Spirit and the Truth in their own hearts which they have from the God of Truth if they do serve and worship the holy and eternal God of Truth in his Spirit and Truth and these are the true Worshippers that Worship the Eternal God of Truth in his Spirit and Truth which the Devil which is the foul corrupt Spirit is out of who abode not in the Truth and there is no Truth in him therefore he is not to be followed nor worshipped but the God of Truth and the Grace of God which brings Salvation hath appeared to all men which teacheth us his people to deny Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts we living Soberly Righteously and Godly in this present World Now all men must come to this Grace of God in their hearts which appears to them in their hearts which shews them their Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts and their unrighteousness and it will teach them to forsake it and bring their Salvation but if that you do turn this Grace of God into wantonness and walk despightfully against the Spirit of Grace you walk in despight of that which should bring your Salvation then you bring the Wrath and Indignation of the great God against you who abuse his Grace and Favour and the Messiah and you and Mahomet do consess that John declares Christ the Messiah to be the Word then you are to obey him Moreover John saith That he was not that Light but sent to bear Witness of that Light and that was the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World Now you all being enlightened with this true Light which Light lets you see all your evil deeds and actions that you do and all your evil words and thoughts that you speak and think And every one of you that doth Truth cometh to the Light that your Deeds may be manifest they are wrought in God from whom they have this Light in whom there is no Darkness but every one of you that doth evil hateth the light then you hate Jesus Christ and the Eternal God neither will you come to the light lest your Deeds should be reproved by the light and this is the Condemnation That Light is come into the World and men love Darkness rather than Light because their Deeds be Evil. Now if you would do the Truth and come to the Light and love it it shines in your hearts and would give you the Light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ and then you would know this Heavenly Treasure in your Earthen Vessels and the excellency of this power to be of God and not of your selves And you do confess That Jesus Christ was not begotten by the Will of man who was Conceived of Mary and that she should Conceive and bring forth without the touching of man and he being Conceived by the Holy Spirit then whose Son can he be but Gods who taught him the Scriptures and the mysteryes of the Laws of the Old Testament and the Gospel who was a Prophet to the Children of Israel as you confess in your Alcoran chap. 3. pag. 34. So he was declared to be Gods Son in the power according to the Spirit of Holiness by the Resurrection from the Dead for all Died in Adam and he tasted Death for every man and is risen for the Just fication of all that believe in him the true Light of the Eternal God And now all ye Turks and all People upon the earth God who is Immortal Eternal and Invisible he has poured out of his Spirit upon you all but if you do grieve it and vex and rebel and err from and against his good Spirit then you go from Gods Law and that which doth Witness for him which is his Spirit in your hearts which is a Witness for the King of Kings yea the great King of Heaven and Earth I say this Witness doth Witness for the great God who will Judge the World in Righteousness according to this Witness and the Secrets of every mans heart he by his Spirit doth shew unto man his Thoughts and the Imaginations of his heart and searches the Heart and tryes the Reins and all things are naked and open to him who is a Consuming Fire to the Wicked Now this Spirit of the God of Truth which he hath poured upon all flesh of men and women it is a Witness against you for the pure God for all your unrighteous and ungodly impious actions and your bad Thoughts and Words and whatever you do or act that is unjust and unholy and for what you do to others you would not have done to you the Holy Spirit of the great God of Truth is a Witness against you It was a Witness against Adam and the Old World that disobeyed him it was a Witness against the Jews and it is a Witness against all Christians that walk not in it and Turks and all people upon the earth and they that are led by the good Spirit of God are his Children Sons and Daughters and therefore prize your time while you have it ye Turks and others and mind Gods good Spirit and his Light and Grace which will bring your Salvation that you may come into favour with the God of Truth From him whose Love is to God and Jesus Christ the Just and Holy One and all his Holy Prophets and Apostles and all People upon the Earth for their Salvation and desires their Eternal Good and Happiness and not any mans Destruction G. Fox Kingston upon Thames the 16 of the fifth month 1680. POSTSCRIPT Of George Pattisons taking the Turks about the 8 Month 1663. Dear Friend THine I have received In Answer to thy request I have given thee an Account as well and as near as I can but as to the exact time I cannot