December 13, 2015 Worship Service

Marrying Believing Slave-girls in Islam

Muhammad Asghar

Quran 4:25 says: “If any of you have not the means wherewith to wed free believing women, they may wed believing girls from among those whom your right hands possess: And Allah hath full knowledge about your faith. Ye are one from another: Wed them with the leave of their owners, and give them their dowers, according to what is reasonable: They should be chaste, not lustful, nor taking paramours: when they are taken in wedlock, if they fall into shame, their punishment is half that for free women. This (permission) is for those among you who fear sin; but it is better for you that ye practise self-restraint. And Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.” (Yusuf Ali's translation)

In my opinion, we will need to dissect it to understand what this verse really tells us about marrying “slave-girls” by Muslims, when slave-girls are by-default bound to serve sex to them.

The first sentence, "If any of you have not the means wherewith to wed free believing women", is addressed to indigent Muslim men. Allah told them that if they did not have money to wed free believing women (i.e. free Muslim women), - here, wedding implies buying the 'free Muslim women for sex -, they should do what is stated in the second sentence.

The Arabic word "Nikaha" in the verse is generally taken to denote a "sexual penetration," though it can also be taken to mean wedding or marriage. Arabic speaking people on the streets of the Middle Eastern countries take this word to mean the first one, i.e. sexual penetration of women by men.

It reads: "They may wed believing girls from among those whom your right hands possess."

Interestingly, the word 'you' in the first sentence changed to "they" in the second sentence! The sentence is confusing. Let's leave it as it is to keep this write up short!

The directive is to the indigent Muslim men. They are told that if they didn't have money to buy free Muslim women, they can have sex with those slave girls whom 'their right hands possess."

In the eyes of the merciful Allah, the price of the Muslim slave-girls is cheaper than the free Muslim women, hence the former will get half of the punishment reserved for the latter, if the former indulge themselves in fornication and other sexual acts that are not approved by the all-knowing Allah!

There is another aspect in the lives of the male and female slaves: they are created by Allah, so they are his slaves. But when they become the slaves of the Muslims, their ownership is also transferred to their human masters. This means that each slave has or will have two masters and two owners: Allah is one; the other was, and will be, his or her human master. Therefore, each slave served or will have to serve two masters, simultaneously!!

We ought to remember that Allah also had a share in the war booty, which consisted of women and girls, among others. We know what the Prophet had done with his share of the slaves, but how Allah used them is not mentioned in the Quran. We need to find out the answer to this question so that we can separate him, and his needs, from humans and their physical needs, as well as their day-to-day chores!

The word "wed" in this sentence implies sex, as no Islamic wedding can take place without paying women a dowry, which is a fancy word for the "purchase price." We can refer to verse 33:50 where it is clearly stated that those wives of the Prophet were halal for him whom he had 'paid' their dowers. Those women whom he had not paid dowries were not halal for him!

What does the phrase 'believing girls' imply here?

It implies Muslim girls taken captive in wars then sanctioned and participated by the Prophet of Islam, now to be sanctioned by an Islamic Imam. The word "imam" refers to a religious leader, who does not only lead Muslims in their prayers, but is also the one who can, and sanctions, war by Muslims on the non-Muslims, and also on the Muslims themselves.

I am certain that the second sentence is not referring to the non-Muslim girls who had converted to Islam after their capture by the Muslim warriors. As it will become clear from what I am going state below, non-Muslim captives of war had or will have no incentive to accept Islam, as they would continue to remain in the slavery of their masters for so long as they would live, even after they have converted to Islam. Their offspring would also be the slaves of their masters, so why they should accept a belief-system that gives them no relief whatsoever from their extremely arduous, humiliating, and undignified way of existence?

So how the Muslim men can expect to have believing Muslim girls in their possession to wed, or to have sex with?

I think they can get the possession of their right hand after waging wars on, and defeating, their Muslim brethren. They do not have any other options to lay their hands on the believing Muslim girls. So Muslim must wage wars on Muslims, defeat them; capture their girls and women and turn them into their sex slaves.

