An Outline of Early Islamic History — Page 72
72 you with the duty of taking good care of them. Woman is weak and cannot protect her own rights. God has appointed you the trustee of those rights. O men, you still have with you some prisoners of war. I advise you to feed them and clothe them in the same way and style as you feed and clothe yourselves. O men, what I say to you, you should hear and remember. All Muslims are as brethren to one another. All of you are equal. All men of whatever nation or tribe, and whatever position are equal. ” Then lifting two hands, the Prophet joined the fingers of one to the fingers of the other and said, “Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another. You are brothers. ” Then he asked, “Do you know what month is this? What city we are in? What day of the year it is today?” It was the sacred day, the Prophet announced: “Even as this month is sacred, this land sacred and this day sacred, so has God made the lives, property and honour of every man sacred. ”