Re: Concubines
bro psyah
I dont fundamentally agree or disagree with AllahkaBanda's post but i must say he is being honest and not trying to be politically correct
there are a lot of gray areas here which are not entirely clear , things are complicated as many scholars dont want to debate this openly given the hostile envoirment against islam today.
let me research a little more and Inshallah I will post later
May God save us from falling into deviations and distortions regarding islam
re: umar b khattab[ra] the wellknown incident that u mentioned was indeed not uncommon at all in those days ..infact once a nobleman lost a race with a slave during a competition in egypt he was so upset that he had the slave beaten up ...when umar [ra] heard about it he ordered the slave to beat up the nobleman in retaliation !
But we must also accept that within 30yrs of these times this kind of meritocracy was shattered by the emergence of a arab nationalistic dictatorship ....and its ruthless exploitation of non-quraishi arabs and nonarabs sowed the seeds for the eventual demise of the muslim empire. We muslims of today now rarely see this difference we always like to dream of this "golden age" of islam when everything was hunky dory and all of a sudden some western powers came and treacherously overthrew us.In reality moral decline of the caliphate started way before its political or military decline and what the later dynasties achieved in terms of worldly honors have little to do with the religion of islam.