{"id":781,"date":"2013-09-27T13:57:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T13:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/v2\/?p=781"},"modified":"2014-09-27T14:00:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T14:00:05","slug":"daaim-al-islam-chapter-on-itq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/misbah\/inthefatemilibrary\/daaim-al-islam-chapter-on-itq\/","title":{"rendered":"Daaim al Islam: Chapter on Itq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daaim ul Islam devotes an entire chapter to \u201c\u2018itq\u201d-the freeing of slaves. Slavery was an integral part of warfare: enemies who were not killed in battle were enslaved to ensure that they remained under control. However the freeing of slaves was encouraged by Islam. The Quran mentions not once, but several times, the <em>sawaab<\/em> of freeing a slave. <!--more-->Rasulullah<sup>SA<\/sup>\u00a0elucidates the reward of he who frees a Muslim slave: for each part of the slave\u2019s body, each part of the person who grants him freedom will be protected from hellfire. Amir ul Mumineen<sup>SA<\/sup>\u00a0set the ultimate example: in his lifetime, he set free a thousand slaves from his personal wealth which he had accumulated through farming.<\/p>\n<p>Islam has laid down a set of laws for the freedom of slaves: for example a <em>mukatab<\/em> is a slave who is required to accumulate a given sum for his freedom, while a <em>mudabbar<\/em> is he who will gain freedom at his owner\u2019s death. Further, a slave girl who bears a child is free after her owner\u2019s death, as is the child. The shariat has also made the freeing of slaves obligatory as part of certain kinds of <em>kaffarat<\/em>. For example, if a mumin kills another unintentionally, then freeing a slave would be <em>kaffarat<\/em> for his sin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daaim ul Islam devotes an entire chapter to \u201c\u2018itq\u201d-the freeing of slaves. Slavery was an integral part of warfare: enemies who were not killed in battle were enslaved to ensure that they remained under control. However the freeing of slaves was encouraged by Islam. The Quran mentions not once, but several times, the sawaab of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}