This is how humanity is in the absence of Islamic conquests!

Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, and prayers and peace be upon the seal of the prophets, the leader of the mujahideen, and the delight of the eyes of the monotheists, Muhammad ibn Abdullah, and upon his family and companions altogether. To proceed:

Introduction: The Controversy Surrounding the Vatican and Jihad of Invitation

When the Vatican read a text describing the beloved Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, as having brought nothing but evil and inhumanity, and that he commanded the spread of his religion by the sword, Muslims were outraged and condemned this dove, as they are entitled to do. However, the problem is that most Muslims, in their response, denied the use of the sword by the Prophet, peace be upon him, in spreading Islam.

Of course, people agree on the legitimacy of fighting in self-defense, but the current discussion is about the jihad of invitation. It is known that when Muslims have a state, they must offer Islam to the peoples to enter it. If they refuse, Muslims demand the jizya, which symbolizes the submission of these peoples to the hegemony of Islam. If they refuse, Muslims fight them.

Responding to Doubts About the Jihad of Invitation

This is the jihad that the enemies of Islam criticize, the jihad of invitation. Indeed, this is the jihad that many Muslims find embarrassing. One might say to himself: Indeed, why encroach on the freedoms of others? Why does Islam not urge Muslims to live in their state in safety and leave others to also enjoy peace and safety?

A Muslim may forget these questions, but they will leave a negative impact on his faith in his religion. Ask yourself, brother: If you were among your colleagues at work, and the reciter's voice came with verses like Allah's saying: {Fight those who do not believe in Allah nor the Last Day and do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture until they pay the jizya willingly while they are humbled} [At-Tawbah: 29], or with the verse: {But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them} [An-Nisa: 89], how do you feel? Do you love these verses like other words of Allah the Almighty, or do you see that your face will turn red in front of your colleagues and your hand will reach for your device to lower the volume?

The Importance of Conviction in the Rulings of the Religion

It is not enough for Muslims to be angry at the words of the Christian dove of the Vatican, but it is necessary to be proud of every aspect of your religion and to have complete conviction, satisfaction, and submission of the heart to every Islamic ruling and every verse of the Book of Allah the Almighty. Allah the Almighty said: {But no, by your Lord, they will not believe until they make you a judge concerning that over which they dispute among themselves; then they will not find within themselves discomfort from what you have judged and will submit in full submission} [An-Nisa: 65].

Come with me, O one who wants to be proud of his religion, let us cooperate in these minutes to make this matter from the commands of Allah the Almighty beloved to our hearts: the command of the jihad of invitation.

Someone might say: Where is the Islamic state that can carry out the jihad of invitation today? What is the benefit of raising this topic as long as its application is not possible at the present time?

The answer is that regardless of the current situation, the Muslim must strive to ensure that there is no hatred in his heart for any ruling of the religion of Allah the Almighty, and that there is no doubt or aversion in his heart when he reads verses and hadiths of fighting. Indeed, hating what Allah has revealed is discouraging for action. Allah the Almighty said: {That is because they hated what Allah has sent down, so He rendered their deeds worthless} [Muhammad: 9]. I have explained this in the series "Hating What Allah the Almighty Has Revealed."

The Lies and Deception of the Enemies of Islam

I also want to reveal with this presentation the lies and deception of the Christian dove and his likes who criticize the praised severity in Islam, while in their corrupted religion and history, they have multiples of this severity, but with falsehood, injustice, and aggression.

Why should the hegemony of Islam be imposed on the peoples? I do not say forcing people to embrace Islam, for indeed {there is no compulsion in religion} [Al-Baqarah: 256]. However, the meaning is that the peoples must submit to the Islamic state, whether by entering Islam or by paying the jizya and allowing Islamic preachers to preach in the subjugated countries.

There are many axes to answer this question. Our axis in these minutes is to show the state in which humanity lives in the absence of the hegemony of Islam over the peoples. Some imagine that the world lived in safety and harmony before Islam, so it will return to happiness, peace, and harmony. This is the theory advocated by the defeated sons of the Muslims. It is therefore the theory of "the happy world," "the happy world under religious and intellectual plurality, where no one transgresses against another and no one tries to impose the hegemony of his religion on the other."

