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[quote]http://www.understanding-islam.org/related/text.asp?type=question&qid=371

I'll try to extrapolate based on the above link.

1) The Prophet could not marry her, why?

..the Prophet (pbuh) kept her as a slave girl because he was BARRED from marrying those slave girls who were NOT part of the booty of war, in the same verse that governed his marriage regulations.

2)So why keep her as a slave girl at all?

Hadhrat Maria Qibtia (ra) was presented to the Prophet (pbuh) by the ruler of Egypt.

Comments: Perhaps here lies the not-offending part. But then another question could be raised, what if other rulers wanted to give their slave girls?

3) There is no strong evidence of any other slave girl in the household of the Prophet (pbuh).

Comment: One example was sufficient.

Lastly, drinking was forbidden during the time of the Prophet, hence his example was to be to NOT drink at all.

But slave girl marriages were not abolished during his time, perhaps not even long later, i.e., perhaps hundreds of years later, perhaps a model was needed for all those following times, i.e. that of Tabain and Taba Tabain etc.

Edited by: junaidj on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 7:29 AM[/quote]

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