This faulty argument keeps coming up whenever I bring up the immorality of slave-women fiqh, so it’s useful to clarify this once.
The Quran/Sunnah are only a necessary (*not* sufficient) condition for the legitimacy of slavery as practised in the post-Prophetic period.
How do..
The Quran/Sunnah are only a necessary (*not* sufficient) condition for the legitimacy of slavery as practised in the post-Prophetic period.
How do..
…we know this? We know this because the kind of behaviour described in the excerpt below has *never* been recorded during the Prophet’s well-documented life.
Thus his Sunnah/the Quran is NOT a *necessary and sufficient* condition for the legitimisation of this behaviour. To…
Thus his Sunnah/the Quran is NOT a *necessary and sufficient* condition for the legitimisation of this behaviour. To…
…the contrary, the Fuqaha’s rulings do constitute a *necessary and sufficient* condition (i.e. a direct cause) for the legitimisation and institutionalisation of 80% of the behaviour described in the excerpt.
It is through *their* rulings that these *specific modes* of slave…
It is through *their* rulings that these *specific modes* of slave…
…trading and public molestation of slave women were institutionalised. We know this because these practices are only recorded in the post-Prophetic period.
This is why I criticise only those Fuqaha whose rulings were the *necessary and sufficient* condition for the legitimacy..
This is why I criticise only those Fuqaha whose rulings were the *necessary and sufficient* condition for the legitimacy..
…of these immoral and harmful practices. I hope this is clear now to those with open hearts and minds.
We don’t somehow ‘insult’ God & the Prophet when criticising the rulings of Fuqaha or later Muslim practices. This is an old tactic used to silence criticism of ‘tradition’.
We don’t somehow ‘insult’ God & the Prophet when criticising the rulings of Fuqaha or later Muslim practices. This is an old tactic used to silence criticism of ‘tradition’.
On a personal level, it hurts my heart to see some Muslims try (unsuccessfully, of course) to use the Quran & the blessed name of the Prophet (saw) to try to ‘win’ an online debate, even if the goal is to somehow justify moral depravity and obvious dhulm.
Allahul Musta’an.
Allahul Musta’an.
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