for I have not my Books I was George Pattisons Mate and coming from Venice being near a Spanish Island called May-York we were Chased by a Turkish Ship or Patah as sometimes before we had been and thinking by our Vessels well Sailing might escape But Providence Ordered it so That by carrying over-much Sail some of our Materials gave way by which means the said Turk came up with us and commanded the Master on Board who accordingly went with four men more leaving me and three men and a boy on board our Ship and so soon as our men came on Board the Turk they took them all out of the Boat and came about 14 Turks in our Boat All which time I was under a very great Exercise in Spirit not so much for my self because I had a secret hope of relief but a great stress lay upon me for the men in this very Juncture of time for all hope of outward appearance being then gone the Master being on board of the Turk and four more and the Turks just coming on Board I being as one even as if I were or were not only desiring of the Lord for patience in such
than they have and because they will not lie with your men which is abominable Again Mahomet saith c. 102. p. 319. He that persecutes his Neighbour misery is upon him and persecution shall come upon him and conquer him And therefore if ye believe his Alcoran this will be fulfilled unto you that do such things And again Mahomet saith He that heaps up Treasures and is busie to count them thinks they will make him Immortal he tells such what shall be their misery that their Hearts shall burn in the fire of Hell and therefore what will become of you who get your Treasure by Theft and Robbery and taking Captives and beat them to give more mony for Redemption than they have neither do not think you any harm who are the Subjects of the great God and keep his Commandments surely such that do so will be overwhelmed with the Flames of Hell and bound to great Pillars of the same And again Mahomet saith chap 105. pag. 391. He that devours the Substance of Orphans and the Bread of the Poor Blasphemes against the Law of God and misery is upon him Now are not you men of Argier that devours the substance of Orphans and hinder men to do well and follow their lawful business and so are not only under the Judgement of the Law of God but under the Judgement of your Mahoment who live there by spoyling and robbing your Neighbour that think you no hurt And Jesus the Son of Mary which you confess in your Alcoran was sent to guide and instruct people in the right way whom you confess was a great Prophet and do find fault with the Jews because they did not obey him he commands people that they should love their enemies and do good unto enemies and pray for enemies and do good unto them that despightfully use them And you say in your Alcoran That Jesus shall be a Witness in the day of Judgement against such as obey not his Law then do not you believe he will be a Witness against you for disobeying his Command and Law who hate not only them you think your enemies but those that neither think nor do you harm and take them Captive and rob and spoil them of their Goods and beat them because they will not be defiled with your men and give you more mony for their Ransom than they are able to give And again Mahomet saith chap. 3. pag. 34 That Jesus said Who shall sustain the Law of God in my absence and the Apostles answered him We will sustain the Law of God in thy absence c. And therefore why do not you believe in the Law of God according to Jesus and the Prophets for Jesus Apostles declared against such men as burned in their Lusts one towards another men with men and who knew the Judgements of God was upon them that committed such things and that they were worthy of Death and yet did not only do such things but had pleasure in them that did them and therefore you Turks that do such things are Judged by the great God and all his Holy Prophets and Jesus Christ and his Apostles to Act contrary to Gods pure just holy righteous Law and they are Witnesses against you as is also your own Alcoran And now consider O ye Turks The great and holy Eternal God who made the World and all things therein he is Lord of Heaven and Earth and great King over all and dwelleth not in Temples made with hands but in Temples of Peoples hearts neither is he Worshipped with mens hands he giveth to all breath life and all things that they might serve and worship him and he hath made of one Bloud all Nations of men for to dwell on the face of the Earth and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their Habitations and all should seek after the Lord who fills Heaven and Earth who is not far from any people and now commands all men every where to repent because he hath appointed a day in which he will Judge the World in Righteousness And therefore how can you do any Violence against your own flesh and bloud seeing that God hath made of one Bloud all Nations of men and commands you to do unto all men as you would have them do unto you yea and to love one another and to love enemies and therefore it is the Devil that seduces you and makes you hate both your Friends and Enemies and your own Flesh and Bloud And also the Eternal God of Truth commands That Prayers and Supplications be made for all men who would have all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth