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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sirajstc" data-source="post: 11951930" data-attributes="member: 91140">"A Mass Murderer"Accusation No.4   "A Mass Murderer"     One  reason why Ali Sina calls the Holy Prophet (S) a "mass murderer" is  because of the Banu Quraiza incident. Here are some hadiths which will  perhaps shed some more light on this topic:   Sahih Muslim   Book 19, Number 4368:  It has  been narrated on the authority of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri who said: The  people of Quraiza surrendered accepting the decision of Sa'd b. Mu'adh  about them. Accordingly, the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him)  sent for Sa'd who came to him riding a donkey. When he approached the  mosque, the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said to the  Ansar: Stand up to receive your chieftain. Then he said (to Sa'd): These  people have surrendered accepting your decision. He (Sa'd) said: You will kill their fighters  and capture their women and children. (Hearing this), the Prophet (may  peace he upon him) said: You have adjudged by the command of God. The  narrator is reported to have said: Perhaps he said: You have adjudged by  the decision of a king.Ibn Muthanna (in his version of the tradition) has not mentioned the alternative words.  Sahih Al-Bukhari Volume 5, Book 58, Number 148:  Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:  Some  people (i.e. the Jews of Bani bin Quraiza) agreed to accept the verdict  of Sad bin Muadh so the Prophet sent for him (i.e. Sad bin Muadh). He  came riding a donkey, and when he approached the Mosque, the Prophet  said, "Get up for the best amongst you." or said, "Get up for your  chief." Then the Prophet said, "O Sad! These people have agreed to  accept your verdict." Sad said, "I judge that their warriors  should be killed and their children and women should be taken as  captives." The Prophet said, "You have given a judgment similar to  Allah's Judgment (or the King's judgment)." Volume 8, Book 74, Number 278:  Narrated Abu Said:  The  people of (the tribe of) Quraiza agreed upon to accept the verdict of  Sa'd. The Prophet sent for him (Sa'd) and he came. The Prophet said (to  those people), "Get up for your chief or the best among you!" Sa'd sat  beside the Prophet and the Prophet said (to him), "These people have  agreed to accept your verdict." Sa'd said, "So I give my judgment that  their warriors  should be killed and their women and children should be taken as  captives." The Prophet said, "You have judged according to the King's  (Allah's) judgment." (See Hadith No. 447, Vol. 5) Those who reached the age of puberty were eligible to fight, hence considered warriors.  Secondly,  this is double standards on the part of Ali Sina, as in all of the wars  fought by the Muslims, combined, only one thousand and eighteen persons  lost their lives on both sides. Out of that, only two hundred and fifty  nine were Muslims. It is interesting to note that Ali Sina is quick to  comment on this, and he is quick to say that the Holy Prophet (S) was a  "mass murderer", even though the amount of people killed are not even  close to what Charles the Great did to the Pagan Saxons. Also, the  "famous answer by which the Papal Legate, in the Algerian War, quieted  the scruples of a too conscientious general, ?Kill all, God will know  His own'. And how can we forget the Two World Wars, where in WWI alone,  ten million soldiers were killed, and an equal number of civilians. In  WWII, twenty two million people were killed. No person can compare these  numbers to the amount of people killed in the wars fought by the Holy  Prophet (S), since they do not even come close to that number! Dr. Jamal Badawi <a href="http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2005/04/Article01.shtml" target="_blank">writes</a>:  Referring  to this incident, many say the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon  him) massacred the tribe of Banu Quraizhah, but this is a distortion of  the historical facts. In fact, it was not a sentence by the Prophet  (peace and blessings be upon him). The people of Banu Quraizhah chose  their own arbitrator and former ally (Sa`d), who determined their  punishment according to the law of the Torah, which specifies killing  for treason. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) simply agreed  with his sentence, but it was not the sentence of the Prophet (peace  and blessings be upon him) in the first place. A scholarly article by W.  N. Arafat questions the exaggerated estimate of the number of fighting  men who were punished, which is found even in some biographies about the  Prophet's life, like that of Ibn Ishaq. His argument is compelling and  well researched. Lastly, it is to be noted that the Holy Prophet (S), gave the Jews the penalty as per what their Holy Book said:  1  When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and  an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the LORD  your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you. 2 When you are about to go into battle, the priest shall come forward and address the army. 3  He shall say: "Hear, O Israel, today you are going into battle against  your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not be terrified or  give way to panic before them. 4 For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory."   5  The officers shall say to the army: "Has anyone built a new house and  not dedicated it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone  else may dedicate it. 6 Has anyone planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else enjoy it. 7  Has anyone become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him go  home, or he may die in battle and someone else marry her." 8  Then the officers shall add, "Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let  him go home so that his brothers will not become disheartened too." 9 When the officers have finished speaking to the army, they shall appoint commanders over it.   10 When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. 