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Page 21 of 104Kosar ghadirestan Center Nabi (S) www.ghadirestan.comIMAM ALI (S) Sunshine of Civilized Islamall of his might and threw it aside. In this manner he opened the way for his men to rushinto the fort. All castles were opened and many of the Jews were captured. The godlymen and the great leaders treated the powerless and defeated enemy kindly anddispensed them with vengeance. The Prophet of Islam acceded the Jews’ request whenthey asked him to let them remain in the place, provided that they became disarmed, andnot to assist the idolaters of Mecca and to pay the half of their production to the Muslims.There was a productive area near Khaybar called Fadak, about 140 km. far from Medina,where the Jews made a good living by farming. They were in ease and comfort. TheProphet, intending to frustrate any scheme against Islam, sent a word to the dean of thearea to be put under the protection of Islam against the invaders. On condition that hewould not make any plot against the Muslims and that he would pay the half of theincome of their fields to the Islamic government, the Prophet would guarantee thesecurity of the area. As the religious laws provided, the regions, which were conquered bymilitary forces belonged to the Muslims in general as public purse, but the lands whichwere taken without expedition and bloodshed belonged to the Prophet himself and thento his rightful successors. The Prophet might donate his properties to everyone he liked.Some of the Muslim interpreters[1] mentioned that when the verse: (And give to the nearof kin his due and to the needy and the wayfarer and do not squander wastefully)[2] wasrevealed, the Prophet called for his daughter Fatima and gave her Fadak. At a laterperiod, she was dispossessed from it at the day of the first caliph Abu-Bakr for certainreasons of political purpose.[3] Of course the object of the author's intent is nothistoriography, since this book is about a man of a high rank in Islam, whose deeds andwordsRefer to Ath-Tha'labi's Kashful Bayan, Jalaluddeen as-Sayooti's Tafseer, vol.4 p.p.177 [ 1](ad-Durr al-Manthoor), Abul Qassim al-Hasaqani's Tareekh, ibn Katheer's Tareekh,Sheikh Sulayman al-Balkhi's Yanabee'ul Mawadda and ibn Mardwayh's Tafseer. [2] Qur'an17:26. [3] Ali ibn Burhanuddeen ash-Shafi'ei in his book as-Seera al-Halabiyya, vol.3 p.p.391,ibn Abul Hadeed in his Sharh Nahj al-Balaghah, Yaqoot al-Hamawi in his Mu'jamul Buldan.and as-Samhoodi in Tareekh al-Medinawere governed by the Islamic principles and Qur’an and he also was attendant with theProphet step by step since childhood, therefore I have to give the readers some passages.of the Islamic history to depict his personality as far as possibleThe battle of Thaat as-Salasil