Name: Hadith #30 – Slavery in Islam
Uploaded: 2018-02-27T17:42:54.000Z
Channel: Dr. Omar Suleiman
Description: Sh. Omar Suleiman discusses epistemology vs. historical reality when it comes to slavery.

<p>Sh. Omar Suleiman discusses epistemology vs. historical reality when it comes to slavery.</p>

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 and online as well. Alhamdulillah, this has been a subject, or this class is now getting  into the home stretch. We're finally in the last ten lectures when we're talking about  social justice or the 40 hadith on social justice and drawing our own Islamic paradigms  on this subject. And last week we also had a special session where we spoke about Bilal  ibn Mubah. May Allah be pleased with him in light of the new movie that's hit theaters  around the country and the renewed discussion about who Bilal was. So then this question  comes up. The question is that how can we celebrate Bilal and celebrate all of these  stories of liberation and freedom when there appears to be slavery in Islam. And so sometimes  you have very simplistic declarations about slavery and then sometimes you have very nefarious  targeted attacks against Islam that try to associate Islam uniquely with slavery. And  then sometimes you really have to have this discussion about what it is that Islam allowed  and what it did not allow and what is polemical versus what is historical. And that's probably  the most important debate that has to take place here. So I have a really long lecture  online about slavery in Islam. You can find it on YouTube if you have the time to watch  it. Then I do recommend you watch it where I break down some of the technical issues  in much detail. But tonight inshallah I want to purposely keep this under 30 minutes. And  I'll start off with some questions. These are some questions for you all to entertain.  Is slavery wrong? Does Islam condemn slavery? What happened with Libya? If you all saw the  recent news about Libya in particular, the disgusting images that came out of Libya where  you had slave trades and there was a whole CNN bust on Libya. And how can Islam be a  religion of justice while still seemingly tolerating slavery? So I'm going to make  a statement from now inshallah ta'ala. And it is the statement that the lecture is titled  by in Islam there is no slavery except to the most high. Can I prove that? I will prove  that and I'm going to repeat it one more time. In Islam there is no slavery except  to Allah except to the most high. And you might say well that sounds apologetic and  that's not grounded in historical reality. So let's back up and force ourselves to  not operate in the constructs that have been given to us and force ourselves to not operate  in a post Atlantic slave trade western construction of what riqa is in Islam and particularly  how that relates to the whole entire question of slavery. And let's go to a hadith of  the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam that proves that statement and then we'll address  the historical issues with that statement and how we reason with that statement. The  hadith is narrated by Abu Hurayra radiallahu ta'ala anhu. It's narrated that the messenger  of Allah salallahu alayhi wa sallam said and it's a hadith in Sahih Muslim.  la yaqulanna ahadukum abdi wa amati kullukum abidullah wa kullu nisaikum imaullah walakin  liyakul ghulami wa jariyati wa fataya wa fatati. The hadith is in Sahih Muslim. The Prophet  peace be upon him said la yaqulanna ahadukum abdi wa amati. Let not any one of you say  my slave, my slave or my slave girl. Let not any one of you say my slave or my slave girl.  All of you are the slaves of God. kullukum abidullah. All of you are the slaves of Allah.  Instead say that this is my young lady, my young man and the Prophet salallahu alayhi  wa sallam, these are hard terms to describe by the way, jariyati wa fataya wa fatati which  would refer to the age or the distinction in terms of age of a young man or a young  woman as opposed to the status of a person. The point being the Prophet salallahu alayhi  wa sallam says do not say my slave, my slave girl. Instead all of you are the slaves of  Allah. Meaning in terms of status there exists no slavery in Islam in the true sense except  to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. There are circumstances and then there is your status as it relates  to your position. You are standing before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So how do we then  deal with the concept of rik which is apparent slavery in the Islamic tradition which is  a mechanism that dealt with captivity particularly post war and then particularly how to deal  with those captives after they came in post war or post battle.  Abu Dhar radiallahu ta'ala anhu, he narrates that the Messenger of Allah salallahu alayhi  wa sallam said describing quote unquote slaves or people that were brought into that condition  that the Prophet peace be upon him said, ikhwanukum ja'alahumullahu fityatan tahta aydikum. faman  kana akhuhu tahta yadihi fal yuta'imuhum min ta'amihi wal yulbisuhu min libasihi  wala yukallifuhu ma yaglibuhu fa inkallafahu ma yaglibuhu fal yu'inhu. The Prophet salallahu  alayhi wa sallam said that they are merely your brothers that Allah has placed under  your care. They are merely your brothers whom Allah has placed under your care. So whoeve…

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