and therefore you ought not to destroy them nor to hurt them which you cannot hurt if you truly pray for them For the Lord hath commanded his Prophet Ezekiel to say unto the People As I live saith the Lord I have no pleasure in the Death of the Wicked but that the Wicked turn from his Wicked ways and live Therefore turn ye turn ye from your evil ways for why will ye Die for I have no pleasure in the Death of him that Dieth saith the Lord God of Truth therefore turn your selves to the Lord and ye shall live for the Lord God that Created the Heavens and the Earth and stretched them out he that spread forth the Earth and that which comes out of it he that giveth breath to the People upon it and Spirit to them that walk therein his Law and Covenant and Light is to be minded and kept that he hath given to the Nations so that every one that hath Breath may praise the Lord in his Covenant of light for in the hand of the Lord is the Soul of every living thing and the Breath of all mankind And the Lord opens unto them that obey him his good Treasure that they have the Blessings from above and also from below and he is the Lord God of the spirits of all flesh and therefore all are to worship and serve him in the Spirit and Truth who is the Lord God of their Spirits And he was the Teacher of Adam and Eve and as long as they kept under his Teachings they were happy but when they forsook Gods Teaching and followed the Devils and Sathans Teaching who led them from God into corruptions filthiness uncleanness and into Divisions and to destroy one another but according to Gods Promises and Prophets the Seed of the Woman is come to bruise the Serpents head and is the Speaker and Teacher again to his People by it as he was to Adam and Eve in Paradice Glory and Praise to the Great and Eternal God for Ever And God by his Prophets said That he would pour out of his Spirit upon all Flesh And Jesus Christ said That God was a Spirit and they that Worship him must Worship him in Spirit and Truth And now all Men and Women in the whole World they must come to the
TO THE Great TURK AND HIS KING AT ARGIERS TOGETHER WITH A Postscript of George Pattison's taking the TURKS and setting them on their own Shoar LONDON Printed for Ben. â—lark in George-yard in Lumbard-street 1680. TO THE Great TURK And his King at ARGIERS IN the Name of the great God and Lord Creator and King of all things in Heaven and Earth do I write unto you And I do take Enoch Noah Abraham and Lot and Isaac and Jacob and Joseph and Moses and David and all the Prophets of the Great and most High Dreadful and Terrible God who is a consuming Fire to the Wicked and John as you say in your Alcoran pag. 30. chap 33. I say John the Son of Zachariah that did affirm Christ to be the Messiah and to be the Word of God that great and chaste just Prophet and Mary the Mother of Jesus Christ with all his Holy Apostles and your own Mahomet that writ your Alcoran to be Witness against you and some of your practises that is practised amongst you at the dreadful day of Judgment of the great God when you shall all give an Account of your Words Deeds and Actions and be rewarded who will reward every man according to his works whether they be good or evil For I say of a Truth That the great God and Lord of Heaven and Earth and all things therein is no respecter of Persons but in every Nation he that fears God and worketh Righteousness is accepted of him And now O great Turk and the King of Argier I have something here to present before you And my desires are That you may read hear and fear the Great and Terrible Righteous Holy and pure God And here as followeth you may see the Impiety and unchastness and the cruelties of some of your People at Argier against honest chaste People that serve and fear and worship the most high God which you have taken Captive I say you have taken their Ships their Goods and some you keep Slaves some till they have died and others you have sold for Slaves many people of the most high God in scorn called Quakers besides great numbers of other English people and people of other Nations cruelly Opprest and inhumanely used by you Did ever Mahomet give you Authority to rob spoil and take the Goods of them that do you no harm and keep Captives the bodies of them and sell them or to beat upon the feet belly or back them which are so taken to make them promise more money for their Ransoms than they are able Or to beat upon the feet with one or two or three hundred blows and hang up by the heels and beat them which you have taken Captives because they refuse to lye with your men as a man lyeth with a Woman And is it not contrary to your very wild Bulls Horses Rams and He Goats and other wild Creatures and bruit Beasts And is it not declared against by the Mighty and Eternal God by Moses and all his holy Prophets who saith It is an Abomination to lie with mankind as with Woman kind and such men as commit these Abominations have defiled the Land and God will spue them out And such Emperours Kings and Magistrates as wink at and suffer such wicked Abominations and Impieties the great God will bring his Judgments and Vengeance upon them For the Eternal Holy Lord God Almighty saith who is of purer eyes than to behold Iniquity If any man lyeth with mankind as he lyeth with Women both of these men have committed