France: ‘We Have Plundered Everything in the Name of Allah’
Non-Muslims may find it curious to ascribe the act of plundering to a deity, but the man who said this clearly had a good working knowledge of Islam. The conquest of Infidel lands and the promise of booty, according to Ibn Kathir, is “in reference to the goodness that Allah the Exalted and Most Honored caused to happen to the Companions on account of the peace treaty between them and their disbelieving enemies.











