Uhud’s misfortune marred both the credibility and military reputation of the Muslims. Their dignity and power in people’s eyes were impaired.

Many tribes who were fearful of Muslims were delighted to see them defeated. In another confrontation agaisnt the Banu ‘Amir in Ma‘una Well Muslims lost seventy men. There are accusations against other tribes plotting against the Muslims but none of them can be confirmed and as we shall see some of them like the accusation that the Bani Nadhir plotted to kill Muhammad is entirely his fabrication.

After all these defeats and loss of prestige, Muhammad desperately needed a victory to restore his credibility. About three months after the defeat in Uhod, he claimed that he had received informed him that Tulaiha bin Khuwailid, the chief of Bani Asad an ally of the Quriash was preparing to attack Medina. Acting upon this intelligence on April, 625 he dispatched 150 strong under Abu Salma, to meet the alleged threat and eliminate it preemptively. He instructed them to march at night by an unfrequented route, and conceal themselves by day, so as to take the camp of the Bani Asad by surprise. Muhammad was not an honorable warrior. The secret of his success was in having spies everywhere and attacking his victims by surprise. He found it is much easer to kill an unwary and unarmed population than meeting their warriors face to face in the battlefield.

Some historians have claimed that the army of Tulaiha was dispersed. But it is unlikely that the two armies ever met. There are no details of this battle and no casualties have been recorded of either side. It is very uncharacteristic of Muslims to kill their opponents and not brag about it. The real objective of this raid of Gazwah was to capture booty and delight the heart of the Muslims. The expedition found an easy prey. They found a large herd of camels belonging to Bani Asad, attended by only three men. They captured the men and drove the herd to Madinah. One of the prisoners and fifth of the plunder was set aside for Muhammad and the remainder was divided among the soldiers. By now Muhammad had accumulated enough wealth that he was not in need to set free his prisoners for ransom. So he kept them as slaves.

Muhammad was expanding his circle of marauding activity and making more enemies. Tulaiha would later declare himself a Prophet in antagonism to Muhammad and unlike Muhammad who was rejected by his people, all his tribe and many others accepted him as their prophet.

These continuous raids and robberies had rendered Arabia unsafe. Many tribes were fearful for their lives.

Bani Lahyan and a few other neighboring tribes gathered in Urna a place between Meccaand Taif to discuss about the threats that Muhammad and his marauding gang posed on them. They rallied around their chief Sofyan ibn Khalid who avowed to stop Muhammad and restore safety to the country. Muhammad’s omnipresent spies put him abreast of the situation. In his now trademarked style of dealing with his opponents The Prophet of Allah ungallantly decided to assassin Sofyan. He dispatched Abdullah ibn Unais, to accomplish the dastardly act. Abdullah joined the army of Sofyan as a volunteer and told him: 'I am of the Khuza'i tribe. I have heard that you are preparing an army and have made preparations for the killing of Muhammad. I wish to join you.' After gaining his confidence, one night, he entered the tent of Sofyan and cut off his head and, after eluding his pursuers, escaped to Medina..

Upon reaching Medina he met Muhammad in the Mosque and tossed the severed head of Sofyan at his feet. The Prophet welcomed him, and upopn seeing the head of Sofyan was so elated that he presented the assassin with his staff: - This;" said he, "shall be a token between you and me on the day of resurrection. Verily few on that day shall have anything to lean upon." . Waqidi 108; Hishami, 442

The Indian born contemporary Muslim scholar Al-Mubarakpuri wrote: “The Muslim military leader (the assassin) stayed away for eighteen days during which he successfully fulfilled his task, killed the head of the rebels and brought his head back to Medinaon Saturday, seven days before the end of Muharram. The Prophet [pbuh], as a reward, gave him a stick saying "This will function as a sign of recognition for you and me on the Day of Resurrection." On his death bed, ‘Abdullah requested that the log be with him in his shroud.”

Thus was how Muhammad fooled his followers who were ready to commit the most heinous crimes for him and were pleased to get a stick in exchange hoping that upon issuing that stick they will be admitted to paradise.

These cowardly assassinations of the enemies set the example which the Muslims have not been slow to follow.

