ISLAM’S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION MOMENT - Why the Abolition of Slavery Failed?
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Not many people know about the abolition of slavery system that Islam put forth within the first decades of its birth. These laws and strategies that were put forth, considered human psychologies and traditions. They acknowledged context, history and habits.
The reason why we don’t hear about this Islamic legal system is because Muslims, even in the days of the Rashidun Caliphate and beyond, put their livelihood and abundance ahead of their righteous religious duties. And such a decision went unchecked till the early modern era when non-Muslim nations brought forward the necessity for the prohibition of slavery.
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Just watched Blogging Theology's video on Slavery, this is a great chaser
This is the second time I am replying to your comment. I think it's amazing timing and not a coincidence. That is for sure.
@@thekandarichroniclesNot a coincidence what do you mean, explain further pls?
Honest introspective analysis. I guess you can argue, the term a living wage exists because of modern slavery and now with technofeudalism, we’ve morphed into something not as horrid but ominous nonetheless. Two steps forward, one step back.
Very true words. It's probably not as linear as you say. With technology, our enslavement has come from where we dont expect it. So maybe more like two steps forward, one step back, two to the left and a slight hop.
@@thekandarichronicles That’s funny, well said.
Thank you Tariq for another tough subject explained clearly and directly,
Well done.
Waiting for the next banger 🫡
Thank you for another fascinating video. Your very intelligent 😊
Do you think as humans we've come very far when it comes to slavery? I feel that so many people are oppressed or enslaved in many ways
Thank you for the generous compliment Brooke.
As for slavery, I think the concept has evolved but the fundamentals of being owned is more or less the same. You can be owned by your ambition and dreams that are programmed into you from a very early age. It won't be termed slavery but if you boil it down to what it is, then maybe they are the same. I guess the main different is that slavery back in the day was in your face, now it is masked.
Ok, slavery in islam, it isn't only for emancipation, but for societal good. Let me tell you how. But of course, you're mostly right, I'm just adding points.
I have one criticism on your argument too at the last part of my comment. I hope you read it all without prejudice and with an open mind:
First, slavery is a form of punishment or compensation, as enslaved individuals are never enslaved from birth, as it was in the west, and slaves had actual rights, unlike in the west. When slavery happens, foreigners are less likely to wage war on muslims, thus creating more peace, and muslims are more motivated to fight back, thus ensuring peace via deterrence.
Second, slavery was a form of socio-ethnic cultural integration. As you know, enslaved men learn the controlling state's language, culture and way of living, they earn and form their own families (as they are allowed to, even without their master's permission), while enslaved women became the concubines of their masters and mothers of their child, then they marry most of the times (because she's free after the first birth giving). So, the conquered and the conqueror's ethnicities mix to form a new mixed identity that connects cultures, as we'd seen in the ottoman empire, where greek muslims, albanian muslims, hunagrian muslims were all called "Turks," even when they had no turkish roots. Slavery was a way for social integration, and it also halts racism, since the victorious and the fallen races become one.
Third, the islamic world didn't create it's own slave market, it imported it. Like, there rarely were Egyptian or Syrian slaves, they imported from other nations, so it was the importer's fault, not the system itself. And the fault here is not the slavery, but the fact that the importer mostly didn't investigate his imports, he didn't check if they were islamically enslaved by wars, rather than unislamically raided and just picked up from streets. So, blaming muslims is not even right. Like how do you know if the slave was lying to be set free or not?
Fourth, who said islam wanted to just end slavery in few generations? I believe islam wanted to reduce global slavery and increase its own prosperity by the process, lemme tell you how, cuz that justifies a large slave market. In the islamic world, the treatment of slaves, if it was by the islamic laws, it was one of the best, if not the best in the world. So, it was a market that tried to absorb all world slaves into its prosperous territories to live better lives and grow the economy. It's like if Americans decided to fully open their borders to help the world get out of poverty. And because slaves are not by birth, it means that there must be constant flow of captured slaves, and this is how the slave market flourished. In short, islamic emancipation WAS THE reason for the large slave market, and for good. Imagine if these slaves went to Europe to become permanent serfs, stayed in Africa to become cow likes (saying this as an Ethiopian), went to America to become basically machines, went to india to become Dalits (untouchables), and all for generations, not for one generation as in islam. This islamic emancipation bacame a magnet reason for global slaves' freedom. And as muslims grew wealthier, more emancipations happened, and more slaves were imported, and the cycle of freeing slaves and accepting immigration increased.
