http://www.patheos.com/blogs/islamahmadiyya/2015/04/blacklivesmatter-to-prophet-muhammad/
April 9, 2015 marks 150 years that the Civil War ended. Apparently no one told Officer Michael T. Slager.
Watch the
video of Slager, a white South Carolina police officer, gun down Walter Scott, an unarmed black father of four, and you’ll realize something most every person of color in America knows: the Civil War may have ended 150 years ago, but a race war rages on in America.
To systemically abolish slavery, Prophet Muhammad first forbade that any free person be enslaved, thus stopping the slave trade from expanding. Next, Prophet Muhammad firmly established that all humanity is equal—one could not accept Islam without embracing this principle.
Thus, as slave owners accepted Islam, they unambiguously recognized that their slaves were their equals. These free Muslims naturally developed affection for their fellow human beings—slave or free. Any time Prophet Muhammad was given the opportunity to free a slave—he would do so immediately and without delay. Indeed, upon his marriage to Khadija, she willingly transferred all her property—and her slaves—to his name. As his first order of business, Prophet Muhammad freed every slave without demanding or hinting at the least compensation. Muslim slave owners followed this compassionate example and freed their slaves of their own accord, thus shrinking the population of those yet in slavery. The Qur’an additionally required Muslim slave owners to free slaves if a slave could purchase freedom. Moreover, if the slave could not purchase his own freedom, the Qur’an obliged the slave owner to help his own slave purchase his freedom. The gravity of this teaching is profound: a slave could be freed upon simple request and nothing else.