Are women and civilians taken prisoners and treated as booty in war?

The Details of the Question

- Suppose that there are 3-4 thousand civilians in a city and the Islamic state attacks it; can it take all the civilians as booty; can it make them slaves and concubines?
- - I asked a hodja and he said yes, all the civilians can be taken as captives, but if the caliph wants, he can issue a warrant of security. Accordingly, can women who do not actually participate in the war, who are at home and at work, be taken as captives and treated as booty?
- For example, a thousand civilian women were taken as captives from Sons of Qurayza.

The Answer

Dear Brother / Sister,

The Islamic state does not attack the state of non-Muslim societies without any reason.

It first offers the states that are in the position of harming the religion, the homeland and the Ummah or that pose such a danger to convert to Islam; and if they refuse to do so, it offers them to be subject to the Islamic state by preserving their religion and culture; if they accept it, there will be no war and no captivity. If they refuse to do so, a war is waged to eliminate the danger if the situation is suitable.

If a country is conquered by war (clergymen, women, children, and people who are interested in their work only are not killed during the war unless they participate in it), the land becomes the property of the Islamic state and the people become its captives.

How the captives are to be treated and their status are determined by the rulers of the state.

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