But if it is argued that by the believing Muslim women, Allah has talked about those non-Muslims girls who were captured in wars. and who, subsequently, accepted Islam, in that case, it must also be accepted that slave girls remain slaves even after converting to Islam and that the "offspring of a female slave by another slave, by any man other than her master, or by her master, in case he does not acknowledge the fatherhood of the child, is likewise a slave, but the offspring of a male slave by a free woman is free” (Phillip K. Hitti, History of the Arabs, p. 235).

This means that when the master of a Muslim slave girl makes her pregnant and he does not acknowledge the fatherhood of his biological daughter, he can have sex with her, who, to him, is not a daughter, but a slave!!

Since having sex with slave-girls and women is halal for Muslim men, the question that becomes confounding is this: why they would need to marry their slave girls when they were available to them free of cost, and with no social and financial responsibility?

They say, "when milk is available free, why buy a cow"? It appropriately applies to the Muslim men!

The third sentence reads: "And Allah hath full knowledge about your faith. Ye are one from another:"

I do not know why Allah had to reiterate the ken of his knowledge here. It is vexing to me. However, the phrase "ye are one from the another" relates to something that the fourth sentence in the verse, which reads as under, makes clear:

"Wed them with the leave of their owners, according to what is reasonable: they should be chaste, not lustful, nor taking paramours:

when they are taken in wedlock," if they fall into shame, their punishment is half [of] that for free women. This (permission) is for those among you who fear sin; but it is better for you that ye practice self-restraint: and Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."

Muslims belong to a single Brotherhood (Quran; 49:10). So they are supposed to help other in need. "Ye are one from another" tacitly refers to the help that the owners of slaves are required to extend to those Muslim men who do not own slave girls.

The indigent Muslim men are required to pay a reasonable price to the owners of slave-girls before wedding or taking them to bed.

But their are certain conditions, which the buyers of the slave girls will have to make sure before paying their prices. The buyers will also have to make sure that their merchandize (slave girls) did not have sex with their owners; are not crazy for sex and that they will not take other lovers after they were, or are, bought by their new owners. How Muslim men are supposed to make sure that their acquisitions would not do what Allah did not, or does not, want them to do is not made clear in the Quran.

Allah granted permission to those indigent Muslims to buy slave girls whose conscience did not allow them to have sex with the slave girls without paying them their price. Allah also had, or has, a solution for such Muslim men. If they could not, or cannot, pay a reasonable price to the sellers of the slave-girls, they were, and have been, advised to exercise self-restraint where their sexual drive was, or is, concerned.

Masturbation was not, and is not, ruled out! The Quran says nothing on this subject, though it imparts detailed lessons to Muslim men on sexuality, how and where they could and can engage their women in sexual acts, and in which manner.

Because Muslim men have a wide ranging and open permission to do whatever they wanted and want to do to their women, the Quran prescribes no punishment for rape. This is weird because the Quran has punishments against lesbianism and homosexuality, but nothing against rape! The question is why?

Also, Allah's divine decrees have not made a few other things clear:

• Where from the poor Muslim men were or are supposed to get money or goods to pay for, or exchange with, the slave-girls they were, and are, expected to buy from their seller-masters?
• What if the owners of the slave-girls demanded a high price for them and they buyers could not afford it?
• Was, or is, the demand to have self-restrained intended for those Muslim men who could not, and not cannot, convince the Muslim owners of slave girls to sell their commodities at a cheap price?
• If Allah was, or is, Most Merciful in comparison to other lesser Merciful Allahs, why he did not, or will not, have mercy on the ill-fated and unfortunate slaves, especially the female ones, who had, and will have to suffer in future, the most heinous, most inhuman and the most despicable treatments from their human masters?

I am looking forward to being corrected by anybody if I have gone wrong in my analysis of the verse.

