Islamic law on sex with female captives from war

When the first arab armies conquered parts of Sindh  in 712AD, the hindus were completely aghast to see their women and children being carried off as slaves, to be sold in the slave markets of arabia. Hinduism is the only major religion of the world to never had have any notion of slavery, and one can imagine the shock of the hindus when they saw their women being enslaved. Arab historians of the time wrote with glee that "the fair women of Hind are now sleeping in our harems".  This is well known.

What is not well known among hindus even today (ie 1300 years after the first shock of Islam) is that this is actually a central canon of Islamic law: As per Islamic law, when an enemy is defeated, the women and children are MEANT TO BE enslaved (in other words, it is not an option, it is an order). The women become the the sexual property of their muslim owners. There are literally over 50 hadith that describe this.  I will only provide 4 examples below:

Abu Dawud vol.2 no.2150 p.577

Abu Sai’d al-Khudri said : The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) sent a military expedition to Awtas on the occasion of the battle of Hunain. They met their enemy and fought with them. They defeated them and took them captives. Some of the Companions of the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) were reluctant to have intercourse with the female captives in the presence of their husbands who were unbelievers. So Allah, the Exalted, sent down the Qur’anic verse: (Sura 4:24) "And all married women (are forbidden) unto you except those captives whom your right hands possess." That is to say, captive women are lawful for them when they complete their menstrual period.(1479)"

[Note: It seems that the muslim soldiers were reluctant to rape the women prisoners in front of their husbands. But Mohammed had no such compunction. He said Allah has made it completely lawful to have sex with captives as long as they are not in their menstrual period!]

Abu Dawud vol.2 footnote 1479 p.577-578.

"After the distribution of the spoils of war a man may have intercourse with the female slave after passing one menstrual period, if she is not pregnant. If she is pregnant one should wait till she delivers the child. This is the view held by Malik, al-Shafi’i and Abu Thawr. Abu Hanifah holds that if both the husband and wife are captivated together, their marriage tie still continues; they will not be separated. According to the majority of scholars, they will be separated. Al-Awza-i maintains that their marriage tie will continue till they remain part of the spoils of war. If a man buys them, he may separate them if he desires, and cohabit with the female slave after one menstrual period. (‘Awn al-Ma’bud II.213)"

[Note: A man who buys a married couple, can just null that marriage, and take the woman as his own sex-slave!]

Abu Dawud vol.2 no.2153-2154 p.578

A Muslim warrior has to wait until a captive woman’s menstrual course is finished before having sex with her. 

[Note: In other words, there is NO restriction on a muslim to have sex with a captured woman other than that he has to wait if she is menstruating.]

 

Sahih Bukhari Volume 5, Book 59, Number 459:

Narrated Ibn Muhairiz:

Abu Said said, "We went out with Allah's Apostle for the Ghazwa of Banu Al-Mustaliq and we received captives from among the Arab captives and we desired women and celibacy became hard on us and we loved to do coitus interruptus. So when we intended to do coitus interrupt us, we said, 'How can we do coitus interruptus before asking Allah's Apostle who is present among us?" We asked (him) about it and he said, 'It is better for you not to do so, for if any soul (till the Day of Resurrection) is predestined to exist, it will exist."

[Note: The muslims were raping the women using coitus interruptus, to avoid impregnating them. This is because impregnated women fetch less money when sold in the slave market. Mohammed said, "just rape them the normal way, don't bother to do coitus interruptus because if a child is destined to be born, he will" !!]

 

Here is some perspective - the worst man in the hindu epics - Ravan, was still so decent he did not force himself upon Sita. He repeatedly asked her to marry him, giving her the final say on the matter.  And the model person to fundamentalist muslims is a man who freely ordered his soldiers to rape women captives in front of their husbands! A man who himself raped women captives (Safiyah, for instance) the day he himself had murdered her husband and father in war!


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Prajyot Sinha's picture

Its really horrible to see

Its really horrible to see all this....

FormerMuslim's picture

Yes Prajyot, indeed it is.

Yes Prajyot, indeed it is. Especially for hindus, whose dharma was totally different. Consider this: Megasthenes, when he visited India, reported that he had seen armies fight each other, but never harm a civilian even if he was just a few meters away. He reported that often farmers would till their land without even bothering about armies fighting just some distance away, because civilians were never harmed during war. That was the hindu way of war (ie, dharma yuddha). Islam is just the opposite. It's primary purpose for waging war is (a) to spread Islam and (b) to capture war booty, most notably women and slaves. In fact, the capture of women as war booty was a primary method of motivating people to wage war.

So it is a totally opposite way of thinking. It is important to know this. The early hindus did not know this, and that is why they treated the Ghoris and Ghaznis as just any other hindu raja. They paid a heavy price for their ignorance of Islamic war and its methods/motivations.

Most of my friends are still muslims (many religious ones). They are decent people, and I love them. But we must realize that they are decent *inspite* of what is written in Koran and Hadith, and in that sense they really are exceptional people. In a way, they are the biggest victims of Islam - decent people trapped into a faith which teaches that one should capture women and rape them in front of their husbands as the above Hadiths show.

There are Hadiths where Mohammed specifically says "kill women and children of the polytheists during raids - don't worry, kill them all." That explains why muslim raiders into India would show no mercy even to children. The Kuran and Hadith are directly responsible for our suffering. For instance, when Mohammed Bin Qasim captured Brahmanabad in Sindh, he killed about 35,000 inhabitants on the orders of the Caliph who reminded him that the Hadith orders him to do so!

So to understand Islam and its behaviour, we must read the Kuran and the Hadith. Then all becomes clear.

I want to request hindus not to hate muslims for this - they are victims of Islam more than anyone else. If more of them would read what is in the Hadith, they would leave Islam.

syed imran moin kazmi's picture

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i read your's webside i know these things i also puzzle bout these things

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