UNDERSTANDING
ISLAM
Here
are some key articles and
websites to increase our
understanding of Islam:
1.
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/prophet/lifeofprophet.html
"Gibbon,
a historian of world repute says,
"A pernicious tenet has been
imputed to Mohammadans, the duty
of extirpating all the religions
by sword." This charge
based on ignorance and bigotry,
says the eminent historian, is
refuted by Quran, by
history of Musalman conquerors
and by their public and legal
toleration of Christian worship.
The
great success of Mohammad's
life had been effected by sheer
moral force, without a stroke of
sword.
But
in pure self-defense, after
repeated efforts of conciliation
had utterly failed,
circumstances dragged him into
the battlefield.
But the prophet of Islam
changed the whole strategy of
the battlefield.
The total number of
casualties in all the wars that
took place during his lifetime
when the whole Arabian Peninsula
came under his banner, does not
exceed a few hundreds in all."
MOHAMMAD DID NOT LIVE BY THE
SWORD, HE WAS FORCED INTO WAR
FOR SELF DEFENCE, ONLY A FEW
HUNDRED DIED IN THE WARS HE
FOUGHT, THEN HE FORGAVE ALL HIS
ENEMIES, EVEN THE MURDERER OF
HIS UNCLE.
ISLAM WON OVER THE PEOPLE DUE TO
ITS MESSAGE OF SUBMISSION TO GOD
AND THE EXAMPLE OF THE LIFE OF
THE PROPHET LIVING IN SIMPLICITY.
Goethe,
the greatest of German poets,
speaking about the Holy Quran
declared that, "This book
will go on exercising through
all ages a most potent influence."
George Bernard
Shaw
says, "If any religion has a
chance or ruling over England,
say, Europe, within the next 100
years, it is Islam".
Mahatma Gandhi,
in his inimitable style, says "Some
one has said that Europeans in
South Africa dread the advent
Islam -- Islam that civilized
Spain, Islam that took the torch
light to Morocco and preached to
the world the Gospel of
brotherhood.
The Europeans of
South Africa dread the Advent of
Islam. They may claim equality
with the white races.
They
may well dread it, if
brotherhood is a sin. If it is
equality of colored races then
their dread is well founded."
2.
Muhammad
Yunus
a Muslim,
wins the 2006 NOBEL Peace prize:
Born
June
28,
1940
Chittagong,
Bangladesh
Occupation Founder,
Grameen
Bank
Spouse Afrozi Yunus
3.
What non-muslims
say about
Prophet Mohammad
4.
In Studies in a Mosque,
Stanley Lane-Poole writes:
"For nearly eight centuries
under her Mohammedan rulers
Spain set to all Europe a
shining example of a civilized
and enlightened state. * * * Art,
literature and science prospered
as they then prospered nowhere
else in Europe. Students flocked
from France and Germany and
England to drink from the
fountains of learning which
flowed only in the cities of the
Moors. The surgeons and doctors
of Andalusia were in the van of
science; women were encouraged
to devote themselves to serious
study, and a lady doctor was not
unknown among the people of
Cordova. Mathematics, astronomy
and botany, history, philosophy
and jurisprudence, were to he
mastered in Spain and in Spain
alone."
5.
the Sword of
Islam
