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Slave girls
Question asked by Moneeza Usman Butt.
Posted on: Saturday, September 30, 2006 - Hits: 2462
Question:
Can you please let me know the concept of slave girls in Islam, why they were allowed and are they still allowed to be kept?
Answer:
The permission to keep slave girls and have sex with them finds mention in the basic sources of Islam. The Holy Qur'an clearly says that believers have the very right to have sex with their slave women. This is because at that time slavery was an established and recognized institution in the world including Arabia . Islam did not institute the institution of slavery. It was an evil which was recognized in those societies and entering into sexual relations with slave girls was considered legal. Islam only tolerated the practice until the institution of slavery and gradually eradicated it. This gradual eradication was because slavery was deeply rooted in the Arabian society of those times.

Through effective measures Islam made it sure that the evil is gradually removed from the face of the earth.

see also: The
Condemnation of Slavery by Islam,
The Directive of Slave
Emancipation,

Regarding Slavery, International Treaties & the Shari`ah  and

Slavery in Islam .




Regards,

Tariq Mahmood Hashmi
Research Assistant, Studying Islam

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