The ruling on purchasing female slaves from outside the lands of the Muslims

The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the ruling on purchasing female slaves if they are found in lands other than ours? What is the ruling on purchasing female slaves?

The Shaykh:
Female slaves. Yes. Yes.

The questioner:
If they are not present in our lands, and we bring them to our land to be a slave.

The Shaykh:
Slavery follows jihad. If legitimate Islamic jihad exists, then slavery exists and female slaves exist. As for what exists now, the majority, or the greater part, or all of it is theft or rape, so it is not valid due to the absence of the cause, which is jihad in the path of Allah. Yes.