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Eternal Words Nahj al-Balaghah Letters Instruction14 - To the Army Before the Encounter with the Enemy at Siffin
Eternal Words Nahj al-Balaghah Letters Instruction14 - To the Army Before the Encounter with the Enemy at Siffin
Instruction14 - To the Army Before the Encounter with the Enemy at Siffin
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Do not fight them unless they start the fighting because, by the grace of Allah, you are right, and to leave them till they begin fighting will be another point from your side against them. If, by the will of Allah, the enemy is defeated, do not kill those who flee away, do not strike a helpless person, do not finish off the wounded and do not inflict pain on women even though they may attack your honor with filthy words and abuse your officers because they are weak in character, mind and intelligence. We have been ordered to avoid them although they may be unbelievers. Even in pre-Islamic (jahiliyya) period, if a man struck a woman with a stone or a stick, he was rebuked along with his posterity after him.
