Sanctity of the Muslim

Arabic

أُمِرْتُ أَنْ أُقَاتِلَ النَّاسَ حَتَّى يَشْهَدُوا أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَأَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ، وَيُقِيمُوا الصَّلَاةَ، وَيُؤْتُوا الزَّكَاةَ، فَإِذَا فَعَلُوا ذَلِكَ عَصَمُوا مِنِّي دِمَاءَهُمْ وَأَمْوَالَهُمْ إِلَّا بِحَقِّ الْإِسْلَامِ، وَحِسَابُهُمْ عَلَى اللَّهِ.

Translation

I have been commanded to fight the people until they testify that none is worthy of worship but Allah and that Muḥammad is His Messenger, and establish ṣalāh and give zakāh. When they do that, their blood and wealth are protected from me except by a right of Islam, and their reckoning is with Allah.

Narrator

ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿUmar

Source

Bukhārī 25 · Muslim 22

Commentary

Classical scholars contextualise this strictly — 'the people' here is the Arab polytheists of the Prophet's ﷺ era who persecuted Muslims, not humanity at large. The operative takeaway Nawawī highlights is the sanctity of life and property once Islam is professed.