Re: RE: ProgressiveMuslims digest, Vol 1 #384 - 8 msgs

AA,

But isn't there some Qur'anic injunction about not altering what Allah
(swt) created?  So I would imagine castration would come under that
category.  I may be wrong.

kh,
Bobbe


> [Original Message]
> From: Laura <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Date: 2/9/2004 7:26:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [Progressivemuslimsnetwork] RE: ProgressiveMuslims digest,
Vol 1 #384 - 8 msgs
>
> Salaam Alaikum,
>
> I believe those male servants may have been castrati.  Wasn't it a custom
to
> have boys castrated at a somewhat young age so that they would become
> servants and later guardians of wives?
>
> This is only based on a book I read of a member of the royal family in
Saudi
> Arabia who described at length one such servant living on her grounds.
>
> Laura Hussain
>
>
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