The Hidayah , Volume IV, Book XLIV, pp. 600-601
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Besides, carnal connexion is the right of a free woman for the gratifying of her passion, and the propagation of children (whence it is that a wife is at liberty to reject a husband who is an eunuch or impotent); whereas a slave possesses no such right.—A man, therefore, is not at liberty to injure the right of his wife, whereas a master is absolute with respect to his slave. If, also, a man should marry the female slave of another, he must not perform the act of Azil with her without the consent of her master.

— Islamic views on concubinage

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Besides, carnal connexion is the right of a free woman for the gratifying of her passion, and the propagation of children (whence it is that a wife is at liberty to reject a husband who is an eunuch or impotent); whereas a slave possesses no such right.—A man, therefore, is not at liberty to injure the right of his wife, whereas a master is absolute with respect to his slave. If, also, a man should marry the female slave of another, he must not perform the act of Azil with her without the consent of her master." in the context of "The Hidayah , Volume IV, Book XLIV, pp. 600-601" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Islamic views on concubinage

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 For the history of this practice, see History of concubinage in the Muslim world