The questioner answers: No, because there are no slaves today.

Yahya Silmi says: That is your religion, not our religion. In our religion, it can happen today. The third category of right-hand possession according to Yahya Silmi—the one regarding which his own statements are contradictory. Sometimes he says: It is that the poor give their children to the rich due to inability to support them—meaning during the time of the Messenger of Allah—and they become right-hand possession. Yahya Silmi repeated and stated that they are poor, more than once in the same session. Then he contradicts himself and says: We do not stipulate, nor did I stipulate, that they are poor… Rather, it is those who are unable to care for the woman—not only the poor woman—whether they are poor or rich, but this happens often among the poor… At another time, in a different session, he says: The third category: Those whose slavery continues from the pre-Islamic era or from disbelief—meaning from the disbelievers—generation after generation. When they are taken into Islam, we remove slavery from them and make them right-hand possession and give them human rights. They are no longer called “slave,” and Islam makes them free (while being right-hand possession). Then, when Abu Mu’adh Hussein Al-Hatibi responded to Yahya Silmi on this issue while he was in Sri Lanka, Yahya Silmi said in response to Abu Mu’adh: Right-hand possession consists of three types: what is taken as spoils of war, what continues in slavery generation after generation, and the gift, such as Mariyah Al-Qibtiyyah—then some of those present prompted him: She was a slave. So Yahya Silmi said: Yes, she was a slave. Then Yahya Silmi was asked: Did you say that a free woman can be given as a gift in any instance? Yahya Silmi answered: No, I myself was without a final ruling. Then Yahya Silmi evades discussing this issue and says: We will leave it for another lesson. (From the tape: The Corruption of Dammaj in Sri Lanka and Unsubstantiated Evidence) Brother Razan Al-Hayali Al-Saylani—who was a companion of Yahya Silmi and then left him when he learned that he was a liar—testifies: Once I asked Yahya Silmi about taking a servant for the house, and he answered saying: “Take a right-hand possession for yourself along with the service; enjoy her.” It has become well-known about Yahya Silmi that he brought two women who were displaced by the tsunami to his home—and the questioner in the tape on the issue of right-hand possession mentions that two women came to him, and Yahya Silmi did not deny it. Then he neglected them. He married one of them to an elderly man after a dispute between Yahya Silmi and his father about keeping them in the house. Then she fled with a Hindu man, as we were informed by Brother Mizhar As-Saylani, who was a companion of his father. Likewise, Brother Abu Talha Salim Al-Hindi, who attended the lessons of Sheikh Hussein Al-Hatibi in Sri Lanka, informed us: One of the followers of Yahya Silmi who runs his da‘wah in the state of Tamil Nadu in South India, named Jalal, wanted to give his daughter as a gift to Yahya Silmi to take as a right-hand possession based on the fatwa of his revered sheikh, Yahya Silmi As-Seylani. Allah Almighty knows best. We only testify to what we have known and been informed of, and we are not keepers of the unseen. --------- Sheikh Abdulhameed Az-Zu'kari comments: Allah is the one whose help is sought. Allah is the one whose help is sought from this profound ignorance, to the point of denying something that is virtually known in the religion by necessity. We know of no one who forbids slavery except America, the United Nations, and those like them. Otherwise, slavery is still allowed. People still inherit their male and female slaves. Likewise, a man may marry four wives and cannot exceed that except through right-hand possession: “And what your right hands possess” meaning slaves. As for this statement, you have seen that he contradicted himself greatly, which indicates his lack of understanding of the issue.