Abomination they shall surely be both put to Death their Blood shall be upon them for all such defile Gods Land and Earth and for such Iniquities will the mighty God visit your Land For he is the mighty God to see all your actions ways and doings and hears all your words and sees all your thoughts and you can turn your selves no way from the eye and face of God nor from his hearing your words nor seeing your thoughts Now would you to wit the Great Turk and the King of Argiers or any of your Subjects be so served your selves if you should be so taken Captive to be hanged up by the heels and beaten with two or three hundred stripes because you esteem Vertue Piety and Chastity and not be forced to lye with other men as you lye with Women could you undergo such punishment as you inflict upon some of our Chast people because they will not submit to such abominable impieties as some of your Subjects would force upon them that you have now in Captivity And would you think it were just according to the Law of the great God and your own Alcoran if you were taken Captive and your Goods spoiled and to be beaten upon the belly back on feet to get more mony than you are able to be give for the Redemption out of your Captivity and is not this contrary to the Just Law of the great and holy God and contrary to his Prophets yea and contrary to Mahomet that gave forth the Alcoran Or did those which took Lot Abraham's Friend and his company Captive beat them because they would not lye with men as with Women Or where did ever David or any of the Prophets of God force any that they had taken Captive to lye with man as with Woman as you have done And do not you remember that when some of your Men of War took George Pattison Captive who was a Quaker and his Ship and his Men and after they conquered them again without hurting of them and took them Captive and when they had done set them on the Turkish Shoar without hurting of them as may be seen in the Postcript And where did ever any of the Turkish Men of War do so to the English or to the Quakers but on the contrary you beat them to get more mony than they are able to give you and because they will not lye with your men as they do with Women and this practice of yours is neither moral nor humane but worse than Beasts and so do contrary to the Law of the great God in that you do that to others which you would not have others do unto you Now Mahomet saith in your Alcoran chap. 15. pag. 161. When the Messengers of the great Eternal God were sent to destroy the Infidels of Sodom which came to Lot's House and the Inhabitants of the City came to Lot's House to see the Messengers And Lot said unto them I beseech you defile not your selves with my Guests Fear God and dishonour not your selves and how that Lot said behold my two Daughters take them and the Inhabitants said we do not hinder thee to lodg thy Guests and how that the Inhabitants remained confounded in their Drunkenness and that God overthrew the City and turned it upside down and caused it to Rain with Stones and Fire which utterly destroyed it who were so impious And this shall serve for an Example to
Passengers that shall see those ruines and for a mark of the Omnipotency of God to them that believe in his Divine Majesty that God avenged on them they may serve for Examples to Posterity Now how can you look up to the great God of Truth and in your owned Alcoran and Scriptures concerning Lot and suffer such impious abominable Actions to be committed at Argier for your men to whip young men and force because they will not lye with men as women Is not this as bad or worse than the Sodomites that would have layn with the Messengers that came to Lots House as with Women who called to Lot and said bring them out that we may know them and Lot proffered them his two Daughters to save the Messengers And is not the Eternal God that changes not the same to Judge and Destroy them that act such things among you as them in Sodom did and that suffer such Impieties and Abominations to be acted and love their Sins more than Piety And Mahomet saith in your Alcoran Chap. 15. God guideth not the Vnjust and therefore the Great and Eternal God doth not guide your people in these Impieties and you say The greatest part of the World are impious because of the enormities of their Crimes But now look among your own Subjects and see if they be not the same for crimes impieties and enormities And if Jesus the Son of Mary who confirms the antient Scriptures be full of Light and of the Gospel to conduct the people the right way with a confirmation of the Old Testament and guide and instruct for the righteous then certain your actions before mentioned at Argier and that way doth declare you not to be in this right way of Light and Gospel of Jesus And again Mahomet saith in your Alcoran such as shall not Judge conformable to the Laws of God are unjust and these Abominable Impieties of yours are not conformable to the Law of God but leads you into the way of Destruction from the way of Salvation and therefore unjust And you say in your Alcoran chap. 5. God loveth the Just but he hateth such unjust action of yours And in your Alcoran you write That God punished the Children of Israel that polluted the earth and opposed the Will of God c. and further you say He that slayeth an Innocent person shall