asking !
Please excuse me! I have used a word between brackets (that was a suggestion from my phone keyboard) and what I meant is (commit adultery) and not (adulatory) .. I beg your pardons
@@tonydimera282 no. You can't. Because, You can never make a free man your slave. Prisoners of war women (those who are helpless, those who have no guardians, those who have no one to support them) and men. You can make them slaves. Moreover, slavery is not merely a means to satisfy one's sexual needs. The one who keeps the slave, has to take all the other responsibilities of the slave.
The way Islam dealt with slavery is, in my opinion, a sound evidence of the divinity of this religion. Islam came in a time where slavery was so deeply rooted in the social and economic construct of that world that any abrupt prohibition of that phenomenon would literally demolish those constructs. In a world where nearly half the population was enslaved, a mass freeing of slaves would have created a massive crisis as hundreds of thousands of individuals who relied on their masters for food and shelter will suddenly find themselves having to start from scratch with no one to support them. Islam made sure to encourage the gradual draining of sources feeding slavery by means you have already mentioned in your video. There’s also the psychological aspect of being born into slavery and how some slaves would literally rather spend their lives enslaved if given the choice. So Islam made sure to free the minds before the bodies, in a way. A comparison between the Islamic experience and the American one in freeing slaves carried by Mohamed Qutb in his book "Suspicions About Islam" may be quite interesting in relation to the matter.
paganism wasn’t in trenches in that society too but allah gave a direct order to stop it thief was also striving in that society same infidelity , diet of not eating pork and si on and so on Allah fear the slave masters?
You make no sense at all because if Islam is a divine Religion why didn’t it come before slavery was all over the world? Why didn’t it come to prevent slavery in the first place? Religion has many of you so indoctrinated and trained that you’ll rationalize ANYTHING in order that it fits your belief system in what you consider a positive way.
@@forouzanrahimi8987 Because Religion was created from the minds of men and not from a Divine Being. It was easy for them to say something like help the poor and needy but giving up free labor is something else. Slaves did a helluva lot of work for them so giving that up wasn’t something they could bring themselves to see. A Divine Being on the other hand (that supposedly cares about all of humanity) would’ve made Slavery Haram/Illegal/Sinful. What kind of sense does it make that eating Pork is Haram but enslaving another Human being is okay? Only in the twisted mind of a Ancient Human being does that make good sense🤦♂️.
Umar ibn Al-Khattab (the second Khalifa) said: "When did you enslave the people when their mothers bore them free?" He was addressing Amr ibn Al ‘Aas (Umar’s governor over Egypt) over a Coptic Egyptian who traveled to Medina and complained that Amr's son lost in horse race to the Egyptian but instead claimed he won and procedded to beat the Egyptian saying he was the son of nobles. So Umar sent for Amr and his son Mohammed. When they arrived in Medina, he held a short trial to ensure the accusation was true. When it was confirmed, Umar then handed the Egyptian his staff and told him: Beat the son of nobles (Amr's son) and he did. Then Umar addressed Amr ibn Al ‘Aas saying: "O Amr, when did you enslave the people when their mothers bore them free?"
@@sakariasheikh9739 Nope, because our conception of the eradication of slavery is to integrate existing slaves in the world into society and deal with them in accordance to the ways of the Prophet, and the ultimate goal of a Muslim who holds a slave is to emancipate him/her. We don't condone enslavement. We condone justice and emancipation.
Islam slavery idea is to treat the people that work or live under you like your extended family and encourage you to give them freedom somewhere down the line . Non islam slavery idea is to exploit them to the max . Treat them like an animal . You can beat them . Over work them . And kill them if you feel like it . No freedom unless there is huge finacial gain to get !!!
@@blitzbees890 there is nothing good about slavery that is why Allaah encourages to free even if you don't own another human. It also comes as a fine to free. Don't make to like good.
@@sakariasheikh9739 Allah doesnt forbid slavery either but He regulates slavery to be as humanely as possible thru His messanger teaching . Jahiliyah & Western style of slavery are never OK but Islam slavery is neccesary but it has to be done according the time we live in . Prophets saw had a few slaves during his life time you want to tell me hes wrong ? He never laid his hands on them . Never yell at them . Always eat together with them . And freed them in the end eventho they didnt mind to be his slaves forever due to the best treatment that the prophet gave them . But as of now we already move forward from slavery era which is a good thing . But dont ever lump together Jahiliyah / western slavery with Islam slavery .
Thank you for this. Being a muslim the idea of slavery in islam and particularly women slaves who can be used sexually always sat uneasily with me and I never found a real explanation that allayed my doubts fully. After listening to you I feel that for the first time I have understood this topic. Your balanced talk made me realise my doubts were due to my own emotional sentiments which were fuelled by images of American black slaves and oppression of humans generally as depicted in recent history. I now understand this topic so much better. Thank you.
No, your doubts are totally legitimate. Slavery is depriving a human of the most basic right: freedom. Leaving the slave helpless in front of his master. And a god that allows it should be questioned. These video is justifying slavery which is disgusting. If islam discouraged slavery why did the prophet had slaves? Why did the muslims enslave millions of people in their conquests? Their african slave trade has been proven to be as big or even bigger to that of the europeans. Islam never prohibited it. In many ways it is still practiced today in some muslim places. The logical explanation is that the holy books, as any other holy book, were writen by people, just people, thus explaining why they allowed slavery, had misoginistic views, referred to killing and conquering... The illogical answer and the one that is the hardest to fit in is the one that says it is a loving gods word. How could that god allow men to be deprived of all freedom and subjected to other men?
This guy seems very intelligent and has read a lot. But these videos are clearly reafirming islamic beliefs. I recommend you check some atheist channels, and see what they say, the most healthy way of learning is checking confronting ideas.
@@jonoc3729 Lmao!!!! Atheist channel?! How can they even EXPLAIN morality?! How convenient of you to speak your nonsense without 0 reflection on history and 0 insight just comfortable in your warm house, farting and typing your eyes out.
@@nycnow811 You are more comfortable I think. Instead of thinking for yourself you follow a book that says whats right or wrong, with no basic principle other than "god says it". And yes, I dont believe in objective morality. I dont critize anciente people for having slaves. But I do critize people that doubt that it is wrong.
I have his “Misquoting Muhammad” book and already it’s very interesting. I will be checking the “slavery and Islam” book because slavery is always a touchy subject haha
Slavery is the natural relationship between God and creation. The difference lies in to the master. Allah is perfectly just and merciful, to the degree that his servants see no chains, yet can't escape his justice and mercy. Slavery is discouraged in the Qur'an because humans are incapable of this justice and inclined to treat slaves unjustly, but it is not outlawed because therein we recognize our own place in relation to Allah and see that had it been for anyone but Allah, injustice would prevail
It's a shame that so many of the comments come from angry haters that don't have the courage and/or attention span to watch the video in full before commenting. They go straight to the comments and attack, bully and insult those they disagree with. Of course their comments are ignorant and foolish but they think they are telling truth and are wisely-guided. May God enlighten them... BarakAllahou feek for another great video Mr Williams
My understanding of the slavery in Islam was the since it was prevalent in Arabia pre Islam, it had to be eliminated steadily and the verses of the Quran lay out the many different ways in which it was to be eliminated tied to good deeds. You can imagine if a verse came down that said it is prohibited completely right there and then. Islam being new to the people, it would have been hard for people to give up something they were so accustomed to as also other gradual prohibitions such as alcohol were done in the same manner.
Asalamualikum brother, Slavery had become bless by the treatment of Islam. best Human Rights are taught by Quran and Hadith. Nice presentation. may Allah SWT rewards you for your hard works.
Tabari 9:1754 - "Treat women well, for they are [like] domestic animals with you and do not possess anything for themselves." From Muhammad's 'Farewell Sermon'. (Bye Bye) 😆
Surprisingly, in Egypt slaves were the rulers of the country from the fall of the Ayubid dynasty, till the Ottoman conquest in 1517 by Selim I, a span of about 260 years. They were called the Memlukes (Mamaleek) and they were either Turkic or Georgian in origin.
Those slaves weren't really slaves then, only in name I guess. I consider low income labourers, that don't have any rights and limited freedom to be proper slaves. By definition.
@@halaldunya918 The memlukes were slaves. They were bought by the state and trained to be soldiers in the Sultan's army. There is a famous fatwa by the scholar Ezz Ibn Abdelsalam who forbade the rule of Memlukes before they were resold in public and set free.
the Memluks were more common by Abbasid Kalifat,they bought them mainly from central asia mainly turk to fight for their masters,african to serve as servants at harem where many were have to loose there private parts so the honre of their masters stay safe from revealing their harem to other males even if they were salves alower grade than a free human, the Memluks were mainly fighters,they serve the master who can pay them,they changing loyalty to the one who paid them more,the only thing they do all their life is to fight,kill,win or to be killed,like Mercenaries,since they were brought to the master as very young childrens so he feed,train and teach them islam too which teach them to obey him so allah will bless them, yet they rebeled against their masters and took over Egypt and Hijaz for their own sake,they never mix with the local as they lived in their own forts castle and camps,during their time the Egyptian especially faced the true horror with over taxing, recruting farmers to fight for them so they manage to beat the Mongols,when the ottomons opened Egypt again they found aprehistoric country ruled be terror,so the ottomon contuned the great work islam brought to this country and ruled for another 400 years or so,to bring it to the ground the memluks were muslims as the abbasid Ummaed ottomon,as the gulf countries nowaday Mr Paul where slavery in all its type took place,slave market were everywhere even in the first years of Muslims invasion toward north of arabia,The great sahabah were buying and seeling slaves normally after they having sex with them,however slavery everywhere the mankind always like to enslave(taking use/advantage)of one another it will be agreat search if you search of the slave trade in north africa,the captive who been moved from their home land in the west toward Baghdad,Damasqus to be sold their what about the labours who built saudi arabia over past 40 years under Kafeel system?
