Reader Zaid glorifies the slave Zaid

Submitted by Prashant (United States), Jun 11, 2016 at 18:43

Dear Dr Pipes, your reader Zaid glorifies that fact that Prophet Muhammad adopted his slave Zaid as a son. Reader Zaid forgot to mention that Prophet later married slave Zaid's divorced wife (his daughter-in-law after adoption). Nothing entirely wrong here but things get so hotch-potch here that it is difficult to fully appreciate these events. We need to cherry pick the events from Prophet Muhammad's life to convince ourselves that they were all good.

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