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kindness, and compassion. Always protect them under your wings
of mercy and compassion. Wherever they are, do not maltreat
Christian women married to Muslim men. Do not prevent them
from going to their church and doing the worships prescribed by
their religion. Whoever disobeys or acts contrary to this
commandment of Allâhu ta’âlâ will have revolted against the
commands of Janâb-i-Haqq and His Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi
wa sallam’. They shall be helped to repair their churches. This
agreement shall be valid and shall remain unchanged till the end of
the world and no one shall be allowed to act contrary to it.”
This agreement was written down by Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ in
the Masjîd-i-sa’âdat in Medina on the third day of the month of
Muharram in the second year of the Hijra. The signatures
appended are:
Muhammad bin Abdullah Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa
sallam’.
Abû Bakr bin Ebî-Kuhâfa
’Umar bin Hattâb
’Uthmân bin Affân
Alî bin Ebî Tâlib
Abû Hurayra
Abdullah bin Mes’ûd
Abbâs bin ’Abd-al-muttalib
Fadl bin Abbâs
Zubayr bin Awwâm
Talha bin Ubaydullah
Sa’d bin Mu’âz
Sa’d bin Ubâda
Thâbit bin Qays
Zayd bin Thâbit
Hâris bin Thâbit
Abdullah bin ’Umar
Ammar bin Yâsir
‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhum ajma’în’.
[As is seen, our exalted Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’
commands that people of other religions should be treated with
utmost mercy and kindness and Christians’ churches should not be
harmed or demolished.]
Now we are writing the immunity granted by ’Umar ‘radiy-
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