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Bismillah. Al-a-a-salam and to Rassolalam and his al-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a.

In the first Raqa, I recited in Sulaean, the famous verse,

"...this is something we spoke about. Insan, the famous verse, And yautiomunata on hubbih,

Miscinen and Yatima and Asira.

This is something we spoke about so many times,

and today we're going to mention the rulings about one of these words

and lead our way to something modern and relevant.

This verse came down in early Macca, as we all know,

and Allah praises the believers for sharing from their food

for the misquine, the Yatim, and the prisoner.

The prisoner.

It's very interesting that in this early ayah,

Allah, subhanna, Tala, praise the believers

for feeding prisoners of war.

At this point in time, as Ibn Abbas said, the prisoners were musheriks.

We're talking about the Quraysh having gone to war in Jahiliya.

The war has nothing to with Islam.

The Qarish going to war with another tribe.

And they take members of this tribe and they make them prisoners in Makkah, as happens in war.

And Allah says, a good believer will share his own food with a prisoner of war that has no ethnic, no religious, no even loyalty because the war is happening for something jahili.

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