Holy Prophet of Islam - Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa — Page 110
The Holy Prophet of Islam, Hadrat Muhammad Mustafa sa. The Covenant of Medina. The covenant of Medina concluded between the Muhajirin and. Ansar on one side and the Jews on the other, was dictated by the Holy. Prophet Muhammad". The following is the text of the document: "In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful. This is a covenant given by Muhammad to the believers and the Muslims of. Quraish, Yathrib, and those who followed them, joined them, and fought with them. They constitute one Ummah to the exclusion of all other men. . As was their custom, the Muhajirin from the Quraish are bound together and shall ransom their prisoners in kindness and justice as believers do. . Following their own custom, Banu ‘Auf are bound together as they have been before. Every clan of them shall ransom its prisoners with the kindness and justice common among believers. [The text here repeats the same injunction concerning every clan of the Ansar and every house including Banū al-Ḥarith, Banū Sai'dah, Banū Jusham, Banū al-Najjar,. Banu ‘Amr bin ‘Auf and Banu al-Nabit. ] The believers shall leave none of their members in destitution without giving him in kindness what he needs by way of ransom or bloodwit. No believer shall take as an ally a freedman of another Muslim without the permission of his previous master. All pious believers shall rise as one man against whosoever rebels or seeks to commit injustice, aggression, sin, or spread mutual enmity between the believers, even though he may be one of their sons. No believer shall slay a believer in retaliation for an disbeliever; neither shall he assist an disbeliever against a believer. Just as God's bond is one and indivisible, all believers shall stand behind the commitment of the least of them. All believers are bonded one to another to the exclusion of other men. Any. Jew who follows us is entitled to our assistance and the same rights as any one of us, without injustice or partisanship. This Pax Islamica is one and indivisible. No believer shall enter into a separate peace without all other believers whenever there is fighting in the cause of God, but will do so only on the basis of equality and justice to all others. In every military expedition we undertake our members shall be accompanied by others committed to the same objective. All believers shall avenge the blood of one another whenever any one of them falls fighting in the cause of God. 110