Allamah Amini says: It is preferable that the researcher should pay attention to this event from two aspects:
First aspect
Sins and serious crimes, which Khalid bin Walid committed and all Muslims
are immune from his acts, which are opposed to the call of Holy Quran and
Sunnah of Prophet. Whoever believes in God, His Prophet and hereafter, declares
immunity from them.
ايَحْسَبُ الْإِنْسَانُ أَنْ يُتْرَكَ سُدًى
“Does man think that he is to be left to wander without an aim?”1
ايَحْسَبُ أَن لَّنْ يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ
“Does he think that no one has power over him?”2
أَمْ حَسِبَ الَّذِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ السَّيَّاتِ أَنْ يَسْبِقُونَا سَاءَ مَا يَحْكُمُونَ
“Or do they who work evil think that they will escape Us? Evil is it that they judge!”3
By which Book or Sunnah is it lawful to shed the pure blood of those, who have faith in God and His Messenger? Who have followed the path of truth and
testified to righteous path. Recited Adhan and Iqamah, performed prayers,
claimed aloud that they were Muslims?
لَا تَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِينَ يَفْرَحُونَ بِمَا أَتَوْا وَيُحِبُّونَ أَنْ يُحْمَدُوا بِمَا لَمْ يَفْعَلُوا فَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّهُمْ مَفَازَةٍ مِنَ الْعَذَابِ : وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ
“Do not think those who rejoice for what they have done and
love that they should be praised for what they have not done- so
do by no means think them to be safe from the chastisement,
and they shall have a painful chastisement.”4
What is Khalid’s excuse for killing someone like Malik, who had interacted
with Prophet and was a good companion and His Eminence (s.a.w.a.) had
appointed him to collect taxes from his community; and he was among influential
personalities of the period of Ignorance and Islam and was an associate of kings?5
مَنْ قَتَلَ نَفْسًا بِغَيْرِ نَفْسٍ أَوْ فَسَادٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَكَأَنَّمَا قَتَلَ النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا
“Whoever slays a soul, unless it be for manslaughter or for mischief in the land, it is as though he slew all men.”6
وَمَنْ يَقْتُلْ مُؤْمِنًا مُتَعَمِّدًا فَجَزَاؤُهُ جَهَنَّمُ خَلِدًا فِيهَا
“And whoever kills a believer intentionally, his punishment is hell; he shall abide in it.”7
And what impelled that man to kill them without their having been
committed any sin? Or a corruption was seen from them in religion, which made
it lawful?
وَالَّذِينَ يُؤْذُونَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَتِ بِغَيْرِ مَا اكْتَسَبُوا فَقَدِ احْتَمَلُوا بُهْتَانًا وَإِثْمًا مبينا
“And those who speak evil things of the believing men and the
believing women without their having earned (it), they are guilty
indeed of a false accusation and a manifest sin.”8
This cruelty, misbehavior and malice, remoteness from the manners of Islam
and defiling the severed heads of Muslims and burning them in fire; what is all
this?
فَوَيْلٌ لِلْقَسِيَةِ قُلُوبُهُمْ مِنْ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ أُولَبِكَ فِي ضَلَلٍ مُّبِينٍ
“Nay, woe to those whose hearts are hard against the
remembrance of Allah; those are in clear error.”9