Sex with Slave Girls

[Joseph Islam]

http://quransmessage.com/articles/sex%20with%20slave%20girls%20FM3.htm

[optimist]

Salamun Alaikum,

Thank you brother Joseph for the useful article.  I would like to add one thing.  As you may have noticed, whatever laws The Quran contains about slaves, are intended for these slaves who were already present in society. "Ma Malakat Aimanukum" means those who are already in your possession. This is stated in the past tense, meaning something that has been done before.

At the advent of Islam, like in the rest of the world, slavery was prevalent among Arabs, too. Prisoners of war were turned into slaves by them. When they embraced Islam, they already had such slaves and concubines in their homes. If Islam had ordered them all out, then there would have been chaos in the society. Hence such laws were established, like freeing the slaves  as expiation for many types of sins, providing the slave with his freedom in exchange of ransom value, marrying them and thus making them legal husband and wife, etc.,  whereby they were given freedom gradually.

For the future, The Quran completely closed the door on slavery. This was how it was done. For prisoners of war, the order was quite clear. The Quran says that after over powering them: either be gracious to them and let them go, or else take ransom and let them free (47:4).  The door for future slavery was thus closed by the Quran forever.

…On the contrary, the other way requires a lot of hard work and patience.  It amounts to climbing uphill, whereupon at every step one runs short of breath. However every such step elevates him further. And what is this steep uphill ascent? Who else can tell you better than the Almighty. So listen: The uphill ascent is that a man should not only look after himself. Wherever he sees a human neck caught in any kind of subjugation or bondage, he should free it.  That is to say, the first and foremost thing to do is to establish a system where no one is subdued by or subjugated to another. Everyone walks with his chin up, with total physical and mental freedom...... (90:11-13)

[Wakas]

I agree, and in addition to the above:
http://www.misconceptions-about-islam.com/concubines-sex-slaves.htm
http://misconceptions-about-islam.com/islam-quran-abolish-slavery.htm