The murder of Sofyan ibn Khalid disheartened his people and the assembly broke up. But what is amazing that these hideous murders, assassinations, raids, robberies and treacheries did not shock the followers of Muhammad and his reputation was not tarnished. This gives us a glimpse into the moral laxity of the Arabs and makes us understand better the mind of the Islamic terrorists who like their seventh century ancestors equate terrorisms with faith and belief in God. It makes us understand why they are so willing to kill innocent people, behead their victims and call their despicable crimes “battle for God” or Jiahd. But the more disturbing reality is that the average Muslims, even today, are not bothered by these stories of barbarity recorded about their prophet. Al-Mubarakpuri calls Abdullah ibn Unais “Muslim military leader”. It seems that the difference between a terrorist and a “Muslim military leader” is in the eyes of the beholder. In this moral relativistic world of Islam, a terrorist is indeed a hero. Do the average Muslims regard the assassins of Paul Johnson, Nick Berg and Daniel Pearls terrorists or do they think of them as Muslim military leaders? If the latter is the answer, they must be asked what they think of Abdullah ibn Unais and what they think of Muhammad who masterminded and plotted those assassinations.

To understand the present, we have to look into the past. The Islamic world is a different world. It is a world apart. Muhammad is the sole architect of this world. To gain insight into Islam, we have to know Muhammad first.

In the succeeding month, Muhammad dispatched ten spies in the direction of Mecca. Waqidi, 345 Some claim that the two tribes of Bani Udal and Qarah, living in the vicinity of the Quraish, at the instigation of the Bani Lahyan, expressed their wish to embrace Islam, and had requested Muhammad to send a few of his companions to instruct them in religion. But of course as Bukhari has recorded the group was a cabal of spies.

On their way, when they reach a place Ar-Raji‘ the spies were attacked by the Bani Lahyan clan, in retaliation of the assassination of their leader, Sofyan ibn Khalid. All but two of Muhammad’s men were killed. The captives, Khubaib and Zeid, were sold in Meccato the sons of the men whom they had killed and their new owners took their revenge by crucifying them.

Many had gathered to watch the gory circus. "O Lord!” exclaimed Khubaib despairingly, “Count these men one by one, destroy them utterly! Let not one escape," cussed the dying man the spectators of his crucifixion. Upon hearing this curse, the Quraish fell on their face on the ground, in accordance to their superstitious belief, to expel the curse. Then the children of the warriors fallen in Badr, were given spears to stab their victims and thus ended the pathetic tragedy. Waqidi, 348; K. Waqidi, 109; Hishami, 274.

Sahih Bukhari Volume 5, Book 59, Number 325:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle sent out ten spies under the command of 'Asim bin Thabit Al-Ansari, the grand-father of 'Asim bin 'Umar Al-Khattab. When they reached (a place called) Al-Hadah between 'Usfan and Mecca, their presence was made known to a sub-tribe of Hudhail called Banu Lihyan. So they sent about one hundred archers after them. The archers traced the footsteps (of the Muslims) till they found the traces of dates which they had eaten at one of their camping places. The archers said, "These dates are of Yathrib (i.e. Medina)," and went on tracing the Muslims' footsteps. When 'Asim and his companions became aware of them, they took refuge in a (high) place. But the enemy encircled them and said, "Come down and surrender. We give you a solemn promise and covenant that we will not kill anyone of you." 'Asim bin Thabit said, "O people! As for myself, I will never get down to be under the protection of an infidel. O Allah! Inform your Prophet about us." So the archers threw their arrows at them and martyred 'Asim. Three of them came down and surrendered to them, accepting their promise and covenant and they were Khubaib, Zaid bin Ad-Dathina and another man. When the archers got hold of them, they untied the strings of the arrow bows and tied their captives with them. The third man said, "This is the first proof of treachery! By Allah, I will not go with you for I follow the example of these." He meant the martyred companions. The archers dragged him and struggled with him (till they martyred him). Then Khubaib and Zaid bin Ad-Dathina were taken away by them and later on they sold them as slaves in Mecca after the event of the Badr battle.

