Re: Is It Ok To Have Sex With Female Slaves In Islam
if you notice in the verse, there is "pay the poor due". What is due is what is obligatory i.e. zakat. Whereas the first, spending from the wealth on orphans and wayfarers doesnt really come under zakat, especially considering that zakat in those times was collected by the state.
I also found this quranic verse:
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Qur'an 2:221 Surah Al-Baqarah (The Cow)
**Wed not idolatresses till they believe; for lo! a believing bondwoman is better than an idolatress though she please you; and give not your daughters in marriage to idolaters till they believe, for lo! a believing slave is better than an idolater though he please you. **These invite unto the Fire, and Allah inviteth unto the Garden, and unto forgiveness by His grace, and expoundeth thus His revelations to mankind that haply they may remember.
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seems to settle the question in my mind that believing bondswomen/slaves can Islamically exist, although your last post does show that they should be freed if they request it and one has the means to save them from falling into degradation after being freed.
rahi baat why would any believing woman consent to be a slave, i agree there would have to be very extreme circumstances for a woman to consent to such a thing.