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when one sees the way the prophet Salli
wasallam used to treat the slaves and
the captives again you'll become
speechless
speechless the prophet Salli wasallam
did not leave anyone outside of his
compassion and mercy
here is bil and I am so proud to be
named after
bil an Ethiopian slave who used to exist
at the time of the Prophet s Ali
wasallam insignificant man meaning
towards the
tribes and he was a slave
with when he embraced Islam in secret
found out his Lord the one who bought
him the one who had him and owned him he
said I own your soul I own your wealth I
own everything that you say you are not
allow to become a Muslim
he said there is only one
God so umaya brought him in a scorching
sand and placed him in the middle of the
desert and place the stone over his
chest the sand over there in Saudi
Arabia in
Mecca the sand is more than 60° C it'll
burn you back easily it'll peel off your
skin and then with a with a a stone so
heavy so large that needs four men to
carry it was placed on his chest and
then he was with
saying say our Idols are the best and he
would
say there's only one God there's only
one
God
suddenly as he was almost about to kill
kill a man by the name of
abak he arrived and he said the
messenger has sent me Muhammad Ali
wasallam I will buy this man off you
yeah um how much do you want for him
name the price and umayya said to him
said I'll give him a bit of a high
price he said I want 10 golden
Dinars everyone laughed around
him suddenly he threw the suck in front
of
him 10 golden dins 10
golden umay looked up and he said what a
fool you are you think that you've
accomplished something
here I would have asked two Dinars for
this worthless person he worth nothing
you just bought a worthless person for
10
dins abak said was being taught by the
messengeri wasallam I would have paid a
100 Dinars for
him I would have paid a
100 and um was darkened in his face and
thought D I could have made another 90
golden
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dins slaves are valuable in
Islam and the first people who followed
the prophet Salli wasallam were the
slaves and servants and awake
then the leaders followed such
as in the
WR the prophet Salli wasallam used to
promise great rewards in Paradise for
people who bought slaves and set them
free or bought women slaves and set them
free and then have the choice of
marrying them or letting them
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free the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam used to say whale meaning a
place in Hellfire
wail to those who harm their
servants hit them bash
them and he said every servant must be
fed from the food that you feed your
family with must be given shelter and
comfort must be allowed to do these
things so much so that one time
AB Abu made a mistake one time his
servant he had a servant and he did
something wrong so Abu slapped him
across the face suddenly Abu Heard a
Voice from behind him a voice saying to
him do you not fear the Hellfire because
of this weak person in front of
you Abu looked back wanting to answer
back and he found the prophet Salli
wasallam before him it was the messenger
sallallahu alaihi
wasallam and he said to him y Allah he
is for free for the sake of Allah I've
set him
free the prophet wasallam said if you
did not set him
free Allah would have punished you in
the
fire Subhan
Allah which religion in the world or
ideology or or
system I ask in the name of Allah which
system in the world has this mercy and
his sensitivity to even the slaves like
that who which which
religion not
one Islam honored them and lifted them
until was the caller to the Adam which
we call
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today but wait a minute after all this
explanation you still might be thinking
slavery it's still a slave but you know
what look at the description and you'll
find that the slave in Islam
gets more rights and is treated better
than the best servant that we have in
our contemporary world today the best
servant today the most expensive and
well-paid Butler who wears a full suit
yeah the slave in Islam has better
rights than this person first of all the
slave in Islam sits with you and eats
with you the butler stands while you're
eating but the slave in Islam he sits
with you and he eats with you he eats
the same quality food you have to do
that he has to sit with you at the same
time and eat he also has to dress from
the same quality clothing that you wear
if you wear you know expensive clothing
your slave has to wear the same kind of
clothing and because of brevity of time
we're not going to go into the many many
explanations and descriptions and
stories where the slave would be
sometimes dressed better than the master
in Islam likewise you're not allowed to
hit them if you hit them you the price
for hitting them is you have to set them
free if you hit a slave you have to set
them free that's the expiation for that
you're also not allowed to overburden
them with work and that's why like Sal
he was the governor of a city they walk
in and he's doing some strenuous work
they said why don't you let the slave
boy do it he said because we sent him on
one task and we don't want to overburden
him with another task you don't you
can't give him two jobs at the same time
so they eat with you they dress like you
they eat the same food that you eat and
they wear from the same quality clothing
that you wear you're not allowed to
overburden them in the end what happens
in the end you're left with this notion
that this is a brother of mine who's
just in the home he's like a a family
member in the house who helps around and
that's why one of the early Muslims his
name
was he said he's talking about a slave
of his he he said this is not he's not
my my slave he is my son whom Allah has
put under my care you see the wordings
very sweet he is my son that Allah has
put under my care so we see the slave in
Islam is treated better than the best
Butler we have in our contemporary world
today and they're given so many rights
and you're not allowed to beat them or
AB them so the concept of a slave in
Islam is very very different than the
concept of a slave in the west so the
next time someone says Islam allows
slavery tell them do you know what this
definition of slavery is it's the same
word that we have in English but it's a
very very different concept make sure
you give him that explanation
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Gustave leor A famous non-muslim social
psychologist says in his book called
Arab civilization what I sincerely
believe is that slavery among the
Muslims is better than slavery among any
other people and that the situation of
slaves in the East is better than that
of servants in Europe and that slaves in
the East are part of the family slaves
who wanted to be free could attain
freedom by expressing this wish for but
despite that they did not resort to
exercising this right
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