The sons of Al-Harit bin 'Amr bin Naufal bought Khubaib for he was a person who had killed (their father) Al-Hari bin 'Amr on the day (of the battle) of Badr. Khubaib remained imprisoned by them till they decided unanimously to kill him. One day Khubaib borrowed from a daughter of Al-Harith, a razor for shaving his public hair, and she lent it to him. By chance, while she was inattentive, a little son of hers went to him (i.e. Khubaib) and she saw that Khubaib had seated him on his thigh while the razor was in his hand. She was so much terrified that Khubaib noticed her fear and said, "Are you afraid that I will kill him? Never would I do such a thing." Later on (while narrating the story) she said, "By Allah, I had never seen a better captive than Khubaib. By Allah, one day I saw him eating from a bunch of grapes in his hand while he was fettered with iron chains and (at that time) there was no fruit in Mecca." She used to say," It was food Allah had provided Khubaib with."

When they took him to Al-Hil out of Mecca sanctuary to martyr him, Khubaib requested them. "Allow me to offer a two-Rak'at prayer." They allowed him and he prayed two Rakat and then said, "By Allah! Had I not been afraid that you would think I was worried, I would have prayed more." Then he (invoked evil upon them) saying, "O Allah! Count them and kill them one by one, and do not leave anyone of them"' Then he recited: "As I am martyred as a Muslim, I do not care in what way I receive my death for Allah's Sake, for this is for the Cause of Allah. If He wishes, He will bless the cut limbs of my body." Then Abu Sarva, 'Ubqa bin Al-Harith went up to him and killed him. It was Khubaib who set the tradition of praying for any Muslim to be martyred in captivity (before he is executed). The Prophet told his companions of what had happened (to those ten spies) on the same day they were martyred. Some Quraish people, being informed of 'Asim bin Thabit's death, sent some messengers to bring a part of his body so that his death might be known for certain, for he had previously killed one of their leaders (in the battle of Badr). But Allah sent a swarm of wasps to protect the dead body of 'Asim, and they shielded him from the messengers who could not cut anything from his body.

The bodies were unceremoniously ditched in the outskirts of the Mecca. A swarm of hornets started hovering over their decomposing cadaver feasting on them. Had this happened to non-Muslims, it would have been interpreted as the sign that they were being tormented after their death. But the mind of a Muslim is such that their historians have interpreted this as a macabre, claiming that those wasps were actually protecting the body of Khubaib. Ibn Hisham 2/169-179; Za'd Al-Ma'ad 2/109 Only Muslims and children are prone to think that birds, animals and insects are capable of human reasoning and are conscious players in a divine scheme of events.

Muslims also have fabricated miracles in relation to this occasion. They have written that while Khubaib was in confinement, he was seen eating a bunch of grapes as big as human head when there was no grape in Mecca. They also have written that Gabriel had come to visit Khubaib and took his salutation to Muhammad. Muslims easily believe in these fairytales without ever wondering why Gabriel who brought grapes for the Muslim prisoners and acted as the messenger between them and Muhammad did not save them from execution! Why the hornets did not protect them while they were still alive? Wouldn’t that be a good miracle to convince everyone of the truth of Islam? Amazing is the mind of the Muslims.

Muslim historians gloatingly talk about the assassinations of their opponents and call those assassins and terrorists “heroes”. Yet when the favor is returned and a Muslim is killed, he is a martyr and the assailant is a villain. They go even as far as to fabricate miracles to gain more confirmation for their faith.

Khubaib and Zeid along with others in their party were avowedly spies. However some historians have claimed that the 'Adhl and the Qara tribes were instigated by Bani Lahyan who tricked Muhammad claiming they wished to embrace Islam and asked him to send a few teachers to instruct them in the new religion. If this story is true then one has to acknowledge that Muhammad was fooled and his god who was ever ready to come to his help even in trivial matters such as when he desired to have sex with his daughter in law did not tip him off in vital matters that cost the lives of his followers. Are we to believe that Allah cared more about the sex life of his prophet than the lives of his believers?

Whether these men were spies or teachers, they paid the price for the crime that Muhammad had committed by assassinating Sofyan. If the murder of these men was wrong, the assassination of Sofyan, were also wrong. However no one among the Quraish had any claim to prophethood or pretended setting higher moral standards. But Muhammad had such claim. He did call himself the Mercy of God and an honorable prophet. Yet his actions were far from honorable. If the execution of these men was not excusable, were the murders and assassinations ordered by Muhammad excusable? Didn’t he kill the two Quraishits who were left behind after the battle of Uhod? Didn’t he use to send assassins to get rid of his opponents?

