that contains light and guidance the
recognition is there it could not be
anti-jewish sins thirdly it is
impossible to think of this punishments
as punishment for people because they
rejected him as a prophet he was hoping
they will follow him but they rejected
him why because the prophet and Muslims
are prohibited by the text of the Quran
in many verses 1 is the chapter 2 verse
256 let there be no compulsion in
religion the freedom of conscience and
worship is guaranteed in several places
in the Quran with this background of
what is not let's see what was in terms
of proper approach to enforcement of the
law number one the Prophet never
stereotyped and lump all the Jews
together when it comes to punishment
they were together in terms of their
rights their unity and religion that's
fine but they were never together when
punishment was inflicted only the
offending tribe was punished not the
others that's significant because if
your auntie group of people you tend to
lump them like the kind of treatment
Muslim are being subjected to especially
in North America you lump everybody
together no only the tribe that
committed the offense secondly the
punishment for the offense was always
always proportionate to the offense that
was committed for example without
getting into great details in the case
of vanuatu no car it was a measure
offense but in the case of Bannon
Nadir's the next incident the offense
was much greater including conspiracy to
kill the Prophet and in the case of
banakar either it was what we call today
in modern legal language high treason at
the time of war
we said earlier and that's what we'd
like to focus a little bit more on
because they were of course fatalities
in this kind of punishment we mentioned
earlier that one of the clauses of the
constitution of Medina is that both Jews
and Muslim defend Medina against
invaders or attackers that none should
cooperate with the enemy against their
fellow Medina its people living in
Medina and its surrounding and then we
know historically and you read the most
authentic reference on that the Sierra a
fitness hack that the herbs when they
lost hope of really trying to destroy
the Prophet they try to gather a huge
army a coalition of various tribes not
limited anymore to the Macan people a
huge army 10,000 strong they surrounded
medina with the view of trying to wipe
out the muslims now muslims and jews
were live living side by side and medina
yet information were related to the
prophet muhammad peace be upon him that
they have been contacts between the
invading army and the chief and of the
tribe of van aquaracer and an order to
get rid of muhammad as a problem for
them and for them also for for the pagan
Arabs as well as for the Jews in furness
ibanez heart says that in the beginning
when that offer was made or
encouragement to the chief of the tribe
of binoculars ax he hesitated and look
at his words and acknowledgement this is
murali mean I'm in Mohammedan Allah
wafaa when another fellow jew who was
also ahead of another tribe tried to say
that's your chance Muhammad and Muslim
do not chance do not stand any chance
they would be finished so a better join
in the beginning he said no we have
never seen from Muhammad except
faithfulness meaning respect of his
agreement so he did hesitate
but apparently he was tempted and he you
know in this tribes when they make a
decision it's not the decision of the
chief they were quite democratic it's at
least people of fighting age the adults
would meet and discuss a very important
issue like that and it appears that the
consensus finally that yes Mohammed
never betrayed his treaty but he doesn't
stand a chance say let's join hands the
Prophet wanted to make sure not to jump
to conclusion so he sent an emissary to
talk to the leaders of that tribe to see
whether this information is correct or
not not just to jump the gun on the
basis of claims of imminent dangers as
you give to Dahlia in recent times he
wanted to make absolutely sure and he
goes and talks that emissary and I tell
him is it true after the treaty that we
have and he said what treaty what treaty
they come back and relay the information
that it is true it is coming through the
horse's mouth the treaty is no longer
respected or acknowledged by that tribe
but then they say it was the prophet who
ordered the execution of the fighting
men in fact this is a great
falsification of history and in fact if
the Prophet even did that it would have
been perfectly his authority he's been
accepted by oath part all parties as the
head of the state and here you have a
case of high treason at the time of war
when everybody was in danger Muslims in
particular and you get a stab in the
back from within what would any state do
any head of a state do in a case like it
would have been his authority even if he
ordered the capital punishment for those
responsible for that betrayal but in
fact he didn't even use that authority I
was when he was besieged by the head of
hypocrites Edna saloon he suggested that
the that tribe the offending tribe
chooses its own arbitrators
its own arbitrator and whatever decision
he comes up with it is binding what I
happen like brothers jamshed said that I
teach not only islamic studies at each
also management more particularly
industrial relations and i know like
many of you also in the legal profession
that when you talk about arbitration as
opposed to conciliation or mediation
arbitration means that you choose
someone who is mutually accepted by both
parties yet the Prophet was so generous
and so lenient that he says you choose
your own arbitrator and they did and you
know how they chose they chose a man by
the name of sardegna Mahad and why they
chose him because he was there a lie
before Islam came to Medina he was very
close to them and he was familiar with
their Torah and their system even though
he was not a Jew himself they they chose
him and South abnormal stands there and
addresses both the prophet and Muslims
as well as the Jews the this particular
tribe an authorizer and it's basically
trying to get approval from them that if
I come up with a decision would
everybody abide by and by the way he
need not ask that question again anyone
in industrial relation or low you know
that arbitration is final and binding
there could be no challenge for the
arbitrator's decision even in modern
legal systems unless there is a proof of
bribery or violation of basic rules of
common law like refusing to hear
evidence and so on but otherwise you
don't say the arbitrator granted us five
percent increase in pay but we don't
agree so we're not going to implement it
know once you agree to arbitration you
know that the decision is final and
binding this is very clear and
acceptable principle and sal diploma
understand their i says to the tribe of
binocular i'm going to rule on you in
accordance of your own torah in
accordance with your own torah which
provide of course for capital punishment
is for fighting men women and children
were spared yet they keep saying the
prophet massacred it is true that the
Prophet agreed with his
judgment but they didn't have a choice
to agree to as an arbitration decision
that everybody agreed to accept so I
hope that this clarify some of those
distortion that sometimes we hear in the
media or some other writings a second
encounter with Christians here again we
find the positive and negative even the
case of Jews they have been the positive
and negative word good relationship at
one point until they started breaking
the agreement so every situation was
dealt with accordingly with Christians
also there was the positive and negative
example of the positive when the
Christians of nadir on the region of
Magellan which is now in Yemen sent
their emissaries to find out what about
Islam and talk to the Prophet peace be
upon him he was so courteous with them
he received them cheerfully and you know
where he took them he hosted them in his
own mosque in his own mosque and he let
them speak freely about their beliefs he
answered their question and so on some
narrators say that at one point in this
discussion the Christian group said can
we be excused to go out since why is
that said we want to do our prayers he
said you're welcome to do it here
imagine the hospitality that he showed
to the