Muhammad (pbuh), the Last Prophet

[BelFarfalla]

I know the case that you are talking about, but this wasn’t like that. Everyone remained and were very concerned for this man. The reason the criminals got away, was that the first instinct was to help the victim. Some were helping the man up from the ground and helping him sit and asking if he was alright. Still others were calling out to call for an ambulance. I was one of the people shouting out to others in the park for help. It was just a scene of confusion and panic. The calm ones were the ones talking to the victim and asking him about pain and if he knew the men who did it. I remember he was very dazed, his eyes didn’t look focused, and was in great pain but he indicated that he didn’t know them. Most of the other people were still standing around listening to other speakers and weren’t aware of what was happening right away.

I read your other post on this. If it happened as quickly as you said I can see why no one went after the attackers. No one expects violence to errupt in situations like that.

It is a more violent world today… now that we know that this stuff is happening more and more, we need to think about how we will respond to violence if we witness it.

 

[Eden]

I read your other post on this. If it happened as quickly as you said I can see why no one went after the attackers. No one expects violence to errupt in situations like that.

It is a more violent world today… now that we know that this stuff is happening more and more, we need to think about how we will respond to violence if we witness it.

This was pre-9/11, too, so I know that I personally never could have imagined what these men were walking away to plan. I had only been living in London for several months at the time, having moved there from the States for a while and fresh out of college. I would have been wiser about the whole thing today. I think everyone there would have been. I have hoped and prayed many times that the man that they attacked is O.K. today, wherever he is.

 

[BelFarfalla]

This was pre-9/11, too, so I know that I personally never could have imagined what these men were walking away to plan. I had only been living in London for several months at the time, having moved there from the States for a while and fresh out of college. I would have been wiser about the whole thing today. I think everyone there would have been. I have hoped and prayed many times that the man that they attacked is O.K. today, wherever he is.

That it occured post 9/11 is very telling. IT shows that the people has existed for a long time.

I bet that today you and others would recognize immediately what was going down the minute the two men returned.

 

[adrift]

How do you interpret the words of Jesus in John 20:17 “…to my God and your God”?

Can God have another God?

How do you interpret the words of Jesus in Matthew 26:39 “…Yet not as I will, but as you will”?

Can ‘Gods’ have different wills?

One God but two natures one God one Human. You speak of the human side of God.

 

[obadiah]

How do you interpret the words of Jesus in John 20:17 “…to my God and your God”?

Can God have another God?

How do you interpret the words of Jesus in Matthew 26:39 “…Yet not as I will, but as you will”?

Can ‘Gods’ have different wills?

Yahweh is the God of the Human nature of the Only Begotten Son of God. Jesus has a human will, and the Divine Will of the Eternal Trinity.

 

[Eden]

That it occured post 9/11 is very telling. IT shows that the people has existed for a long time.

I bet that today you and others would recognize immediately what was going down the minute the two men returned.

Absolutely. Although I would have assumed that none of us would be considered innocent, as we were all listening. So, I would have anticipated that all of us would be considered legitimate targets for violence.

 

[exoflare]

You can read anything, except Bible!!!

LOL well that’s reasonable isn’t it??

 

[exoflare]

What do you expect then from a Muslim? What shall I expect from a Christian?

So you agree that all teachings of Islam are based on “Mohammed said so”?

 

[dessert]

How do you interpret the words of Jesus in John 20:17 “…to my God and your God”?

Can God have another God?

How do you interpret the words of Jesus in Matthew 26:39 “…Yet not as I will, but as you will”?

Can ‘Gods’ have different wills?

Another good point is Mary wanted to kiss Jesus’s feet, but He is referring to himself as brothers so that is what He told her to tell the disciples because of His resurrection of His flesh they share the same Father as He and the Father are one again. The ressurrection and asscention being considered as one in the same.

Jesus is accepting the “cup” of His destiny.
The death of one for the slavation of many.

