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Date Posted: 15:56:58 11/19/08 Wed
Author: rana
Subject: I found something
In reply to: rana 's message, "Re: No God, no heaven no hell" on 15:30:35 11/19/08 Wed

Actually, I found several posts in this regard but I am too sleepy to go through them now. So, here is some answers I posted in response to a Postmasterial named "Justin" . The title is Man is a slave to no one but God. I am copy/ pasting it without any editing, although I noticed some gramatical mistakes, but.. too lazy to do anything about them.

((A good point to start would be to answer Justin's question:
"Why make slaves if the Muslims thought it was good for their souls to release them"??

Islam didn't make slaves. Slavery existed long before Islam and it was one of the many things Islam changed in the lives of people, first in the Arabian peninsula and then these new morals spread all over the world with the spread of Islamic teachings.

According to Islam, ALL people are equal no matter what their race, tribe, occupation�etc are. The only scale Islam established for preference among people is "piety". According to Islam, there is no excuse for anyone to humiliate, or underestimate any human being and it is a sin for one to think that he is better than anybody else, slave or free. Even the scale I mentioned above i.e. piety� it is for God to decide who is more pious not for people, so no superior attitudes in this world.

As slavery was a very common practice at that time, where slaves were bought, sold and gained in wars, it was one of the things Islam had to change gradually.

Introducing Islam to people� a whole new religion and a whole new set of teachings and new way of life to Quraish and the other tribes was no easy mission. The prophet Mohammed could not bring all the rules and "do & don'ts" and pour them to people saying "here, this is the new religion � please change all that you believe in and follow it". One of the methods or approaches prophet Mohammed followed was to change things gradually so that people wouldn't feel that it is impossible for them to just renounce everything all at a sudden. It was a whole way of life that they had been used to for hundreds of years and if it was to change.. it had to be a gradual process. The repentance price I talked about earlier was one way of the process of eliminating slavery.

Justin asked another question, about whether prophet Mohammed's note about servants being brothers and sisters included slaves. The answer is YES. Far be it from prophet Mohammed (pbuh) to condone inhumane or "animal" treatment of any man or woman.

One of the examples of prophet Mohammed's attitude towards this issue is a story I like.
After winning one of the wars, Prophet Mohammed was distributing booty to people when his daughter Fatima "who he loved so dearly" came to him and asking for a maid. Fatima and her husband were very poor people and she was a bit feeble and needed someone to help her in the house. All she asked is to be like the others and have a maid or "slave".

Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) refused that his daughter has a slave. Instead, he taught her a supplication so that God will help her get through the rough life she had.

Now as the prophet followers were so attached to him and wanted to follow his lead in every thing he did, that was part of the teachings that he wanted to pass to people�

I have another story that I like very much but unfortunately.. I ran out of time.. will post it later, Inshallah))

>I remember having this discussion before, in Post
>Master, and as I used to save some of those posts in a
>special folder, I am going to search for some of the
>replies I posted there for similar misconception about
>Islam

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