Fifth, your title, i believe, is wrong. Islam didn't fail in emancipation, far from it, it was trying to speed run it.
Then finally, who said slavery is inherently bad? It's only bad with bad treatment, not with naming, even the US didn't fully outlaw slavery practices, though ended the naming, as seen in what I believe is the 13th amendment. Imagine if slavery was being a king, as many slaves throughout the islamic world actually became kings or kingmakers and dominated courts and armies, and many of the poorest non-muslims were actually giving their own children to the janissary corps because of the good treatment they'd get at least, or wished their daughters to be concubines of wealthy men, and I'm not sure of this, but I heard that most slaves were actually owned by wealthier men who bought them through auctions.
And out of the argument. Why are you using foreign paintings and pictures as if it's arabic or islamic? Especially those naked women's ones? Even concubines have dignity rights in islam, with no one but her master being allowed to see her body.
I can’t even imagine your work ethics…… I am grateful for coming across your channel
@adosayid6368. As I always say, its a blessing to me that you have (in-coincidentally) stumbled upon my channel.
Another good thought provoking presentation, Tareq. As an Irishman we can get very angry about slavery both as a previously colonised nation, but more specifically because the English sent thousands of Irish to the Caribbean in the 17th century when the main dispossession of land happened. However, the other side of the coin is that Viking Dublin was one of Europe's largest slave markets from the 9th to 11th centuries. Many Irish who emigrated to the US in the 18th and 19th centuries became slaveholders or fought to preserve slavery.
No nation or people has a monopoly on virtue and the only way to see another's point of view is to be aware of one's own failures whether historical (Irish, British, European, Arab, Ottoman... and everyone else) or in the present day (Russia, Israel, Iran, USA, Venezuela, Myanmar, Egypt... and pretty much all other countries).
These are wonderful additions to the story. I agree, no one has a monopoly on righteousness. The Muslims/Arabs for sure didn't. A video coming up in the near future will be one about the actual details of the slave industry during Arab times. Not to justify, but to share the way in which slavery had its contextual variation.
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Slavery was never stopped, only got better..
slavery is still legal in the US. read the 13th amendment, FFS.
An honest and painful look at slavery in the islamic world, we had the ideal opportunity to gradually abolish slavery but sadly the moral high ground lost, sad thing is out there their are some crazy muslims on youtube who still justify slavery and would have no hesitation on it coming back as an official institution, their argument being that in the quran Allah has permitted slavery and who are we to make haram what was halal, which was the same argument some rulers used when the europeans "persuaded" these same rulers to abolish slavery or else.
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I also want to share the absurdity of Western narratives by taking South America as an example. The Conquistadors were sent by the Royalty in Spain who we all know were really controlled by the church. When the conquistadors landed with the huge crosses at the front of the landing boats it was a death sentence for the natives. The church sanctioned this because not only were the natives murdered, enslaved and robbed but they were also coerced into accepting Christianity. There are letters from the time where the natives were told in categorical terms that they either accept Christianity or suffer by various means used by the colonialists. The same church also sent missionaries to teach the natives about the well known narrative of love and forgiveness. I mean what better way to pacify a population you have decimated in the name of your God and then force them to accept your God and tell them that that God wants them to be loving and forgiving. The missionaries made it a point to send clergy that were good at trades and they helped to teach and upskill the local population. So when natives say that Christianity transformed their life that is what they are alluding to. The skills the missionaries gave them helped them to better their lives and they in turn attributed their improved fortunes to the God of Christianity whom the clergy prayed to and inculcated that love for the religion in the natives. That is how the majority of South Americans became Staunch Catholics. But again in all this one must not forget that it was the church that facilitated the colonisation and murder justifying it in the name of bringing God to a Godless people much like the coloniser justified colonisation by claiming to civilize an uncivilized people. I am of the firm belief that the blue eyed, blonde haired Jesus and Colonisation are linked because God needed to be given to all so called 'uncivilized' people as a blue eyed caucasian in the image of the coloniser. Otherwise the real Jesus was neither blonde nor blue eyed. So where did this image of Jesus emerge and why in particular was he painted/drawn to look like that.
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They are both Semitic language family and therefore are sister languages
Thing is though.....in regards to all the abrahamic religions.....none of the three outlawed slavery from the start.