Once in the midst of the noise, liquor, music and frivolity, Imam Musa al-Kadhim (may Allah be pleased with him) happened to pass by his house in Baghdad. Meanwhile, al-Kadhim saw a slave girl coming out of his house carrying some sweepings. He turned to the slave and asked her: "Is the owner of this house free or a servant?" "He is free," she replied. "You are right," retorted Musa al-Kadhim, "if he was a servant, he would fear his Lord." The slave girl came into the house while Bishr was at the wine table, so he asked her: "What delayed you?" She gave him an account of what took place between her and the Imam. It is said that Bishr quickly jumped to his feet and headed to the door barefooted but the pious man had already left. He left in pursuit of the man and when he finally caught up with him asked him to repeat his words and he obliged. Bishr was so taken aback by his words that he fell to the ground and began to cry. "No I am a slave, I am a slave." From then onwards he would walk without shoes and people began calling him Bishr al-Haafi (The bare footed one). When asked why he did not wear shoes, he would reply "My master Allah guided me when I was barefooted and I will remain in this condition till death".
🌟 Dr. (Craig Considine), an Irish-American researcher, and a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at Rice University: "The Messenger Muhammad (ﷺ) is the first anti-racism recorded in history."
@@cervezaway7049 you're such a disgusting hypocrite and you're even bad at it. It's so evident from the text that you've taken it out of context. Him saying that the evil looks like a person who has the attribute of being black does not mean he's referring to all black people or referring to that because he's black. You disgusting hypocrite. So even if prophet Mohammad peace be upon him said that, that's no evidence and you're pathetic. That being said, I have never heard that prophet Mohammad peace and blessings be upon him ever said that nor have you provided any proof that he did so until you do bring proof, you're just a liar.
4:75 “And what is wrong with you that you fight not in the Cause of Allâh, and for those weak, ill-treated and oppressed among men, women, and children, whose cry is: “Our Lord! Rescue us from this town whose people are oppressors; and raise for us from You one who will protect, and raise for us from You one who will help.” This verse and its context generally forbids any kind of oppression. 7:33 “Those who unjustly eat up the property of orphans, eat up a Fire into their own bodies: they will soon be enduring a blazing Fire!” Shows the punishment of those who exploit orphans. These are direct verses from the Quran, but there are also hadith which are also clearly against this sort of oppression. Mind that your question is about kidnapping, and in Islam slavery is only permissible if the slaves were spoils of war. As for rape, it is one the most serious crimes and for a married man who commits this, his punishment is to be stoned to death. For an unmarried man, 100 lashes is his punishment.
@@niamahahmad8619 Stop lying to yourself, your funny book the Quran don’t have those laws, because is okay to rape and kidnap and selling people to be slaves. Quran 4:24 You worship a demonic principalities called Allah.
@@niamahahmad8619 You are either lying or ignorant. Nowhere in the entire Quran does it say OWNING YOUR FELLOW HUMANS (SLAVERY) IS FORBIDDEN. Secondly, Muhammad invaded innocent villages and enslaved women and children. He even allowed his followers to rape them. Rape is sex without consent. So even when you have sex with your wife without her consent, that's rape. You don't have to even force her because maybe you drugged her...that's rape. There is no such thing as rape in the cult of Muhammad because wives are forbidden from denying their husbands sex no matter what. They have to submit to his sexual desires anytime no matter what they are doing.
@@azhaniaorgena6941 @Homar Carrion If you choose to be ignorant, then no one can help you. Come out of your bubble. You are running out of air to breath...
@@aismail8321 Let me show you ignorant from the funny book the Quran. Quran 33:72. We indeed offered the truth to the heavens and the earth and the mountains but they refused to undertake it being afraid of it but MAN undertook it and he was indeed unjust IGNORANT and FOOLISH.🤔
Slavery is not a necessary a good thing but before modern time it is not a necessary bad thing either because desperate person choose slavery as a survival instinct. Homeless people, war prisoner etc.it was part of medieval socioeconomic.
Throughout history of mankind, slavery has been a social reality and a socioeconomoic system until recent times. The Quran doesn't abolish slavery; however, it encourages and supports the idea of abolishment as it recognizes slavery as a source of injustice, due to the fact that it places the freeing of slaves on the same level as feeding the poor and helping out the ones in need.
This is a very visceral subject. Once you establish the existence of a Creator in your heart, you will easily digest anything He sanctions. He is the Creator of Morality. Most of us barely understand the philosophy of morality yet we argue so much about it, not knowing that we ourselves have also been influenced by our society just like the people 1400 years ago.
Slavery was necessary. Yet human are no animals. If armageddon hit, slavery might prove useful yet again. Although, i believe that we need to revise and improve this system so that it benefits all and do less harm on human rights.
Sahih Al-Bukhari 2227 [In Islam you cannot enslave a free person] Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Allah says, 'I will be against three persons on the Day of Resurrection: -1. One who makes a covenant in My Name, but he proves treacherous. -2. One who sells a free person (as a slave) and eats the price, -3. And one who employs a laborer and gets the full work done by him but does not pay him his wages.” Also read Sahih al-Bukhari 6050
At the time of revelation, in a tribal antiquity, POW's of aggressor tribe became slaves. Quran stopped that before the first war; forcing Muslims to free POW's for free or for ransom. Gradually Quran unshackled slavery over a period of six to eight years. Javed Ahmed Ghamidi explains this process.
Al Sharawi الشعراوي says: The were many doors for slavery before Islam came. You can sell yourself or children to slavery because of debt. You can enslave a free person by kidnapping or force, you can enslave prisoners of wars, punishment for crimes etc.. But Islam shut the door on all types and the only way for slavery is for the prisoners of war, . Meaning if there was Jihad between you and an enemy. This means the way of slavery that was practiced by Arabs until recently is not Islamically acceptable. My grandfathers would capture free slaves from Africa and bring them here to Qatar. Look at this hadith The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Allah says, 'I will be against three persons on the Day of Resurrection: -1. One who makes a covenant in My Name, but he proves treacherous. -2. One who sells a free person (as a slave) and eats the price, -3. And one who employs a laborer and gets the full work done by him but does not pay him his wages.' " Al Bukhari 2227 Furthermore, there are many verses in the Quran that encourages freeing a slave, but not one that encourages enslavement. One example is verse 90:13 Al Balad
Muhammad did try to do something against slavery. He did this by example of his conduct. First, he took Said ibn Harits, a slave in his and Khadija's house, to be his son. Said ibn Harits was renamed as Said ibn Muhammad. But this was revoked when Zainab bint Jash's incident happened. Said divorced Zainab. Muhammad got a lot of critiques for marrying his own son's ex wife. A revelation was given by Allah that it is halal, because Said is not tied to Muhammad by blood. Since then, adoption becomes haram in Islam. Another conduct is regarding Bilal ibn Rabbah. After being tortured by his master, Muhammad made him a free man, even raising him higher into the reader of Adzan. The Arabs mocked this, saying, "There, the crow caws again."
The problem with slavery is that it is mostly emotional, not judicial. I think when people imagine a "slave", they imagine a black man or a black woman, and imagine the owner to be a white man. This poses a great problem, that triggers emotions, before rational thinking. You see Slavery existed in the past and still exist until today in some african countries, so why isn't that problematic ? It is because when africans enslave africans, or when arabs enslave arabs, or when whites enslave whites, it is not a big of deal, because the inter-race/ethnicity slavery is based on , wealth, power, ..., So it is based on something temporary, something that everyone regardless of race, religion, age, can be in, or get out of. The problem on the other hand of american slavery, which single handedly refined what slavery is, is this : 1. It is based on race. 2. The enslaved race is not enslaved because it is poor, or weak, it is because it is not human. 3. There was only one race enslaved. These three reasons are what made slavery an emotional more than a judicial problem. If we take the emotions out, and ask ourselves, who defines what is moral and what isn't, slavery can be solved like any other problem. e.g. Is it moral to jail people for using drugs ? Since one can abort a child, can they also sell their organs, to better one's life and probably other's too ?
There is a case to be made that the earliest Muslim community were close to having freed if not all, very nearly all of their slaves. And that it was the absorption by conquest of Persia and the Byzantine Levant, as well as Egypt, where the subject people who entered Islam as existing slave owners posed the dilemma of what to do with their slaves to the religious authorities (Ulema). History records the scholars of law devised an entire corpus dedicated to normalising the practice (including the extension of the one half rule to every type of punishment concerning errant slaves and even, bizarrely, divorce (which requires 3 utterances for non-slaves, but 1.5 utterances in the case of slaves(!) I kid you not). However, as per the precedence established in the Qur'an and Hadith, abolishing the practice should have been the intent of the law, rather than its perpetuation.
As far as i remember, slavery is forbidden in Islam. Usually slaves are called "servants" and they have a lot of rights such as suing their owner in case of harming them. These servants are taken in only one condition, which is war between 2 nations "not groups" (other than that it's completely forbidden). The reason why it was allowed in wars, because in the past soldiers's families used to go to battlefield with the army, and so that they won't be left to die with no food or shelter after losing the battle, they were taken by the commanders of the winning army. According to some scholars it was another way to introduce them to Islam, because most of the servants through the Islamic history have converted to Islam willingly, while the rest continued practicing their own religions, and some of them became army leaders, scholars, queens and even leader of an entire kingdom...etc
Thanks for your interesting topic. I would like to add that Slaves ruled Egypt and most of the Islamic nations for around three hundred years. They managed to defeat the Mongolian army of Genghis Khan's descendants and save the whole world from their cruelty. Another important point to mention is that once a slave woman gives birth to a baby, she is free, and the baby is recognized as his son/ daughter, which never happened in recent America.
