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==The Prophet (s)'s speech== | ==The Prophet (s)'s speech== | ||
When the army was departing, people bid farewell to them and prayed for them. In a sermon, [[the Prophet (s)]] said: "I recommend to you the abstinence (or [[taqwa]]) and beneficence to Muslims who are besides you … Depart in the name of God and on the path of God, and fight with whoever denies God; do not break treaties and promises, and do not kill children. When you encounter the enemy, call them to one of the following, and if they comply with these, then stop fighting them". | When the army was departing, people bid farewell to them and prayed for them. In a sermon, [[the Prophet (s)]] said: "I recommend to you the abstinence (or [[taqwa]]) and beneficence to Muslims who are besides you … Depart in the name of [[God]] and on the path of God, and fight with whoever denies God; do not break treaties and promises, and do not kill children. When you encounter the enemy, call them to one of the following, and if they comply with these, then stop fighting them". | ||
* Call them to Islam; if they comply, then let them go. Then call them to immigrate to Dar al-Muhajirin (the house of immigrants, that is, [[Medina]] and its suburbs); if they comply, then they will share the benefits and harms of [[Muhajirun]], and if they believed in [[Islam]] and stayed in their own homelands, then tell them that they are like Muslim Arabs, and the divine laws apply to them; and they do not share the booties of wars unless they fight alongside the Muslims. | |||
* If they do not comply with all this, then call them to pay [[jizya]] (that is, taxes on non-Muslims). If they comply, then let them go. | |||
* And if they do not comply even with this, then ask for God's help and fight them. And if you besiege people of a fort or a city and they ask you to deal with them in accordance with the divine command, then reject their request and just give them temporary security (aman) in accordance with your own judgment, since you do not know if you can grasp the divine command about them. | |||
* And if you besieged people of a fort or a city and they ask you to put them under the protection (dhimmi) of God and [[the Prophet (s)]], then reject their request; instead, put them under your own and your father's and your companions' protection, since if they violate the protection treaty of you and your fathers, that would be better than violating that of God and his messenger. | |||
Then the Prophet (s) accompanied the Army of Islam to [[Thaniyya al-Wada']]; he then stayed there and the army stood around him. The Prophet (s) told them: "Depart in the name of God and fight the enemy of God and your enemy in [[Sham]]. You will see people who worship God in their monasteries; do not encroach upon them, and you will see people whose heads are [[Satan]]'s nests; decapitate their heads with swords … Never kill women, children and the elderly; never set palm groves to fire; never cut trees, and never destroy houses". | Then the Prophet (s) accompanied the Army of Islam to [[Thaniyya al-Wada']]; he then stayed there and the army stood around him. The Prophet (s) told them: "Depart in the name of God and fight the enemy of God and your enemy in [[Sham]]. You will see people who worship God in their monasteries; do not encroach upon them, and you will see people whose heads are [[Satan]]'s nests; decapitate their heads with swords … Never kill women, children and the elderly; never set palm groves to fire; never cut trees, and never destroy houses". | ||