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HARUN YAHYA (ADNAN OKTAR)

The lives of the people of Najran and its surrounding area, their
religion, their land, property, cattle and those of them who are
present or absent, their messengers and their places of worship are
under the protection of Allah and guardianship of His Prophet. 7

By means of such contracts, the Messenger of Allah (saas)
secured a social order for Muslims and the People of the Book
alike, which was marked by peace and security. This order
was a total manifestation of the following verse:
Those who believe, those who are Jews, and the Christians
and Sabaeans, all who believe in Allah and the Last Day
and act rightly, will have their reward with their Lord.
They will feel no fear and will know no sorrow. (Surat al-
Baqara, 62)
The examples cited above are only a few of the measures
implemented by the Prophet Muhammad (saas) that show the
way he exercised justice. However, the most important of
these contracts is the Constitution of Medina signed by Jews

and pagan communities. This contract is still the subject of
many articles today, and is closely examined.
The Constitution of Medina was prepared under the
leadership of the Prophet Muhammad (saas) 1,400 years ago,
that is in 622 AD, to meet the needs of people of different
beliefs, and was put into practice as a written legal contract.
Different communities of different religions and races that had
harboured deep-seated enmity towards one another for 120
years became parties to this legal contract. By means of this
contract, the Prophet Muhammad (saas) showed that conflicts
between those societies, which had been enemies and quite
unable to reach any form of compromise, could come to an
end, and they could actually live side by side.