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{{Quote|1=[http://www.islamqa.com/en/ref/26067/sex%20with%20servant Islam Q&A - Fatwa #26067]|2=It is rare nowadays to find slaves in the shar’i sense in which it is permissible to be intimate with them etc. That is because most of the Muslims have long since given up the obligation of jihad for the sake of Allaah, in addition to their position of weakness and humiliation before their kaafir enemies, so that many of the majority-Muslim nations have signed the protocol that expressly forbids slavery and strives to put an end to it, which was agreed upon in the United Nations in 1953.}}
{{Quote|1=[http://www.islamqa.com/en/ref/26067/sex%20with%20servant Islam Q&A - Fatwa #26067]|2=It is rare nowadays to find slaves in the shar’i sense in which it is permissible to be intimate with them etc. That is because most of the Muslims have long since given up the obligation of jihad for the sake of Allaah, in addition to their position of weakness and humiliation before their kaafir enemies, so that many of the majority-Muslim nations have signed the protocol that expressly forbids slavery and strives to put an end to it, which was agreed upon in the United Nations in 1953.}}


==Islam Permits Raping Captives and Slaves==
==Permission to Rape Captives and Slaves==
{{Main|Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Rape}}
{{Main|Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Rape}}


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A female slave came to Umar ibn al Khattab. He knew her through some of the emigrants, or the Ansar. She was wearing a jilbab (cloak) which veiled her. He asked her: "Have you been freed?" She said: "No." He said: "What about the jilbab? Pull it down off your head. The jilbab is only for free women from among the believing women." She hesitated. So he came at her with a whip and struck her on the head, until she cast it off her head.}}
A female slave came to Umar ibn al Khattab. He knew her through some of the emigrants, or the Ansar. She was wearing a jilbab (cloak) which veiled her. He asked her: "Have you been freed?" She said: "No." He said: "What about the jilbab? Pull it down off your head. The jilbab is only for free women from among the believing women." She hesitated. So he came at her with a whip and struck her on the head, until she cast it off her head.}}


A hadith collected by al Bayhaqi (d. 1066 CE) is commonly translated such that Umar's slave-girls' breasts were shaking, though this is unclear in the Arabic of this hadith. An alternative interpretation is that his slave-women had uncovered hair which was falling on their breasts:
A hadith collected by al Bayhaqi (d. 1066 CE) is commonly translated such that Umar's slave-girls' (bare) breasts were shaking, though this is unclear in the Arabic of this hadith. An alternative interpretation is that his slave-women had uncovered hair which was falling on their breasts:


{{Quote|1=[https://archive.org/stream/FP78881/skb02#page/n319/mode/1up Al-Bayhaqi's Sunan al-Kubra 3222] (graded sahih [https://archive.org/stream/FP78881/skb02#page/n319/mode/1up by al Bayhaqi] and hasan [https://archive.org/stream/WAQ25781WAQ/erwaa6#page/n203/mode/1up by al-Albani])|2=
{{Quote|1=[https://archive.org/stream/FP78881/skb02#page/n319/mode/1up Al-Bayhaqi's Sunan al-Kubra 3222] (graded sahih [https://archive.org/stream/FP78881/skb02#page/n319/mode/1up by al Bayhaqi] and hasan [https://archive.org/stream/WAQ25781WAQ/erwaa6#page/n203/mode/1up by al-Albani])|2=
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