Islam is a moral relativistic religion, where the crimes of Muhammad and his followers are unabashedly justified while the faults of others are exaggeratedly magnified.

Bi'r Ma'una May, 625

At the same time that Muhammad had send his men to spy on Quraish, he had also dispatched a group of forty (or by some account seventy) (According to Ibn Ishaq there were forty but Al waquidi says they were seventy. However seventy was the popular number and it might not be the correct number. The number 7, 70, 700, 7000 or 70,000 are used more frequently than any other number. For example according to the Hadith Bukahri Volume 5, Book 59, Number 405: there were “seventy from the Ansar were martyred on the day of Uhud, and seventy on the day (of the battle of) Bir Ma'una, and seventy on the day of Al-Yamama.”) to Najd. On approaching the town of Bani 'Amir, the group stayed behind and sent one of their own to spy. He was caught and put to death. 'Amir ibn Tufail who was also upset of the marauding activities of Muslims was the new chief of Bani 'Amir. He gathered a large group of people from his tribe and the neighboring tribe of Sulaim, Usseya, Ril and Dhakwan and fell on the Muslims who were waiting for their man at a spring known as Bir Ma'una and after engaging in a ferocious battle, all but two of the Muslims were killed. The two men who escaped death took the horrifying tiding to Muhammad.

The historians say that Abu Bera, an aged and retired chief of the Bani Aamir had visited Muhammad who asked him to embrace Islam. The old man declined but said if Muhammad sent a few of his men to preach among the Bani ‘Amir they may accept. Muhammad asked for guarantees for the safety of his men and Abu Bera said they would be under his protection. With this assurance Muhammad sent his men who were mostly the Ansar to teach Islam.

However, the same is said about the expedition that went to Mecca and was caught and killed at Ar-Raji‘. It’s unlikely that this version be true. For preaching one or two men would have sufficed. A platoon of forty or seventy armed men is unlikely to have only preaching in mind. Moreover, preaching was not Muhammad’s favorite way of advancing his religion. He had preached for thirteen years in Mecca and only 80 people, mostly slaves, women and youth had hearkened to his call. He had much better success when he started raiding, killing and forcing his religion on people. It is likely that Muhammad invented the story of his meeting with the aged Abu Bera to justify this risky expedition and portray himself as the victim of treachery.

The news of this disaster reached Mauhammad simultaneously with that of Raji, and greatly vexed him. Next day, and for thirty consecutive days, five times per day he would invoke the curse of Allah naming one by one all the tribes that took part in the killing of the Muslims in Bi'r Ma'una. saying: "O Lord! trample under foot in your indignation the Bani Lahyan, Bani Ril, Bani Dzakwan" (and so on, naming the several tribes in succession). "Make their years like unto the years of Joseph, (Alluding to the seven bad years in Pharaoh's dream.) for that they have rebelled against God, and rebelled against His Prophet!"

In his zest to hearten and comfort his followers and to offset their sorrow he even “revealed” a verse whose authors were the martyrs and not Allah. He claimed that Gabriel gave him the following message from the martyrs of Bi'r Ma'una

The verse was added to the Quran but it was afterwards jettisoned and was not included in 'Umar's recension of the book. He must have realized that since the Quran is claimed to be the textual words of God, a message from martyrs cannot be part of it. This however did not occur to Muhammad who in an effort to soothe his aggrieved followers was not abashed to tell one more expedient lie.

On their way back to Medina, 'Amr bin Umaiya, one of the two survivors of Bi'r Ma'una met two men of the Bani 'Amir. He slew them while they were asleep in reprisal for the killing of his companions in Bi’r Ma’una. But these two men were returning home after having paid a visit to Muhammad and they had been under his protection. They had no knowledge of what had happened to the Muslims and were under no suspicion. As the modern day Islamic terrorists have demonstrated, Muslims feel justified to murder innocent people in retaliation for what they perceive as injustice done to them by someone else of the same nationality. The recent killings of totally innocent people by the Islamic terrorists may look senseless to the rest of the world but to the Muslims the make perfect sense. Just as they see themselves as a single body called Ummah, they see everyone else as part of one single body of Kafirs. So if a Kafir does something supposedly wrong to a Muslim somewhere in the world, another Muslim half a world apart feels entitled to kill a completely innocent Kafir in revenge.