Revelation 20 (Wycliffe Bible)

20 And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of deepness, and a great chain in his hand.

2 And he caught the dragon, the old serpent, that is the Devil and Satan; and he bound him by a thousand years.

3 And he sent him into deepness, and closed, and marked on him, that he deceive no more the folks, till a thousand years be filled [And he sent him into deepness, and closed, and signed, or sealed, upon him, that he deceive no more folks, till a thousand years be fulfilled]. After these things it behooveth him to be unbound a little time.

4 And I saw seats, and they sat on them, and doom was given to them. And the souls of men beheaded for the witnessing of Jesus, and for the word of God, and them that worshipped not the beast, neither the image of it, neither took the character of it in their foreheads, neither in their hands [or in their hands]. And they lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

5 And others of dead men lived not [The others of dead lived not], till a thousand years were ended. This is the first again-rising.

6 Blessed and holy is he, that hath part in the first again-rising. In these men the second death hath not power [In these the second death hath no power]; but they shall be priests of God, and of Christ, and they shall reign with him a thousand years.

7 And when a thousand years shall be ended, Satan shall be unbound of his prison;

8 and he shall go out, and shall deceive folks, that be on four corners of the earth [that be in four corners of the earth], Gog and Magog. And he shall gather them [together] into battle, whose number is as the gravel of the sea.

9 And they ascended up on the broadness of the earth, and environed the castles of saints, and the loved city. And fire came down of God from heaven, and devoured them [And fire came down from God from heaven, and devoured them].

10 And the devil, that deceived them, was sent into the pool of fire and brimstone, where both the beast and false prophets shall be tormented day and night, into worlds of worlds. Amen.

11 And I saw a great white throne, and one sitting on it, from whose sight earth fled and heaven [from whose sight earth flew away and heaven]; and the place is not found of them.

12 And I saw dead men, great and small, standing in the sight of the throne; and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and dead men were deemed of these things that were written in the books, after the works of them.

13 And the sea gave his dead men, that were in it; and death and hell gave their dead men [and death and hell gave their dead], that were in them. And it was deemed of each [And it is deemed of all], after the works of them.

14 And hell and death were sent into the pool of fire [And death and hell be sent into pool of fire]. This is the second death.

15 And he that was not found written in the book of life, was sent into the pool of fire.

Wycliffe Bible (WYC)

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Russian airstrikes prevent Christians from leaving Iraq