There is a story of a priest but could be of other peacefull christian doing the will of God melding with the same desire and devotion serving and ministering to souls, he worked within a drug culture , like LA , trying to reach one or few, and knew someday they would quite possibly kill him, but he still went, and within two years they did just that.

What do you think God’s will was?

Dessert

 

[chet]

This forum itself is anti-Islamic. Did I avoid it? I likie when someone criticize Islam. Because none of them could ever come up with genuine problem. And I am still waiting for one.

Khalfan You want it you got it!1 John 2:22

Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.

That would make Mohammad a liar and the antichrist according to scripture.
1 John 4:2-3

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does not confess Jesus, is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.

That would mean what ever spirit that spoke to Mohammad was not from God, and it was the spirit of the antichrist according to scripture.

2 John 1:7

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh This is the deceiver and the antichrist.

Again Mohammad is the deceiver and the antichrist according to scripture.
John 14:6

"I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

 Did Mohammad go to the Father but through Jesus? If not according to scripture he did not go to God.

John 5:22-24

"For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son, so that all will honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

Could be bad news for Mohammad a liar and the antichrist according to scripture.
Psalm 2:12

Do homage to the Son, that He not become angry, and you perish in the way, For His wrath may soon be kindled How blessed are all who take refuge in Him!

 

[BelFarfalla]

*This forum itself is anti-Islamic. Did I avoid it? I likie when someone criticize Islam. Because none of them could ever come up with genuine problem. And I am still waiting for one. *

We are not anti-Islam in that we would treat a Muslim badly in real life. Here we are discussing matters of religion and things like laws that are based on religion.

There are millions of Muslims who live in my country. They have exactly the same rights as every other citizen. They can get any job they are qualified for. They can worship in any way they please
.
*If we object to the way our country and other Muslims countries treat our Christian brothers and sisters this is indeed a ‘genuine problem’. Islam needs to be criticized for its apartheid against non-Muslims. *

*We have talked about other parts of Islam that are genuine problems, like the laws of violent jihad, that Shari’ah still allows slavery, that it allows a man to beat his wife, that it allows a girl as young as 9 to be married, exectuion of apostates, execution for adultery, chopping off hands for theft, and of course the religious apartheid. These are all ancient laws that have no place today. *

These are genuine problems with Islam that most Christians will speak out against. Why wouldn’t they?

 

[Khalfan]

Then why do you quibble when someone quotes from an anti-Islam site? You seem to only want people to quote from pro-Islam sites.

The questions you find in anti-Islamic sites is answered in many pro-Isamic sites. The only requirment is, the questionair should have the honesty to accept the answers. You can go to the subquestions but if you return to the same question, that is childish as I can see in this thread.

So you think polygamy, slavery, robbery, killing of non-believers to be moral acts?

Because he was evil? Is killing, rape, plunder, robbery, genocide, ethnic-cleansing, torture, enslavement and pedophilia NOT evil?

Here is the example for that childish repeating questions. First let me answer it in the way you deserve it.

None of that is immoral acts in according to BIBLE.
Now let me answer it as a true Muslim. These issues are already answered many times in this same thread. Only slavery is the new issue that came up now. I can answer that too, but before that you have answer me. Does Islamic slavery reasonate the slavery system existed in the Christian community existed in U.S and U.K?

Read up on what the Muslims did to their conquered peoples in the Holy Land and India.

In India, it wasn’t religious, but political. I know it well, because I am an Indian.

Scholars count eight Crusades as having taken place in the 200-year period between 1096 and 1291. They were wars waged against Islam for control of what Christians called the Holy Land, but they also involved fierce conflict between Latins and Orthodox, and ultimately within Latin Christendom itself. It is not only that the savagery of these wars remains unforgotten in vast stretches of the world today, but also that the lines they drew remain contested borders even now - as the Balkans wars of the 1990s reveal. There are at least four key pillars of the Western mind that the Crusades put in place.