Upon proudly briefing his prophet of slaying two men treacherously in their sleep, Muhammad reproached 'Amr bin Umaiya saying those men were under his protection and now he [Muhammad] had to pay the blood money to their families. Waqidi, 343, 354; Tabari, 417.

This gesture of magnanimity was not entirely out of goodness of heart. Muhammad had not ordered those assassinations, so why would he volunteer to pay the blood money? He would usually demand the killer to pay for the blood-money. As it became clear later, this incident provided Muhammad with a pretext to raid the tribe of Bani Nadir and do with them what he did with Bani Qaynuqa.

Bani Nadir June, 625

Attended by a few of his close companions, Muhammad visited the fort of Bani Nadir, situated at four or five kilometers south of Medina and demanded that they should help in defraying the price of blood for the two men murdered by Amr.

The Treaty that the Jews had signed was to defend Medina should it be invaded by foreigners. They had nothing to do with the murders of Muhammad and his followers. Considering the fact that Muhammad had assassinated their chief, Ka’b ibn Ashraf, his demand that the Bani Nadir should also pay for the blood money was absurd.

Moreover Muhammad had already confiscated the wealth of the entire tribe of Bani Qainuqa who were a well to do people. The wealth of hundreds of families fell into his hands. He could easily pay that money, had that been really his intent. However, the biographers tell us that the chief of Bani Nadir received Muhammad courteously and agreed to comply.

The reason Bani Nadir did not object to Muhammad outlandish demand is clear. These terrified Jews of course knew that the Treaty did not mean that they should bail out for Muhammad’s crimes. But they were too weak and too frightened to oppose the emerging tyrant. So they agreed.

But this was not what Muhammad had in mind. He was hoping that they reject his unreasonable request so he could have an excuse to deal with them the way he dealt with the Banu Qainuqa. Bani Nadir had the best-cultivated lands and Muhammad had his eyes set on them. A hadith records the words of Muhammad addressing the Jews saying: "Know that the earth is for Allah and I want to exile you from this land, so whoever among you has property he should sell it, otherwise, know that the land is for Allah and His Apostle." Bukhari Volume 9, Book 92, Number 447
Narrated Abu Huraira:
While we were in the mosque, Allah's Apostle came out and said, "Let us proceed to the Jews." So we went out with him till we came to Bait-al-Midras. The Prophet stood up there and called them, saying, "O assembly of Jews! Surrender to Allah (embrace Islam) and you will be safe!" They said, "You have conveyed Allah's message, O Aba-al-Qasim" Allah's Apostle then said to them, "That is what I want; embrace Islam and you will be safe." They said, "You have conveyed the message, O Aba-al-Qasim." Allah's Apostle then said to them, "That is what I want," and repeated his words for the third time and added, "Know that the earth is for Allah and I want to exile you from this land, so whoever among you has property he should sell it, otherwise, know that the land is for Allah and His Apostle."

After hearing their agreement, Muhammad suddenly arose, and without saying a word to any one, walked out of the meeting. When his companions saw he had not returned they left too. To their surprise the found that Muhammad had already gone home. He told them that while sitting there Gabriel appeared to him and informed him that the Jews were planning to assassinate him. To embellish his tale he even gave some details that they were planning to role a millstone over the roof and drop it on his head. But his companions had not seen anything suspicious. Curiously, Muhammad also forgot to include this important intimation brought to him by Gabriel in the Quran.

Thus Muhammad accusing the Bani Nadir of perfidy and plotting against his life commissioned Muhammad ibn Maslama (the assassin of Ka’b) to deliver the command to leave town within ten days or face death.

"O Muhammad!,” said the Bani Nadir dismay to the bear of the news “we did not think that you, or any other of the Bani Aws, would ever consent to be the bearer of a message such as this." "Hearts are changed now;" responded ibn Maslama as he turned his back and left his once allies and friends standing there stunned. Waqidi, 358

The Bani Nadir resolved to stay and defend their homes against the aggression. Upon learning that they have decided to stay Muhammad was overjoyed. He exclaimed: The Jews have resolved to fight! And started shouting ALLAHU AKBAR. His companions took that up and everyone now was shouting ALLAHU AKBAR. And the cry of Allahu Akbar echoed throughout the courts of the Mosque and was heard from a distance. Waqidi, 110; Tabari, 420. The tradition of shouting Allahu Akabar, Allahu Akbar, when a Muslim mob is preparing to lynch and murder, dates back to the time of Muhammad.

