CHARGE
OF "THE SWORD"
The
greatest crime, the greatest "sin" of Muhammad (pbuh} in
the eyes of the Christian West is that he did not
allow himself to be slaughtered,
to be "crucified" by his enemies. He ably defended himself,
his family and his
followers; and finally vanquished
his enemies. Muhammad's (pbuh} success is the Christians' gall of
disappointment: he did not
believe in any vicarious sacrifice for the sins of others. He
believed and behaved
naturally.
IN THE STATE OF NATURE, EVERY ONE HAS A RIGHT TO DEFEND HIS PERSON AND POSSESSIONS, AND EXTEND HIS HOSTILITIES TO A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF SATISFACTION AND RETALIATION," says Gibbon, the master historian in his "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." His struggle and victory over the forces of unbelief and evil made the editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica to exclaim, Muhammad (pbuh} to be - - - "THE MOST SUCCESSFUL OF ALL RELIGIOUS PERSONALITIES." How can the enemies of Islam account for Muhammad's phenomenal achievements except to decry that he spread his religion at the point of the sword? He forced Islam down peoples' throats!?
IN THE STATE OF NATURE, EVERY ONE HAS A RIGHT TO DEFEND HIS PERSON AND POSSESSIONS, AND EXTEND HIS HOSTILITIES TO A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF SATISFACTION AND RETALIATION," says Gibbon, the master historian in his "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." His struggle and victory over the forces of unbelief and evil made the editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica to exclaim, Muhammad (pbuh} to be - - - "THE MOST SUCCESSFUL OF ALL RELIGIOUS PERSONALITIES." How can the enemies of Islam account for Muhammad's phenomenal achievements except to decry that he spread his religion at the point of the sword? He forced Islam down peoples' throats!?
"HISTORY MAKES IT CLEAR HOWEVER, THAT THE LEGEND OF FANATICAL
MUSLIMS SWEEPING THROUGH THE WORLD AND FORCING ISLAM AT THE POINT OF
THE SWORD UPON
CONQUERED RACES IS ONE OF THE
MOST FANTASTICALLY ABSURD MYTHS THAT HISTORIANS
HAVE EVER REPEATED." De Lacy
O'Leary in "Islam at the Crossroads'' London, 1923, p.8
You do not have to be a historian like O'Leary to know that the Muslims ruled Spain for 736 years. The longest the Christians ever ruled over Muslims was 500 years in Mozambique, a territory captured from an Arab governor by the name of Musa-bin-baique, a name they could not properly pronounce, hence the name Mozambique. Even today, after five centuries of Christian overlordship the country is still 60 percent Muslim. However, after eight centuries in Spain the Muslims were totally eliminated from that country so that not even one man was left to give the Azan {the Muslim call to prayer}. If the Muslims had used force, military or economic there would not have been any Christian left in Spain to have kicked the Muslims out. One can blame the Muslims for exploitation if you like but one cannot charge them with using the sword to convert Spaniards to the Islamic religion.
Today, Islam is still spreading all over the world and Muslims have NO sword!! The Muslims were also the masters of India for a thousand years, but eventually when the subcontinent received independence in 1947, the Hindus obtained three quarters of the country and the Muslims the balance of the one-quarter. Why? Because the Muslims did not force Islam down the Hindus' throats! In Spain and in India, the Muslims were no paragons of virtue, yet they obeyed the Qur'anic injunction to the letter
You do not have to be a historian like O'Leary to know that the Muslims ruled Spain for 736 years. The longest the Christians ever ruled over Muslims was 500 years in Mozambique, a territory captured from an Arab governor by the name of Musa-bin-baique, a name they could not properly pronounce, hence the name Mozambique. Even today, after five centuries of Christian overlordship the country is still 60 percent Muslim. However, after eight centuries in Spain the Muslims were totally eliminated from that country so that not even one man was left to give the Azan {the Muslim call to prayer}. If the Muslims had used force, military or economic there would not have been any Christian left in Spain to have kicked the Muslims out. One can blame the Muslims for exploitation if you like but one cannot charge them with using the sword to convert Spaniards to the Islamic religion.
Today, Islam is still spreading all over the world and Muslims have NO sword!! The Muslims were also the masters of India for a thousand years, but eventually when the subcontinent received independence in 1947, the Hindus obtained three quarters of the country and the Muslims the balance of the one-quarter. Why? Because the Muslims did not force Islam down the Hindus' throats! In Spain and in India, the Muslims were no paragons of virtue, yet they obeyed the Qur'anic injunction to the letter
LET
THERE BE NO COMPULSION IN RELIGION: FOR TRUTH STANDS OUT DISTINCT
FROM ERROR. Holy Quran 2:256
The
Muslim conquerors understood from this command that "compulsion"
was incompatible with true religion: because
(a}
Religion depends on faith and will, and these would be meaningless if
induced by force. Force can conquer but cannot convert.
(b)
Truth and Error have been so clearly shown up by the Mercy of God
that there should be no doubt in the
minds of any person of goodwill
as to the fundamentals of faith.
(c)
God's protection is continuous and His Plan is always to lead us from
the depths of darkness into the
clearest light.
[(a), (b} and (c) are Yusuf Ali's comments on verse 256. Obtain his translation with over 6000 explanatory footnotes from the IPCI.] Except for some eccentrics here and there, the Muslims as a whole adhered to the commandment of God in the lands over which they held sway. But what can the enemy say about countries where no single Muslim soldier had set foot?
[(a), (b} and (c) are Yusuf Ali's comments on verse 256. Obtain his translation with over 6000 explanatory footnotes from the IPCI.] Except for some eccentrics here and there, the Muslims as a whole adhered to the commandment of God in the lands over which they held sway. But what can the enemy say about countries where no single Muslim soldier had set foot?
(i) INDONESIA: It is a fact that over a hundred million Indonesians
are Muslim, yet no conquering Muslim
army ever landed on any of its
over two thousand islands.
(ii}
MALAYSIA: The overwhelming number of its people in this country are
Muslims yet no Muslim soldier had
landed there either.
(iii}
AFRICA: The majority of the people on the East coast of Africa as far
down as Mozambique, as well as
the bulk of the inhabitants on
the West coast of the continent are Muslims, but history does not
record any invading
hoards of Muslims from anywhere.
To Be Continued....
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