11 If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. 12 If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. 13 When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. 14 As  for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the  city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the  plunder the LORD your God gives you from your enemies. 15 This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.   16  However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you  as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. 17 Completely destroy [<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deut%2020&version=31#fen-NIV-5445a" target="_blank">a</a>] them?the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites?as the LORD your God has commanded you. 18  Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they  do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the LORD your  God.   19  When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to  capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because  you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees of the  field people, that you should besiege them? [<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deut%2020&version=31#fen-NIV-5447b" target="_blank">b</a>] 20  However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and  use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls. (Deut Chapter 20) It is  interesting to note that even the leader who caused the problems that  started the siege did not have a problem with the penalty.  And lastly,  note how it says above from verses 16 to 18 that the cities which God  gave the Israelites inheritance, you must put to death everyone in that  city, leaving noone alive. From the above, we can conclude that the  punishment given to the Banu Quraiza was a lenient punishment, meaning  according to the Jewish Law, everyone in Banu Quraiza was to be  executed, however only the warriors were executed. Agreeing with this  view, Sheikh Abdullah Yusuf Ali writes: "The Banu  Quraiza (see last note) were filled with terror an dismay when Medina  was free from the Quraish danger. They shut themselves up in the their  castles about three or four miles to the east (or north east) of Medina,  and sustained a siege of 25 days, after which they surrendered,  stipulating that they would abide by the decision of their fate at the  hands of Sa'd ibn Mu'az, chief of the Aus tribe, with which they had  been in alliance. Sa'd applied to them the Jewish Law of the Old Testament, not as strictly as the case warranted.  In Deut. Xx. 10-18, the treatment of the city "which is very far off  from thee" is prescribed to be comparatively more lenient than the  treatment of a city "of those people, which the Lord thy God gives thee  for an inheritance," i.e., which is near enough to corrupt the religion  of the Jewish people. The punishment for these is total annihilation:  "thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth" (Deut. xx.16). The  more lenient treatment for far-off cities is described in the next note.  According to the Jewish standard, then, the Quraiza deserved total  extermination- of men, women, and children. They were in the territory  of Medina itself, and further they had broken their engagements and  helped the enemy. Sa'd judged them the milder treatment  of the "far-off" cities which is thus described in the Jewish Law: "  Thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: but the  women and the little ones, and the cattle, and al that is in the city,  even al the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt  eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord they God hath given thee"  (Deut.xx.13-14). The men of the Quraiza were slain: the women were sold  as captives of war: and their lands and properties were divided among  the Muhajirs." (Source: The Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Footnotes # 3702-3704) Now, we end by asking the following questions: 1)      If  the Holy Prophet (S) was a mass murderer, then why didn't he kill all  of his enemies when he entered Makkah? In Makkah, he had enemies who did  a lot worse to him, yet they were not killed 2)      If the Holy Prophet (S) was really bent on destroying Banu Quraiza, then why didn't he also just kill the women and children?  3)      The Chiefs of Banu Quraiza had no problem with the penalty given to them, as it was according to their Jewish law! 4)      If  the Holy Prophet (S) wanted revenge, then why didn't he kill Abu  Sufyan? Remember, this is the same Abu Sufyan who fought against the  Muslims numerous times, yet the Holy Prophet (S) forgave him, and Abu  Sufyan became a Muslim. 5)      If  the Holy Prophet (S) had extreme hatred for Jews, and Banu Quraiza,  then why did he previously ask for the Quraiza to renew their treaty  with the Muslims? Obviously, if he wanted their land he wouldn't have  done that, nor would he have signed any treaty with the Jews, but he would've just waged war on them.   And with that, we end this part of the discussion, and move on to:</blockquote>

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