It should be also noted that in the Islamic way of thinking resisting the aggression of the Muslims and self defense is interpreted as waging war against Islam. So basically non-Muslims must surrender to the Muslims at once and submit to their domination or they are waging war against God and must be put to death.

For example when the verse 2:191 says “slay them wherever ye catch them” and then in the subsequent verse it cautions “But if they cease, Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.” It means that if the enemy ceases to defend himself and surrenders then you can stop fighting them.

Muhammad besieged the fort of Bani Nadir, and to hasten the outcome he resorted to something deplorable and unheard of in Arabia. He started chopping and burning their date plantations.

Muhammad had already broken all the norms of decency. Burning trees was the least of his crimes. The Bani Nadir called out from their ramparts: "O Mahomet! You were wont to forbid injustice on the earth, and to rebuke him that committed it. Wherefore then, have you cut down our palm-trees, and burned them with fire?" Hishami, 287. They reminded him of the Biblical injunction that Muhammad professed to confirm, which prohibits cutting the trees during the war. Deut. 20:19.When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees of the field people, that you should besiege them? But their remonstrations fell on deaf ears. The trees were utterly destroyed.

To silence his critics, later Muhammad would make his Allah issue a verse exonerating him of any wrongdoing:

“What you (O Muslims) cut down of the palm-trees (of the enemy), or you left them standing on their stems, it was by leave of Allâh.” Q. 59: 5

The Bani Nadir, after three weeks of resistance, and realizing that their land was rendered useless, finally negotiated their surrender. Muhammad agreed that they carry what they can on their camels and leave everything else. Thus he got rid of the second Jewish tribe who had called Arabia home for nearly 2000 years, much earlier than the Arabs of Medina. Some of them, went to Syria and some sought refuge in Kheibar only to be attacked, massacred and exiled once again just after a few years.

Al-Mubarakpouri writes; "Once the Prophet (Peace be upon him) with some of his Companions set out to see Bani Nadir and seek their help in raising the blood-money he had to pay to Bani Kalb for the two men that ‘Amr bin Umaya Ad-Damari had killed by mistake. All of that was in accordance with the clauses of the treaty that both parties had already signed. On hearing his story they said they would share in paying the blood-money and asked him and his Companions Abu Bakr, ‘Umar, ‘Ali and others to sit under a wall of their houses and wait. The Jews held a short private meeting and conspired to kill the Prophet (Peace be upon him). The most wicked among them, ‘Amr bin Jahsh, volunteered to climb up the wall and drop a large millstone on his head. One of them, Salam bin Mashkam, cautioned them against perpetrating such a crime, predicting that Allâh would divulge their plot to him, and added that such an act would constitute a manifest violation of the pact concluded with the Muslims.

In fact, Gabriel did come down to reveal to the Prophet (Peace be upon him) their wicked criminal intention, so he, with his Companions, hurried off back to Medina. On their way, he told his Companions of the Divine Revelation." [Saifur Rahman al-Mubarakpuri Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum]

Two of the Bani Nadir converted to Islam and were allowed to stay. Muhammad summoned Yamim, one of the new converts and complained of Amr ibn Jahsh, who was his cousin and one of Muhammad’s opponents. Muhammad claimed that Gabriel told him it was this Amr that was the person in charge of casting down the stone on him. Hishami reports that the prophet approached Yamim and said: “Do you see what I have endured at the hand of your cousin Amr and what he has plotted against me?” And instructs him to assassinate his cousin to prove his loyalty and thus Amr is killed. Hishami, 282. This story is not reported by other historians but it is quite in accordance with the character of Muhammad.

The Prophet who claimed that God is khairul maakereen, "the best of the tricksters", was himself a cunning man. The story of Gabriel informing him of the plot of the Jews against his life is as credible as the tale of his visits to heaven and hell in the night of Mi’raj or his other fantasy tales. However he needed an excuse to invade this wretched tribe and since they did not give him the excuse he made us that absurd story, which his easy to fleece followers had no problem gobbling gullibly.