Thank you, once again for an excellent overview. Please do speak to how you approach reading a new book. The frequency with which you make videos on new books suggests you’ve either read a lot of these in an earlier time, or you read quite quickly, or both. What advice do you have for those of us who seek to devour books as efficiently and effectively as you do? Dare I ask for a dedicated video on this! God bless
The Surah mentioned and read by Paul Sir is Surah Balad - you can find its translation and a beautiful recitation here - ua-cam.com/video/pspL_C8g2Ho/v-deo.html. It really bring tears to one eyes especially the mention of the hard path.
Islam didn't starting slavery, but slavery exist in every culture, including Christianity and church doctrine didn't prevent slavery, even untill industrial revolution, infact Islam is the first to regulate slavery prohibited kidnaping for slave, and create many circumstances that will make slave free.
We are slave to something or someone the problem is either we aware or ignorance about it. Sometimes we stuck to debt that we work like a slave to pay it. Sometimes we tied to the company law that ignore our rights and etc. Modern slavery is not a new thing. That why al quran and hadith still relevant to this day for this kind of issues.
The texts of Islam took a strong stance against slavery . It says in a hadeeth qudsi: “Allaah, may He be exalted, said: ‘There are three whose opponent I will be on the Day of Resurrection, and whomever I oppose, I will defeat … A man who sold a free man and consumed his price.’” Narrated by al-Bukhaari (2227). Islam changed the way in which slavery was dealt with; it created many new ways of liberating slaves, blocked many ways of enslaving people, and established guidelines which blocked these means. Capture of prisoners during war was the most common way of acquiring slaves. Prisoners would inevitably be captured during any war, and the prevalent custom at that time was that prisoners had no protection or rights; they would either be killed or enslaved. But Islam brought two more options: unconditional release or ransom. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “Thereafter (is the time) eit This is a brief summary of some of the principles of dealing with slaves in a just and kind manner: 1 - Guaranteeing them food and clothing like that of their masters. It was narrated that Abu Dharr (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “They are your brothers whom Allaah has put under your authority, so if Allaah has put a person’s brother under his authority, let him feed him from what he eats and clothe him from what he wears, and let him not overburden him with work, and if he does overburden him with work, then let him help him.” Narrated by al-Bukhaari (6050). 2 - Preserving their dignity It was narrated that Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: I heard Abu’l-Qaasim (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: “Whoever accuses his slave when he is innocent of what he says will be flogged on the Day of Resurrection, unless he is as he said.” Narrated by al-Bukhaari (6858). Ibn ‘Umar (may Allaah be pleased with him) manumitted a slave of his, then he picked up a stick or something from the ground and said: There is no more reward in it than the equivalent of this, but I heard the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: “Whoever slaps his slave or beats him, his expiation is to manumit him.” Narrated by Muslim (1657). 3 - Being fair towards slaves and treating them kindly It was narrated that ‘Uthmaan ibn ‘Affaan tweaked the ear of a slave of his when he did something wrong, then he said to him after that: Come and tweak my ear in retaliation. The slave refused but he insisted, so he started to tweak it slightly, and he said to him: Do it strongly, for I cannot bear the punishment on the Day of Resurrection. The slave said: Like that, O my master? The Day that you fear I fear also. When ‘Abd al-Rahmaan ibn ‘Awf (may Allaah be pleased with him) walked among his slaves, no one could tell him apart from them, because he did not walk ahead of them, and he did not wear anything different from what they wore. and he said to him: Do it strongly, for I cannot bear the punishment on the Day of Resurrection. The slave said: Like that, O my master? The Day that you fear I fear also. When ‘Abd al-Rahmaan ibn ‘Awf (may Allaah be pleased with him) walked among his slaves, no one could tell him apart from them, because he did not walk ahead of them, and he did not wear anything different from what they wore. If you noticed how they should eat same food , wear Same clothes clothes like their masters. Thus you can notice that slaves in Islam 1400 years back were treated better than house maids now a days.
A slave under Islamic laws could actually have much more fulfilling life than many people part of the working class in modern capitalist countries. So even from a secular utilitarian perspective, Islam’s views of slavery are NOT evil by any means since they do not inherently cause suffering.
Imagine justifying slavery saying: it says to treat your slaves well. Islam permited slavery and it was widespread in the islamic world, millions were enslaved under muslims. And waht you say has no point, before islam many cultures had done similar regulations regarding slavery, stating the treatment of slaves and who could become one, nothing new. Prisoners of war were fed long ago, mostly if they were important people. And also officers were ransomed long before islam. In yihad killing and enslaving was permited. Stop justifying slavery. I mean just look to what extent you can go to justify your faith, if you can justify slavery im sure you could justify killing, truly dangerousm
@@jonoc3729 In Islam slavery is allowed only in case of wars were Muslims were attacked. Now can you tell me what’s wrong with that ? Which part you think is bad and why ?
I see a beautiful wisdom in how Islam treated the issue of slavery which was widely practiced before its time. If Islam would condemn slavery and all the slaves would have been freed at once during the prophet time, there would have been a large number of jobless; hungry and probably violent young men around, a situation that can explode at any time. Freeing a slave to forgive a master's sin is a gradual way of getting those young men to the working force of a comunity and avoiding the unwanted repercussions of suddenly freeing all the slaves. Thank you for the beautiful video and for bringing those books to our attention.
What nonsense. Slavery is allowed because of the economy!. Where is your moral compass. See the appalling mental gymnastics of shabir ally in defense of the quran written in the desert of the 7th century by the slave holder muhammad: YT video “Dissecting apologetics | islamic sex slavery (concubinage). Really pathetic. Islam will not survive in an open society.
I hope you read my comment The Chapter of the Koran you quoted was slightly but profoundly mistranslated. Your source translates it as: „Yet have he had not attempted the steep path“ In the original text it is an imperative not a negation. GOD orders mankind to fo go the steep path, freeing slaves is an imperative
Slavery was usually a way of dealing with war captives after the fighting was over, partly to prevent them rising up against you and partly to secure a larger army for future battles. Females were rarely sent to battle so they became more useful for acting as a support for combatants should the need arise.
Islam did not start slavery. It inherited it from the Arabian culture of the time. In those days wars were the source of slaves. Prisoners of war were slaved. Children of slaves were also slaves. It became an integral part of the culture and economy. Abolishing it immediately would have posed numerous problems. It would have shaken the economy. Slaves would have to be integrated into society. Their acceptance in their new role of a free person would not have been an easy task. Salves would be in shock and not prepared for this new role either. So to avoid a chaos Islam competed this task in stages. As you mentioned prepared slave owners to treat slaves better. that improved their life style. Gave people incentives to free their slaves. You have mentioned all that. However one thing that you missed was the last and crucial step that Islam took to stop this ugly cycle of slavery. IT CLOSED THE DOOR FROM WHERE SLAVES WERE ACQUIRED. IN SURAH MUHAMMAD 47:4 ALLAH ORDERED MUSLIMS THET "THEY WERE NOT MAKE SLAVES ANY POWS". WHICH PRACTICALLY CLOSED THE DOOR TO SLAVERY. Islam offered about the same status to a POW which nations recently agreed to in Geneva convention. Islam offered it 1500 years ago. I listen to your blo9g regularly. I think you do a decent job and show no bias. So I thought I should bring this to your knowledge. Also if I get chance, separately, i shall comment on your blog about religion and democracy. I would like to show you that Islam encourages democracy.
Hi Paul.Thank you again for a splendid video. Could you cover some of the works by Muhammad Asad - The Message of the Qur'an, Islam and at the Crossroads, and his famous autobiography 'The Road to Mecca'.
The Ottoman Empire for all its faults, understood slavery in the Islamic sense, most slaves were captured sailors and on average worked 18 years to achieve their freedom.
The great work being done by Sheikh Paul Williams even we Muslims have not done so far. Actually, we Muslims should have done this type of great work. Allah The Almighty must forgive us! Upon looking at the vast collection of books our Sheikh has is unimaginable. SUBAHAANALLAAH!!!
The problem with slavery is that its too emotional of a subject and people tend to virtue signal alot when their arguments dont hold. Slavery is bad, correct, but not all slavery was American chattel slavery. That image of slavery dominates the understanding of how we see slavery. Most slavery were wet nurses, indentured servants, could buy their way out of slavery, had access to education, and even after being freed, can have healthy relationships with their masters even taking loans and/or being apprenticed by their former masters for a trade etc. We have to look at each form of slavery by itself and be honest in our approaches. Its a throne subject but an important one
Where is the punishment for kidnap and selling a person in the Quran?
@@homarcarrion1293 According Majmoo’ Al-Fataawa 89, on the authority of Sheikh Abdul Azeez ibn Baaz, kidnapping a free person who is not at hostility with you or Islam constitutes to assault or aggression against an innocent. Essentially, it falls into the category of "crimes of aggression" [Harabah]. There are varying punishments for such a crime in the Qur'an, the most severe of which are crucifixion and dismemberment of hands and feet from opposite sides as mentioned in Surah 5:33.
@@WolphL0 What that have to do with my questions? Quran 5:33. Means you or anyone that don’t believe in allah kill them. Islam is being doing this for the last 1400 years.
@@homarcarrion1293 Here's a more detailed response for you then: islamqa.info/en/answers/41682/the-ruling-on-one-who-steals-robs-or-rapes-at-knife-point-or-gun-point
As for your spin on Surah 5:33, do you not see the "penalty for *those who wage war* against God and his Messenger" part before the punishments part? Be sure to read the very next verse too. The entire chapter is about punishments for crimes of aggression.
