Our Beloved Master - His Early Life — Page 140
•oUR BELoVED MASTER• 140 over their land to us immediately, otherwise we will capture and kill forty of their boys!” When this message reached the people of Ban u Quraizah and Ban u Na di r they were very surprised. For the sake of their children’s lives, they decided that they should leave their homes and give whatever properties they had to Ban u Biy ad ah as demanded. As they were preparing to leave, a person from the tribe, Ka‘b bin Asad, said to them, “Why worry about the children, they can be born once again! Once you leave your land you will never get it back. So let the children be killed, but whatever you do, don’t leave your land. ” The people of the tribe agreed with what he was saying and sent a message to Ban u Biy ad ah saying, “Kill our children if you want, we will not leave our lands!” When the message from the two tribes reached Ban u Biy ad ah, the brutal ‘Amr bin Nu‘m a n captured the innocent children of the two tribes and butchered them in an extremely savage manner. Upon this a great and bloody war began in which thousands of people were killed. Mischievous and immoral conduct was a common practice for these people and it would be on