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List the Un-Islamic practices in the Jahiliyya period.

List the Un-Islamic practices in the Jahiliyya period.

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Kavungya
i. Drinking alcohol, gambling and sexual promiscuity were common practices and social evils.
ii. Women were degraded and looked down upon. They were regarded as tools of sex and were inherited after the death of their husbands.
iii. People were either masters or slaves. The masters were highly privileged and ruled with high handedness, whereas the slaves or the subordinates were looked down upon and their rights deprived.
iv. People practiced worship of idols; there were 360 idols in the Al-Kaaba.
v. There was disunity among tribes and clans that led to tribal wars and raids.
vi. The girl child was buried alive for fear of poverty and shame.
vii. There was caste system/discrimination on status of an individual/classification of people according to status.
viii. The weak and marginalized had no rights/disregard of human rights.
Kavungya answered the question on June 21, 2019 at 07:14

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