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..the Muslim state was to observe its treaties as sacred. "Ye who believe" He writes in the Qur'an, "be not false in your engagements, with your own knowledge... Or if thou fear treachery from any people, throw back their treaty to them as thou fairly mayest, for God loveth not the treacherous... And if they lean to peace, lean thou also to it." (Sura 8 verses 27,60,63). He warns His followers that if they make a treaty with infidels and the infidels remain true to it they too must keep their engagements "with them through the whole time of their treaty; for God loveth those who fear Him... But if, after alliance made, they break their oaths and revile your religion, then do battle with the ring-leaders of infidelity-- for no oaths are binding with them-- that they may desist." (Sura 9 verses 4 and 12)
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