Humanity in the Absence of the Hegemony of Islam

Let us look at models of the happy world that Islam has disrupted its security. These models are taken from the website Wikipedia, the free global encyclopedia, translated from English. I quote from this encyclopedia for two reasons: First, it mentions the sources of its information, and second, those who provided this information are not Muslims, so no one can criticize the facts I will mention by claiming they are biased towards Muslims. Rather, these facts that I will mention are taken from the result of searching on Wikipedia for the phrase "Death toll," meaning "List of fatalities." It will take you to a page titled "List of wars and disasters by death toll," meaning "List of wars and disasters by the total number of fatalities." Its authors are non-Muslims, and the page has no relation to defending Muslims or condemning them, but it is a historical documentation of the bloodiest wars, massacres, and famines in human history. I advise you to refer to it completely because I will summarize the most important events in it.

Let us look at models of the world that would live in harmony and religious and intellectual plurality were it not for the jihad of invitation that causes Islam to bring violence and rejection of the other, as they say.

Examples of Peaceful Coexistence Among Humanity

1. Between 184 and 205 AD: Between 3 to 7 million Chinese were killed in what is known as the "Yellow Turban Rebellion" or the "Revolt of the Yellow Turbans". You will notice that Wikipedia mentions the lowest and highest estimates for each war, and you will notice that all these mentioned wars were not for any noble cause, but rather for tyranny, injustice, and arrogance.
2. Between 1616 and 1662 AD: 25 million Chinese were killed in the occupation of the Ming province by the Manchu commander.
3. 3.5 million to 16 million casualties: Napoleon's wars in Europe and outside the Islamic world, starting from 1804.
4. Between 1851 and 1864 AD: Over 30 million people were killed in what is known as the "Taiping Rebellion" when the Chinese commander Hong Xiuquan converted to Christianity, then wanted to impose Christianity on the people of the Chinese province of Jing, and replace Confucianism and Buddhism, so the population revolted and the French and British armies helped the converted commander to suppress the revolution.
5. World War I between 1914 and 1918: According to Wikipedia, 15 to 25 million people were killed.
6. World War II between 1939 and 1945: 40 to 72 million casualties in just 6 years.
7. The "Great Leap Forward" famine starting from 1959: When Mao Zedong imposed the communist system in the People's Republic of China, it claimed the lives of 20 to 43 million people.
8. 5 to 9 million casualties: In the Russian Civil War between the Bolshevik army and the White Army between 1917 and 1921.
9. Ukrainian famine due to Stalin: It claimed the lives of approximately 2.5 million to 5 million people in the years 1932 and 1933.
10. Starting from 1975: The Khmer Rouge, supported by North America, caused a deliberate famine in Cambodia that claimed 1.7 to 3 million lives (1975-1979).

Of course, brothers, these numbers are the numbers of the dead, but the disabled as a result of these wars, those who were raped, the tortured, the prisoners, and the displaced, are multiples of these numbers.

And to those who consider Islam a religion of bloodshed, we say: as you say, it is assumed that after the absence of the Islamic caliphate ruling by Islam and applying the duty of offensive jihad, it is assumed that the twentieth century would be free of such bloodshed, and would be a century of safety and peace because it was free of such a caliphate that applied the duty of offensive jihad. Yet, the twentieth century is as you have seen.

Examples of Safety and Prosperity Enjoyed by Muslims

(When they understood the meaning of peaceful coexistence with the peoples of the earth and abandoned the duty of offensive jihad)

1. 8 to 12 million were killed: When China suppressed the revolution of Muslims demanding their rights there between 1855 and 1877.
2. 30 to 60 million people: Most of them may have been Muslims, were killed in the Tatar invasion starting from 1207 AD.
3. The Crusades declared by the popes: As Wikipedia says: "The Crusaders were granted forgiveness for past sins," meaning as an incentive for them to wage wars. There were nine major campaigns and others. The Crusades are of course a separate topic in itself, but the strange thing is that the Wikipedia encyclopedia did not mention estimates of the casualties in them. However, I would like to quote one phrase mentioned by Wikipedia in its talk about these wars on a page titled "Crusades" which says: "In the first decade of the Crusades, the Crusaders followed a policy of terrorism against Muslims and Jews, represented by mass executions and throwing heads over the walls of besieged cities, as well as hanging the naked bodies of Muslims and mutilating them, and even cannibalism, eating human flesh, as they did in Maarra" referring to Maarra al-Nu'man in Syria. Also, the French historian Gustave Le Bon described what the Crusaders did in the book "Arab Civilization" page 326 for example, but the description makes one's hair stand on end, so the interested can refer to it.
4. The famine of the Muslims in Bengal, India during British rule: It claimed the lives of 4 million Bengalis.
5. The famine in Iraq as a result of the economic siege from 1990 until 2003: It claimed the lives of 1 to 3 million Iraqis according to Wikipedia.

