{"id":6418,"date":"2025-11-05T02:37:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=6418"},"modified":"2025-11-05T02:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:37:45","slug":"islam-deal-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=6418","title":{"rendered":"How Did Islam Deal with Slavery?"},"content":{"rendered":"
By C. Mofty<\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n
Islam did not initiate the system of slavery <\/strong><\/h3>\n
\"How<\/a>
Shari`ah Law severely limited the channels in which the number of slaves could multiply.<\/p><\/div>\n
Slavery<\/a> existed in Judaism, Christianity<\/a>, India, and China before Islam. Since the earliest times, Islam <\/a>had opened doors to free slaves and to eventually end slavery.<\/p>\n
The Islamic paradigm did not ignore the realities of the world, nor did it endorse it. Islam regulated it. As Annemarie Schimmel, a German scholar, noted, \u201c\u2026therefore slavery is theoretically doomed to disappear with the expansion of Islam.\u201d(1)<\/sup><\/p>\n
Shari`ah Law severely limited the channels in which the number of slaves could multiply. The only source of slavery was captives of legitimate war and the children born to slave parents. After limiting the sources of new slaves, Islamic law dealt with the reality of the existing slaves.<\/p>\n
People are born free, slavery is temporary<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
The Quran<\/a> states,<\/p>\n
O mankind, indeed We have created you from a male (Adam) and a female (Eve) and made you into various families and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most honored of you in God\u2019s sight is the most pious of you.<\/strong> (Al-Hujurat 49:13<\/a>)<\/p>\n
The Prophet of Islam<\/a> (peace be upon him) declared, \u201cAll of you are from Adam and Adam was created from dust.\u201d (Abu Dawud<\/a>)<\/p>\n
The principle that human beings are born free and slavery is accidental is accepted by all the scholars of Islam<\/a>. Few important consequences of this principle are:<\/p>\n