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Apr 17, 2017
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Kuwaiti Cleric Othman Al-Khamis: When a Slave-Girl Gets Married, Her Owner Must Stop Having Sex with Her

#5997 | 02:21
Source: Online Platforms - "Othman Al-Khamis on YouTube"

In several videos recently posted on his YouTube channel, Kuwaiti cleric Othman Al-Khamis outlines the options available to Muslims with regard to prisoners taken during Jihad. Al-Khamis says that only non-Muslims can be enslaved, and "the owner can have sex with a slave-girl only when she is not married."

 

Othman Al-Khamis: Where do slaves and slave-girls come from? From Jihad. Slaves and slave-girls are taken captive in Jihad. When Jihad is waged, the imam has four options of what to do with the prisoners. This means that he has to do what is in the best interests of the Muslims. He has four options: The first is to kill those prisoners who are fighters – just the fighters, not the women, the children, the elderly, the monks, or the slaves.

 

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His second option is to release them for a ransom.

 

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His third option is to release them for free, without a ransom.

 

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His fourth option is to enslave them – both the men and the women. The men would become slaves and the women slave-girls.

 

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The slave-girl is the property of his owner. They are enslaved through Jihad, and a Muslim cannot be a slave. A Muslim must not be enslaved. Only infidels may be enslaved.

 

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When a slave-girl gets married, her owner can no longer have sex with her. That's it. It's over.

 

Audience member: She moves to her husband's home?

 

Othman Al-Khamis: Of course. The owner can have sex with a slave-girl only when she is not married. If she gets married, it's over. He can no longer have sex with her. But as I've said, a [Muslim] man cannot just go and marry a slave-girl. He should marry a free woman, not a slave-girl. But if he cannot find a free woman to marry, or if he doesn't have enough money, or nobody wants him, and things get hard for him, there is nothing to prevent this. In the words of Allah: "If any of you have not the means to wed free believing women, he may wed believing girls from among those whom your right hands possess." Her owner cannot have sex with her if she gets married. Are we clear? She cannot be in bed with two men. That's impossible.

 

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