Ali Sina - Understanding Muhammad

Who Was Muhammad
He caused those of the People of the Book who helped them (i.e. the Quraish) to
come out of their forts. Some you killed, some you took prisoner. (Q. 33: 26)
Taqiyyah: the Holy Deception
Above, we saw how Muhammad authorized his followers to lie, even
to badmouth him, to win the trust of their victims in order to assassinate
them. There are many other stories about Muslims feigning friendship
with the non-believers, only to kill them once they are trusted.
At Hudaibiyyah, Muhammad signed a treaty with the Meccans,
promising to return any of their youths and slaves that escaped and joined
him. Ibn Ishaq narrates the story of Abu Basir, a Meccan, who went to
Muhammad after this treaty was signed. The Meccans sent two men with a
letter reminding him of his pact. Muhammad felt obliged and told Abu
Basir: “Go, for Allâh will bring relief and a way of escape for you and the
helpless ones with you.” Abu Basir got the hint. He returned with the
emissaries. They had gone about six miles from Medina when the men
stopped to rest. Abu Basir said, “Is your sword sharp, O brother” When
he said that it was, he said that he would like to look at it. “Look at it if
you want to,” he replied. Abu Basir unsheathed it and dealt him a blow
that killed him. Then he came to Muhammad and said: “Your obligation is
over and Allâh has removed it from you. You duly handed me over to the
men, and I have protected myself in my religion lest I should be seduced
therein.” Muhammad did not punish this assassin but instructed him to go
to al-Is, a region by the shore, on the road which Quraish were accustomed
to take to Syria and rob the Caravans of the Quraish. Muhammad had
signed a treaty not to waylay the caravans of the Quraish, so he found a
way to go around it. Ibn Ishaq says: “The Muslims who were confined in
Mecca heard what the apostle had said of Abu Basir, so they went out to
join him in al-Is. About seventy men attached themselves to him, and they
so harried Quraish, killing everyone they could get hold of, and cutting to
pieces every caravan that passed them, that Quraish wrote to the apostle
begging him by the ties of kinship to take these men in, for they had no use
for them. So the apostle took them in, and they came to him in Medina.” 86
86 This story is reported by Tabari, Vol 3, Page 1126
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