@@WolphL0 One more time. Where is the punishment for rape in the Quran?
Where is the punishment for kidnap and selling a person in the Quran?
Tomorrow isn't granted. May Allah forgive us and grants us His mercy ❤️
Your god allah didn’t granted Mohammed the ability to read, when he was squeezed 3 times.
What kind of god is allah?
@@homarcarrion1293 qaali ĺ9
@@abdisamedmohamudyusuf2484 Who’s WE in the Quran?
Can you prove allah is the one true living God?
@@homarcarrion1293 if you don’t know who the we is then u need to step aside little boy.
@@newbiblecomingsoon8861 Tell me who is WE, I want to learn?
Would anybody give viewpoint on a Shakespeares Novel never once having read it from cover to cover?
But everybody has viewpoint on Islam never once having read Holy Quran from cover to cover.😂
Well said.
It a weird subject if you ask me?
Slavery in any form is a terrible thing. We can rationalize it as long we are not the actual victims. Wen should entourage others to comment on different aspects of Islam. If it is true religion it will withstand any test. as far as slavery goes, Islam forbade it in Surah Muhammad (47:4). Prisoners of war were slaved in those days. Islam forbids buying another human being. Islam did abolish slavery. Also it gave a code of war prisoners. Recently nations signed a treaty to regarding POWs. If you read 47:4 in Quran, it dictates the same rules. Only this rule was declared 1500 years ago.
The Essenes were the first organized group in history to reject slavery "all together". If they were connected in any way to the Ebionites, there could be a chance the Ebionites also rejected to either buy or sell slaves, like it is done in the Hadiths. It looks like to me that Essenes and Ebionites possible are by virtue the most by ideal form of religion ever, being the first ones to condemn slavery, even before the 18/19th century.
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Brown's books are really good. Thank you for your reviews
The vast collection of books you have is self-evident to your genuineness and the sincerity of your intention.
May Allah the Almighty bless you and have mercy on you, Ameen!
Paul thanks again for tackling yet another issue many are reluctant talk about. It might be difficult to get all the books you have recommended in the short time I have joined your blog and you are always 10 steps ahead. Does the book address the burning Question of reconciling slavery and the reluctance or soft handling as it were of religion regarding slavery?
In his last sermon on mount Arafat, and before he died, prophet Muhammad gathered all the Muslims, at that time and asked Muslims to treat every human being equally.
He said: “All mankind is from Adam and Eve. An Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also, a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not, therefore, do injustice to yourselves.
Prophet Muhammad’s sermon was the final ultimate word on the topic and identified that ALL MANKIND are equal and that inequality is morally wrong.
May God bless you for your efforts.
Alhamdulillah. I always gain knowledge by watching your video, brother. May Allah bless you abundantly
I just found ur site and I love your videos Can you do a video on the word Muslim used in early religions like Judaism I think the word they used was Meshullam and i think it represents someone who submits himself...but can u go in more detail into it please
I put this book on my reading list
sometimes people today look at the past with a view of the day. the issue of slavery in the past is a necessity created by humans. Therefore, God sent a prophet to change it slowly with the rules adapted to the times. the prophets certainly acted on God's orders, what was not ordained by God would not be conveyed to the people. that is why at the time of Jesus PBUH / Prophet Isa (as), the Bible did not condemn slavery strongly. then when the Qur'an was revealed, Allah SWT regulated what had not been regulated, canceled and perfected the moral and legal rules when Isa (as) was sent because there was no more prophet after the prophet Muhammad. The Qur'an is the legal and moral foundation for the abolition of slavery.🙏
I’ve got the book only started it though. Definitely not for social justice warriors and virtue signallers ! Or maybe they need to read it most of all
That’s right!
I love your vids. Jazakallah Khair.
At one point, the author mentions that the Prophet ﷺ had fifteen slaves. In a rebuttal of that claim, I present Surah Ahzaab, Ayat 28 and its explanation below:
یٰۤاَیُّهَاالنَّبِیُّقُلْلِّاَزْوَاجِكَاِنْكُنْتُنَّتُرِدْنَالْحَیٰوةَالدُّنْیَاوَ زِیْنَتَهَافَتَعَالَیْنَاُمَتِّعْكُنَّوَ اُسَرِّحْكُنَّسَرَاحًاجَمِیْلًا
وَ اِنْكُنْتُنَّتُرِدْنَاللّٰهَوَ رَسُوْلَهٗوَ الدَّارَالْاٰخِرَةَفَاِنَّاللّٰهَاَعَدَّلِلْمُحْسِنٰتِمِنْكُنَّاَجْرًاعَظِیْمًا
(33:28) O Prophet, tell your wives: “If you seek the world and its embellishments, then come and I will make some provision for you and release you in an honorable way.
(33:29) But if you seek Allah and His Messenger and the Abode of the Hereafter, then surely Allah has prepared a great reward for those of you who do good.”
One of these incidents is reported from Sayyidna Jabir ؓ and appears in the Sahih of Muslim and elsewhere as well. It is said there that the blessed wives got together and asked the Holy Prophet ﷺ that their sustenance allowance should be increased. Abu Hayyan explains it in Tafsir al-Bahr ul-Muhit by saying that the victories of Banu Nadir and Banu Quraizah after the battle of al-Ahzab coupled with the distribution of spoils had generated a certain improved economic wellbeing among common Muslims. At that time, the blessed wives thought the Holy Prophet ﷺ would have also set aside a share for himself in the spoils. Therefore, they appealed to him jointly saying, "ya RasulAllah, the wives of Cyrus and Caesar are laden with all sorts of valuable ornaments and dresses and have maids appointed to serve them while you see how hungry and ill-clad we are. Therefore, some liberal treatment in our case seems to be in order now."
When the Holy Prophet ﷺ heard this demand from the blessed wives that they should be treated at par with the life styles of kings and the worldly-wise rich, he was grieved about how much they had missed to appreciate the worth and value of living in the home of a prophet of Allah. On their part, the blessed wives never thought that their submission would cause pain to him. It was simply because of the wellbeing of common Muslims around them that they had also thought of the same for themselves. Abu Hayyan says that the description of this incident after the battle of al-Ahzab also supports the likelihood that this very demand of the wives became the cause of the choice of divorce given to them. According to some Hadith narratives, following the event of having a honey drink while at the home of Sayyidah Zainab ؓ which will appear in detail later under the commentary on Surah At-Tahrim, 66:1-5, in Ma’ ariful-Qur'an, Volume VIII- a situation created by the mutual sense of importance among the blessed wives became the cause of this choice of divorce. If both of these happened close in time to each other, then, it is also not remote to believe that they both could be the cause. But, the words of the Verse of Choice (1) are more supportive of the understanding that some financial demand had become its cause - for it was said in this verse: إِن كُنتُنَّ تُرِدْنَ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا وَزِينَتَهَا (If you intend (to have the pleasure of worldly life and its charm - 28).
With this knowledge, why would one think or infer that Prophet ﷺ would own slaves?
Allah allowed slavery at some level but treat slaves with respect and humanity, that happened to Bilal MAPWH, which he was slave but excel at the end of his life he was a scholar and governor in Damascus, Islam allowed the freedom a choice for slaves protect their right the best part slaves in Islam can pay for their own freedom and thier owner were encourage to free slaves with love. Islam is very practical religion Islam, Islam are not shameful about slave , instead embrace them with greatness & kindness. Rasul allah himself had slaves , treat them with dignity and give them choice & finally freed them
The Qur'an considers emancipation of a slave to be a highly meritorious deed, or as a condition of repentance for many sins. The Qur'an and Hadith contain numerous passages supporting this view e.g. Q90;13. In chapter 2 , verse 177, God says most emphatically:
Surah Al-Baqara, Verse 177:
لَّيْسَ الْبِرَّ أَن تُوَلُّوا وُجُوهَكُمْ قِبَلَ الْمَشْرِقِ وَالْمَغْرِبِ وَلَٰكِنَّ الْبِرَّ مَنْ آمَنَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ وَالْمَلَائِكَةِ وَالْكِتَابِ وَالنَّبِيِّينَ وَآتَى الْمَالَ عَلَىٰ حُبِّهِ ذَوِي الْقُرْبَىٰ وَالْيَتَامَىٰ وَالْمَسَاكِينَ وَابْنَ السَّبِيلِ وَالسَّائِلِينَ وَفِي الرِّقَابِ وَأَقَامَ الصَّلَاةَ وَآتَى الزَّكَاةَ وَالْمُوفُونَ بِعَهْدِهِمْ إِذَا عَاهَدُوا وَالصَّابِرِينَ فِي الْبَأْسَاءِ وَالضَّرَّاءِ وَحِينَ الْبَأْسِ أُولَٰئِكَ الَّذِينَ صَدَقُوا وَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْمُتَّقُونَ
It is not righteousness that you turn your faces towards the East and the West, but righteousness is this that one should believe in Allah and the last day and the angels and the Book and the prophets, and give away wealth out of love for Him to the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and the beggars and for (the emancipation of) the captives, and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate; and the performers of their promise when they make a promise, and the patient in distress and affliction and in time of conflicts -- these are they who are true (to themselves) and these are they who guard (against evil).
via iQuran
Muhammad encouraged manumission of slaves, even if one had to purchase them first. Traditional biographies of Muhammad give many examples where Muhammad's companions, at his direction, freed slaves in abundance. Abul Ala Maududi reports that Muhammad freed as many as 63 slaves. Meer Ismail, a medieval historian, writes in Buloogh al Muram that his household and friends freed 39,237 slaves.
