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:Nor am I disposed to give in to them.}}
:Nor am I disposed to give in to them.}}


{{Quote|Ishaq:587|Ka’b reacted to the Apostle’s decision. He said, ‘We put an end to doubt at Khaybar. If our swords could have spoken, their blades would have said, “Give us Daus or Thaqif. We will tear off the roofs in Wajj. We will make homes desolate. Our cavalry will come upon you leaving behind a tangled mass. When we assault a town they sound a cry of alarm but our sharp cutting swords flash like lightning. By them we bring death to those who struggle against us. Flowing blood was mingled with saffron the morn the forces met. They were taken by surprise and we surrounded their walls with our troops. Our leader, the Prophet, was firm, steadfast, and full of wisdom. He was not frivolous nor light minded. We obey our Prophet and we obey a Lord who is Compassionate [Ar-Rahman]. We make you partners in peace and war. If you refuse we will fight you doggedly.}}
{{Quote|{{citation|title=The Life of Muhammad|trans_title=Sirat Rasul Allah|ISBN=0-19-636033-1|year=1955|publisher=Oxford UP|author1=Ibn Ishaq (d. 768)|author2=Ibn Hisham (d. 833)|editor=A. Guillaume|url=https://archive.org/details/GuillaumeATheLifeOfMuhammad/page/n1/mode/2up|pages=587-588}}<br>{{citation|title=سيرة ابن هشام ت السقا|author1=ابن إسحاق|author2=ابن هشام|url=https://app.turath.io/book/23833|publisher=al-Maktabah al-Shamilah|volume=vol. 2|pages=478-480}}|Ka'b b. Malik when the apostle came to this decision said:
 
:We put an end to doubt in the lowlands and Khaybar,
{{Quote|Ishaq:587|Our onslaught will not be a weak faltering affair. We shall fight as long as we live. We will fight until you turn to Islam, humbly seeking refuge. We will fight not caring whom we meet. We will fight whether we destroy ancient holdings or newly gotten gains. We have mutilated every opponent. We have driven them violently before us at the command of Allah and Islam. We will fight until our religion is established. And we will plunder them, for they must suffer disgrace.}}
:Then we gave our swords a rest.
:We gave them the choice and could they have spoken
:Their blades would have said, Give us Daus or Thaqif.
:May I be motherless if you do not see
:Thousands of us in your courts.
:We will tear off the roofs in the valley of Wajj
:And we will make your houses desolate.
:Our swiftest cavalry will come on you
:Leaving behind a tangled mass.
:When they come down on your courts
:You will hear a cry of alarm
:With sharp cutting swords in their hands like flashes of lightning
:By which they bring death to those who would fight them
:Tempered by Indian smiths--not beaten into plates.
:You would think that the flowing blood of the warriors
:Was mingled with saffron the morn the forces met.
:Good God, had they no adviser
:From the peoples who knew about us
:To tell them that we had gathered
:The finest blood horses and that we had brought an army
:To surround the walls of their fort with troops?
:Our leader the prophet, firm,
:Pure of heart, steadfast, continent,
:Straight forward, full of wisdom, knowledge, and clemency;
:Not frivolous nor light minded.
:We obey our prophet and we obey a Lord
:Who is the Compassionate, most kind to us.
:If you offer peace we will accept it
:And make you partners in peace and war.
:If you refuse we will fight you doggedly,
:'Twill be no weak faltering affair.
:We shall fight as long as we live
:Till you turn to Islam, humbly seeking refuge.
:We will fight not caring whom we meet
:Whether we destroy ancient holdings or newly gotten gains.
:How many tribes assembled against us
:Their finest stock and allies!
:They came at us thinking they had no equal
:And we cut off their noses and ears
:With our fine polished Indian swords,
:Driving them violently before us
:To the command of God and Islam,
:Until religion is established, just and straight, and
:Al-Lat and al-'Uzza and Wudd are forgotten
:And We plunder them of their necklaces and earrings.
:For they had become established and confident,
:And he who cannot protect himself must suffer disgrace.}}


{{Quote|Ishaq:597|When the Apostle returned to Medina after his raid on Ta'if, word spread that he had killed some of the men who had satirized and insulted him. The poets who were left spread in all directions.}}
{{Quote|Ishaq:597|When the Apostle returned to Medina after his raid on Ta'if, word spread that he had killed some of the men who had satirized and insulted him. The poets who were left spread in all directions.}}
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