Right to Freedom from Slavery

"And Allah has favored some of you above others in wealth and properties. Now those who are more favored will by no means hand over their wealth and properties to the slaves that their right hands possess..." AN NAHL (16:71)

"...slave under the possession of another; he has no power of any sort..." AN NAHL (16:75)

Slavery exists as an Islamic institution and, in adopting Islamic laws and Islamic values, the Islamic Republic of Iran has, in effect, adopted slavery as an institution. Islamic leaders, including prophet Mohammad himself, have been known to have kept slaves. There are hundreds of Hadith that deal with slavery, and Islamic jurisprudence has laid down detailed regulations for the proper treatment of slaves by their owners and the society. There are laws, for example, that state how a Muslim cannot be put to death for murdering a slave; laws that state how the testimony of a slave is not admissible in court; or laws that make it lawful for a Muslim to keep a girl as his slave and to have sex with her at anytime that he should wish it.