It was a practice and tradition of Muhammad to release from captivity those females who would face the risk of being disgraced or humiliated as a result of being held as captives or slaves, and those who came from respected backgrounds that were known for their philanthropic contributions to the general masses, regardless if their charitable deeds benefited Muslims or non-Muslims.
Morals get extrapolated from our limited understandings, we can't infer morality through nature or the observation of phenomena. Brown was being a pseudo intellectual, in some other video he made about Slavery. Saying slavery is an absolute moral evil, by itself. Can't see that being true. Islam puts limits on slavery, though. Better off freeing slaves. And if Muhammad owned slaves, then that's tricky. Since it would make owning slaves Sunnah, and most likely would validate it . Under Islamic law. So it's very paradoxical to think about. Most Muslims don't agree with Slavery I think, hopefully.
Subhana Rabbi al A'laa. Slavery predates Qu'ran, Bible and Torah. The Qu'ran regulated slavery and by far encouraged to release them. The legal status of a slave is not equal to western ideas of slavery. How they are treated is far different than what we know of slavery by Europeans.
Slavery, Now can only come about in an islamic sense is through War. With regards to war, we do not pursue this course initially, we enter war when there is no other logical choice.
السلام عليكم
Why don't we speak about slavery in Mauritania , resurrected slavery in Libya ; the racialization of slavery in Islam , like in the slavery in the west. The problem is, we can defend the Quran and Hadith but what muslims practiced is far from what the Quran and Hadith suggest. You will find more brown and black people , than any other group Enslaved in many Islamic civilizations and subtle justification for it in many accepted books by Islamic scholars. I think Johnathan Brown book and speeches have great points but what muslims practiced and still practice became a lot like what Europeans practiced. This must be exposed and dealt with not ignored or glossed over. May Allah defend the oppress. May we do better.
Interesting topic. This is example of how Quran deals with issues in the society tactfully depending on the severity of the problem. In the case of slavery, there’s one direction i.e. towards their freedom.
It is interesting also to note how Quran gradually prohibits drinking of Wine/Qamar which was rooted in the society through 4 separate verses.
Verses on prohibition of killing of infants (pagan practice) & Aurat in the Quran are different as they are for immediate implementation.
We have to remember that the pagan arab (Jahilliah) was chosen as the place for our last prophet not by chance but on purpose.
Wait a min......i remember reading this in yaqeen institutes blog somewhere
Great video as always,but dr JB is not a scholars of islam,he is a doctor yes,but not of islamic studies and research,he has many maaany false informations/interpretation about the doctrine and religion of islam,and there are many scholars that made videos showing his mistakes and there are on youtube for everyone to see,don’t believe me see for yourself and be the judge,the are many sources that wrote on the subject with proof and objectivity,anyway,keep it up with the excellent content.
Ma sha'a Allah
Just wanted to add something.
Slavery is by defenition the owning of another person and treating him in an inferior manner which includes torturing, abusing, beating, etc.
When we look at what Islam permits about having a slave or a servant:
First, no one is allowed to hit his slave by any means and if he did that deliberately or by mistake then he should free that slave.
(Sahih Muslim 1657)
Second, it is prohibited to call your slave by "My slave" instead you must call him "My son", "My boy" etc.
(Sahih bukari 2552)
Third, if you have a slave you must feed him from what you eat and dress him from what you wear and not bear him something that he hates and don't overwhelm him by things he can't do and you should help him if he's overwhelmed
(Sunan Ibin majah 3690)
Fourth, as mentioned in the video, Islam always encourages people to free thier slaves there's not a single verse that encourages having slaves. The propeht freed many slaves and so did his companians.
We can say that the relationship between a man and his slave in Islam is the same as a boss and his employee, he can't hit him, he can't call him names, he must help him etc.
(Surah Al Nisaa 36) , clearly states that you must treat your slave by the best manners.
There are many other hadiths in which Gabriel told the propeht to tell his nation to treat the slaves in the best manner.
You should also read a book called al-Jihad fi al-Islam, it was written by the late Maulana Maududi, may God have mercy on his soul, It also touches upon the subject of slavery in Islam and explains Jihad and its rules. There is an English translation, You should also read some other books of Maulana Maududi, for he is said to be a revolutionary thinker, and philosopher.
The prophet (pbuh) had concubines? Is this correct or a western understanding of the situation back then. Can anyone expand on this? Did he marry the two women mentioned?
Dear Assalamualaykum rahmatAllahi wa barkatahu another good blog as Hazem Adi mentioned in his comment the ISIS has nothing to do with Islam they are Muslims only for name sake.
Wrong is Wrong. Whether Muslim or Christian or Anyone. Allah says I shall Judge everyone even All the messengers of Allah. A smile to one son and not to the other is oppression. We are alive so we can first correct ourselves or ask forgiveness to the person that is wronged. I want everyone to go to the never ending Paradise. Ameen
24:33, quran allows for freeing of a slave of they wish to be freed but has left full discretion to the owner, showing that slavery is not morally wrong in islam
No man is better than other man except true path to Allah
I think that there is a hige misunderstanding of the coted verses. First of all there is a confusion in defining slavery which is definef in the Coran as. عبدا مملوكا for male and امة for females. There os also another word for people captured in war اسير in arabic. But the problem became more complicated for ملك يمين which has many meaning. according to Mohamed Chehrour, this word has many meaning but in any casw means slavery. It means in some cases a relashionship between man and women which is a marriage but without any financial responsabilities and the other meaning is for a person working for somone (called employee in our days). So be careful to this word. If you are interested I can give you more detail about this subject l.
What do you mean that there is a universal consensus that slavery is not to be practiced today? It can't be practiced because there is no real Islamic state but if there is then no one can say that slavery can't be done and if a consensus happened then it's worthless since that doesn't count as an ijmaa, an ijmaa only counts when no scholars before this generation opposed the opinion that got a consensus on(a dead scholar's opinion isn't dead). Saying it isn't to be done is just really conceding to western wants and is like making haram what *Allah* has made halal for us. Also jonathon brown isn't the best to trust on such controversial issues as his mindset is affected to a very high degree by the west. He made many shocking remarks like one about supporting gays' right to gay-marry. He also showed things like nationalism(or patriotism) to, of all countries, america. There are other problems with him so he isn't to be trusted on these things.
Put Allah first and you will never be last
well islam never banned slavery. it gradually banned slavery
Just one question though. What do you do for living? 😁😁
that would be telling 😉
@@BloggingTheology would be waiting to hear it from you in one of your upcoming video 😌
Could you be any more biased!
It's also worth noting that Mohammad clearly encouraged the freeing of slaves and that if a slave has no master they die of hunger. Not an easy thing to fix. Slavery existed because of the corruption of the rulers before Mohammad.
First 😎
Why?.. lol
🌟 Dr. (Craig Considine), an Irish-American researcher, and a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at Rice University:
"The Messenger Muhammad (ﷺ) is the first anti-racism recorded in history."
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That’s not fair
Why?
Another great vlog Paul!
Allah is close to the oppressed so always fear the dua of the oppressed. Do not mistreat ANYBODY!
I can listen to this Paul of Uk all day!!
Profound and unambiguous insights on the subject. Another veil removed, well, I'm on it. Many thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
@@tonydimera282
No !
If the female slave is married , any sexual relationship with her master is ZINA (adulatory) .. If he had sex with her while she is married with another man, she became legally a wife and her children are his ..
What Islam says is not always what muslims do !!
@@tonydimera282
If she wasn't married, she's his slave , and he would take care of some points ; i. if she was a slave of his father before him , ii. If she or her mother milked him or his wife, iii. Or she had requested a MUKATABAH to him or his father .. otherwise, she's his own !!
That's the answer without diplomacy ..
I am Muslim and I like to preach to my religion!.. but not with hiding something that is not going with values of today ..
I give Islam as it is and I know that Islam is the only accepted religion to Allah Almighty !
Thank you for asking !
Please excuse me!
I have used a word between brackets (that was a suggestion from my phone keyboard) and what I meant is (commit adultery) and not (adulatory) ..
I beg your pardons
@@tonydimera282 no. You can't. Because, You can never make a free man your slave. Prisoners of war women (those who are helpless, those who have no guardians, those who have no one to support them) and men. You can make them slaves. Moreover, slavery is not merely a means to satisfy one's sexual needs. The one who keeps the slave, has to take all the other responsibilities of the slave.
I have this book but have yet to go past the intro. Your review might motivate me to finish it inshaAllah .
Please do!
Why don't you ask your future self?
Imam Murrah!!!
السلام علیکم
The way Islam dealt with slavery is, in my opinion, a sound evidence of the divinity of this religion. Islam came in a time where slavery was so deeply rooted in the social and economic construct of that world that any abrupt prohibition of that phenomenon would literally demolish those constructs. In a world where nearly half the population was enslaved, a mass freeing of slaves would have created a massive crisis as hundreds of thousands of individuals who relied on their masters for food and shelter will suddenly find themselves having to start from scratch with no one to support them. Islam made sure to encourage the gradual draining of sources feeding slavery by means you have already mentioned in your video. There’s also the psychological aspect of being born into slavery and how some slaves would literally rather spend their lives enslaved if given the choice. So Islam made sure to free the minds before the bodies, in a way. A comparison between the Islamic experience and the American one in freeing slaves carried by Mohamed Qutb in his book "Suspicions About Islam" may be quite interesting in relation to the matter.
paganism wasn’t in trenches in that society too but allah gave a direct order to stop it
thief was also striving in that society same infidelity , diet of not eating pork and si on and so on
Allah fear the slave masters?
@@rahel5622 Way to turn a positive into negative just because you can't understand the wisdom behind it.
