Page 57 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

ments with polytheistic communities and people living in the region,
and always invited them to be united in order to build peace, despite
the extreme attitudes of the polytheists.

Our Prophet (pbuh) came to Medina, and his strengthening of

love and brotherhood proved that people could live in peace with
peoples of different beliefs, faiths and languages. One of the greatest
proofs that he was a messenger of peace and love is that the first text
he had written was a peace agreement. After capturing Mecca, the
Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) even released all the polytheists who
had previously tortured Muslims and treated them with great com-

passion. This superior moral virtue exhibited by the Prophet
Muhammad (pbuh) was something that had never been seen before
in Arab society, and was met with great approval.

The Prophet (pbuh) is a role model for all Muslims on the sub-
ject of the implementation of justice in conquered territories. Our
Prophet (pbuh) applied the justice revealed in the Qur'an to the
inhabitants of countries that were taken over and made agreements

with them that would content both sides and under which nobody
would suffer the slightest victimization. For that reason, the peoples
of conquered countries, no matter what their religion or ethnicity,
were always delighted by the justice brought with it by Islam. Our
Prophet (pbuh) and the Companions with him represented a com-

munity that established justice between people, as expressed in the
verse, "Among those We have created there is a community who
guide by the Truth and act justly according to it." (Qur'an, 7:181)

The agreement that our Prophet (pbuh) made with the Christian
Najran people in the south of the Arabian Peninsula is one of the
finest examples of his understanding and justice.

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