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Mohammed de la this has been a subject or this class is now getting into the home stretch.

We're finally in the last 10 lectures

when we're talking about social justice or the 40 hadith on social justice and

drawing our own Islamic paradigms on this subject. And last week we also had a special session where we spoke

about Bilal I bin-Lahbahh. May Allah be pleased with him in light of the new movie that's

you know hit theaters around the country and the renewed discussion. the new

discussion about who Bilal was.

So then this question comes up.

The question is that how can we celebrate Bilal and celebrate all of these stories of

liberation and freedom when there appears to be slavery in Islam and so sometimes you have very simplistic declarations

about slavery.

And then sometimes you have very nefarious targeted attacks against Islam that try to associate Islam uniquely with slavery.

And then sometimes you really have to have this discussion about what it is that Islam allowed and what it did not allow and what is

polemical versus what is historical and that's probably the most important

debate that has to take place here so I have a really long lecture online about slavery in Islam.

You can find it on YouTube.

If you have the time to watch it, then I do recommend you watch it,

where I break down some of the technical issues in much detail.

But tonight, in shall I want to purposely keep this under 30 minutes.

And I'll start off with some questions.

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