{"id":167,"date":"2015-02-25T21:48:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T21:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azmi.co\/cust\/ngba-wp\/?page_id=167"},"modified":"2023-04-17T16:45:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T16:45:26","slug":"mohammad-safiyyah","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=167","title":{"rendered":"Mohammad-and Safiyyah"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the name of All\u0101h,
\n<\/span>the Beneficent, the Merciful.
\n<\/span>Peace and Blessings of All\u0101h on Mohammad.
\n<\/span>DEDICATED TO
\n<\/span>All\u0101h\u2013the Glorious and the High,
\n<\/span>Lord of the worlds
\n<\/span>AND TO
\n<\/span>Mohammad\u2013who brought the world
\n<\/span>to our feet and eternity to our arms.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

*<\/span><\/p>\n

MOHAMMAD & SAFIYYAH<\/span><\/p>\n

In her book\u00a0A God who hates<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Wafa Sultan dabbles in the Prophet\u2019s marriage to Safiyyah, a Jewess of noble birth, taken as a captive of war at Khaybar. Wafa Sultan wrote: \u201cShe (Safiyyah) was taken prisoner in the course of the raid by one of Muhammad\u2019s men named Sahm. Muhammad took Safia from him, gave him seven other female prisoners as compensation, and married Safia the same day he killed her husband, brother, and father. Once again, a woman is given no opportunity to make a decision regarding her marriage or, ultimately, her fate. Safia finds herself in Muhammad\u2019s arms from one day to the next and does not have the right to accept or refuse what he decides to do with her.\u201d<\/span> (And how do you know \u00a0 this?) <\/i><\/span>(p. 127)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Let Wafa Sultan give her examples of Mohammad ordering \u201craid\u201d on any tribe and taking their women. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Safiyyah was the \u201cdaughter of Huyayy ibn Akhtab of Banu al Nadir\u201d and was honored as \u201cthe lady of Banu Qurayzah and Banu al Nadir,\u201d1<\/span><\/sup> Mohammad did not \u201craid\u201d the Banu Nadir tribe. Mohammad did not kill her \u201chusband, brother, and father.\u201d Her father and brother were killed in war against Mohammad, and her husband was executed as per his own agreement with Mohammad.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Jews of Khaybar had proven themselves untrustworthy. While Muslims had the peace treaty of Hudaybiyah with others in the South, \u201cBut what about the north, where both Heraclius (of Rome) and Chosroes (of Persia) might attack Madinah in cooperation with the Jews of Khaybar who were anxious for an opportunity to take revenge upon Muhammad?\u201d as M.H. Haykal explained, \u201cIt would be relatively easy for either emperor to remind the Jews of the fate of their co-religionists, the Banu Qurayzah, Banu al Nadir, and Banu Qaynuqa, who had previously been expelled from their dwellings after blockade, fighting, and war, and to incite them to new ventures against Muhammad. For their enmity and bitterness surpassed that of Quraysh\u2026.it was not possible to reconcile them with a peace treaty like that of Hudaybiyah since the covenant of Madinah had been violated by them much to their own detriment. Were help to come to them from the side of Byzantium, their natural inclination to rise again against Muhammad could not be contained. Hence it was thought necessary to put a final end to their influence in the Arabian Peninsula, and to do so quickly without giving them the time to forge any new alliances with Ghatafan or any of the other tribe hostile to Muhammad.\u201d2<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The Jews fought strongly against the Muslims. After their defeat and surrender Jews of Khaybar \u2013unlike the Banu Qaynuqa and Banu al Nadir who were forced to evacuate their lands altogether\u2013 \u201cMuhammad accepted their plea and permitted them to stay on their land whose title now passed to him by right of conquest. The terms of their surrender provided that they would be given half their crops in compensation for their labor.\u201d3<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Safiyyah\u2019s husband, Kinanah ibn al Rabi, was executed as per his own agreement with Mohammad. M. H. Haykal relates: \u201cKinanah al Rabi was known by the Muslims to have been the guardian of the wealth of Banu al Nadir. When the Prophet had asked Kinanah about his treasure, the latter solemnly declared that he did not know where it was hidden. Muhammad threatened him that in case the treasure was found hidden in his place he would be put to death. Kinanah agreed.\u201d Later, Kinanah was seen in an \u201cuninhabited house in the outskirts\u201d where part of the treasure was discovered. He was executed as per his own words. 4<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

SAFIYYAH<\/span> was a “JEWAMA” (Jewish War Mate) legal for her captor to have intimate relations with her; as decreed by the Torah:\u00a0\u201cAnd if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it; And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: But the women, and the little ones<\/span>, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u2013Deuteronomy 20:12-14).<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Being of noble birth and to be reduced as wife of an ordinary man would have been a most humiliating experience for Safiyyah. \u201cThe Prophet granted her her freedom and then married her.\u201d5<\/span> <\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/sup>By taking Safiyyah over to himself the Prophet, and King of Arabia, not only elevated her status by making her his wife but also rendered to her the supreme and invaluable service of robing her a Muslim. There could hardly be any doubt that Safiyyah was joyed to be \u201cin Muhammad\u2019s arms;\u201d and welcomed it whole-heartedly. After all, the Hebraic law had sentenced her to a living hell: condemned her to a life of \u201csorrow,\u201d and subjection to her husband; and sold her daughter into bondage\u2013(Gen. 3:16; Ex. 21:7). <\/span><\/p>\n

