Islam and Slavery — Page 40
40 who attained to the position of such leadership and authority among the Muslims that even their emancipators had to bend their knees before them in humble submission. This is the work of the Holy Prophet of Islam and this is a work which stands unparalleled in the history of the world; and those who ask why the Prophet of Islam did not emancipate the slaves all at once, as Abraham Lincoln and other western philanthropists did, take a woefully superficial view of the matter.