Consent In Physical Relationship With Concubines
Every culture and society has their own maroof o munkar meaning societal norms to uphold the justice in their own way. Those norms keep changing with time as human learn to explore better ways to identify prevent control and eradicate all forms of injustice from their society. What Quran ask us to is excel in good work by avoiding injustice in all forms and upholding adl o ahsan. We cannot just follow something that was considered acceptable in the past due to the societal norms of that time but it is no longer acceptable in our modern days society or we have a better way to to do. Otherwise that would be injustice and therefore a sin. Slavery is one example. Taking over another country or tribe with force is another example. We are not supposed to follow what was ordained or allowed for a nation 1400 yrs ago if there is a conflict between the letter and the spirit. The form can never prevail over the substance. It’s always the substance over form. We are a specie with free will and not compliance machines that follow rules without reason. There was no point of giving free will if things could be hard coded in our DNA. God knew things will change with time and man has to find news ways all the time in order to survive and thrive and to excel in good work the very purpose we are here on Earth.
Thank you sir, that was an almost satisfying answer but another question arises in my mind. Allah says that you cannot change or inject anything in my shariat (i.e allowance for a man to practice polygamy ). hypothetically speaking if sometime in near future a war happen to broke out between to countries and one of them being an Islamic democracy So what is going to stop the leader or any ruling body in the country to enslave the Pows or the refugee population (which happen to be an obvious product of a full blown war) on the basis of the Quranic verses. Also Regarding the Hadith in which the prophet prophcised the abolition of slavery. How can we be sure that it’s this era that the prophet was talking about. Maybe we Muslims might reintroduce slavery in The near future as there is still a door unlocked (Pows).
I have read the discussion link that you attached but I am still unable to understand that the prophet still distributed them prisoners among the army and they were allowed to have relations with the female captives.