You make no sense at all because if Islam is a divine Religion why didn’t it come before slavery was all over the world? Why didn’t it come to prevent slavery in the first place?
Religion has many of you so indoctrinated and trained that you’ll rationalize ANYTHING in order that it fits your belief system in what you consider a positive way.
Allah said help the poor and the needy, why couldn’t he say same about slaves?
@@forouzanrahimi8987
Because Religion was created from the minds of men and not from a Divine Being. It was easy for them to say something like help the poor and needy but giving up free labor is something else. Slaves did a helluva lot of work for them so giving that up wasn’t something they could bring themselves to see. A Divine Being on the other hand (that supposedly cares about all of humanity) would’ve made Slavery Haram/Illegal/Sinful. What kind of sense does it make that eating Pork is Haram but enslaving another Human being is okay? Only in the twisted mind of a Ancient Human being does that make
good sense🤦♂️.
Umar ibn Al-Khattab (the second Khalifa) said: "When did you enslave the people when their mothers bore them free?"
He was addressing Amr ibn Al ‘Aas (Umar’s governor over Egypt) over a Coptic Egyptian who traveled to Medina and complained that Amr's son lost in horse race to the Egyptian but instead claimed he won and procedded to beat the Egyptian saying he was the son of nobles.
So Umar sent for Amr and his son Mohammed. When they arrived in Medina, he held a short trial to ensure the accusation was true. When it was confirmed, Umar then handed the Egyptian his staff and told him: Beat the son of nobles (Amr's son) and he did.
Then Umar addressed Amr ibn Al ‘Aas saying: "O Amr, when did you enslave the people when their mothers bore them free?"
The question at hand is does islam condone slavery? Prisoners of war are called slaves Islam.
@@sakariasheikh9739 Nope, because our conception of the eradication of slavery is to integrate existing slaves in the world into society and deal with them in accordance to the ways of the Prophet, and the ultimate goal of a Muslim who holds a slave is to emancipate him/her. We don't condone enslavement. We condone justice and emancipation.
Islam slavery idea is to treat the people that work or live under you like your extended family and encourage you to give them freedom somewhere down the line . Non islam slavery idea is to exploit them to the max . Treat them like an animal . You can beat them . Over work them . And kill them if you feel like it . No freedom unless there is huge finacial gain to get !!!
@@blitzbees890 there is nothing good about slavery that is why Allaah encourages to free even if you don't own another human. It also comes as a fine to free. Don't make to like good.
@@sakariasheikh9739 Allah doesnt forbid slavery either but He regulates slavery to be as humanely as possible thru His messanger teaching . Jahiliyah & Western style of slavery are never OK but Islam slavery is neccesary but it has to be done according the time we live in . Prophets saw had a few slaves during his life time you want to tell me hes wrong ? He never laid his hands on them . Never yell at them . Always eat together with them . And freed them in the end eventho they didnt mind to be his slaves forever due to the best treatment that the prophet gave them . But as of now we already move forward from slavery era which is a good thing . But dont ever lump together Jahiliyah / western slavery with Islam slavery .
Thank you for this. Being a muslim the idea of slavery in islam and particularly women slaves who can be used sexually always sat uneasily with me and I never found a real explanation that allayed my doubts fully. After listening to you I feel that for the first time I have understood this topic. Your balanced talk made me realise my doubts were due to my own emotional sentiments which were fuelled by images of American black slaves and oppression of humans generally as depicted in recent history. I now understand this topic so much better. Thank you.
No, your doubts are totally legitimate. Slavery is depriving a human of the most basic right: freedom. Leaving the slave helpless in front of his master. And a god that allows it should be questioned. These video is justifying slavery which is disgusting. If islam discouraged slavery why did the prophet had slaves? Why did the muslims enslave millions of people in their conquests? Their african slave trade has been proven to be as big or even bigger to that of the europeans. Islam never prohibited it. In many ways it is still practiced today in some muslim places. The logical explanation is that the holy books, as any other holy book, were writen by people, just people, thus explaining why they allowed slavery, had misoginistic views, referred to killing and conquering... The illogical answer and the one that is the hardest to fit in is the one that says it is a loving gods word. How could that god allow men to be deprived of all freedom and subjected to other men?
This guy seems very intelligent and has read a lot. But these videos are clearly reafirming islamic beliefs. I recommend you check some atheist channels, and see what they say, the most healthy way of learning is checking confronting ideas.
@@jonoc3729 Lmao!!!! Atheist channel?! How can they even EXPLAIN morality?! How convenient of you to speak your nonsense without 0 reflection on history and 0 insight just comfortable in your warm house, farting and typing your eyes out.
@@jonoc3729 “freedom” 😭
@@nycnow811 You are more comfortable I think. Instead of thinking for yourself you follow a book that says whats right or wrong, with no basic principle other than "god says it". And yes, I dont believe in objective morality. I dont critize anciente people for having slaves. But I do critize people that doubt that it is wrong.
Concerning Slavery with Islam I believe it get's distorted in translation! What was practiced in Islam should not be called slavery.
The slavery sound bad today because of how west treated their slaves.
Agreed 👍
Unbelievable!
Slavery is not allowed in Islam
the Arab Slave trade doesn’t sound like Summer camp lol
I have his “Misquoting Muhammad” book and already it’s very interesting. I will be checking the “slavery and Islam” book because slavery is always a touchy subject haha
POWs were the slaves in the time of early days of Islam.. Islam banned slaving POWs. Surah Muhammad verse 4.
Slavery is the natural relationship between God and creation. The difference lies in to the master. Allah is perfectly just and merciful, to the degree that his servants see no chains, yet can't escape his justice and mercy. Slavery is discouraged in the Qur'an because humans are incapable of this justice and inclined to treat slaves unjustly, but it is not outlawed because therein we recognize our own place in relation to Allah and see that had it been for anyone but Allah, injustice would prevail
Perfect view.
Your god is a deranged slave master
It's a shame that so many of the comments come from angry haters that don't have the courage and/or attention span to watch the video in full before commenting. They go straight to the comments and attack, bully and insult those they disagree with. Of course their comments are ignorant and foolish but they think they are telling truth and are wisely-guided. May God enlighten them... BarakAllahou feek for another great video Mr Williams
Greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦 I have all the books 📚 besides slavery ... his a super academic and a hadith history specialist.
My understanding of the slavery in Islam was the since it was prevalent in Arabia pre Islam, it had to be eliminated steadily and the verses of the Quran lay out the many different ways in which it was to be eliminated tied to good deeds.
You can imagine if a verse came down that said it is prohibited completely right there and then. Islam being new to the people, it would have been hard for people to give up something they were so accustomed to as also other gradual prohibitions such as alcohol were done in the same manner.
That isn't correct. You may want to her the words of the scholars of islam instead of following your personal convictions
@@karimtemri1664 a weird sentiment
You deserve 50k followers :)
Maybe one day!
No he deserves jannah
@@BloggingTheology inshallah
Only??
@@BloggingTheology like how you humbled yourself. 👍🏽
Asalamualikum brother, Slavery had become bless by the treatment of Islam. best Human Rights are taught by Quran and Hadith. Nice presentation. may Allah SWT rewards you for your hard works.
thanks
Tabari 9:1754 - "Treat women well, for they are [like] domestic animals with you and do not possess anything for themselves." From Muhammad's 'Farewell Sermon'. (Bye Bye) 😆
Surprisingly, in Egypt slaves were the rulers of the country from the fall of the Ayubid dynasty, till the Ottoman conquest in 1517 by Selim I, a span of about 260 years. They were called the Memlukes (Mamaleek) and they were either Turkic or Georgian in origin.
Those slaves weren't really slaves then, only in name I guess. I consider low income labourers, that don't have any rights and limited freedom to be proper slaves. By definition.
Bilal bin rabah.. He become king
@@halaldunya918
The memlukes were slaves. They were bought by the state and trained to be soldiers in the Sultan's army.
There is a famous fatwa by the scholar Ezz Ibn Abdelsalam who forbade the rule of Memlukes before they were resold in public and set free.
@@inongbalee3092 King of what? I doubt that is true.
the Memluks were more common by Abbasid Kalifat,they bought them mainly from central asia mainly turk to fight for their masters,african to serve as servants at harem where many were have to loose there private parts so the honre of their masters stay safe from revealing their harem to other males even if they were salves alower grade than a free human,
the Memluks were mainly fighters,they serve the master who can pay them,they changing loyalty to the one who paid them more,the only thing they do all their life is to fight,kill,win or to be killed,like Mercenaries,since they were brought to the master as very young childrens so he feed,train and teach them islam too which teach them to obey him so allah will bless them,
yet they rebeled against their masters and took over Egypt and Hijaz for their own sake,they never mix with the local as they lived in their own forts castle and camps,during their time the Egyptian especially faced the true horror with over taxing, recruting farmers to fight for them so they manage to beat the Mongols,when the ottomons opened Egypt again they found aprehistoric country ruled be terror,so the ottomon contuned the great work islam brought to this country and ruled for another 400 years or so,to bring it to the ground
the memluks were muslims as the abbasid Ummaed ottomon,as the gulf countries nowaday Mr Paul where slavery in all its type took place,slave market were everywhere even in the first years of Muslims invasion toward north of arabia,The great sahabah were buying and seeling slaves normally after they having sex with them,however slavery everywhere the mankind always like to enslave(taking use/advantage)of one another
it will be agreat search if you search of the slave trade in north africa,the captive who been moved from their home land in the west toward Baghdad,Damasqus to be sold their
what about the labours who built saudi arabia over past 40 years under Kafeel system?
Once in the midst of the noise, liquor, music and frivolity, Imam Musa al-Kadhim (may Allah be pleased with him) happened to pass by his house in Baghdad. Meanwhile, al-Kadhim saw a slave girl coming out of his house carrying some sweepings. He turned to the slave and asked her: "Is the owner of this house free or a servant?"
