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[quote][quote]read the section on slavery and family on this page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad[/quote]

Thank you dear Oosman. I read it but found nothing new. I may clarify that I am an ethnic Arab but an Ajmi one and am proud of being Arab as The prophet himself was. It is an accepted fact that the pre-Islamic Arab society was a slave-owning one and it continued to be so even after the advent of Islam. But I see that Ajmi writers, in their enthusiasm to extol Islam, generally paint pre-Islamic Arab society more blackish than it really was. Just see for example this extract from the Wikipedia:
   
“This led to a deterioration in the rights of women. At the time Islam began, the conditions of women were terrible - they had no right to own property, were supposed to be the property of the man, and if the man died everything went to his sons." Muhammad, however, by "instituting rights of property ownership, inheritance, education and divorce, gave women certain basic safeguards." [92]

Do you think it is correct? I beg to disagree. Hazrat Khadijah, first wife of the prophet, was a rich woman owning property and doing the business of import/export at the time of advent of Islam. How can you explain this?

Then they accuse Arabs of female infanticide. If it were so prevalent how could the Arabs indulge in unbridled polygamy by marrying more than four wives? And so on ad infinitum.

I would suggest you to read 'History of Saracens' by Syed Amir Ali.[/quote]

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