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Allah's Messenger said: "There are three whose Salat would not rise up beyond their ears: The runaway slave until he returns, a woman who spends a night while her husband is angry with her, and a people's Imam whom they dislike."}} | Allah's Messenger said: "There are three whose Salat would not rise up beyond their ears: The runaway slave until he returns, a woman who spends a night while her husband is angry with her, and a people's Imam whom they dislike."}} | ||
===Women must never be alone in the presence of another man not a relative=== | ===Women must never be alone in the presence of another man who is not a relative=== | ||
According to Amnesty International, women who walk unaccompanied or in the company of a man who is neither their husband nor a close relative are at the risk of arrest on suspicion of prostitution or other "moral offences." | According to Amnesty International, women who walk unaccompanied or in the company of a man who is neither their husband nor a close relative are at the risk of arrest on suspicion of prostitution or other "moral offences." | ||
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===Forcing Slave Girls into Prostitution=== | ===Forcing Slave Girls into Prostitution=== | ||
{{Quote|{{cite web|url=http://islamawakened.com/quran/24/st26.htm |title=Qur'an 24: | {{Quote|{{cite web|url=http://islamawakened.com/quran/24/st26.htm |title=Qur'an 24:33 |publisher= |author= |date= |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20160504044756/http://islamawakened.com/quran/24/st26.htm |deadurl=no}}|And do not compel your slave girls to prostitution, when they desire to keep chaste, in order to seek the frail good of this world's life; and whoever compels them, then surely after their compulsion Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.}} | ||
Allah first tells Muslims not to force their slave girls into prostitution. But in the next sentence, he calls himself oft-forgiving and most merciful when anyone compels them into prostitution. Forgiving and merciful on whom? This verse is unclear and open to interpretation.<ref>Note that the Qur'an calls itself a clear and detailed book several times.</ref> Allah may be merciful on the female slaves, as most commentators and translators prefer to suggest. But it is worth pondering why he needs to forgive slaves, and mercy on them is something obvious to human conscience. Is Allah stating the obvious? In fact, it is more likely that he is forgiving and merciful to the masters of the slaves. Only that can explain why he made a statement like "after their compulsion Allah is Forgiving, Merciful" in the first place. | Allah first tells Muslims not to force their slave girls into prostitution. But in the next sentence, he calls himself oft-forgiving and most merciful when anyone compels them into prostitution. Forgiving and merciful on whom? This verse is unclear and open to interpretation.<ref>Note that the Qur'an calls itself a clear and detailed book several times.</ref> Allah may be merciful on the female slaves, as most commentators and translators prefer to suggest. But it is worth pondering why he needs to forgive slaves, and mercy on them is something obvious to human conscience. Is Allah stating the obvious? In fact, it is more likely that he is forgiving and merciful to the masters of the slaves. Only that can explain why he made a statement like "after their compulsion Allah is Forgiving, Merciful" in the first place. | ||