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treaty to Hazrat Umar, the caliph of the time, and
requested a solution. This is a known fact appearing in
history books.

• The text of a covenant of our Prophet (pbuh) with
the Christian Ibn Harith ibn Ka'b and his people con-
tains the passages; "To Sayyid Ibn Harith ibn Ka'b,
his co-religionists, and all those who profess the

Christian religion, be they in East or West, in close
regions or faraway regions, be they Arabs or foreign-
ers, known or unknown. … I commit myself to support
them, to place their persons under my protection, as
well as their churches, chapels, oratories, the monas-
teries of their monks, the residences of their
anchorites, wherever they are found, be they in the

mountains or the valleys, caves or inhabited regions,
in the plains or in the desert. I will protect their reli-
gion and their Church wherever they are found, be it on
earth or at sea, in the West or in the East, with utmost
vigilance on my part, the People of my House, and the
Muslims as a whole. … No Christian will be made
Muslim by force: And dispute ye not with the People of
the Book, except with means better (29:46). They must
be covered by the wing of mercy. Repel every harm

that could reach them wherever they may find them-
selves and in any country in which they are."

• The charters given by our Prophet (pbuh) to the Peo-
ple of the Book from Adruh, Makna, Khaybar, Najran
and Aqaba' also show that the lives and property of
the People of the Book were under the protection of