It is noteworthy that certain names like Ghulam (slave in Farsi) or Abida (female slave in Arabic) have been used by prominent cultural figures in South Asia as part of spiritual practice when one becomes even unaware of their station in their devotion to their idea of God, this identification eventually should help them as well as others transcend categories of slave and Non-slave. Thus spiritual Islam can ideally overcome the otherwise problematic dichotomy of human slaves and human non slaves.
