Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 207
7 March 1908 207 of the people of Makkah. And in the end, having become tired of their mischief, he was compelled to leave his beloved home- land. There is the heart-wrenching incident of the tyranny and cruelty of a Muslim woman, a wife, at the hands of the disbe- lievers of Makkah during that period of time that can illustrate the point. I do not wish to indulge in describing and discussing the details of that cruelty. Those who have read it in the books of history know it quite well how heart-wrenching that inci- dent was. In short, whatever the Muslims did, it was by way of defence. The opponents had perpetrated all those things first, Muslims did them in response. They were dealt with in exactly the way they had treated the Muslims earlier. اُؤٰٓزَج ٍةَئِّيَس ٌةَئِّيَس اَهُلْثِّم اُؤٰٓزَج ٍةَئِّيَس ٌةَئِّيَس اَهُلْثِّم 1. The fact of the matter is that God Almighty has organized the administration of the world under two governments. One is physical and the other is spiritual. Our Holy Prophet s as was bestowed both these governments. Thus, it was necessary to punish the miscreants, rogues, plunderers, highway robbers, etc. for their crimes in order to establish peace in the land. The citizens of Madinah had also accepted him as their worldly ruler at that time. They brought most of their disputes to him for adjudication. One such dispute was between a Jew and a Muslim and he decided in favour of the Jew. We find that on some occasions, he pardoned the disbelievers for their crimes. He, also, prohibited some of the evil customs unilaterally even during confrontation with the disbelievers. For instance, the disbelievers of Makkah used to dishonour the corpses of Muslims by cutting off their noses and ears. Yet, the Holy Prophet s as prohibited Muslims from this evil practice. 1. The recompense of an injury is an injury the like thereof ( S u rah ash-Sh u r a, 42:41). [Publisher]