Right Hand Comparison between Islam and Christianity
Concubines (concubines - right-hand queens )
One of the most objectionable things to Christians is the right-hand queens in Islam !!!
I will not elaborate on this, but it is enough for you to read the following
texts to ask why people argue with us with what is in their book? Concubines
or right-hand queens are not something that Muslims invented,
but rather it is in all nations, even in Christianity itself. Behold,
it is present in the heart of the Old Testament and also on the tongue of their
beloved Paul. One is distressed when he finds that most of those who object to
Islam are the most ignorant of their book and what is in it. Read these texts
to prove to you the truth of what I said. It is stated in Exodus 20:17 thus:
Exodus20:17:You shall not covet your neighbor's house.You shall not covet your
neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor
his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's
. I said: This is the law of the Lord in getting out of male and female slaves.
The Lord commanded this and even made a law for it, as you saw and as you will
see in the upcoming texts mentioned in their book .
Did Christianity free the slaves or command them to remain in
slavery?
In Ephesians 6:5, in Luke 12:45, and in Luke 12:47 it is as follows:
Ephesians 6:5: Slaves, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and
trembling, in singleness of heart, as to Christ.
Luke12:45: But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’
he will begin to beat the young men and the maidens, and to eat and drink and
become drunk. Luke 12:47: But that
servant who knew his lord’s will and did not prepare himself or do according to
his will will be beaten with many beatings.
I said: This is a clear statement that does not require a genius to understand
the words of their leader Paul and what the follower Luke supported, that they
approve of slavery and even order slaves to comply with their masters in
slavery. Luke even said in his example in his Gospel that the slave who does
not do what his master wants is beaten and beaten a lot. He also stated it
again in paragraph 45. Luke did not clarify when he gave the example whether
the slave is beaten in the same way they beat the idol of the Christians or
is it sufficient to flog? What I would like to clarify here is that this word
slaves is used in general and includes male and female slaves. A male slave
marries and his wife is a female slave. If he has children from her, then his
children are male and female slaves and concubines. By God, I do not know what
the Christians use as evidence against Islam? And I will mention the
necessary phrase for that in the same Gospel of Luke 6:42: Or how can you
say to your brother, “Brother, let me pull out the speck that is in your eye,”
when you do not see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first pull
out the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to pull out the
speck that is in your brother’s eye. And in the book of Deuteronomy,
which the Lord inspired to Moses, there is a complete law about captivity and
concubines as follows:
In Deuteronomy 21:10-14 there is a complete law about the queens of the
right hand and concubines as follows :
Deuteronomy21:10:“When you go out to fight against your enemies and the Lord
your God delivers theminto your hand and you take some of them captives( 11 )And
I saw among the captives a beautiful woman, and I clung to her, and took her as
a wife for myself ( 12 ) And when you bring her into your
house, she shall shave her head, and trim her nails ( 13 ) and
take off her captive clothes from her, and she shall remain in your house and
mourn her father and mother for a full month; and after that you may go in
to her and take her as your wife . (14) But if you do not desire
her, then let her go for herself . Do not sell her for money, nor
make her a slave, because you have humbled her.
Rehoboam, my lords, has eighteen wives and sixty concubines!!! What a
stallion!!
It is said about Rehoboam in the Book of 2 Chronicles 11:21 like this:
Chronicles 2-11 :21: And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of
Absalom more than all his wives and concubines; for he took eighteen wives and
sixty concubines, and he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters .
So see how Rehoboam loved Maacah and was not satisfied with eighteen wives and
sixty concubines, so the total number of his wives and concubines after his
marriage to Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, was nineteen wives and more than
sixty concubines. We do not know whether he increased after his marriage to
Maacah or was satisfied with this? Did not the Lord know that? And why did he
not forbid him ?
Esther, and what do you know about Esther, the beautiful prostitute, that
Jewess who saved the Jews in her time and they put a whole book about her in
their book, in her time there were concubines
Esther 2:4: In the evening she went in and in the morning she
returned to the second house of the women, to the hand of Shaashgaz the king's
eunuch, the keeper of the concubines . She did not come in to the
king unless the king was pleased with her and she was called by
name. And Solomon, that tyrant with seven hundred wives and three
hundred concubines, tells in the Song of Songs about his adventures and says
that there were concubines
Song of Songs 6:9: One is my dove, my perfect one . Her
mother's only one is she . Her mother's wife is she . The
daughters saw her and blessed her . The queens and the concubines,
and she praised them .
