I'll add this verse in. Why do you feel this approach may be misleading?
BTW, I don't think such fundamental laws as slavery and polygamy were every okay, but the Messengers tried to gradually get rid of the practice over time. Moses didn't allow Jews to take slaves from their own kind, Jesus didn't really say much about it, and Muhammad made it a point, like the verse below, to express that it is wrong, yet, the practice was not completely, wholly forbidden until the most recent Revelation.
A fundamentalist Muslim, Christian, or Jew may argue that this and that verse suggest it is okay to have a slave under this and that condition, given there is no definitive law forbidding slavery. But in this revelation I dont think slavery will ever be an issue because it has been categorically forbidden.
Gilberto Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/11/06, Moghaddam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Hi Gilberto,
> I was thinking about building a matrix comparing Baha'u'llah's Laws in the
> Aqdas with the previous Books. I started with the issue of slavery, since
> you've brought this up. Please let me know if there are other verses in the
> Quran on the subject of slavery.
I think your matrix approach might be a bit misleading. But yes, there
are many other verses you left out. One good one is:
90.12] And what will make you comprehend what the uphill road is?
[90.13] (It is) the setting free of a slave,
[90.14] Or the giving of food in a day of hunger
[90.15] To an orphan, having relationship,
[90.16] Or to the poor man lying in the dust.
[90.17] Then he is of those who believe and charge one another to show
patience, and charge one another to show compassion.
[90.18] These are the people of the right hand.
So given that in the shariah there are limited ways for there to be
new slaves and there are multiple ways that freeing slaves is
encouraged or required, even under Islamic law it is natural for
slavery to end. If the government policy wanted to act like "the
people of the right hand" they could even buy all the slaves and free
them.
Peace
Gilberto
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