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 The orphans mentioned in that ayah are those maids' children whose fathers are unknown, for the maids were used by both their owners and other men. And the real meaning of the ayah is:
-{{quote ||If you want to have sexual intercourse with the orphans of your maids, but the possibility of that orphan being your own child scares you; then  marry other women as many as you need (because they are definitely not your close relatives), but if you can not marry other women due to economical or other reasons, then content yourself with the maids you already have}}
+{{quote ||If you fear from acting unjustly in the eye of Allah by using your own child as a sex toy (without knowing it), marry other women as many as you need (because they are definitely not your close relatives), but if you can not marry other women due to economical or other reasons, then content yourself with the maids you already have}}
-For Qur'an, it is safe to say that no ayah revealed for any single person other than Muhammad or his close friends, wives, relatives or his arch enemies etc. let alone an anonymous person who would not want to pay mahr would require an ayah.
-On the other hand, just Muhammad himself had fought in 28 wars, and ordered more than 40 gazvahs(raids that Muhammad did not participate) on other tribes, villages, cities. Only in Benu Quraysa, more than 700 men had their heads cut off and their wives, children were enslaved by Muslims. During Muhammad era thousands of  women, girls and boys were enslaved by Muslims, resulting in an active slave circulation where Muslims sold, bought or exchanged the maids they had when they got bored of them. That active circulation caused an inflation in number of orphan kids of maids, whose fate should be determined "justly" by their owners, made Muhammad reveal an ayah on that issue.
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