The Crusades were the first time that violence was defined by the church as a sacred act. ‘‘God wills it!’’ was the battle cry with which Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade in 1095. Anyone ‘‘taking the cross’’ to fight the infidel was offered indulgences, and, if killed, assured a place in heaven. The energy for war came from the conviction that, as President Bush put it in his address to Congress, ‘‘God is not neutral.’’ Crusaders go to war certain of God’s blessing.

The crusading mind divides the world between Us and Them. Indeed, the Crusades were a deliberate effort to get Europe’s princes to stop making war against each other in favor of war against an enemy outside, and it worked. The Crusades established a binding ideological consensus among Christians that led ultimately to unifying structures of politics and culture. Indeed, Europe did not become ‘‘Europe’’ until it defined itself against Islam, and that negation remains embedded in the West’s self-understanding today.

But a mobilization against an enemy outside inevitably led to a paranoid fear of enemies within. Anyone not participating in the new consensus was instantly in danger. The war against Islam abroad became a war against dissent at home. That is why ‘‘schismatics,’’ or Orthodox Christians, and Albigensian heretics were soon targets of Crusades, too.

But the ultimate enemy within, of course, was the Jew. The movement from religious anti-Judaism of the early church toward the lethal anti-Semitism of modernity took its most decisive turn with the First Crusade, which was the occasion, in the Rhineland in the spring of 1096, of the first large-scale pogrom in Europe’s history. Church leaders repudiated violence against Jews in subsequent Crusades, but without ever repudiating the underlying theological assumptions that made it inevitable.

 

[Khalfan]

No. Did he tell them that it is wrong to:

Kill

The Qur’an commands Muslims to stick up for themselves in a defensive battle – i.e. if an enemy army attacks, then Muslims are to fight against that army until they stop their aggression. All of the verses that speak about fighting/war in the Qur’an are in this context.
There are some specific verses that are very often “snipped” out of context, either by those trying to malign the faith, or by misguided Muslims themselves who wish to justify their aggressive tactics.

For example, one verse (in its snipped version) reads: “slay them wherever you catch them” (Qur’an 2:191). But who is this referring to? Who are “they” that this verse discusses? The preceding and following verses give the correct context:

“Fight in the cause of God those who fight you, but do not transgress limits; for God loves not transgressors. And slay them wherever ye catch them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out; for tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter; but fight them not at the Sacred Mosque, unless they (first) fight you there; but if they fight you, slay them. Such is the reward of those who suppress faith. But if they cease, God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful. And fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevails justice and faith in God; but if they cease, let there be no hostility except to those who practise oppression” (2:190-193).

It is clear from the context that these verses are discussing a defensive war, when a Muslim community is attacked without reason, oppressed and prevented from practicing their faith. In these circumstances, permission is given to fight back – but even then Muslims are instructed not to transgress limits, and to cease fighting as soon as the attacker gives up. Even in these circumstances, Muslim are only to fight directly against those who are attacking them, not innocent bystanders or non-combatants.

Another similar verse can be found in chapter 9, verse 5 – which in its snipped, out of context version could read: “fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war).” Again, the preceding and following verses give the context.

This verse was revealed during a historical period when the small Muslim community had entered into treaties with neighboring tribes (Jewish, Christian, and pagan). Several of the pagan tribes had violated the terms of their treaty, secretly aiding an enemy attack against the Muslim community. The verse directly before this one instructs the Muslims to continue to honor treaties with anyone who has not since betrayed them, because fulfilling agreements is considered a righteous action. Then the verse continues, that those who have violated the terms of the treaty have declared war, so fight them… (as quoted above).

Directly after this permission to fight, the same verse continues, “but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practise regular charity, then open the way for them… for God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.” The subsequent verses instruct the Muslims to grant asylum to any member of the pagan tribe/army who asks for it, and again reminds that “as long as these stand true to you, stand ye true to them: for God loves the righteous.”

Any verse that is quoted out of context misses the whole point of the message of the Qur’an. Nowhere in the Qur’an can be found support for indiscriminate slaughter, the killing of non-combatants, or murder of innocent persons in ‘payback’ for another people’s alleged crimes.