be punished as if he had slain the whole World and he that shall give his life shall be recompensed as if he had given Life to the whole World Now hath not your practise herein been contrary to your Alcoran as in chap. 5. and pag. 64.65 And do not you say you gave them your Curse that alter'd the words of the Scripture and also saith That God loves them that do good c. 5 p. 65. Now these bad actions of yours are contrary to the Scriptures and contrary to your Alcoran and therefore how can God love you And again you say Such as have the Knowledg of the Scriptures ought to believe in Jesus before their Death for he shall be a Witness against them of their Actions in the day of Judgement Now ye Turks consider how you do acknowledge the Scriptures and believe in Jesus and in God who sheweth forth such abominable Actions and do not you think that Jesus the Messiah will be a Witness against you at the day of Judgement for your impitles and your infidelity and must not all such be cast into the lowest Hell and find no relief except they repent in their life-time and do good Works meet for Repentance and resign your selves to God and obey his Commandments as to this effect you say in your Alcoran cap. 4. pag. 61. And you confess That every man shall taste Death and have reward at the day of Judgement And do you think of the day of Judgement and fear God that do such Evils and Impieties And again you say in the Alcoran That you would have the fear of God before your eyes and if you be converted your Principle remains unto you do injustice to no man then it shall not be done unto you if your Debtors be not able to pay and in want you do well to stay their conveniency chap. 2. page 28. Now do not you Turks shew That you are degenerated from your Principle and are not converted that do these unjust abominable things to others that you would not have them do unto you and beat your Slaves and Captives because they will not give you more mony than they have to redeem themselves withal and because they will not lye with your men as with Women and therefore as you say in the same Chapter The Wicked shall be deprived of Protection at the day of Judgement And again in your Alcoran you say You shall all one day appear before his Divine Majesty to be judged Therefore dread and fear this day you that commit such Abominations and act such Cruelties Again Mahomet saith in c. 2. p. 19. There be men whose Speeches may be pleasent to thee in this World they wiil call God to witness what is in their hearts nevertheless they are very pernicious Now is not this your Condition at Argier And you say God knoweth he is with them that fear him c. 2. p. 18. But truly you do shew that you are not in this fear c. p. 11. Again you say Wheresoever men do turn themselves there the Face of God will meet them his Divinity extendeth through the whole Earth Therefore how dare you in the face and sight of God act such things and not repent and fear his divine Majesty And therefore take heed that you do not purchase to your selves the Life and Lusts of the World and quit Paradice and go into misery as you say in your 8 page And again Mahomet saith If Slaves have recourse to you ye shall redeem them c. page 8. Now you are far from redeeming Slaves when you beat them for not giving you Mony according to your wills and more than they can give and also beat them because they will not commit horrid Uncleanness to defile and abuse their Bodies with Mankind And you say that Adam begged pardon for his Fault who departed from his Grace and have not you need of this and repent and turn to the Lord you who defiles the Earth For else is not Hell prepared for all such that polutes the Earth for you are not observers of Gods Law nor of your own Alcoran as you may see chap. 2. page 2. And the great God the Creator of all doth know all in Heaven and in Earth both what is done in secret and openly and all is naked before him who will reward every man according to his Works He is a consuming Fire And Mahomet saith that God guideth not the Wicked chap. 19. page 115. And again he saith Alms is appointed for the Poor for them that recommend themselves to God to redeem Slaves and such as are in Debt
in the same chap. p. 11. I say then according to your own Alcoran God hath not been your Guide to be so wicked against the Slaves you take And as for your Alms and Charity to them is manifest but cold But where did any called Christians after they had taken any of you Turks beat you because you would not give them more mony than you had and because you would not lie with Men as with Women And if God be full of goodness for the people as Mahomet saith c. 10. p. 130. then you are degenerated from his Goodness And again in c. 11. p. 134. Mahomet saith That God shall reward every one according to his Works And therefore why do not you dread and fear this great God of Heaven and Earth And c. 11. p. 140. Mahomet saith detain nothing from your Neighbours defile not the Earth c. Then how can you detain mens Children and Servants and Goods from them and beat them because they will not give you more Mony than they have to redeem them and hang them up by the heels and beat them because they will not lie with Men as with Women O horrible Impieties And did not God destroy such both in the day of Noah Abraham Lot and Moses that did