
Do you want to fight your children and brethren) When they heard these words from the Prophet, they dis- persed and the news of what happened reached the Quraysh idolators. (The threat of the Quraysh has caused you extreme anxiety! The Quraysh cannot cause you more harm than what you will cause yourselves by your actions. The news of this reached the Prophet and he went to them saying, We swear by Allah, you should fight him, or we will expel you or gather all our forces, until we kill your soldiers and take your women captive.' When the news of this threat reached `Abdullah bin Ubayy and the idolators of Al-Aws and Al-Khazraj, they prepared to fight the Prophet. They wrote: `You have given refuge to our citizen. The Messenger of Allah was in Al-Madinah at the time, before the battle of Badr occurred. See how Allah's humiliating torment struck them in this life, as well as, the painful torment that Allah has reserved for them in the Hereafter." Abu Dawud recorded that `Abdur-Rahman bin Ka`b bin Malik said that one of the Prophet's Companions said, "The Quraysh idolators wrote to `Abdullah bin Ubayy and those who were still worshipping idols among the tribes of Al-Aws and Al-Khazraj. (they demolished their own dwellings with their own hands and the hands of the believers Then take admonition, O you with eyes.) meaning, "Contemplate the end of those who defied Allah's command, contradicted His Messenger and denied His Book. They destroyed the property that they could not carry. The Prophet allowed them to evacuate their forts and take whatever their camels could carry. Some of them went to Adhri`at in the area of Ash-Sham, which is the area of the grand Gathering and Resurrection, while others went to Khaybar. Then, that which they did not expect came to them from Allah, and Allah's Messenger forced them to leave Al-Madinah.

The Jews thought that their fortifications will save them from Allah's torment, but they did not help them against Allah in the least.

The Prophet forced them to evacuate and abandon their fortified forts that Muslims did not think they would ever control. Therefore, Allah sent His torment down on them it can never be averted, and His appointed destiny touched them it can never be resisted. They soon betrayed the treaty that they made with Allah's Messenger.

When the Messenger of Allah migrated to Al-Madinah, he made a peace treaty with the Jews stipulating that he would not fight them and they would not fight him. (He it is Who drove out the disbelievers among the People of the Scripture) referring to the Jewish tribe of Bani An-Nadir, according to Ibn `Abbas, Mujahid, Az-Zuhri and several others.
