bola4dprec: O people, listen to my words. I do not know
whether I shall ever meet you again in this
place after this year. O people, your blood and
your property are sacrosanct until you meet
your Lord, just as this day and this month of
yours are sacred. Surely you will meet your Lord and He will question you about your
deeds. I have [already] made this known. Let
he who has a pledge return it to the one who
entrusted him with it; all usury is abolished,
but your capital belongs to you. Wrong not
and you shall not be wronged. Allah has decreed that there will be no usury, and the
usury of Abbas b. Abd al-Muttalib is abolished,
all of it. All blood shed in the pre-Islamic days
is to be left unavenged. The first such claim I
revoke is that of Ibn Rabiah b. al-Harith b. Abd
al-Muttalib, who was nursed among the Banu Layth and was slain by the Banu Hudhayl. His
is the first blood shed in the pre-Islamic days
with which I shall set an example. O people,
indeed Satan despairs of ever being
worshipped in this land of yours. He will be
pleased, however, if he is obeyed in a thing other than that, in matters you minimize. So
beware of him in your religion, O people,
intercalculating a month is an increase in
unbelief whereby the unbelievers go astray;
one year they make it profane, and hallow it
another [in order] to agree with the number that Allah has hallowed, and so profane what
Allah has hallowed, and hallow what Allah has
made profane. Time has completed its cycle
[and is] as it was on the day that Allah created
the heavens and the earth. The number of the
months with Allah is twelve; [they were] in the Book of Allah on the day He created the
heavens and the earth. Four of them are
sacred, the three consecutive [months] and
the Rajab [which is the month of] Mudar,
which is between Jumada and Sha’ban. Now then, O people, you have a right over
your wives and they have a right over you.
You have [the right] that they should not
cause anyone of whom you dislike to tread on
your beds; and that they should not commit
any open indecency. If they do, then Allah permits you to shut them in separate rooms and to beat them, but not severely. If they abstain from [evil], they have the right to their
food and clothing in accordance with the
custom. Treat women well, for they are [like] domestic animals with you and do not possess anything for themselves. You have taken them only as a trust from Allah, and you
have made the enjoyment of their persons
lawful by the word of Allah, so understand
and listen to my words, O people. I have
conveyed the Message, and have left you with
something which, if you hold fast to it, you will never go astray; that is, the Book of Allah and
the sunnah of his Prophet. Listen to my words,
O people, for I have conveyed the Message
and understand [it]. Know for certain that
every Muslim is a brother of another Muslim,
and that all Muslims are brethren. It is not lawful for a person [to take] from his brother
except that which he has given him willingly,
so do not wrong yourselves. O Allah, have I
not conveyed the message?