Shadee Elmasry – The Truth about Islam and Slavery

One single comment has spawned a discussion that I think is very

fruitful for people. If you have a sincere intention, and you just

want to see what does Islam say about slavery? Now the question

becomes, is it permissible? What does the city I say, What should a

Muslim do? If we are now entering a world where the non believing

nations, non Muslims have signed off agreements, or signed treaties

and are inviting us to treaties, if not demanding us

to sign treaties where we would not take slaves anymore? No more

slaves. So you have a war, just prisoner of war that said, he's a

prisoner. He's not a slave. And he's going to be tried and

whatever is going to happen to him is going to happen. Okay.

Let's see what Sheikh Mohammed Al Jacobi says about this in his book

on

the refutation of ISIS because ISIS claimed to have brought back

slavery

Sheikh Mohammed Jacobi in this book,

which you can find online refuting ISIS, he says in modern times,

enslaving non Muslim prisoners of war. Slaving non Muslim prisoners

of war is impermissible.

It's haram to enslave a non Muslim prisoner of war. Why does he say

this? The prohibition has been unanimously agreed upon by Muslim

jurists in the second half of the 20th century. Though it was

permissible in the previous ages, the impermissibility of slavery in

Islam is now absolute, with no exceptions. It became unanimously

established among Muslims when they adhered to international

treaties banning slavery.

The purpose of those treaties is to pursue the greater good of the

whole of humanity, and objective that the Muslims have always been

pursuing. By subscribing to those treaties, the Muslim rulers made

them binding on all Muslims. So in that sense, is the prohibition.

He's not saying we've abrogated the Islamic law, there's a big

difference between we made something forbidden for us to do

is very different than we are abrogating Islamic law. What's an

example? I hire you? And I say, I want you to work from 8am until

6pm, and you get one lunch break, and you get to 10 minutes for

thought and 10 minutes for us. And that's it. I don't want you to

pray, no effort. I don't want you to sit and memorize Quran, I don't

want you to sit and do that. I want you to paint my walls. If you

now break this agreement after you signed on to it, and you pray your

sinful and you pray in the time that you agreed with me that

you're going to work so I can pay you, your sinful. So there's a big

difference and it's something being forbidden because of a

treaty you entered and abrogating the Sharia no one can abrogate the

Sharia abrogate means to change the Islamic law you can't change

the subject. You can't change what the what the Quran came with. But

you can have a personal agreement that you will do X permissible

thing and you will not do Y which is could also be a permissible

thing. In fact, praying extra prayers is a recommended thing.

It's a beautiful thing. God loves it in general. But if we make an

agreement, you're gonna paint the wall and not pray. Then your

prayer now becomes sinful because you've broken the agreement

between me and you and your wealth is haram.

Since Muslim countries join these treaties by consensus, it is now

impermissible for an individual or even a country to reach them.

Moreover, adhering to these treaties, is in the best interest

of Muslims, as breaking them will result in dire consequences for

them. The world has not forgotten the millions of free African men

and women who are captured and enslaved in Africa by the European

powers during the colonial period, which followed the discovery of

the New World America. American society is still trying to get rid

of itself of the evil ill the ill consequences of slavery. In 1926,

sorry, the 1926 Slavery convention and the 1956 supplementary

convention banned slavery altogether. Subscribing to these

treaties as the Muslim rulers did, was absolutely legitimate and

Islamic law. Indeed, it was the right thing to do for all the

above reasons the act of enslaving anyone, whether Muslim or non

Muslim, or reinstating the slave trade today are prohibited from

Muslims. One point needs to be clarified, as it is the object of

some controversy, the international conventions, banning

slavery and the slave trade in no way contradict the Holy Quran, the

prophetic tradition or Islamic law. The Sharia already envisaged

the possibility of treaties between Muslim and non Muslim

rulers by which two sides would refrain from enslaving their

respective prisoners of war. So prisoner of war one thing slave a

different thing.

Now that Muslims have signed those conventions, they're bound by

them. In fact, listen to this, the Ottoman caliphate, which ruled by

Islamic law, according to the school of Abu Hanifa, abolished

slavery in Africa in 1847. Then, in 1882, it abolished it

throughout the entire empire by means of a edict issued by the

Sultan.

It should be understood that eradicating slavery through such

agreements does not abrogate the Islamic rules and regulations

pertaining to slavery, as found in the sacred texts. Moreover, the

sacred texts do not dictate that slavery should exist. It's not

something that the city is saying go and make it exist throughout

the earth, just as we're saying raised the word of Allah Most High

throughout the earth that we say that right? Call the then recite

the Quran.

Establish marriage between people give Dawa, etc.

Make slavery No, or establish slaves, no established slavery?

No, that's not part of it. It's something that we have rules and

regulation because it exists likewise, divorce. Divorce is a

reality of life. Let's establish Islam in North America. How are we

going to do that? Start collecting Zika distributing it properly,

feed the poor, teach the Quran teach Islamic FIP Alright, teach

up to eat up. All right, teach Islamic law teach all Sharia and

start divorcing because divorces has rules in this video suited to

how Talaq has a surah? No, that's not how it works. That's not

something that the Sharia has come to establish, to seek out. Okay,

that's what he's saying here. Right, the Sharia. He's saying

here.

The sacred texts do not dictate that slavery should exist.

Wouldn't we love to have a society where no, no.

Divorce happens at all? Does that mean we've abolished divorce? Or

we act we sought to abrogate divorce? No. Certain things we

don't want to exist.

Okay, so he's saying slavery is one of those. Moreover, the sacred

texts do not dictate that slavery should exist. In fact, they simply

regulate slavery if and when it is present. To prevent abuses exactly

what Shukla has weighed, he said exactly what I quoted my Schecter

mucha beep in the previous video that Giada put up.

political agreements between countries such as the abolition of

slavery are meant to pursue the best interests for the whole of

humanity. They are based upon principles such as justice and

equity. Muslims should definitely applaud such ideals and support

them by joining those treaties. In fact, Muslims can find precedents

similar to those treaties in their own history, such as the League of

the virtuous helful followed a pre Islamic pact, formed by the main

tribes of Mecca. The purpose of that of that pact was was to

prevent injustice and oppression to take retribution against

criminals and to aid the weak and the oppressed. Due to his innate

sense of justice. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam joined

this pact even before being assigned the mission to spread His

prophetic message, knew he hadn't received the revelation yet.

The Prophet den said after the advent of Islam, if today I were

invited to a similar pact, I would immediately agree.

It should be noted that in this pact, the prophets of Allah would

have joined the pagans and the polytheists this polytheists of

Mecca without hesitation, hypothetically, if other nations

were to breach their treaties, and begin enslaving Muslims or non

Muslim citizens living in Muslim countries, then a legitimate

Muslim government could reconsider the situation and decide what to

do in the best interest of its citizens. Okay. So when we said I

asked him I said, when would is it possible slavery could ever come

back? He said, If they brought it back, then we can bring it back.

Okay. However, as long as non Muslims do not violate anti

slavery treaties, treaties, it is not permissible for Muslims to

breach them. Right. So Muslims are not allowed to enslave any

prisoners of war. Okay, this discussion so far has focused on

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