corrupt and defile the Earth And c. 12. p. 144. How Joseph's Mistress would have had him to have been unchast and how amorous she was of Joseph her Husband's Slave and how that Joseph said O God I had rather be a Prisoner than do what she desireth Now here Do not you act contrary to Joseph and your own Alcoran who would force your Captives to lie with you as with Women Is not this worse then Joseph's Mistress who would not only force but beat them with some hundreds of Stripes because they will not submit to your inhumane Impieties and unchaste wicked Lusts For our Friends that are your Captives are of Joseph's Spirit that obey the Law of the most high God And you say that Joseph's Mistress did confess he was a just man but Joseph would not be a Traytor to his Master No more can the People of God called Quakers your Slaves in Argier be Traytors to God and disobey his just Laws that condemns such unchaste inhumane Impieties that you Turks would force in Argier to lie with Men as with Women they had rather be Prisoners all the days of their Lives And therefore as Mahomet saith c. 19. p. 188 That all such Infidels for Actions For as you confess You must all appear before the Lord at the Day of Judgment and give an account of your actions And could the old World and Sodom be more vicious than you that do such wicked Actions And Mahomet saith chap. 21. pag. 200. That David and Salomon who rendred Justice in the Field that the Flocks of the Village entred by night without Shephards Now are not you fallen and degenerated from this Justice both of David and Solomon that the Flocks cannot enter the Villages without Shepherds and Guides let the Great God of Truth judge And therefore what will you say in the day of Judgement when the Prophets and your own Alcoran will be against you for will not you that act such things be found Fire-brands of Hell and how can such expect the Lords Protection and therefore the great God will call you to an account for all your actions and all men upon the earth who transgress his good and holy Just Law and if the God of Truth be King of the whole Earth as you confess in your Alcoran chap. 23. pag. 212 and the Creator of all and King of all things both in Heaven and Earth then how dare you act such unchast unjust things and be such Wicked Rebels against his Commandment and Just Law and therefore the Ballance of the Cursed as you confess shall be light of good Works that obeys not the Commandments of God And Mahomet saith chap. 29. page 245. how God delivered Abraham from the People that would have killed him but if you were in the steps and Faith of Abraham or Lot you would not defile your selves with filthiness and do not you confess That Lot said to them of Sodom ye defile your selves with filthiness unknown to any before you and told them they inclined to the love of men ye rob in the high-ways and defile one another Now have not you Turks forgotten Lots Preaching and degenerated from your own Alcoran and are become Robbers and to follow that unknown filthiness with which you defile your selves to wit the Lust of men that you beat those men which you have robb'd and spoyl'd and taken Captive because they will not lye with your men as Women And therefore how can you expect but that Gods Wrath and Indignation will fall upon you for your impieties and you to be set forth for examples to Posterity whom the Devil hath seduced from the right way of the Lord and of his righteous law who neither follows your own Mahomet what he hath declared but the vanities of Infidelity and fears not God his Divine Majesty nor regard his Law but have contemned his Commandments And therefore Mahomet saith chap. 51. pag. 326. such as fear not God and do not believe shall be punished in Hell fire And again Mahomet saith chap. 59. pag. 344. In the Name of God gracious and merciful whatsoever is in Heaven and Earth exalts the Glory of God he is Omnipotent and Wise It is he that exiles the Wicked from among them that knoweth his Law Then here are not you the Wicked that are exiled that disobey his Law and commit such abominable things and therefore you cannot exalt Gods Glory neither are you gracious nor merciful that do thus beat and abuse your Captives because they will not lye with men as Women yea 2 or 300 Stripes and to give more mony for their Redemption than they are able to give and therefore such Wickedness as yours doth dishonour the great God and you will be made the examples of his Wrath and suffer the pains of Hell fire except ye repent as Mahomet saith chap. 67. pag. 356. And therefore do not streng then your selves in Impiety nor put your Fingers in your Ears and stop them and cover your Head with your Garments that you will neither hear nor see Gods Law as Mahomet tells you which reproves you for your Impieties who are erred from the right way of the Lord that do commit such things And c. 93. p. 385. Mahomet tells you how the Lord inriches you and that you should do no injury to the Orphans and that you should not devour the poor but that you should recount the Graces that God hath conferred upon you Now are not you Turks degenerated not only from the Law of God but from Mahomet's teaching in his Alcoran Do not ye devour the poor Orphans who you take Captive and injure them when you beat them because they will not give you more mony