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To the looter goes the spoils
To the looter goes the spoils






to the looter goes the spoils

Asad said to them: 'O Jews, you can see what has happened to you I offer you three alternatives. Asad and when they felt sure that the apostle would not leave them until he had made an end of them Ka'b b. Qurayza into their forts when Quraysh and Ghatafan had withdrawn and left them, to keep his word to Ka'b b. God is Forgiving, Merciful.' The He said: 'O prophet, Say to those captives in your hands, If God knows any good in your hearts He will give you something better than that which has been taken from you and God will pardon you. He said, 'So enjoy what you have captured as lawful and good, and fear God. Then He made it lawful to him and to them as a mercy from Him and a gift from the Compassionate, the Merciful. had it not previously gone forth from Me that I would punish only after a prohibition-and He had not prohibited then-I would have punished you for what you did. prisoners and booty, 'an awful punishment,' i.e. 'Had there not previously been a book from God there would have come upon you for what you took,' i.e. 'But God desires the next world,' i.e.: their killing them to manifest the religion which He wishes to manifest and by which the next world may be attended. 'You desire the lure of this world,' i.e.: its goods, the ransom of the captives. slaughtered his enemies until he drives them from the land. before thee, 'to take prisoners' from his enemies 'until he has made slaughter in the earth,' i.e. God said, 'It is not for any prophet,' i.e. The Prophet added: Then Allah saw our weakness and disability, so he made booty legal for us." So all the persons of your tribe should give me the pledge of allegiance by shaking hands with me.' The hands of two or three men got stuck over the hand of their prophet and he said, "You have committed the theft.' Then they brought a head of gold like the head of a cow and put it there, and the fire came and consumed the booty. Then that prophet said (to the man), 'The theft has been committed by your people.

to the looter goes the spoils

So one man from every tribe should give me a pledge of allegiance by shaking hands with me.' (They did so and) the hand of a man got stuck over the hand of their prophet. He said (to his men), 'Some of you have stolen something from the booty. Then he collected the booty and the fire came to burn it, but it did not burn it. the sun) from setting.' It was stopped till Allah made him victorious. Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, "A prophet amongst the prophets carried out a holy military expedition, so he said to his followers, 'Anyone who has married a woman and wants to consummate the marriage, and has not done so yet, should not accompany me nor should a man who has built a house but has not completed its roof nor a man who has sheep or shecamels and is waiting for the birth of their young ones.' So, the prophet carried out the expedition and when he reached that town at the time or nearly at the time of the 'Asr prayer, he said to the sun, 'O sun! You are under Allah's Order and I am under Allah's Order O Allah! Stop it (i.e. The hadith and sira portray Muhammad as a typical Arab battle commander, very concerned with booty and driven by the need to acquire more of it. The very first independently dated document we have to mention the prophet is the Greek Διδασκαλία Ἰακώβου Didaskalia Iacobou (The Teaching of Jacob), which mentions that the prophet and his Arabs had come to Palestine "armed with a sword." Such warfare in this historical period was always accompanied by looting and plunder on the part of the winning army, and the subject of taking booty comes up again and again in the early Islamic sources, as this was clearly an important, even driving factor for the early Muslim movement. According to the Muslim tradition, the early Muslim community was involved in near constant conflicts with neighboring Arab tribes, local Jews, and the pagans of Mecca.








To the looter goes the spoils