The Islamic teachings on this subject can be summed up in the following verses (Qur’an 60:7-8):

"It may be that God will grant love (and friendship) between you and those whom ye (now) hold as enemies. For God has power (over all things), and God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

God does not forbid you, with regard to those who fight you not for (your) faith nor drive you out of your homes, from dealing kindly and justly with them: for God loves those who are just."

 

[Khalfan]

No. Did he tell them that it is wrong to:

Kill

This is one misunderstanding that keeps rising up against Islam. Islam does not in anyway allow for the killing of any innocent soul. I have gathered some of the Noble Verses that I am aware of that deal directly with war and peace to shed some light upon my readers.

Noble Verses that order the killing of the enemies:

Let us look at Noble Verses 9:28-29 "O ye believe! Truly the pagans are unclear; so let them not, after this year of theirs, approach the Sacred Mosque. And if ye fear povery, soon will Allah enrich you, if He wills, out of His bounty, For Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.

Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the last day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of truth, from among the people of the book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."

Let us look at Noble Verse 9:5 “Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.”

As we clearly see in the above Noble Verses, the laws of killing the unbelievers or the pagans were for particular and specific times, and not for all times and all places. Notice the quotes “…after this year…” and “…when the sacred months have passed…”.

It is important to know that when Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him started preaching Islam, he had to deal with 360 Arab pagan tribes at first, and he and his followers had to go through a lot of battles that were imposed upon them by the pagans who were threatened by the new System and Wonderful Religion of Islam.

 

[estesbob]

It is important to know that when Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him started preaching Islam, he had to deal with 360 Arab pagan tribes at first, and he and his followers had to go through a lot of battles that were imposed upon them by the pagans who were threatened by the new System and Wonderful Religion of Islam.

Looks they had good cause to be threatened.

 

[Khalfan]

No. Did he tell them that it is wrong to:

Rob caravans

It never happened for religious reasons. Islam doesn’t allow robbing or stealing for any reason.

Enslave women and children

I know why you didn’t mention it as slavery itself. Because Slavery is very much supported in Bible. That slavery system too included women and children.

Why did slavery exist during Islam? And how did Islam deal with it?

First, it is important to know that thousands of years ago life was different than today. Today, people wouldn’t accept slavery for any reason. The reason for this is because people are a lot more independent both financially, education wise, mentally, etc… But people back then were different. When a tribe or a group of people lose a major battle and their money is mostly, if not all, is taken as war booty by the other side, then people could and would accept being slaves for the following reasons:

1- Both financial and social security. When their country or tribe lost the war, they also lost most or all of their money as war booty. Being out of money and food, it becomes necessary for an individual to find the means for basic survival in life. Living as a slave would provide this.

2- Protection from hostile individuals. Even under the Islamic rule, you can still find hostile individuals who violate the Law and take matters into their own hands. An enemy family can be sometime in danger if they don’t have a “protector”.

3- Widows, Orphans, and the extremely poor of the enemy side need the financial and social protection from a Master. Back then, there were no governments with good social system that protects everyone. Slavery back then was that social system in special cases.

There are probably more points I can add, but I think these are sufficient enough.

Islam and Slavery:

Islam is a religion that came to fight slavery and end it once and for all. During Judaism and Christianity, slavery was at its highest peak in the Middle East. People were enslaved and they and their children were inherited and passed down to generations for ever. This tradition came from Leviticus 25:44-46 in the Bible’s Old Testament, and further continued in the New Testament in 1 Timothy 6:1, 1 Peter 2:18, and Colossians 3:22.

Now keep in mind that the entire Bible is corrupted and unreliable and is mostly filled with man-made cultural laws and corruption!

GOD Almighty Said: “`How can you say, “We [the Jews] are wise, for we have the law of the LORD,” when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely?’ (From the NIV Bible, Jeremiah 8:8)”

The Revised Standard Version makes it even clearer: “How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us’? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie. (From the RSV Bible, Jeremiah 8:8)”

In either translation, we clearly see that the Jews had so much corrupted the Bible with their man-made cultural laws, that they had turned the Bible into a lie!