"He is free," she replied.
"You are right," retorted Musa al-Kadhim, "if he was a servant, he would fear his Lord."
The slave girl came into the house while Bishr was at the wine table, so he asked her: "What delayed you?" She gave him an account of what took place between her and the Imam. It is said that Bishr quickly jumped to his feet and headed to the door barefooted but the pious man had already left. He left in pursuit of the man and when he finally caught up with him asked him to repeat his words and he obliged. Bishr was so taken aback by his words that he fell to the ground and began to cry. "No I am a slave, I am a slave." From then onwards he would walk without shoes and people began calling him Bishr al-Haafi (The bare footed one). When asked why he did not wear shoes, he would reply "My master Allah guided me when I was barefooted and I will remain in this condition till death".
Beautiful story. BarakAllah feek
🌟 Dr. (Craig Considine), an Irish-American researcher, and a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at Rice University:
"The Messenger Muhammad (ﷺ) is the first anti-racism recorded in history."
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@@cervezaway7049 you're such a disgusting hypocrite and you're even bad at it. It's so evident from the text that you've taken it out of context. Him saying that the evil looks like a person who has the attribute of being black does not mean he's referring to all black people or referring to that because he's black. You disgusting hypocrite. So even if prophet Mohammad peace be upon him said that, that's no evidence and you're pathetic. That being said, I have never heard that prophet Mohammad peace and blessings be upon him ever said that nor have you provided any proof that he did so until you do bring proof, you're just a liar.
@@cervezaway7049 Search & Read about "Umar ibn Rabah" May Allah grant you Hidayah.
He's obviously never read the Quran or the Hadith's
Where in the Quran is the punishment for kidnap and selling a person?
Where is the punishment for rape in the Quran?
4:75 “And what is wrong with you that you fight not in the Cause of Allâh, and for those weak, ill-treated and oppressed among men, women, and children, whose cry is: “Our Lord! Rescue us from this town whose people are oppressors; and raise for us from You one who will protect, and raise for us from You one who will help.” This verse and its context generally forbids any kind of oppression. 7:33 “Those who unjustly eat up the property of orphans, eat up a Fire into their own bodies: they will soon be enduring a blazing Fire!” Shows the punishment of those who exploit orphans. These are direct verses from the Quran, but there are also hadith which are also clearly against this sort of oppression. Mind that your question is about kidnapping, and in Islam slavery is only permissible if the slaves were spoils of war. As for rape, it is one the most serious crimes and for a married man who commits this, his punishment is to be stoned to death. For an unmarried man, 100 lashes is his punishment.
@@niamahahmad8619 Stop lying to yourself, your funny book the Quran don’t have those laws, because is okay to rape and kidnap and selling people to be slaves. Quran 4:24
You worship a demonic principalities called Allah.
@@niamahahmad8619 You are either lying or ignorant. Nowhere in the entire Quran does it say OWNING YOUR FELLOW HUMANS (SLAVERY) IS FORBIDDEN. Secondly, Muhammad invaded innocent villages and enslaved women and children. He even allowed his followers to rape them.
Rape is sex without consent. So even when you have sex with your wife without her consent, that's rape.
You don't have to even force her because maybe you drugged her...that's rape. There is no such thing as rape in the cult of Muhammad because wives are forbidden from denying their husbands sex no matter what. They have to submit to his sexual desires anytime no matter what they are doing.
@@azhaniaorgena6941 @Homar Carrion If you choose to be ignorant, then no one can help you. Come out of your bubble. You are running out of air to breath...
@@aismail8321 Let me show you ignorant from the funny book the Quran.
Quran 33:72. We indeed offered the truth to the heavens and the earth and the mountains but they refused to undertake it being afraid of it but MAN undertook it and he was indeed unjust IGNORANT and FOOLISH.🤔
Slavery is not a necessary a good thing but before modern time it is not a necessary bad thing either because desperate person choose slavery as a survival instinct. Homeless people, war prisoner etc.it was part of medieval socioeconomic.
Throughout history of mankind, slavery has been a social reality and a socioeconomoic system until recent times. The Quran doesn't abolish slavery; however, it encourages and supports the idea of abolishment as it recognizes slavery as a source of injustice, due to the fact that it places the freeing of slaves on the same level as feeding the poor and helping out the ones in need.
This is a very visceral subject. Once you establish the existence of a Creator in your heart, you will easily digest anything He sanctions. He is the Creator of Morality. Most of us barely understand the philosophy of morality yet we argue so much about it, not knowing that we ourselves have also been influenced by our society just like the people 1400 years ago.
Slavery was necessary. Yet human are no animals. If armageddon hit, slavery might prove useful yet again. Although, i believe that we need to revise and improve this system so that it benefits all and do less harm on human rights.
Sahih Al-Bukhari 2227 [In Islam you cannot enslave a free person]
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Allah says, 'I will be against three persons on the Day of Resurrection: -1. One who makes a covenant in My Name, but he proves treacherous. -2. One who sells a free person (as a slave) and eats the price, -3. And one who employs a laborer and gets the full work done by him but does not pay him his wages.”
Also read Sahih al-Bukhari 6050
Hi Paul could you do a vlog on Refuting ISIS by al Yaqoobi whom you mention
good idea!
At the time of revelation, in a tribal antiquity, POW's of aggressor tribe became slaves. Quran stopped that before the first war; forcing Muslims to free POW's for free or for ransom. Gradually Quran unshackled slavery over a period of six to eight years. Javed Ahmed Ghamidi explains this process.
Al Sharawi الشعراوي says:
The were many doors for slavery before Islam came. You can sell yourself or children to slavery because of debt. You can enslave a free person by kidnapping or force, you can enslave prisoners of wars, punishment for crimes etc..
But Islam shut the door on all types and the only way for slavery is for the prisoners of war,
. Meaning if there was Jihad between you and an enemy.
This means the way of slavery that was practiced by Arabs until recently is not Islamically acceptable. My grandfathers would capture free slaves from Africa and bring them here to Qatar.
Look at this hadith
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Allah says, 'I will be against three persons on the Day of Resurrection: -1. One who makes a covenant in My Name, but he proves treacherous. -2. One who sells a free person (as a slave) and eats the price, -3. And one who employs a laborer and gets the full work done by him but does not pay him his wages.' " Al Bukhari 2227
Furthermore, there are many verses in the Quran that encourages freeing a slave, but not one that encourages enslavement. One example is verse 90:13 Al Balad
Muhammad did try to do something against slavery. He did this by example of his conduct. First, he took Said ibn Harits, a slave in his and Khadija's house, to be his son. Said ibn Harits was renamed as Said ibn Muhammad. But this was revoked when Zainab bint Jash's incident happened. Said divorced Zainab. Muhammad got a lot of critiques for marrying his own son's ex wife. A revelation was given by Allah that it is halal, because Said is not tied to Muhammad by blood. Since then, adoption becomes haram in Islam. Another conduct is regarding Bilal ibn Rabbah. After being tortured by his master, Muhammad made him a free man, even raising him higher into the reader of Adzan. The Arabs mocked this, saying, "There, the crow caws again."
The problem with slavery is that it is mostly emotional, not judicial.
I think when people imagine a "slave", they imagine a black man or a black woman, and imagine the owner to be a white man.
This poses a great problem, that triggers emotions, before rational thinking.
You see
Slavery existed in the past and still exist until today in some african countries, so why isn't that problematic ?
It is because when africans enslave africans, or when arabs enslave arabs, or when whites enslave whites, it is not a big of deal, because the inter-race/ethnicity slavery is based on , wealth, power, ..., So it is based on something temporary, something that everyone regardless of race, religion, age, can be in, or get out of.
The problem on the other hand of american slavery, which single handedly refined what slavery is, is this :
1. It is based on race.
2. The enslaved race is not enslaved because it is poor, or weak, it is because it is not human.
3. There was only one race enslaved.
These three reasons are what made slavery an emotional more than a judicial problem.
If we take the emotions out, and ask ourselves, who defines what is moral and what isn't, slavery can be solved like any other problem.
e.g.
Is it moral to jail people for using drugs ?
Since one can abort a child, can they also sell their organs, to better one's life and probably other's too ?
What an intellectual mind. May Allah bless you always.
Thank you Paul for your blog.
Thank you kindly
There is a case to be made that the earliest Muslim community were close to having freed if not all, very nearly all of their slaves. And that it was the absorption by conquest of Persia and the Byzantine Levant, as well as Egypt, where the subject people who entered Islam as existing slave owners posed the dilemma of what to do with their slaves to the religious authorities (Ulema). History records the scholars of law devised an entire corpus dedicated to normalising the practice (including the extension of the one half rule to every type of punishment concerning errant slaves and even, bizarrely, divorce (which requires 3 utterances for non-slaves, but 1.5 utterances in the case of slaves(!) I kid you not). However, as per the precedence established in the Qur'an and Hadith, abolishing the practice should have been the intent of the law, rather than its perpetuation.
May ALLAH bless & protect you Brother.
As far as i remember, slavery is forbidden in Islam. Usually slaves are called "servants" and they have a lot of rights such as suing their owner in case of harming them. These servants are taken in only one condition, which is war between 2 nations "not groups" (other than that it's completely forbidden). The reason why it was allowed in wars, because in the past soldiers's families used to go to battlefield with the army, and so that they won't be left to die with no food or shelter after losing the battle, they were taken by the commanders of the winning army. According to some scholars it was another way to introduce them to Islam, because most of the servants through the Islamic history have converted to Islam willingly, while the rest continued practicing their own religions, and some of them became army leaders, scholars, queens and even leader of an entire kingdom...etc
Thanks for your interesting topic. I would like to add that Slaves ruled Egypt and most of the Islamic nations for around three hundred years. They managed to defeat the Mongolian army of Genghis Khan's descendants and save the whole world from their cruelty. Another important point to mention is that once a slave woman gives birth to a baby, she is free, and the baby is recognized as his son/ daughter, which never happened in recent America.