The truth is that it was not the Jews who breached the Treaty but it was Muhammad who broke it and along with it he broke every cord of human decency. He broke the standards of humanity, violated human morality and transgressed the rules of justice. The Prophet of Allah (peace be upon him) took away the peace from mankind and plunged humanity into a never ending war. He instigated hatred in his followers that consumes them as much as it consumes the rest of mankind.

Had these Jews really wanted to kill Muhammad, couldn’t they easily do that when he was in their hands? Why plan rolling a millstone to the roof when capturing him and killing him was so easy? This tale is absurd. It is obvious that Muhammad made up the whole thing to continue with his plans of ethnic cleansing and plundering.

In the Introduction to the Surah Al-Hashr, Maududi explains:

“For some time after these punitive measures (i. e. the banishment of the Qainuqa and killing of Ka'b bin Ashraf) the Jews remained so terror stricken that they did not dare commit any further mischief. But later when in Shawwal, A. H. 3, the Quraish in order to avenge themselves for the defeat at Badr, marched against Medina with great preparations, and the Jews saw that only a thousand men had marched out with the Holy Prophet (upon whom be Allah's peace) as against three thousand men of the Quraish, and even they were deserted by 300 hypocrites who returned to Medina, they committed the first and open breach of the treaty by refusing to join the Holy Prophet in the defence of the city although they were bound to it.”

It is amazing that Muslims expected collaboration from Bani Nadir after assassinating their leader and completely destroying their brethrens, the Bani Qainuqa. Muhammad proved to be a ruthless tyrant that would stop at nothing. He would order the assassination of his enemies and next day appear in the mosque reciting prayers as if nothing had happened and praise the killer. He would have no mercy on a 120-year-old man or a nursing woman with five small children to take care of. He would look for an excuse to lash out on an entire population confiscate their belongings and banish them from their homes. If it weren’t for Abdullah ibn Ubay’s intervention he would have had no qualms massacring hundreds of Bani Qainuqa. As Maududi brags these poor Jews were terror stricken and must have asked themselves when would be their turn? And yet Muslims call them traitors for not willing to fight alongside them after they had killed their chieftain. Wasn't killing Ka’b ibn Ashraf and exiling the Bani Qainuqa the breach of the contract? Or perhaps Muhammad thought that the treaty is only one sided and while obliged the Jews to observe it, he was free to do as he pleased!

Maududi finishes this story by saying, “Now there was no question of showing them any further concession. The Holy Prophet at once sent to them the ultimatum that the treachery they had meditated against him had come to his knowledge; therefore, they were to leave Medina within ten days; if anyone of them was found staying behind in their quarters, he would be put to the sword.”

Muhammad did not massacre the Bani Nadir as he did the Banu Qurayza, another Jewish tribe residing in Medina but the thought have surely came to him as we can see from the following extract from Sirat.

"Concerning B. al-Nadir the Sura of Exile came down in which is recorded how God wreaked His vengeance on them and gave His apostle power over them and how He dealt with them. God said: 'He it is who turned out those who disbelieved of the scripture people from their homes to the first exile. ... 'So consider this, you who have understanding. Had not God prescribed deportation against them,' which was vengeance from God, 'He would have punished them in this world,' (Q. 59: 3) i.e. with the sword, 'and in the next world there would be the punishment of hell' as well." [Sirat, p. 438]

Al-Mubarkpouri writes,

"The Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) seized their weapons, land, houses, and wealth. Amongst the other booty he managed to capture, there were 50 armours, 50 helmets, and 340 swords.

This booty was exclusively the Prophet ’s because no fighting was involved in capturing it. He divided the booty at his own discretion among the early Emigrants and two poor Helpers, Abu Dujana and Suhail bin Haneef. Anyway the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) spent a portion of this wealth on his family to sustain their living the year around. The rest was expended to provide the Muslim army with equipment for further wars in the way of Allâh.

Almost all the verses of Sûrah Al-Hashr (Chapter 59 - The Gathering) describe the banishment of the Jews and reveal the disgraceful manners of the hypocrites. The verses manifest the rules relevant to the booty. In this Chapter, Allâh, the All-Mighty, praises the Emigrants and Helpers. This Chapter also shows the legitimacy of cutting down and burning the enemy’s land and trees for military purposes. Such acts cannot be regarded as phenomena of corruption so long that they are in the way of Allâh."