Levi also had a concubine
. Judges 19:24 : Behold, my virgin daughter and his concubine,
let me bring them out, and afflict them, and do to them as seems good to you
; but to this man do not do this evil thing .
Abraham also had concubines.
Genesis 25:6: And to the sons of the concubines whom Abraham had, Abraham gave
gifts, and sent them away from his son Isaac, while he yet lived, to the land
of the east.
Now here is a collection of texts, a nice assortment, search in it about
concubines and polygamy, free search
Daniel 5:2: And while Belshazzar was tasting the wine, he commanded
to bring the golden and silver vessels, which Nebuchadnezzar his father had
taken out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, for the king and his
lords, his wives, and his concubines to drink from . ( 3 )
Then they brought the golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple of
the house of God that was in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his
wives, and his concubines drank from them .
Daniel 5:23: But you have magnified yourself against the Lord of
heaven; therefore they have brought before you the vessels of his house, you
and your nobles.And your wives and your concubines drank wine with
them, and praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron, of wood and
stone, which neither see nor hear nor know . But God, in whose hand
is your breath, and to whom belong all your ways, you have not glorified .
Daniel 6:18 Then the king went to his palace, and spent the night
fasting; neither were his concubines brought before him, nor
did his sleep flee from him .
Judges 19:2 And his concubine played the harlot with him, and
departed from him to her father's house to Bethlehem of Judah, and remained
there four months .
Judges 19:9 Then the man rose up to go, he and his concubine and
his servant: and his father-in-law, the damsel's father, said to him, The day
is far toward sunset ; lodge now ; it is the last hour of
the day . Lodge here, and let your heart be merry; and tomorrow you
may set out early on your way, and go to your tent . ( 10 ) But
the man would not lodge, but rose up and departed, and came to the opposite
Jebus ( that is, Jerusalem ) . And with him were two
donkeys saddled, and his concubine with him .
Judges 19:24 Behold, my daughter, the virgin, and his concubine: let
me bring them out, and humble them, and do to them as seems good to you ;
but unto this man do not do this evil thing . ( 25 )
But the men would not hearken unto him . So the man took hold of
his concubine, and brought her forth unto them. And they knew her, and
made fun of her all night until the morning: and at the breaking of the day
they let her go .
Judges 19:27 And her lord arose in the morning, and opened the doors
of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman, his
concubine, was fallen at the door of the house, with her hands upon the
threshold .
Judges 19:29 And he came into his house, and took a knife, and took
hold of his concubine, and cut her, and her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent
them into all the coasts of Israel .
Genesis 36:12 Now Timna was the concubine of Eliphaz Esau's son, and
she bare to Eliphaz Amalek . These are the sons of Adah, Esau's
wife .
Judges 19:1: And in those days, when there was no king in Israel,
there was a Levite sojourning in the hill country of Ephraim . And he
took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem of Judah .
Is a concubine considered a wife?
Judges 20:4 : And the Levite, the husband of the slain
woman, answered
and said, I came in with my concubine to Gibeah of Benjamin to lodge .
(5)
And the men of Gibeah rose up against me, and surrounded the house by night,
and intended to kill me, and they afflicted my concubine until she died.
Queens of the Right Hand According to the Texts of the Holy Bible in
its two Testaments The first text
is the Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 20, Verses 10-
(When you approach a city to fight against it, then offer it peace, (11) and if
it responds to you with peace and opens to you, then all the people who are in
it shall be yours for forced labor and shall serve you (12) but if it does not
make peace with you but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it (13)
and when the Lord your God has delivered it into your hand, you shall strike
all the males in it with the edge of the sword (14) but the women, the little
ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall take
for yourself and eat the spoil of your enemies which the Lord your God has
given you (15))
Interpretations
Father Tadros Yacoub Malti
in his interpretation of the Book of Deuteronomy, page 407/408 says:
(The interpreters differed in explaining this phrase, as some see that it
applies to the countries adjacent to the Promised Land, and does not apply to
the seven nations in Canaan. The reason for this is that the survival of any
remnant of the seven nations among the people would be A stumbling block to
them, and they attract them to the worship of pagan gods and the practice of
abominations. Others see that it applies to these nations as well, where the
conditions of peace are:
1. Renunciation of pagan worship and entry into the worship of the living God.
2. Submission to the Jews.
3. Payment of an annual tribute.
Whoever does not accept these conditions, no living creature will remain in
their city if it is one of the seven nations. However, if it is one of the
neighboring cities, the men will be killed and the women and children will be
spared, along with the animals and all their spoils. The reason for the
distinction is that no trace of pagan worship will be left among the people.
