Muslims Must Adopt the Affection of Our Prophet (pbuh) as a Model

Adnan Oktar: The People of the Book is a subject explicitly set out in the Qur'an. It is not something unknown. Some ignorant people think of the People of the Book as meaning "they should be killed wherever they are, bombed wherever they are found. Their weddings should be stormed and everyone killed, women or children regardless." But that is a sin. There is no room for that in Islam. Islam involves affection and compassion. They are entrusted to us. Insha'God, they will be under our protection in the time of the Turkish-Islamic Union. Look at this, from the text of an agreement between Christians and Muslims in the time of Hazrat Omar (ra). The treaty between Muslims and the Christians of Hira says; "if one of them is weakened – any one of the Christians – or grows old or suffers because of sickness, or becomes poor when once he was rich, then he or his family will receive help from the Public Treasury for so long as they live in Islamic lands." There is no talk there of killing, slaughtering, bombing or hatred, is there?

In other words, if they base themselves on the time of the Messenger of God (pbuh) and the Qur'an, then what they are doing is wrong. According to the Qur'an and the Sunna of and methods employed by the Messenger of God (pbuh) , the practice was this, look, "if one of them is weakened – any of the Christians – or grows old or suffers because of sickness, or becomes poor when once he was rich…" in other words, this is something extraordinary, isn't it? It was also applied to his own citizens, but was carefully implemented for the Christians. "… then he or his family will receive help from the Public Treasury for so long as they live in Islamic lands." The surrender document drawn up for Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians living in Debil – an Armenian city – during its capture in the time of Hazrat Uthman (ra), guaranteed that places of worship would be protected. Damaged churches were allowed to be repaired, and permission was always given for new synagogues and monasteries to be built. One monastery that had been burned was rebuilt by Patriarch Mar Amme in the time of Hazrat Uthman (ra). There is no bombing there, is there? No killing and slaughter. Their goods and lands were also guaranteed. They could not be compelled to convert. Nobody could come between them and their laws. (Gaziantep Olay TV, 23 January 2010)