Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 727
Muhammad sa The Perfect Man 727 had been thus received, declared themselves adherent of Islam; and to such the Prophet granted liberty without ransom. " 6 Similarly a Christian nun, Karen Armstrong writes in her book, 'Mu h ammad'. "Some of the prisoners were so impressed by life in the Ummah that they converted to Islam. Perhaps the most dramatic of these conversions was that of ‘Umair bin Wahab (He had tried to persuade the Quraish not to fight at Badr. ) Safw a n bin Umayyah persuaded him to go back to Mad i nah and assassinate Mu h ammad. ‘Umair did go back but Muhammad caught him out and he became a Muslim instead. " 7 The gradual freedom of slaves proved extremely wise and useful. If all the slaves were declared free in one day, as it was done in America, it would have resulted in countless social problems of livelihood and accommodation for these down trodden slaves. Instead of kindness it would have been an act of cruelty to slave women and children and would have driven them into homelessness and helplessness. They would be without food. Nevertheless when it was feasible to release a large number of slaves, the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa did so. In the Battle of H unain, six thousand members of Ban u Haw a zin were taken prisoners. When their relatives came to H u du r sa for their release, he freed them all as a