If god can give commandments like not to eat certain types of food or wear certain types of clothes and is the ultimate proponent of ethics, I don't understand why god couldn't just have had an 11th commandment
P.s by the way guys.....don't do slavery.....it's wrong.
No one outlawed slavery period. It's a valid point. But there are many ways to denounce something. In Islam's case it attempted to integrate the shift away from slavery in a less immediate manner, thereby having people more inclined to the change, because it was not hard hitting and less perceptible.
Why do the 3 Abrahamic religions correspond *PERFECTLY* with the 3 (*Abrahamic) economic social classes?
@@thekandarichroniclesseparate matter, I enjoy and appreciate your content.
Now back to the points made in regards to God and slavery....
I'm quite sure I've heard other abrahamic religious followers make the same or similar arguments, if I'm interpreting your argument or analysis correctly.....
And that is the theological apologetic argument of..... God needed to slowly phase slavery out.
Firstly.....I ask how do followers ....
A) first know god is a real thing
B) how do they know god's mind to then be able to determine god's plan and methods for attaining a long term goal, IF it isn't directly said in the texts?
I think people create their own images of god in their head and generally just want to protect their religious beliefs as they probably think they will be rewarded if they do so.
I still believe that if people who wrote the books had wrote that god does not permit slavery.....I think we would have most likely got rid of slavery much faster.
Having said that, I don't have a time machine, nor am I god, so I can't say for sure, and I don't know if there is a god for sure, and I don't know the plan if there is one.
It just seems intuitive to me that god if it exists and is all knowing, powerful etc etc etc.....and has devout believer's that obey......god could have ended slavery a lot sooner.
please talk about mohammed ibn abd al wahhab
Haqq ❤❤
Yes indeed Omar. Haqq is a wonderful one word summary.
Is it true the ancient Achaemenid Persian empire along with Han Dynasty China were the only civilizations to ban slavery. Why was it so hard for other civilizations to ban slavery?
I dont think any empire in antiquity banned slavery or even considered it as an inhumane practice.
The West takes credit for outlawing slavery in the mid 1800s But then they had the Berlin Conference to plan on what to do with Africa. In the late 1800s, 15 million Congolese were killed as they were used to extract rubber and other natural resources used in the industrial revolution, in the West. Belgium was in charge of the Congo. IF a person did not work hard enough, their hands were amputated, this was also done to children. When Germany took over Nambia, they genocided them and experimented on them to prove racial supercity. You can find photographs of Africans with thick chains around their necks, after the West outlawed slavery. Do you know about the concentration camps the British put the Kenyans and other blacks just because they were fighting for their freedom? Do you know that the British used to castrate and torture the Kenyans? The British, the West and Israel still benefit from slavery in the Congo. There is an Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler who was sanctioned by the United States for corrupt dealings with the Congo, but now the US has dropped the sanctions against Gertler. Now both Israel and the West continue exploiting slave labor (including children) to steal the resources of the Congo. Just because a country outlaws an evil act, it doesn't mean they stopped doing it or benefiting from it.
Muhammed:
The Arabic/Biblical Hebrew word Muhammad is a noun derived from Hebrew/Arabic HMD root. The adjective from of Muhammad is Hemda/Hamd Hebrew: חֶמְדָּה Pronunciation: Chemda Meaning: The meaning of the name is desire, love .Desired object, beautiful thing. "אֶרֶץ חֶמְדָּה" (a pleasant land) is an appellation of Israel:"But I said: 'How would I put thee among the sons, and give thee a pleasant land, the goodliest heritage of the nations/" (Jeremiah 3:19).
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Muhammad was a slaver while Jesus was not.
for those who wonder why :)
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Bible says בשם אלה ישראל = Bismillah Israel. Ezra 5:1 That means that the G-d of Israel is Allah.
the name of our god is not allah. but יהוה, we don't say it's name becuase of the 10 commendments . WHICH is why we use other words for his name.
Evrey name in the torah have a hebrew meaning . not a Arabic. arabic came much later bro .
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Ezra 5:1 has "Bismillah" and Abdullah, Ayatollah, Hezbollah are Biblical words. "Bismillah" and Abdullah, Ayatollah, are Biblical Hebrew. יהוה translates to "Load" and " אלה"/ Allah/Eloah translates to G-d. So the name of "Load" is יהוה.
G-d is Allah/Eloah".