by Ted Monday, Dec 7, 2015 at 12:36 PM EST

Calling into his radio show from the Middle East Monday morning, Glenn reported on the status of persecuted Christian refugees he had just visited in Iraq. Glenn was unable to disclose his actual location because the Christian camps he and his team were visiting were being targeted with threats from ISIS. Being on the ground, Glenn was able to confirm rumors that Russian airstrikes were happening in the area, which unfortunately halted the departure of a group of Christians he was meeting with. “They were supposed to be out this morning. We were supposed to leave with them,” Glenn said on radio Monday. “Last night, at about — I think it was 9 o’clock — they closed the airports because of the Russians.” Despite the challenges they were facing, Glenn remarked how amazed he was at the overall positive and hopeful attitude of the Christians, who had lost everything. “There were families where the children had been kidnapped, a child who had been killed by ISIS through torture and having their head drilled. Horrible, horrible conditions,” Glenn said. “And yet, these people have truly found the joy of Christ, and I’ve never witnessed joy like this before.” Listen to the segment or read the transcript below. Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. PAT: Glenn is somewhere else. But you have been in Iraq very recently. Right? GLENN: Hi, Pat. Yes. In the Middle East, we are going to be in three different areas. And we can’t say, for security reasons, because our Christians are currently being targeted. And the camps are being targeted. PAT: Hmm. GLENN: And they were supposed to be out this morning. We were supposed to leave with them. And last night, at about — I think it was 9 o’clock. They closed the airports because of the Russians. There’s rumors that — bombing in Iraq, we can verify that that is indeed the case, that there are hostilities that are happening in the area. And so I was with them as we told them that they weren’t leaving in the morning, that the airport had been closed. They were — we were together. It was the most incredible thing you’ve ever seen. These 500 families that are — I don’t mean to be crass, but literally going to the bathroom in a whole in the ground for a year and a half. They have lost everything. There was a baby that was born over the weekend in this camp that we were with. There were families where the children had been kidnapped. A child who had been killed by ISIS through torture and having their head drilled. Horrible, horrible conditions. And yet, these people have truly found the joy of Christ. And I’ve never witnessed joy like this before. They were — they were Christ-like. They were just the most Christ-like people I’ve ever met. And it’s because they’ve lost absolutely everything. And we had just finished religious service. And I stood up and I — I had brought some things that people sent to us. One woman had sent us her wedding ring. And she — and this was my mother’s wedding ring. And I’ve worn it, I think she said, 40 years. She’s a woman in Ohio. And she said, “I want to — I want to give this to the cause.” So I stood there in this makeshift church with them, and in a secure compound where people with machine guns are standing around on the outside. A church that had roadblocks around it because it had been targeted by ISIS. The people in it had received warnings from ISIS two days before, “You’re not leaving. If you don’t submit, we’ll kill you.” And security forces had been called. (inaudible) They were targeting it. And they were going to drive a vehicle from the gate and into the — STU: We are losing you a little bit here. Your signal. PAT: If you’re moving around, stop. Because we’re losing you. GLENN: Can you hear me? STU: Yeah, we can hear you now. GLENN: Can you hear me? STU: Yes. GLENN: Where did you lose me at? STU: About two sentences ago. GLENN: Where did you lose me at? So last night, I was in this service that had been targeted by ISIS, and we were told credible information. They had blocked the — the military had blocked the streets around this makeshift service. This makeshift church, this camp. And there was information that if they didn’t submit, that they would not be leaving Monday morning, which they were supposed to be. If they did not submit to ISIS, they were going to — a vehicle — an IED — basically a van and fill it with explosives and drive it through the barricade through the gate and into this church and blow us all up last night. So that was the mood in this building. And I stood before them to tell them of the millions of people in America that are praying for them and the 130,000 that had raised money to get them out. And the tears these people shed, the gratitude in their — in their faces was overwhelming. It was truly overwhelming. They happened — they came up afterwards to hug me and to thank me and to thank you through me for giving them hope that they would have a life and that their children — none of them spoke about themselves. They all told me last night about their children. They just want their children out someplace where they can have a life. I walked into a home of one of them, if you can call it a home. It’s a boxcar. It’s not even a boxcar. It’s a cargo box, you know, that you see on the back of flatbed trucks or trains. And there were nine people that were living in that. A family. They were middle class. Their daughter was going to college, a nurse. And I was talking to the dad. He was so proud. As I was walking through this camp, he opened up his door, and he looked at me and he — he didn’t speak much English. But he could say come. And he looked at me and said, “Come. Come.” And he waved me into their house. And I went into their house and I held their year and a half child who had just been born. Was a newborn when they first moved into the camp. And I held this precious child and spoke to them. And they were so full of God and so full of joy and gratitude that we were there. And I asked them, I said, “Why? You know, you gave up your life.” They walked out with