See Also Deuteronomy 31:25-29 where Moses peace be upon him predicted the corruption/tampering of the Law (Bible) after his death. The Book of Moses predicted that the Law (Bible) will get corrupted. The Book of Jeremiah which came approximately 826 years after did indeed confirm this corruption.

So Leviticus 25:44-46, 1 Timothy 6:1, 1 Peter 2:18, and Colossians 3:22 above are highly doubtful to be Divine Revelations from GOD Almighty, the Most Just, Most Merciful, and Most Wise. Please visit Just who were the real authors of the Bible? You will see comments from the commentary of the NIV Bible (one of the most used Bibles world wide) itself admitting that most of the Books and Gospels of the Bible are corrupted. No one ever claimed ownership of the current Books and Gospels. The owners/writers are unknown.

When Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him received the Divine Revelations of Islam, slavery among the Pagan Arabs, Jews and Christians was quite common. When he came with Allah Almighty’s True Religion of Islam, he gradually eliminated slavery. He couldn’t enforce it all at once, because it would’ve caused Islam to be an unsuccessful religion toward freeing slaves, and would certainly have broken Islam’s system for ending slavery.

By gradually freeing slaves and making it be acceptable to the society of many different pagan cultures and traditions, the idea of eliminating slavery became powerful enough that after Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him died, the freed slaves remained free and non of them was ever enslaved again.

Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him said:

Narrated Abu Musa Al-Ash’ari: “The Prophet said, “Give food to the hungry, pay a visit to the sick and release (set free) the one in captivity (by paying his ransom).” (Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Food, Meals, Volume 7, Book 65, Number 286)”

Continued.

 

[Khalfan]

Continued.

The example of ending slavery in Islam:

Perhaps the best example I can provide regarding Laws developing gradually in the Noble Quran is the ending of the Judeo-Christians’ and Pagans’ slavery in Arabia. Let us look at the following Noble Verses:

Slavery seems to be allowed:

Note: “Right hand possession” are the human-captives of war who lived as slaves among Muslims.

“Serve God, and join not any partners with Him; and do good- to parents, kinsfolk, orphans, those in need, neighbours who are near, neighbours who are strangers, the companion by your side, the wayfarer (ye meet), and what your right hands possess: For God loveth not the arrogant, the vainglorious;- (The Noble Quran, 4:36)”

“If ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans, Marry women of your choice, Two or three or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one, or (a captive) that your right hands possess, that will be more suitable, to prevent you from doing injustice. (The Noble Quran, 4:3)”

“Also (prohibited are) women already married, except those whom your right hands possess: Thus hath God ordained (Prohibitions) against you: Except for these, all others are lawful, provided ye seek (them in marriage) with gifts from your property,- desiring chastity, not lust, seeing that ye derive benefit from them, give them their dowers (at least) as prescribed; but if, after a dower is prescribed, agree Mutually (to vary it), there is no blame on you, and God is All-knowing, All-wise. (The Noble Quran, 4:24)”

“If any of you have not the means wherewith to wed free believing women, they may wed believing girls from among those whom your right hands possess: And God hath full knowledge about your faith. Ye are one from another: Wed them with the leave of their owners, and give them their dowers, according to what is reasonable: They should be chaste, not lustful, nor taking paramours: when they are taken in wedlock, if they fall into shame, their punishment is half that for free women. This (permission) is for those among you who fear sin; but it is better for you that ye practise self-restraint. And God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (The Noble Quran, 4:25)”

Freeing of slaves is Commanded by Allah Almighty:

“It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces Towards east or West; but it is righteousness to believe in God and the Last Day, and the Angels, and the Book, and the Messengers; to spend of your substance, out of love for Him, for your kin, for orphans, for the needy, for the wayfarer, for those who ask, and for the ransom of slaves; to be steadfast in prayer, and practice regular charity; to fulfil the contracts which ye have made; and to be firm and patient, in pain (or suffering) and adversity, and throughout all periods of panic. Such are the people of truth, the God-fearing. (The Noble Quran, 2:177)”