Submission to hard labor, fulfilling Noah’s curse on his son Canaan (Gen.
9:25).
As for distant countries that do not belong to the Promised Land, peace can be
sought with them and their people can be forced (20:10-15). A symbolic image of
the inner desire of the spiritual man for peace, with the transformation of
energies from working for evil to energies subject to the account of the
Kingdom of God within us. ) A.H.
A picture from the reference
cover and in the applied interpretation of the Holy Bible page
392/393 , these texts were placed under the title (Laws of the siege
and conquest of distant cities) and also (Laws of the siege and
conquest of the cities of the Promised Land) and the legislation according
to the Christian faith never changes, as the Lord has set a legislation, which
is the possessions of the right hand .! The cover picture
and then the titles, of course, the law that God set in the Holy Bible is (But
the women and the children and the livestock and all that is in the city, all
its spoil, you shall take for yourself and you shall eat the spoil of your
enemies which the Lord your God has given you) God’s law is the
possessions of the right hand , so why do you object?! The
second text is the Ten Commandments commanding respect for the
possessions of the right hand Exodus 20:17 You shall not covet
your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male
servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that
is your neighbor’s. Although the law said, “Worship the one God and do not
carve for yourself an idol,” many people violate these commandments, but what
confirms the continuity of the legislation of the possessions of the
right hand in the book is
The holy thing is the command of the Lord Himself: Do not covet your
neighbor's wife. Not only that, but do not covet your neighbor's right hand
possession.!!
Interpretations
by Father Tadros Yacoub Malti
in his interpretation of the Book of Exodus, page 143.
We notice that he did not deny the right hand possessions , but
rather emphasized the speech explicitly in the third text,
Deuteronomy 21:10: When you go out to fight against your enemies, and
the Lord your God delivers them into your hand, and you take some of them
captives (11) and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you cleave
to her and take her as your wife (12) then when you bring her into your house,
she shall shave her head and trim her nails (13) and she shall strip the
garments of her captivity from her, and she shall remain in your house and
mourn her father and mother a full month; after that, you may go in to her and
marry her, and she shall be your wife. (14) But if you do not desire her, then
let her go for herself. Do not sell her for money, nor make her a slave,
because you have humbled her. The Lord inspired Moses with a complete law
about captivity and concubines!! The interpretations and commentaries
confirm the right hand queens , and not only that, but he must
cut her hair, trim her nails, and take off her clothes so that she looks very
bad, and then he marries her without her parents’ permission and she has no
rights. This is confirmed by Father Tadros Yacoub Malti in his
interpretation of the Book of Deuteronomy, page 407/408. 2. The captive
woman who is taken as a wife: Since the law dealt with the issue of
marriage to captive women, it clarified the rights of wives if polygamy
occurred, even if this polygamy was not acceptable. We can say that due to the
hardness of their hearts, soldiers were allowed, according to the Mosaic law,
for a soldier to marry the woman he took captive in war, if he wanted to. He
was allowed to do so so that he would not fall into defilement with her without
marriage, and thus be forbidden in the midst of Israel, and the wrath of the
Lord would descend upon the entire army. But they must not misuse this
permission, since laws and limits were set for it. It is clear, as the
Jews say, that the man here is married, so he is allowed to have a second
captive wife. Here the soldier's heart is drawn behind his eyes that look at a
woman and he sees her beautiful and desires her. However, in the New Testament,
the look behind lust is considered a sin of adultery, since the law of Christ
requires us not to desire, so the heart is not drawn behind the wrong
look. A. No matter what the soldier's desire is, and no matter how
beautiful the captive woman is, he must not rush to cling to her, but must first
take her as a wife [11]. "If you go out to fight against your enemies
and the Lord your God delivers them into your hand and you take some of them
captive, and you see among the captives a woman beautiful in form, and you
cling to her and take her as your wife" [10-11]. B. If the woman is a
captive, he has the right to marry her without seeking the consent of her
parents. But he is obligated not to approach her until after a month, as it was
said: “When she comes into your house, she shall shave her head and trim
her nails, and take off her captive clothes, and she shall remain in
your house, and mourn her father and mother for a month, and after
that you shall go in to her and marry her, and she shall be your wife” [12-13].
