Muhammad: Seal of the Prophets — Page 342
MUHAMMAD : SEAL OF THE PROPHETS 342 following: ‘And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe’ (Exodus, 21:23 - 5); and: ‘If a man cause a blemish to his neighb our; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him; breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: As he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again’ (Leviticus, 24:19 - 20). After this event, however, the Holy Prophet was vouchsafed the revelation: ‘The recompense of an injury is a penalty in proportion thereto; but whoso forgives and effects a reform thereby has his reward with Allah’ (42:41). Thereafter, as Bokhari has mentioned, the Holy Prophet urged benevolence and good treatment ev en of the enemy and utterly forbade mutilation.