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[quote]salams 
<p align=justify> It is not only the practice of the Prophet (sws) and the ideals he set for the society that are conflicting. 
The problem lies with the process the Almighty seems to have adopted in eradication of slavery. The Qur'an states in no unclear terms that Muslims can keep slave girls and establish sexual relations with them. Doesn't it? We know that almost all those companions of the Prophet (sws) who could afford salve girls kept them. If keeping slave girls was a declared sin then why would any of them keep slave girls. In fact the Qur'an does not seem to give an impression that it is a sin (see 33:51 below). It only introduces measures which finally led to abolishment of the institute. 
I do not think it was an ideal approach for the Prophet (sws) to free any slave girls he had and declaring that that was what piety demanded. That would then set the standard of piety and the streets would be jammed with thousands of them. 
Another thing i would like to point out is the view that the Prophet (Sws) married her. What is wrong with this view. 
In this regard Brother Junaid writes: 
[b] ..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. [/b]

What do you say about the highlighted portion of the following verse of the Qur'an? Does not it permit him to take in marriage any believing woman who presents herself to the Prophet??????:

O Prophet! surely We have made lawful to you your wives whom you have given their dowries, and those whom your right hand possesses out of those whom Allah has given to you as prisoners of war, and the daughters of your paternal uncles and the daughters of your paternal aunts, and the daughters of your maternal uncles and the daughters of your maternal aunts who migrated with you; [hl]and a believing woman if she gave herself to the Prophet, if the Prophet desired to marry her--[/hl] specially for you, not for the (rest of) believers; We know what We have ordained for them concerning their wives and those whom their right hands possess in order that no blame may attach to you; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. 33.051[/quote]

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