106 A. Read the text and answer the questions:

Contrasting sharply with the barbarity of the Crusaders.  Saladin's treatment of the prisoners was lenient and courteous with most being allowed to purchase their freedom – with on single, important exception!  Saladin received the great captive lords and barons in his tent on the field of Hittin after the battle.  He greeted them graciously, with King Guy himself being seated next to Saladin.  Saladin himself then handed Guy a goblet of iced rose water to refresh him after the battle.  Guy drank gladly from the cup before handing it on to Reynald de Chatillon, the other most important survivor of Hittin.  Seeing this, Saladin quickly said "Tell the King that he gave that man drink, not I", for by the laws of Muslim hospitality to give a man drink meant that he then enjoyed the protection of his host.  Saladin then rose, and personally chopped off Reynald's head.

1- Saladin's treatment of the prisoners was not humiliating.  Write two

    examples from the text which indicate so?

2- Why did Guy hand the cup to Chatillon?

3- What was the privilege Saladin gave to Guy by giving him a drink?

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