The New World Order of Islam — Page 67
New World Order 67 domestic servants, and yet the Holy Prophet sa called one of his Companions to account for beating a prisoner. Another Companion relates that they were seven brothers and that they possessed a female prisoner, and on one occasion the youngest of them gave her a slap for some fault she had committed. When the Holy Prophet sa learnt of this, he said that the only penalty for the slap was that she must be liberated, and this was done. In other words, it was not only serious beating or striking that was prohibited, but even a slap involved liberation, inasmuch as such conduct indicated that the person guilty of it was not fit to be entrusted with the custody of, or authority over, another human being. The Holy Quran also prescribes that marriage should be arranged for such of the prisoners as have arrived at, at the age of matrimony: ؕ ( ٕjk& - (%E$G+ & lm: 7 - ( #& n$ "And marry widows from among you, and your male slaves and female slaves who are fit for marriage. " (24:33). Could humane consideration go any further? Islam says, 'Feed them with the food that you eat; give them to wear the kind of clothes you wear; subject them to no kind of hardship; make arrangements for