The Islamic Response to Slavery | Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy

There's a version of history where slavery just sort of ends, where enough people had a change of heart and the world moved on. That's not what happened. Every legal and religious system on earth treated it as permanent, inevitable, untouchable—except one. In this episode, Shaykh Mohammad Elshinawy traces how Islamic law approached slavery from its very first rulings, why total abolition wasn't immediate, and how the religion built a structure that made the institution's disappearance a matter of time.

This episode covers:

— Slavery before Islam, and why almost every civilization had it

— What the Bible and Roman law actually permitted regarding slaves

— The Quranic pathways out of bondage and who was obligated to fund them

— What the Prophet ﷺ's final words reveal about his priorities

— How a single marriage freed an entire tribe

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