LETTER TO KHAS'AM TRIBE


In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.



0; the people of Khas'am, who live in jungle or villages and who in their dark days (before embracing Islam) committed murders, are forgiven.



Whoever from these people accepts Islam, will have to pay one twentieth of the produce of the land irrigated by springs and one tenth of the produce of rainfed lands. one tenth of the produce of rain fed lands.'



Seal: Allah's Prophet Muhammad



Note: The people of Khas'am tribe were agriculturists. The Holy Prophet(S.A.W.) gave general amnesty to the criminals of the tribe in the above letter.