Slavery from Islamic and Christian Perspectives
Allamah Sayyid Sa'eed Akhtar Rizvi - XKP
Language: English
Pages: 77
ISBN: 151911043X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Slavery is one of the oldest evils of society, Ancient civilizations could not eradicate slavery, so they compromised with it. Allamah Sayyid Sa'eed Akhtar Rizvi, the Chief Missionary of Bilal Muslim Mission, marshalled fact after fact from history; quoted from the Holy Qur'an, the traditions, and contemporary
writers on the subject; and cited Islamic and ancient laws. He has clearly and vividly
shown that Western civilization is not so great a champion of emancipation of slaves
as it poses to be. In fact this book will prove to he an eye-opener for those who
blindly nod in approval to the propaganda about Western humanism.
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to work forthemselves as small proprietors, rather than under the capitalist for wages. Australia was not England, and the capitalist was left without a servant to make his bed or fetchhim water."[2] Thus the ideal solution was slavery. "'Odious resource', though it might be, as Merivalle called it, slavery was an economicinstitution of the first importance. It had been the basis of Greek economy and hadbuilt up the Roman Empire. In modem times it provided the sugar for the tea and
Angola, andmany others owned slaves in the Americas. The only reason the Catholic Churchcould give for its actions was that it was trying to save African souls by baptising theslaves. The Protestants were worse, for they did not even make it clear that theyaccepted that the Africans had a soul. Instead, they supported the view that Africanslave was a piece of property like furniture or a domestic animal. There is no part ofthe history of the Christian church which was more disgraceful than its
follow this lead."'[16] "The Yao who were to become the most dedicated African slave-traders in EastAfrica, thus had a long tradition of carrying ivory and other legitimate goods to the coast decades before the combined French and Arab demand for slaves began to comeinto play."[17]"In West Africa these routes were driven inland from the coast by Africans who wereprimarily seeking slaves. Slaves dominated the West African trade from the first. In East Africa neither of these conditions was
institution.[7] Islam also declared that any slave woman who bore a child by her master could not besold and, on her master's death, she became automatically a free woman.[8] Moreover; in contrast to all previous customs, Islam ordained that the child born to aslave woman by her master should follow the status of the father.[9] Slaves weregiven a right to ransom themselves either on payment of an agreed sum or oncompletion of service for an agreed period. The legal term for this is
[24]. Toynbee, A.J., Civilization on Trial (New York, 1948), p. 205. [25]. Cherfils, Bonaparte et l'Islam (Paris, 1914), p. (?). Chapter 6 Slaves in the History of Islam To give an idea of how Islam raised the status of slaves and treated them as human beings instead of brutes of burden (which was their common lot before Islam), the following tradition is of particular interest: One day the Prophet was sitting with Salman, Bilal, 'Ammar, Suhayb, Khabbab [allex-slaves] and a group of