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16 "O Prophet sa of Allah, after all they were only children of the idolaters". The Prophet sa said: "The Children of idolaters are also humans like you, and have the inherent capacities to become the best of men. As a matter of fact every child is born a Muslim, it is after his birth that his parents make him a Jew, a Christian or something else. Beware! do not kill children. Beware! do not kill children. " 19 Justice by Muslims: ‘ Abdull a h bin Raw ah ah ra was appointed collector of Khaiber by the Holy Prophet sa. The Jews of Khaiber entered into an agreement with the state to pay half the annual yield of land as tax. When the harvest would be ready he would offer the Jews the option to divide it into two equal shares and give him the first choice, or let him divide the harvest into two shares if they wanted the first choice. At this just offer the Jews were touched and exclaimed. "God is our witness, that it is justice of this kind on which the equilibrium of the earth and the heavens rests". 20 Once a Muslim and a Jew had a quarrel and came to ‘ Umar ra , the second Khalifah, for adjudication.