Shaving her head symbolized grief at that time in the eastern countries. This
was allowed first so that beauty would not be the reason for marrying her, as
she shaved her hair and trimmed her nails, then the decision to marry would not
be hasty because of physical beauty. On the other hand, he does not satisfy his
physical desire at the expense of her feelings, so he leaves her alone for a
month to mourn her condition and cry over her parents whom she lost. Some see
shaving her head as a sign of her renunciation of her pagan worship and her
entry into faith in the living God. For with the external change in her
appearance, she must accept an internal change with the true faith. This is why
the Jews believe that the captive woman who refuses to accept faith cannot be
accepted as a wife. Trimming the nails, which women in the East used to
decorate with henna, especially when getting married, signifies her grief over
leaving her family.
She does not cry because she is deprived of practicing pagan worship, but
because of being attached to her parents, gaining their approval and blessing
in the marriage, and being deprived of the rest of her family.
The duration of her weeping is a whole month, and the literal translation is “a
month of days,” and the period of mourning was forty days (Gen. 50:3). If the
number 40 refers to all the days of our exile, so the Prophet Moses, Elijah,
and the Lord Christ fasted forty days as a symbol of the ascetic life all the
days of our exile, then the weeping of the captive for a period of less than 40
days indicates that her human feelings are not ignored by allowing her to weep,
but not for the entire period, because her husband compensates her for this
grief and cares about making her happy. Let her grieve, but in hope that her
new life will compensate her for what she has lost, and perhaps more than what
she has been deprived of, since she is not treated as a captive but as a wife
and a member of the family. She enters into the membership of the people of
God.
C. “But if you do not delight in her, then let her go to herself.
Do not sell her for money,
nor make her a slave because you have afflicted her” [14].
Because he accepted her as a wife, if he is not pleased with her, he is not
permitted to treat her as a piece of furniture to sell, or as a slave, or a
captive to hand over to someone else, but he releases her with complete
freedom. She has the right to return to her country, because he has humiliated
and saddened her.
Some fathers, such as the scholar Origen and Saint Jerome, see that this
beautiful captive woman is the temporal philosophy and human wisdom, so it is
appropriate for the believer to use this philosophy or wisdom on the condition
of removing all the false and dead ideas it carries. Shaving the hair and
trimming the nails indicate this.
We read in Deuteronomy the command issued by the voice of the Lord to shave the
hair of the captive woman’s head, eyelids, and all her hair, along with
trimming her nails, after which she can become a wife.
Is there any wonder in this? I too, admiring the beauty of the form of temporal
wisdom and the grace of its eloquence, longing to make my captive and slave the
wife of true Israel, I shave and cut off all that is dead in her, whether it be
idolatry, pleasure, error, or lust, I take her pure and clean, and give birth
from her to servants for the Lord of hosts?
Isaiah the prophet speaks of a sharp razor with which he shaves “the head of
sinners, and the hair of their feet” (Isaiah 7:20), and Ezekiel shaves his head
as a symbol of Jerusalem that has become a harlot, as a sign of the commitment
to remove
from her everything that is senseless and lifeless[2].
St. Jerome
Wars undoubtedly cause much confusion during and after battles. But this does
not give the soldier an excuse to behave inappropriately with the captive girl.
Let the confusion be external, but it must not affect his heart, mind or
actions. Let everything be balanced and wise... War must not enter his heart or
corrupt his principles and values.
There is no comparison between what is mentioned here about the rights of the
captive woman chosen as a wife and what the nations used to do with the captive
women. The law provided the maximum that a man who acquired a captive girl
could tolerate in order to respect her dignity. For when she becomes his wife,
he must realize that she is not a doll to play with according to his physical
desires, but he must respect her as a daughter of Israel, sharing his worship
of the living God, his love for God and his submission to the divine law. If he
does not grant her these rights, let her be left to enjoy the most precious
human gift, the gift of "liberation from slavery."
The law provided a living foundation for man’s acceptance of the Christian
thought that in Christ Jesus “there is no longer male and female,” but all are
equal members in dignity in the one body of Christ.
This law presents us with a living image of the power of love. Even in wars
where anger and the love of bloodshed control many, when a captive girl falls
into the hands of a soldier, love moves him, and love frees her! Love removes
the spirit of slavery so that freedom can take its place!
