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You have changed your post drastically from your original response, showcasing your chaotic nature, but I am not surprised as arguing for the sake of arguing runs in the blood of our Xaalimo's.You’re either a liar or someone who talks without 0 knowledge. Most sultans were the sons of concubines. Learn history and do research before spouting stuff. Even the Prophet s.a.w who is the noblest of men was said to have had Ibrahim with Mariya a concubine although I’m of the opinion that he actually married her and my opinion is a minority opinion when we look at the consensus of the majority. The majority of scholars believe that the Prophet s.a.w did indeed have a child with one.
Even if you believe in the opinion of the minority of scholars like me, what’s an inescapable fact is that most noble men during the Islamic golden age, during the time of Andulusia and the Ottoman period all had concubine slave mothers. In fact, noble men preferred them. ( If you want me to go into detail as to why I make this conclusion, feel free to ask and I’ll expand on it, although you can also ask ChatGPT especially with regards to the Ottomans, thepreference for concubines was well known).
The concept is hard to fathom because a simple look at history shows that you know nothing and that most so called noble men never cared. After the Islamic empire became powerful and cities started to flood with concubines, the true realities of so called men’s preferences and attractions became clear and is easily tracked.
The whole slave economy mostly made up of enslaved women was mostly for sexual bondage and wasn’t the same as American slavery in which it was mostly for agricultural labour. Reproductive & sexual slavery was the bigggest driver of the Arab slave economy of the early medieval period. If they valued linage as much as you’re arguing, they would not have purchased them solely for sex and had children with them and their children with concubines had the same rights and lineage of the children of free women.
Ask yourself: How can they only value lineage when a good % of Islamic sultanates if not nearly all were the sons of concubines and not free women? Look at the mother of Harun Rashdi? Look at the mothers of nearly every Ottoman? You cannot gaslight people with your waffle. All of the mothers of these elite men are recorded and I’d say that more than 85% are the sons of concubines. For the Ottomans it’s higher at like 95%. What’s even funnier about your waffle is that the ONLY female semi ruler we’ve had in the Muslim world in fact started off as a concubine. She wasn’t a free woman in the beginning, but a slave woman of a Sultan. Again, pick up a book for once.
This has always been my issue with you. You’re the king of historically and socially inaccurate waffle. Imagine saying that men didn’t desire them when they specifically bought and sold them for sexual purposes. This has to be the biggest cope and contradiction I’ve read in a long time. These medieval elite Arabs literally had manuals of the type of women to buy for sexual purposes and reproduction and their backgrounds. It was elite and noble men who were the driving force of concubinage.
The fact that you wrote what you wrote shows me that you couldn’t cope with the mental gymnastics with regards to the none veiling of lower class slave women. You don’t need to resort to lies. A simple explanation is that the idea of slave women not veiling is an old Middle Eastern culture. The Persians, the Assyrians used to beat and sometimes kill slave women who dared to wear hijab and Muslims who at that time were from conquered middle Eastern cultures clearly continued with that cultural practice that has nothing to do with the deen.
You brought up Ottomans when the discussion was about 7th century Arabia, your conflating marriage with concubinage, not realising that even concubines themselves looked down on being one.
A case in point Fatima the daughter of the Prophet, she took issue with Ali marrying another Quraishi female, even the Prophet intervened in the matter and stopped it, but Ali had several concubines which she took no issues with, it wasn't just exclusive to her, but the same for the rest of the women, because these women were regarded and seen as so insignificant, they didn't pose a threat.
This is the cultural nuance point your incapable of grasping because times have changed and your too emotionally charged like a typical Xaalimo to be able to comprehend this.
So why did she oppose Quraishi co-wife but had no problems with several concubines?? why do you think that was the case? try to think logically without superimposing current culture baggage.
This was the same with the Ottoman Turks and other ancient societies, I wanted to educate you the reasons in a long post but its a waste of time because I know it will go over your head because your pre-wired to emasculate not understand or reflect.
The biggest preposterous statement you made was about concubine offspring being treated the same and even worse the concubine herself, I wonder if you even know about the hadith of the Prophet on his death bed
And Abu Dawud (5156)and Ibn Majah (2698) narrated that `Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The last words that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) spoke were, “The prayer, the prayer! And fear Allah with regard to those whom your right hands possess.”
If your preposterous statement of equality was true and common knowledge, why would the Prophet on his death bed warn about this? unless neglect was common?
There is nothing in the Quran and Sunnah to suggest that a slave woman isn’t subjected to the same modesty laws as free women. In fact it defies the idea of an Islamic modest society and illustrates the glaring hypocrisy of Muslims who believe that a slave woman can show her naked breasts but will scream fitnah at seeing the hijab silhouette of a free Muslim woman.
[Surah Nisa Ayah 25]
But if any of you cannot afford to marry a free believing woman, then ˹let him marry˺ a believing bondwoman possessed by one of you. Allah knows best ˹the state of˺ your faith ˹and theirs˺. You are from one another.1 So marry them with the permission of their owners,2 giving them their dowry in fairness, if they are chaste, neither promiscuous nor having secret affairs. If they commit indecency after marriage, they receive half the punishment of free women.3 This is for those of you who fear falling into sin. But if you are patient, it is better for you. And Allah is All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
Why do you think they receive half the punishment of a free women? because when the Islamic army goes to battle against these heathens who much like today fornicate like animals with no morality.
Those women whose husbands and Fathers are slain in battle who now have to be integrated with Islamic society despite coming from an uncultured and promiscuous society, it will be injustice to give them the same punishment for indecency and fornication as a believing women from the Muslim society.
This is part of the many reason why they were collectively looked down upon, the closest analogy to today is a side-chick, but even that is far off, because the actual girlfriend or wife is upset about the side-chick because of the involvement of sex, but no one cared about sex with the concubines or the number of offspring she had because that was a survival mechanism for the tribe, those men went to the front-line in war times.
No supply of concubines means bigger chance the wife's sons dying and even worse the destruction and annihilation of her tribe and she herself becoming a concubine to a foreign male.
Go and read about the Ottoman Janissary's, they mostly consisted of concubine offspring, it's why the Eastern Europeans hate Muslims so much, because according to their account, that was the whole purpose of the harems, in their words 'stealing slavic' women for Jihad against them.
The wife's were a lot more sophisticated back then, they knew it was just sex & offspring with the concubines and their status was never in threat, in fact, if she had many sons, bigger chance of survival for her sons, as the concubine offspring go to the front-line in war times, much like the poor today go to war and everyone else stays at home.
Also if you read between the lines here towards the end of the Ayah, Allah states its better if you are 'patient' e.g. avoid marrying them and wait patiently for a righteous free believing women. (same applies vice versa) reinforcing my point.
This is why its futile to have a discussion with you because you don't want to learn, and why little knowledge is so dangerous, I only posted this for the benefit of others as I know it would go over your head again.
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