Whereas Mohammad liberated her and gave her rights that left her nothing to strive for all the way to Jannah<\/i>; and immortalized her as a \u201cmother\u201d of the Believers \u2013honored now by some one-and-a-half billion Muslims.<\/span> And counting, as Islam, in the face of all the vociferous clamoring against it, spirits on. Inexorably. Invincibly. Impregnably. To its destination as Divinely decreed: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey desire to put out the light of All\u0101h
\n<\/span>with their mouths, but All\u0101h will perfect His light,
\n<\/span>though the disbelievers May be averse\u201d
\n<\/span>(Qur\u2019an 61:8).
\n<\/span>\u201cHe (All\u0101h) it is Who has sent His Messenger
\n<\/span>(Mohammad) with the guidance and the
\n<\/span>religion of Truth that He may make it
\n<\/span>prevail over all religions.
\n<\/span>And All\u0101h is enough for a witness\u201d
\n<\/span>(Qur\u2019an 48:28; 9:33; 61:9).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Talk about Safiyyah being the envy of women!
\n<\/i><\/span>That Safiyyah \u201cdoes not have the right to accept or refuse what he (Mohammad) decides to do with her.\u201d This is hooey!\u00a0 \u00a0Marriage and divorce and women\u2019s rights have been dealt with on other pages. (See\u00a0Islam-liberated women<\/a><\/span>).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Safiyyah, without doubt, found comfort and joy in Mohammad. \u201cSafiyyah remained loyal to Mohammad throughout his life. In his last illness, when the Prophet was surrounded by his wives, Safiyyah came forward and said: \u201cO Prophet of God, I surely wish that that from which you suffer might be in me rather than in you.\u201d Muhammad\u2019s wives winked at one another and the Prophet observing their reaction, said: \u201cGo on and wink at one another! By God, I know that Safiyyah is truthful and loyal!\u201d
\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0Safiyyah, who survived Muhammad, lived until the time of the caliphate of Mu\u2019awiyah. She was buried at al Baqi\u201d6<\/span><\/sup> in Madinah.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

*<\/span><\/p>\n

Regarding the Prophet\u2019s marriage to \u2018Aisha, Zainab, and Safiyyah Wafa Sultan questions: \u201cWhere are the Koranic verses or Prophetic traditions that can alleviate the ugliness of these attitudes?\u201d And \u201cHow can we view\u201d Mohammad\u2019s marriage to \u2018Aisha \u201cother than as rape?\u201d she states. (p. 127).
\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0As shown on this site, there are\/were no \u201cugliness\u201d in the Prophet\u2019s marriages to\u00a0\u2018Aisha;\u00a0<\/span><\/a>Zainab;\u00a0<\/a>Juwairiyyah<\/a><\/span> and Safiyyah. Or\u00a0Rayhana<\/span>.\u00a0<\/a>‘<\/span><\/a><\/span>Thus there is\/was no \u201cugliness\u201d to alleviate; therefore no \u201cKoranic verses or Prophetic traditions\u201d on them are needed.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0Verses extolling the lofty status Islam has bestowed on women see<\/span> Islam-liberated women<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That Mohammad\u2019s marriage to \u2018Aisha can only be viewed as \u201crape.\u201d Webster\u2019s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary<\/i> defines rape as: \u201cto seize and take away by force; an act or instance of robbing or despoiling or carrying away a person by force; the unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman by a man without her consent and chiefly by force or deception; unlawful carnal knowledge other than of a woman by a man; an outrageous violation.\u201d Thus, a female of any age can be victim of \u201crape.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Can Wafa Sultan prove that Mohammad was guilty of any of these definitions? And that \u2018Aisha did not welcome Mohammad\u2019s company and that she considered his companionship \u201can outrageous violation?\u201d (See also Mohammad-rapist, pedophile, looter, cripple<\/a><\/span>).
\nIf Wafa Sultan cannot prove these \u2013and for certain she cannot\u2013<\/span> then Wafa Sultan is guilty of libeling Mohammad! If Wafa Sultan was living in Seventh-Century Arabia she may have had her wretched tongue cut off for slander.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

*<\/span><\/p>\n

NOTES<\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/span> Muhammad Husayn Haykal, The Life of Muhammad, <\/i>p. 373.<\/span><\/p>\n

2.<\/span> Ibid;<\/i> pp. 366-367.<\/span><\/p>\n

3.<\/span> Ibid;<\/i> pp. 370-371.<\/span><\/p>\n

4.<\/span> Ibid;<\/i> p. 373.<\/span><\/p>\n

5.<\/span> Ibid;<\/i> p. 373.<\/span><\/p>\n

6.<\/span> Ibid<\/i>; p. 374.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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