Ishaq:472 "Muhammad's Companions are the best in war." Ishaq:473 "Muhammad
and his Companions humiliated every doubter." Ishaq:475 "Allah commanded
that horses should be kept for His enemy in the fight so they might vex
them. We obeyed our Prophet's orders when he called us to war. When he
called for violent efforts we made them. The Prophet's command is obeyed
for
he is truly believed. He will give us victory, glory, and a life of ease.
Those who call Muhammad a liar disbelieve and go astray. They attacked our
religion and would not submit." The last was a full service sonnet. It
contained an incentive to amass weapons and incentive to use them, a
command
to annoy the enemy and a command to fight them. It encouraged and
acknowledged violence. It even admitted that violence was perpetrated for
money-to gain a life of ease.
Ishaq:479 "Slain in Allah's religion, Sa'd inherits Paradise with the
martyrs. His was a noble testimony. When he pronounced his verdict on the
Qurayza, he did not judge on his own volition. His judgment and Allah's
were
one. Sa'd is among those who sold his life for the Garden of Bliss."
Considering the verdict called for genocide, larceny, and enslavement,
Allah's complicity in these crimes is bothersome.
This, too, is hideous: Ishaq:481 "The Apostle slew them in their own town.
With our troops he surrounded their homes. We shouted out cries in the
heat
of battle. The Jews were given the Scripture and wasted it. Being blind,
[the illiterate man said] they strayed from the Torah. You Jews
disbelieved
the Qur'an and yet you have tasted the confirmation of what it said. May
Allah make our raid on them immortal.
May fire burn in their quarter. They will no longer ruin our lands. You
[Jews] have no place here, so be off!"
I saved the worst for last. Ishaq:480 "The Qurayza met their misfortune
[now
there's an understated word]. In humiliation they found no helper. A
calamity worse than that which fell upon the Nadir befell them. On that
day
Allah's Apostle came to them like a brilliant moon. We left them with
blood
upon them like a pool. They lay prostrate with the vultures circling
round."
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