Were Banu Qurayzah Children And Slaves Taken Captives Or Sold As Slaves?
Then I will answer your questions on my understanding: 1. I do not know any primary source of what happened to women and children of Qurayzah, but as the video suggest, if they were to be enslaved then they were enslaved as per the agreement based on Torah. What Islam do with slaves is another topic. 2. You need to understand the situation and the era, if all the men of Banu Qurayzah were killed then there was no place for women and children to go. It is not a commandment of Islam to enslave people but it became a necessity of the era that when a nation falls, the women and children are taken by the victors otherwise their fate is to roam the earth helplessly until someone enslaves them, they become beggars or give in to prostitution. 3. As the video suggests, if anyone is willing to ransom them or if there is a place for captives to go and live, then you will free them without ransom. But if it’s not possible for them to go anywhere or no one ransoms them then they have no choice but to remain as captives/slaves because the alternative option doesn’t exist. As for the whole child being seperated from mother, I think such thoughts would occur if we do not consider the spirit of Islam. It is not our right to even take the name of the biological parents from an orphan, then how can anyone take a child away from their mother? Mistakes might be made but in eyes of Islam, such things are not allowed.
Children with their mothers and sisters etc. were taken care of, by taking them into custody. There was no other option. In decisions about collective matters, such unfortunate issues as orphanages do take place. Now the question is what happened to these children, there was no singular policy announced to sell them or keep them. Some might have sold them, others kept them. However, it seems that these children later became Muslims and became a part of Muslim society.