As it becomes obvious and even the Muslim historians are not abashed to admit, no crime is bad as long as it is done in the way of Allah. This was the example that the Prophet set for his followers and this has been the way; the devout Muslims have been acting throughout the history. This perhaps can explain to an uninitiated westerner the inspiration behind Islamic terrorism. Islamic violence is not a deviation of the true Islam but it IS the true Islam. Murdering, plundering, raping and assassinating are Islamic practices. Nothing is out of limit when it comes to promoting the religion of Allah.

Ironically, the Sûrah Al-Hashr concludes by exhorting the believers to be pious and prepare themselves for the world to come. These exhortations to be pious by a man who was a mass murderer and a marauding gangster help us understand that in Islam the word piety does not mean virtue, morality or high-mindedness, but strict obedience to Muhammad and the blind observance of his murderous plans. The words in Islam have different meanings. Islam is a world apart.

The Arab word was and still is a world apart. Al-Mubarakpuri writes. “The desert Bedouins living in tents pitched in the vicinity of Medina… depended on plundering and looting as a means of living.” Plundering and looting was the Arab way of life. Muhammad was an Arab and did what the Arabs did best. This explains why his followers did not object to his immorality,

In primitive societies people prayed to their gods for victory when they went to war. If they were victorious they would interpret this as the sign of the greatness of their god. For a primitive mind might is always right. Furthermore biblical stories of violence committed by men of God shrouded the crimes of Muhammad with legitimacy. It was expected of a messenger to wage wars, massacre innocent people and plunder their belongings.

Muhammad and his followers belonged to this primitive world and had the same primitive mindset. They did not know better and this was the only way of life they had ever known. What is tragic however, is to see that in this age of science and reason some educated people still follow the primitive religion of a primitive people.

As we saw, if the Bani Nadir really wanted to kill Muhammad and his few companions, they did not need to make such complicated plans of climbing the wall of throwing a millstone on over their head. He was in their town and they could have killed him easily.

But let us suppose that Muhammad was right and they actually had such plan. Under what law it is permissible to punish an entire population for a failed murder attempt of a few? Isn’t everyone responsible for his own action? What was the crime of those new born children, those pregnant women, those elderly Jews who had to leave everything behind and walk in the desert to an unknown destiny? How many of those perished? Why women and children had to pay for a failed attempt of a few members of their tribe?

Another important thing to consider is that Muhammad actually assassinated K’ab bin Ashraf the leader of the Bani Nadir; treacherously. These people, according to their own religion which Muhammad had recognized to be from God, had all the rights to revenge. Why Muhammad believed that he could kill anyone he pleased with impunity while an entire population should be punished for the “thoughts” of someone planning to kill him? What would happen to the world if we all followed Muhammad’s example? Unfortunately a small percentage of the Muslims do and this is the cause of the present day world crisis.

The properties of the entire Bani Nadir fell into the hands of Muhammad alone. This he claimed as exempt from the usual law of distribution, because it had been gained without actual fighting. So he gave part of that property to a select group of people in his own discretion to make a show of his generosity and gain their support. His close companions, Abu Bakr, Omar, Zobeir, and a few more close supporters received from this booty and thus were endowed with valuable estates. He also gave part of these properties to the immigrants, the Muhajeroon Waqidi, 110.

"He caused those of the People of the Book who helped them (i.e. the Quraish) to come out of their forts. Some you killed, some you took prisoner.” Q. 33: 26

A Hadith in Bukhari Volume 5, Book 59, Number 362 confirms this story. The narrator talks about the treatment of the Jews of Medina and how Muhammad “killed their men and distributed their women, children and property among the Muslims, but some of them came to the Prophet and he granted them safety, and they embraced Islam. He exiled all the Jews from Medina.”

Sahih Bukhari Volume 5, Book 59, Number 414:
Narrated 'Abdul Aziz:
Anas said, "The Prophet sent seventy men, called Al-Qurra 'for some purpose. The two groups of Bani Sulaim called Ri'l and Dhakwan, appeared to them near a well called Bir Ma'una. The people (i.e. Al-Qurra) said, 'By Allah, we have not come to harm you, but we are passing by you on our way to do something for the Prophet.' But (the infidels) killed them. The Prophet therefore invoked evil upon them for a month during the morning prayer.