If the love of the resisting soldier and the enemy extracts the spirit of
slavery from the lady and brings her into the “house of Israel” to practice
life in complete freedom, then what does divine love do to the soul subject to
the slavery of sin? The love of God freed us from the slavery of Satan and
brought us into the “household of God.”
3. The Right of Birthright:
After speaking about the rights of the captive woman whom a believer loves, he
pointed to the rights of the firstborn son born of a wife hated by her husband.
In the spirit of justice, a man does not treat his eldest son according to his
feelings towards his mother, but the father is obligated to respect the right
of primogeniture. A.H.
The priest’s interpretation ends . As for his statement according to
Mosaic law, that a soldier may marry the woman he captures in war, if he so
wishes. And he was allowed to do so so that he would not fall into defilement
with her without marriage, so this confirms what is in the subject of
the right hand of his rule because if the woman was left like
this without a man to protect her, anyone could attack her. We discussed
three texts and I intended that they be only from the books of the law (the
books of Moses) transmitted to us according to the Christian understanding by
the fingers of God, and as the Gospel says in Hebrews 10/28 (Whoever
breaks the law of Moses dies without mercy on the witness of two or three
witnesses) and Christ himself said in Matthew 5/17-18 (Do not think
that I came to abolish the law or the prophets. I did not come to abolish but
to fulfill, for truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, one jot
or one tittle will in no way pass from the law until all is accomplished). So
why do you object, my dear Christian, to the subject of the right hand ,
knowing that this matter is a mercy from God to these women, and these texts
presented before you are only three texts, and there are many texts, so why the
objection? You should not forget that Christ himself confirmed this, and
not only this, but also Paul, whom Christians believe is greater than
Moses, confirmed this!!
Here are some texts that were mentioned in Paul's letters to
the Ephesians 6:5: Slaves, obey your masters according to the flesh with
fear and trembling in singleness of heart, as to Christ.
Here are some texts that were mentioned by Jesus
Luke 12:45: But if that servant says in his heart, "Master, delay his
coming," and he begins to beat the male servants and female servants, and
to eat and drink and get drunk.
My Christian friend,
the Gospel of Luke 6:42
Or how can you say to your brother, "Brother, let me pull out the speck
that is in your eye," while you do not see the plank (tree) that is in
your own eye? You hypocrite, first pull out the plank (tree) out of your own
eye, and then you will see clearly to pull out the speck that is in your
brother's eye.
And Christ himself was called to obey by prophets who held the right hand .!!
John 8/39
They answered and said to him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to
them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of
Abraham."!!
And what were the deeds of this Abraham?
Genesis 25:6
And to the sons of the concubines whom Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and
sent them away eastward, while he was yet alive, from Isaac his son, to the
land of the east.
And also David,
1 Kings 15/5,
for David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and did not depart from
anything that he had commanded him all the days of his life, except in the
matter of Uriah the Hittite.
So this David had concubines by the command of the Lord
(And David knew that the Lord had established him king over Israel, and that he
had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel. And David also took
concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he came from Hebron, and there were
also sons and daughters born to David) 2 Samuel 5/13
Is this not the David of whom they said (Blessed is the kingdom of our father
David that comes in the name of the Lord) Mark 10/11
Did they not curse Christ and say Christ is the son of David? How can he have
concubines by the command of the Lord, and some object to the right hand possession
?
Why do you object?
And our final prayer is that praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and God is
the Grantor of success
I would like to quote Father Tadros Yacoub Malati’s
interpretation of the Book of Deuteronomy, then add a commentary on his words
directed to Christians :
quote:
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2.
The Captive Woman Taken as a Wife: When the Law dealt with the subject of
marriage with captive women, it clarified the rights of wives if polygamy
occurred, even if this polygamy was not acceptable. We can say that because
of the hardness of their hearts, soldiers were allowed, according to the
Mosaic Law, to marry the woman they took captive in war, if they wanted to.
He was allowed to do so so that he would not fall into defilement with her
without marriage, and thus be forbidden in the midst of Israel, and the wrath
of the Lord would come upon the entire army. But they were required not to
abuse this permission, since laws and limits were set for it. |
As for his saying according to Mosaic law, that the
soldier may marry the woman he takes captive in war, if he so wishes. And he
was permitted to do so so that he would not fall into defilement with her
without marriage,
this confirms what is in the subject of the right hand’s possessions of his
ruling, because if the woman is left like this without a man to protect her,
any person may attack her,
as the Bible says in Hebrews 10/28
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