SubhanAllah i didn't know this!!

I was listening to a talk by Bilal Assad, called 'Forgive me when i whine.' Masha'Allah very beneficial and of course he recites which is always pleasant to hear masha'Allah.
Anyway he revealed two matters that i never knew but found it to be astounding information.

The first was about Right hand possessed Ya'ni slaves. He was sayin in which religion do you find this concept. However, it is one thing many muslims get confused about and some may even begin to question the nature of Islam due to such an 'apparent' degrading subject. But subhanAllah Allah works as we know only with Hikmah. Slavery existed well before the time of the prophet(salallahu alayhi wa sallam) and Islam came to abolish oppression. Before Islam was established slaves were treated in an inhumane manner, they had no rights. But Islam gave the slave rights. And slavery was monitored through Islam so that they didn't have to face injustice at the hands of their masters. Allah, subhana wa ta'ala could have very well got rid of slavery all together, but then the problems would have arised such as where are they supposed to go? Who was going to take care of those who had no family? who was to look after those with disabilities or learning difficulties? Who was supposed to take in the young female women who had been sold as prostitutes? So it was allowed to keep them as slaves but they had to be treated in a just and kind manner. Hence the term right hand possessed, because the right is a symbol of all that is goood and it is the right hand that is the carrier of blessed acts.
Anyway i was well impressed with this as i use to think why is it called right hand possessed. Also i remember a sister once asked why were men allowed to have relations with slave women during time of prophet(salallahu alayhi wa sallam). I had no answer, i did not know. But i remained on the principle that theres some matters we don't know the hukm behind it but we accept it as part of our faith. Alhamdulillah.

The second thing was the creation of the fly. Now we think annoying buzzing creature which only hangs around in dirty rotten places. But there is a hadith (sorry i don't have the ref) where we are told that if a fly has polluted our drink then we are to dip the fly 3 times into the food bowl/cup and discard of it then continue drinking/eating that food. Put your hands on your heart do we do that? Or maybe some of us do as we act straight from the hadith but if we didn't know or couldn't quite comprehend how that could be even hygiencally possible, check this out!!
The fly for all the bacteria it carries, it also carries the anti-bodies to it aswell. So one wing is full of bacteria and the other wing has the cure for it!! Which is why we dip it back into our food to purify the substance again. SubhanAllahi wa bi hamdihi!

Isn't our Deen great! Allahu Akbar!