“Never should a believer kill a believer; but (If it so happens) by mistake, (Compensation is due): If one (so) kills a believer, it is ordained that he should free a believing slave, and pay compensation to the deceased’s family, unless they remit it freely. If the deceased belonged to a people at war with you, and he was a believer, the freeing of a believing slave (Is enough). If he belonged to a people with whom ye have treaty of Mutual alliance, compensation should be paid to his family, and a believing slave be freed. For those who find this beyond their means, (is prescribed) a fast for two months running: by way of repentance to God: for God hath all knowledge and all wisdom. (The Noble Quran, 4:92)”

“God will not call you to account for what is futile in your oaths, but He will call you to account for your deliberate oaths: for expiation, feed ten indigent persons, on a scale of the average for the food of your families; or clothe them; or give a slave his freedom. If that is beyond your means, fast for three days. That is the expiation for the oaths ye have sworn. But keep to your oaths. Thus doth God make clear to you His signs, that ye may be grateful. (The Noble Quran, 5:89)”

“But those who divorce their wives by Zihar, then wish to go back on the words they uttered, (It is ordained that such a one) should free a slave before they touch each other: Thus are ye admonished to perform: and God is well-acquainted with (all) that ye do. (The Noble Quran, 58:3)”

Continued.

 

[Khalfan]

Continued.

Narrated Abu Musa Al-Ash’ari: “The Prophet said, “Give food to the hungry, pay a visit to the sick and release (set free) the one in captivity (by paying his ransom).” (Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Food, Meals, Volume 7, Book 65, Number 286)”

Narrated Asma: “No doubt the Prophet ordered people to manumit slaves during the solar eclipse. (Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Eclipses, Volume 2, Book 18, Number 163)”

“'Abdullah b. 'Umar reported that 'Umar b. Khattab asked the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) as he was at ji’rana (a town near Mecca) on his way back from Ta’if: Messenger of Allah, I had taken a vow during the days of Ignorance that I would observe I’tikaf for one day in the Sacred Mosque. So what is your opinion? He said: Go and observe I’tikaf for a day. And Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) gave him a slave girl out of the one-fifth (of the spoils of war meant for the Holy Prophet). And when Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) set the war prisoners free. 'Umar b. Khattab heard their voice as they were saying: Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) has set us free. He (Hadrat 'Umar) said: What is this? They said: Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) has set free the prisoners of war (which had fallen to the lot of people). Thereupon he (Hadrat 'Umar) said: Abdullah, go to that slave-girl and set her free. (Translation of Sahih Muslim, The Book of Oaths (Kitab Al-Aiman), Book 015, Number 4074)”

 

[Khalfan]

No. Did he tell them that it is wrong to:

Rape captive women

First want to tell you that only non-muslim prisoners of war could become slaves in islam (therefore slavery was doomed to disappear with the expansion of Islam). It’s important to know that slaves in islam had the same right to respect and good treatment like any other human being.,I shall show and proof to you that the raping of female slaves is forbidden in islam, rather islam gave men the permission to have sexual intercourse with their slave-girl and this did certainly not mean that muslim men could rape their female slaves (female prisoners of war ), since Allah swt and the prophet (saw) command muslim men to treat their slave girls well and with respect and dignity. The next quotations from the authentic hadith proof that the raping of female slaves is forbidden in islam:

Related by Al-Daraqutni, Ibn Majah and Ahmad:

“The Prophet said, “There shall be no infliction of harm on oneself or others".

‘Others’ includes all people, so also slavegirls! Raping a slavegirl is clearly doing her harm (emotional and physical) which would be a big sin for a muslim to commit and violation of the above hadith. Moreover the prophet (peace be upon him) commanded muslims to treat their slaves well and with respect, which clearly proofs that rape of female slaves is forbidden in islam. The prophet (peace be upon him) said:

Your servants and your slaves are your brothers. Anyone who has slaves should give them from what he eats and wears. He should not charge them with work beyond their capabilities. If you must set them to hard work, in any case I advise you to help them.

