Why It’s Allowed Forceful Or Willing Sex With War Prisoners After Islamic Wars
Islam has closed the doors for slavery. At this time there is no room according to the sharia for holding anyone as a slave or a concubine. For details, please see : Discussion 30330 Secondly , slaves and concubines already had lost their freedom not in just sexual matters, but in other domains of life as well. Therefore, Islam adopted a gradual approach in eradicating the menace of slavery, while making sure that this didn ‘t lead to extreme societal reaction because slavery was the backbone of Arab’s economy at that time. Hence, certain norms related to slavery were kept for the time being for the current slaves, while doors for new slaves were closed, until the current slaves also found a way to stand on their feet. Please refer to the following response by Ghamidi Sahab specifically addressing your question: Discussion 38222 • Reply 38273
Captives who were slaves prior to their capture and, at certain instances, were distributed among people as slaves were an exception and the directive stated in the verse (47:4) never related to them. Most of the narrations usually presented in this regard relate to captives who were slaves prior to their capture. Consequently, if all the incidents of the Prophet’s times regarding prisoners of war are studied, it can be safely concluded that barring this exception and two others ( ii . Brutal adversaries, as per the dictates of the law of Itmam-e-Hujjat and iii . The captives of the Banu Qurayzah ), everything done was in conformity with the directive of Surah Muhammad. For details, please see : Discussion 59294