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How Prophet Muhammad Dealt with Jews, Christians?


Sat 25 Dec 2021 | 01:17 PM
Nawal Sayed

While I'm searching the internet for an interesting article to read or an analysis to examine, I found a piece of cake entitled "How Was Prophet Muhammad's Morality with Jews and Christians?"

This piece of opinion is written in Arabic and was written by a columnist named Zeinab al-Maraghy.

"Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, with this noble name millions of lips uttered, and millions of hearts vibrated every day several times, and these lips and vibrated for him the hearts since 1400 years," she said.

In my today's article, I'm gonna let you read some of her words that deserve to be translated into English.

Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib, prophet and messenger, called for the spread of Islam among mankind and migrated from Mecca to Medina to complete his mission in calling for the Islamic religion.

The Prophet’s treatment of Jews and Christians

Our master Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, was aware that the survival of Jews and Christians, so it is necessary to coexist with them and search for the best means and ways to deal and interact with them.

If we take into account that these Jews lived with the Messenger of God, saw the verses, listened to irrefutable arguments and shining proofs, then they did not believe, but rather they attacked him, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, with various kinds of moral and material attacks.

Despite all this Jewish intransigence, the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, stood up when a coffin of a Jew was being carried to its last abode, an unknown man, so that it would not be said that he - that is, the Jew - did a favor because the companions appointed him by his capacity and not by his name, then the Messenger of God justified his standing by saying: “Is it not a soul,” and he did not mention a specific virtue of it.

This respect was not for a fleeting moment.

Rather, the Messenger of God stood for a long time until those carrying the coffin of the Jew disappeared.

The Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, maintained the principle of peaceful coexistence, and the Messenger did not change this approach to the end of his life.