Source: Bukhari, Iman, 22; Adab, 44; Muslim, Iman, 38–40; Abu Dawud, Adab, 124

Ali reported that the last words of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, were: "The prayer! The prayer! Fear Allah concerning your slaves ! "

Source: Al-Adab al-Mufrad Al-Bukhari , Nr. 158.

Jabir ibn 'Abdullah said, "The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, advised that slaves should be well-treated. He said, ‘Feed them from what you eat and clothe them from what you wear. Do not punish what Allah has created.’ "

Source: Al-Adab al-Mufrad Al-Bukhari , Nr. 188.

Sallam ibn 'Amr reported from one of the Companions of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “Your slaves are your brothers, so treat him well. Ask for their help in what is too much for you and help them in what is too much for them.”

Source: Al-Adab al-Mufrad Al-Bukhari , Nr. 190.

Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “The slave has his food and clothing. Do not burden a slave with work which he is incapable of doing.”

Source: Al-Adab al-Mufrad Al-Bukhari , Nr. 192.

Not one of you should when introducing someone ] say ‘This is my slave’, ‘This is my concubine’. He should call them ‘my daughter’ or ‘my son’ or ‘my brother’.

Source: Ibn Hanbal, Musnad, 2 ,4

For this reason ‘Umar and his servant took it in turns to ride on the camel from Madina to Jerusalem on their journey to take control of Masjid al-Aqsa. While he was the head of the state, ‘Uthman had his servant pull his own ears in front of the people since he had pulled his. Abu Dharr, applying the hadith literally, made his servant wear one half of his suit while he himself wore the other half. From these instances, it was being demonstrated to succeeding generations of Muslims, and a pattern of conduct established, that a slave is fully a human being, not different from other people in his need for respect and dignity and justice.

“The masters were obliged not to put slaves under hardship; slaves were not to be tortured, abused or treated unjustly. They could marry among “themselves with their master’s permission - or with free men or women ! They could appear as witnesses and participate with free men in all “affairs. Many of them were appointed as governors, commanders of army and administrators. In the eyes of Islam, a pious slave has precedence over “an impious free man.” Source: Al-Tabataba’i, Tafsir ( vol.16, pp. 338-358 )

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The Prophet, upon him peace, had stipulated in his “last pilgrimage” speech:

"And your slaves! see that you feed them such food as you eat yourselves and dress them what you yourself wear. And if they commit a “mistake which you are not inclined to forgive then sell them, for they are the servants of Allah and are not to be tormented! "

Source: Ibn Sa’d, op. cit., vol. II:1, p. 133

And again in another hadith the prophet (saw) makes clear that rape of female slaves is forbidden, The prophet (peace be upon him) said:

“Whoever causes harm to others subjects himself to harm caused by God.”

Source: Related by Ibn Majah and Abu Dawood on the authority of Abu Sirmah.

“You must refrain from dealing wickedly with others, for that would count as a benefaction you do to yourself”.

Source: Related by Al-Bukhari and Muslim on the authority of Abu Tharr.

‘Others’ includes all people, so also slavegirls ! Raping a slavegirl is clearly doing her harm (emotional and physical) which would be a big sin for a muslim to commit and violation of the above hadith. Allah swt also commands in the Qur’an muslims to treat their slaves (female slaves) kindly:

“Serve God, and join not any partners with Him ; and do good to parents, kinsfolk, orphans, those in need, neighbours who are near, neighbours “who are strangers, the Companion by your side, the way-farer (ye meet), And what your right hands possess : for God loveth not the arrogant, the “vainglorious” Surah An Nisa, verse 36

The phrase “What your right hands possess” refers to one’s slaves (male and female). Allah swt ordains the kind treatment of slaves in the same verse where He commands man to worship Him and to treat his parents, relations and neighbours generously, and this signifies the importance of this ruling.

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