The Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ar­ies have been mak­ing a lot of noise about the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the Banu Qurayzah. It is a won­der that even after count­less of expla­na­tions on the mat­ter, they still want to play on this old, tired polemic. Regard­less, it is about time that an answer is giv­en to check­mate the non­sense sur­round­ing the issue once and for all. Here, we shall attempt to address the myths about the Banu Qurayzah and estab­lish the real facts, as follows.

MYTH :

The Banu Qurayza were inno­cent vic­tims who per­ished under the sword of Muhammad(P)

FACT :

Not true at all. On the con­trary, the Banu Qurayzah pri­or to the inci­dent of their so-called mas­sacre” attempt­ed to betray the Mus­lims by open­ly align­ing them­selves with the Con­fed­er­ate armies (con­sist­ing of the pagan Quraysh and their allies) dur­ing the beseig­ing of the city of Mad­i­nah, known in his­to­ry as the War of the Con­fed­er­ates” (al-Harb al-Adzhaab). This is a sig­nif­i­cant act of trea­son, because they had ear­li­er pledged to uphold the Mad­i­nan Covenent with the Mus­lims, which stip­u­lates coöper­a­tion and an alliance if the Mus­lims in Mad­i­nah were attacked by a for­eign force.

MYTH :

The Prophet(P) ordered this pun­ish­ment of the Banu Qurayza.

FACT :

Wrong. It was a Com­pan­ion of the Prophet(P) by the name Saad ibn Muaz(R), an Ansar and the ally of the Banu Quraizah, who did that after the Banu Qurayzah lead­ers met with him and agreed to sub­mit to what­ev­er his judge­ment would be for their crimes against the Muslims.

MYTH :

The mas­sacre” was ordered on Muham­mad’s says-so. This is because Muham­mad feared the Jews and recog­nised that they were a threat to his polit­i­cal dominance.

FACT :

The claim is of no sub­stance apart from being a blas­phe­mous lie. It is clear that Saad ibn Muaz(R) have admin­is­tered the pun­ish­ment in accor­dance with Jew­ish law as found in the Torah. The law is :

    When the Lord thy God hath deliv­ered it unto thy hands, thou shalt smite every male there­in with the edge of the sword : but the women, and the lit­tle ones and the cat­tle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil there­of, shalt thou take unto thy­self.” (Deuteron­o­my 20:12)

It is there­fore clear that Mus­lims are not to be blamed for admin­is­ter­ing a Law that is found with­in the Jew­ish scrip­ture itself upon the Jews who had ear­li­er agreed to sub­mit to Saad ibn Muaz’s judgement.

MYTH :

The Prophet (P) allowed this Law to be passed because he was inhu­man and unmerciful.

FACT :

The rea­son why the Prophet (P) allowed judge­ment accord­ing to Jew­ish law was because the Banu Qurayzah were Jews, and in their ini­tial agree­ment with the Prophet(P), they were allowed their own sys­tem of law accord­ing to the Torah. The Prophet(P) nei­ther influ­enced the deci­sion nor was he involved in any stage of the deci­sion-mak­ing, as the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Banu Qurayzah did not seek his judgement.

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    shery

    But Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ary for­got­ten Adorf Hitler Holocaust ?