Female Prisoners Of War (Examples Of Hazrat Safia & Hazrat Jawairiyah)
Asalam-u-alikum Sir Thanks for your Response to both Mr. Umer Qureshi and Mr. Dr. Irfan Shahzad. as well as the entire team of Ghamdi center. I really can not appreciate enough Sir Javaid Ghamdi and his efforts. Do tell him my personal humble regards from Pakistan. anyhow… I have already watched almost all of Mr. Ghamdi’s videos in this regard and I totally concur with his findings and perspective. I acknowledge that Islam never promoted slavery let alone sex slavery and there is a difference between a slave and a Prisoner of war in Islam. Thats why I used the word POW deliberately in my original question. I also understand the legitimacy and wisdom of Huzoor s.a.w marring Hazrat Jawariya (rta) and Hazrat Safiya (rta). And I also deliberately did not mention the battle of Banu-qureza because I knew it was an exception resulting in the marriage of Hazrat Rehana bint Zaid (rta). I also acknowledge that even after capturing POWs muslims must have not treated them inhumanly, as a Prophet of God was among them to call out any mistreatment. The trouble I am currently having to grasp is the fact the Muslims are only to fight against injustice ( apart from “itmaam-e-hujat”). ” translation: fight until the war through off its weapons”. When Muslims besieged Khayber and Bani Mustaliq, after the war is over the objective of war is achieved. These people ( their children and women ) did not come forward in a battle to fight with you. They did not made an offence. And Muslims only made the offence (war) to achieve an objective which was to fight against the conspiracies and injustices of Jews. “itmaam-e-hujjat” was announced afterwards, even after the fateh-maka. Someone might say well, it was the norm to take prisoners after battle, to which I can’t agree. Even if the entire word is lying about sth, my deen tells me to always say the truth. Islam was there to abolish norms, not to protect them. Islam care about Principals not norms. I understand that there might be some other aspects that I don’t see yet, which can justify as to why Muslims took female and other non combatants as POWs in the battle of Khyber and Mustaliq. One thing that I could come up with was maybe it was for ransom. I mean you have fought the battle and all, and if the leader (Prophet) thinks that would be good then we take prisoners. Or maybe It was not okay to leave these “now helpless” women and children out to suffer. but again if I keep myself into the feet of prisoners, I sure would like to suffer rather than being caught as a prisoner. any other additions that you can tell me besides that Ransom theory? I am sure there must have been some social factors but can’t pinpoint them exactly. so I repeat my initial question. what was the wisdom behind taking POWs in the battle of Khyber & Bani-Mustaliq, when non believers were on defense? what is the principal on which muslims take POWs in general? Thanks.