Ye people! Harken to my words; for I know not whether, after the year, I shall ever be amongst you here again. Your lives
and property are sacred and inviolable amongst one another until the end of time. Allah hath ordained to every man the share of his inheritance: a testament is not lawful to the prejudice of heirs. The child belongeth to the parents: and the violator of Wedlock shall be stoned. Whoever claimeth falsely another for his father, or another for his master, the curse of Allah and angels, and of all mankind, shall rest upon him. Ye people! You have right demandable of your wives, and they have rights demandable of you. Upon them it is incumbent not to violate their conjugal faith, neither to commit any act of open impropriety; which things if they do, ye have the right authority to shut them up in separate apartments ant to beat them with stripes, yet not severly. But if they refrain therefrom, cloth them and feed them suitably. And treat your women well: for they are with you as captives and slaves. And you have verily taken them on the security of God: and have made their persons lawful unto you by the words of God. And your slaves! See that ye feed them with such food as ye eat yourselves; and cloth them with the stuff ye wear. And if they commit a fault which ye are not inclined to forgive them, and then sell them, for they are the servants of Allah, and are not to be tormented. Ye people! Harken to my speech and comprehend the same. Know that every Muslim is the brother of every other Muslim. All of you are on the same equality; (as he pronounced these words, he raised his arms aloft and placed the forefinger of one hand, as an emblem of equality, on the forefinger of the other); ye are one brotherhood. Know ye what month this is? – What territory this is? – What day? To which the people answered, - "the sacred month – the sacred territory – the great day of
pilgrimage". At each reply, Muhammad added "Even thus sacred and inviolable hath Allah made the life and the property of each of you unto the other, until you meet your lord. Let him is present tell it unto him that is absent. He that shall be told may remember it better than he who hath heard it .