And Thats why Allah said to Him ( Muhammad) S.A.W : Verily, we sent you not but A mercy for All Mankind..
Great lecture Mr Paul.
God Bless you 🙏 ❤
Thank you, once again for an excellent overview. Please do speak to how you approach reading a new book. The frequency with which you make videos on new books suggests you’ve either read a lot of these in an earlier time, or you read quite quickly, or both. What advice do you have for those of us who seek to devour books as efficiently and effectively as you do? Dare I ask for a dedicated video on this! God bless
The Surah mentioned and read by Paul Sir is Surah Balad - you can find its translation and a beautiful recitation here - ua-cam.com/video/pspL_C8g2Ho/v-deo.html. It really bring tears to one eyes especially the mention of the hard path.
Islam didn't starting slavery, but slavery exist in every culture, including Christianity and church doctrine didn't prevent slavery, even untill industrial revolution, infact Islam is the first to regulate slavery prohibited kidnaping for slave, and create many circumstances that will make slave free.
I like JB.
He seems like a kid, honest and cheerful.
a kid??
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It's a compliment.
@@BloggingTheology I guess he means your unbiased take in which you speak what you read and heard without filtering it to fit a biased agenda
I remember a line in a Malay song translated, “ even if we were born slave, but we are FREE and LIVING HAPPILY”.
What song was it?
We are slave to something or someone the problem is either we aware or ignorance about it. Sometimes we stuck to debt that we work like a slave to pay it. Sometimes we tied to the company law that ignore our rights and etc. Modern slavery is not a new thing. That why al quran and hadith still relevant to this day for this kind of issues.
The texts of Islam took a strong stance against slavery . It says in a hadeeth qudsi: “Allaah, may He be exalted, said: ‘There are three whose opponent I will be on the Day of Resurrection, and whomever I oppose, I will defeat … A man who sold a free man and consumed his price.’” Narrated by al-Bukhaari (2227).
Islam changed the way in which slavery was dealt with; it created many new ways of liberating slaves, blocked many ways of enslaving people, and established guidelines which blocked these means.
Capture of prisoners during war was the most common way of acquiring slaves. Prisoners would inevitably be captured during any war, and the prevalent custom at that time was that prisoners had no protection or rights; they would either be killed or enslaved. But Islam brought two more options: unconditional release or ransom. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “Thereafter (is the time) eit This is a brief summary of some of the principles of dealing with slaves in a just and kind manner:
1 - Guaranteeing them food and clothing like that of their masters.
It was narrated that Abu Dharr (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “They are your brothers whom Allaah has put under your authority, so if Allaah has put a person’s brother under his authority, let him feed him from what he eats and clothe him from what he wears, and let him not overburden him with work, and if he does overburden him with work, then let him help him.” Narrated by al-Bukhaari (6050).
2 - Preserving their dignity
It was narrated that Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: I heard Abu’l-Qaasim (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: “Whoever accuses his slave when he is innocent of what he says will be flogged on the Day of Resurrection, unless he is as he said.” Narrated by al-Bukhaari (6858).
Ibn ‘Umar (may Allaah be pleased with him) manumitted a slave of his, then he picked up a stick or something from the ground and said: There is no more reward in it than the equivalent of this, but I heard the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: “Whoever slaps his slave or beats him, his expiation is to manumit him.” Narrated by Muslim (1657).
3 - Being fair towards slaves and treating them kindly
It was narrated that ‘Uthmaan ibn ‘Affaan tweaked the ear of a slave of his when he did something wrong, then he said to him after that: Come and tweak my ear in retaliation. The slave refused but he insisted, so he started to tweak it slightly, and he said to him: Do it strongly, for I cannot bear the punishment on the Day of Resurrection. The slave said: Like that, O my master? The Day that you fear I fear also.
When ‘Abd al-Rahmaan ibn ‘Awf (may Allaah be pleased with him) walked among his slaves, no one could tell him apart from them, because he did not walk ahead of them, and he did not wear anything different from what they wore.
and he said to him: Do it strongly, for I cannot bear the punishment on the Day of Resurrection. The slave said: Like that, O my master? The Day that you fear I fear also.
When ‘Abd al-Rahmaan ibn ‘Awf (may Allaah be pleased with him) walked among his slaves, no one could tell him apart from them, because he did not walk ahead of them, and he did not wear anything different from what they wore.
If you noticed how they should eat same food , wear Same clothes clothes like their masters.
Thus you can notice that slaves in Islam 1400 years back were treated better than house maids now a days.
A slave under Islamic laws could actually have much more fulfilling life than many people part of the working class in modern capitalist countries. So even from a secular utilitarian perspective, Islam’s views of slavery are NOT evil by any means since they do not inherently cause suffering.
You aren't correct bro
Imagine justifying slavery saying: it says to treat your slaves well. Islam permited slavery and it was widespread in the islamic world, millions were enslaved under muslims. And waht you say has no point, before islam many cultures had done similar regulations regarding slavery, stating the treatment of slaves and who could become one, nothing new. Prisoners of war were fed long ago, mostly if they were important people. And also officers were ransomed long before islam. In yihad killing and enslaving was permited. Stop justifying slavery. I mean just look to what extent you can go to justify your faith, if you can justify slavery im sure you could justify killing, truly dangerousm
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In Islam slavery is allowed only in case of wars were Muslims were attacked.
Now can you tell me what’s wrong with that ? Which part you think is bad and why ?
@@tamimi8085 Slaves were made even when muslims were the agressors. And if god is good he wouldnt allow men to enslave.
your every video is a Gem professor keep the good work
I see a beautiful wisdom in how Islam treated the issue of slavery which was widely practiced before its time. If Islam would condemn slavery and all the slaves would have been freed at once during the prophet time, there would have been a large number of jobless; hungry and probably violent young men around, a situation that can explode at any time. Freeing a slave to forgive a master's sin is a gradual way of getting those young men to the working force of a comunity and avoiding the unwanted repercussions of suddenly freeing all the slaves. Thank you for the beautiful video and for bringing those books to our attention.
What nonsense. Slavery is allowed because of the economy!. Where is your moral compass. See the appalling mental gymnastics of shabir ally in defense of the quran written in the desert of the 7th century by the slave holder muhammad: YT video “Dissecting apologetics | islamic sex slavery (concubinage). Really pathetic. Islam will not survive in an open society.
Our respected Sheikh Paul Williams is Ibn Taimyyah of this time!!!
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The Chapter of the Koran you quoted was slightly but profoundly mistranslated.
Your source translates it as:
„Yet have he had not attempted the steep path“
In the original text it is an imperative not a negation.
GOD orders mankind to fo go the steep path, freeing slaves is an imperative
Slavery was usually a way of dealing with war captives after the fighting was over, partly to prevent them rising up against you and partly to secure a larger army for future battles. Females were rarely sent to battle so they became more useful for acting as a support for combatants should the need arise.
اسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته. Great points,
I was growing while I was watching to this video...
Thank you very much for your participation in clarifying this issue in particular. May Allah bless you and guide you 🤲🏻
In my humble view, instead of addressing Respected Paul Williams of this valuable channel as 'Sir' it's more appropriate to say 'Sheikh'.
Islam did not start slavery. It inherited it from the Arabian culture of the time. In those days wars were the source of slaves. Prisoners of war were slaved. Children of slaves were also slaves. It became an integral part of the culture and economy. Abolishing it immediately would have posed numerous problems. It would have shaken the economy. Slaves would have to be integrated into society. Their acceptance in their new role of a free person would not have been an easy task. Salves would be in shock and not prepared for this new role either. So to avoid a chaos Islam competed this task in stages. As you mentioned prepared slave owners to treat slaves better. that improved their life style. Gave people incentives to free their slaves. You have mentioned all that. However one thing that you missed was the last and crucial step that Islam took to stop this ugly cycle of slavery. IT CLOSED THE DOOR FROM WHERE SLAVES WERE ACQUIRED. IN SURAH MUHAMMAD 47:4 ALLAH ORDERED MUSLIMS THET "THEY WERE NOT MAKE SLAVES ANY POWS". WHICH PRACTICALLY CLOSED THE DOOR TO SLAVERY. Islam offered about the same status to a POW which nations recently agreed to in Geneva convention. Islam offered it 1500 years ago.
I listen to your blo9g regularly. I think you do a decent job and show no bias. So I thought I should bring this to your knowledge. Also if I get chance, separately, i shall comment on your blog about religion and democracy. I would like to show you that Islam encourages democracy.
O Allah! please grant the Muslims countless number of beautiful kaafir slave girls. Ameen..
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Hi Paul.Thank you again for a splendid video. Could you cover some of the works by Muhammad Asad - The Message of the Qur'an, Islam and at the Crossroads, and his famous autobiography 'The Road to Mecca'.
The Ottoman Empire for all its faults, understood slavery in the Islamic sense, most slaves were captured sailors and on average worked 18 years to achieve their freedom.
0:20 I own that book too...
But never read it..well yet...
We all should read "Islam - The Misunderstood Religion" by Dr. Muhammad Qutb.
The great work being done by Sheikh Paul Williams even we Muslims have not done so far.
Actually, we Muslims should have done this type of great work. Allah The Almighty must forgive us!
Upon looking at the vast collection of books our Sheikh has is unimaginable.
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