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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

Our Prophet's (pbuh) Relations with the
People of the Book

• There are accounts of our Prophet (pbuh)
attending wedding feasts of the People of the Book,
visiting them when they were sick and giving them

presents.
• When the Christians of Najran visited him, the Prophet Muham-
mad (pbuh) spread out his robe on the ground for them to sit on
and welcomed them in that fashion.

• One of the wives of our Prophet (pbuh) was Marya bint Sham'ûn
(also known as Maryam al-Qubtiyyah), a Coptic Christian from
Egypt.

• Our mother Safiyya bint Huyayy, one of the wives of the Prophet
(pbuh), was the daughter of the chief of the Jewish tribe Banu
Nadir of Medina, Huyayy ibn Akhtab.

• The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) allowed the
Jews to become a party to the Constitution of
Medina signed with the clans of the Aws and
Khazraj, thus ensuring the survival of the

Jews as a separate religious group among
the Muslims.
• Under the article, "The Jews of
Banu Awf are a community
along with the believers. To

the Jews their religion, and
to the Muslim their religion,"
of the Constitution of Medina,
the foundation of the respect
that Muslims have for the Jews'
traditions and beliefs was laid in

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