nothing. Nothing. Left everything behind. And I said, “You could just submit.” And he didn’t even have a chance to answer. I hadn’t even really spoken to his wife. His wife was standing next to me. And as the translator started in and she got enough of the translation through, she immediately — the mother immediately said, “No. No.” And they translated it back. She was like, “We will die before we will deny our God. We will die, and we will die together.” These people are amazing. Absolutely amazing. Where it is left today is the airports are closed. We’re trying to get out. I shouldn’t give any — we shouldn’t give any information. But we’re hoping that they will be able to get out in the next couple of days. We missed our window of opportunity yesterday. We need prayers for these people to be able to get them out here this week. We are making several stops — several different countries throughout the Middle East and in Europe over the next few days. I’ll tell you as I leave those countries or we’re out of those areas. I don’t mean to be sketchy with you, but it was a little frightening on the plane. I’ve made a video diary, and I will post one of my videos while I was still in New York that will kind of explain the situation. I’ll do everything once it’s passed for security reasons. It’s a little frightening getting on to the plane knowing that our people in particular were being targeted by ISIS and knowing that they were walking into that. These are brave people. And they’re going to renew whatever country it is that they’re going to. It’s shameful that it’s not our country. And the president was speaking from the Oval Office last night. He said, you know, what he said. That we’re doing everything we can. I was standing in Iraq, and I can verify that that is a lie. We are not doing — you know who was doing something last night? Russia was doing something last night. We’re not taking care of ISIS as far as blocking them or killing them. That’s not what the United States is doing. The United States is protecting the interests of Turkey and Saudi Arabia. And Saudi Arabia and Turkey need ISIS to exist. And so we are protecting their interests. We are not protecting the people. And we are not rescuing the people who are absolutely in harm’s way. There is one country now. And I don’t want to say who it is. Because I was supposed to be with them today. And we were — there was a — there was a welcoming ceremony into this country that was all planned for this afternoon. But now that it’s all been called off and we hope that this country — because it’s been on the fence. We hope that the delay of their plane is not going to change that. But we don’t know at this point. But so far in Europe, there is only one country that will take these Christians. And they are well vetted. In fact, they are so well vetted that we had another country contact us. This is the Nazarene Fund. This is how out of control this is, that a greenback HEP system is now known in Europe as the Premiere HEP Vetting System. That one country was taking a group of people in and they were — they had decided that they were going to take these — this group because they will take Christians and Muslims. And this country had heard that this other country that has decided to take our Christians or at least some of them, they — they called and said, “Hey, we hear you guys have this — this system is so good. Can you help us?” Well, our team went into that country and looked and looked. And what’s happening now is we saw strange names as part of this. And they all said they were converts. So our team who are some of them, you know, the original people on it are priests and pastors. They’re the first line of defense. They went and they actually talked to these, quote, unquote, converts. Tell us about your conversion to Jesus Christ. Tell us what the blood of Jesus is all about. Tell us about your faith and the Holy Spirit. When they couldn’t answer any of the questions, we knew they were infiltrators trying to come in as Christians. It’s really amazing what’s going on and how abandoned these Christians are. And the United States of America should be ashamed of itself. As I was standing in Iraq while the president was speaking, it was shameful. I was embarrassed to be an American. PAT: Wow. STU: Uh-huh. PAT: Stay safe. We’ll be praying for you. We’ll be praying for the families. And hopefully you’ll have more for us soon, right? GLENN: Yeah. We are traveling to several different countries. There’s another camp that we’re going to that has 5,000 that have been completely forgotten. PAT: Wow. GLENN: They have no hope of getting out. Nobody is even talking about them at all. We just found out about it on the ground. So we’re going there. We’ll also be in several different European countries trying to convince them to take them. And I hope to be returning to the states by the end of the week or the weekend. STU: All right. We’ll be praying for you, or as how the Daily News has defined it, we’ll be sending you meaningless platitudes that you’re able to stay safe. GLENN: Thank you. Please don’t pray for us. Please do me a favor and please beg everybody you know to pray for the Christians that are there. When I was there and looking at their face when they were told that they were not leaving, and please pray for them. They really desperately need your prayers. We need a miracle to happen PAT: All right. We will. Appreciate it. STU: Thankfully, God is a bit of a multitasker. PAT: He can handle both. STU: We’ll do both for you. Featured Image: Smoke billows in the rural town of Husayba, in the Euphrates Valley seven kilometres (4.5 miles) east of Ramadi, where Iraqi government forces have been closing on Islamic State (IS) group militants who seized the Anbar province’s capital in May after a three-day blitz involving dozens of huge truck bombs. Iraqi security forces have fought their way to the outskirts of Ramadi, where they have been battling the IS jihadists in the past weeks. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)

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