And thus, as we have seen, Muslims enjoy safety and the world enjoys it with them if they abandon offensive jihad and stop reciting the verses of fighting and narrating the hadiths of the sword.

Examples of Religious Tolerance Among Christian Denominations Themselves

(Because they were not affected by the bloodshed of Islam and Islam's exclusion of others as they say)

1. In the French Wars of Religion between Catholics and Protestants starting from 1562: According to Wikipedia, 2 to 4 million people were killed.
2. In the Thirty Years' War in the Roman Empire starting from 1618: Which focused in Germany, and the main cause of which was the conflict between Catholics and Protestants, 3 to 11.5 million people were killed. This is also a separate topic, because the ways in which each of the denominations kills the followers of the other denomination is something that makes one's hair stand on end. However, we limited ourselves to these two models: the model of the French Wars of Religion and the model of the Thirty Years' War.

I will conclude these models with models of human happiness in the fourth group, which are striking models.

Striking Examples

1. The Christian European Occupation of the Americas between 1492 and 1890: The numbers vary greatly. Wikipedia mentions that the total number of indigenous American (Native American) casualties ranged between 15 million and 100 million. The latter number (100 million) is an estimate by the author David Stannard in his book "American Holocaust" (1992, p. 150). The site did not classify this massacre of the Native Americans as wars but as massacres, because, as we will see, they were indeed one-sided massacres by the Christian European invaders against the poor indigenous people.

   To understand the methods they used to kill, refer to the book "American Indian Chronology" by the author Philip White, and how, for example, the state of Massachusetts would declare 40 pounds for anyone who brought the scalp of a hostile red Indian over 12 years old, 25 pounds for the scalp of a hostile red Indian over 12 years old, and 20 pounds for the scalp of a hostile red Indian under 12 years old. Of course, the definition of "hostile" among the indigenous people will be like the definition of hostiles among the people of occupied Palestine.

   David Stannard in the aforementioned book quoted extensively from Bartolome de las Casas, and this Casas was a Spanish bishop who accompanied Columbus and recorded some of the atrocities committed by the Christian invaders against the indigenous people. Among what Casas said: "It was a general rule among the Spaniards that they had to be harsh, not just harsh, but harsh beyond imagination, so that the harsh treatment of the Indians would not allow them to dare to think that they (the Indians) were human beings, but would not leave them a moment to think at all. They (the invaders) would enter villages and leave no child, pregnant woman, or woman without disemboweling them and cutting their limbs as they cut sheep in the pen. They would bet on who would split a man with a knife thrust or cut off his head or spill his entrails with a sword strike. Their torture methods were varied, some would catch the living and cut off their hands in pieces so that they would appear to be hanging from their bodies, then say to them: Go, carry the messages, go, spread the news among those who fled to the forests. As for the lords and nobles of the Indians, they were killed by making grills for them from bars and placing their remains on top, then tying these poor souls to them and lighting a gentle fire underneath so that they would die slowly amidst torture, pain, and moaning." Bartolome says: "I once saw four of these lords on the grill, and as they screamed loudly, it disturbed the Spanish police officer who was sleeping from their screams, so they put pieces of wood in their throats to silence them." These quotes are collected from different parts of the book mentioned "American Holocaust".

   This, and Bartolome was describing the killer and the Christian missionary in one scene, so you do not know what to be sad about: Is it the scene of the killer slaughtering his victim or burning her or feeding her to the dogs, or the scene of the Catholic missionary who, with cold piety, is afraid that the victim will breathe her last before he deigns to baptize her, so he runs to her panting to baptize her after her body has been roasted by fire or bathed in her blood or half of her entrails have been devoured by dogs. They were not human beings, brothers. For Bartolome describes how the Christian invaders would snatch the infant from his mother's breast and throw him to the hungry dogs in front of his mother's eyes, and if the child cried in captivity, they would snatch him from his mother and beat his head against the walls or swing him in the air and throw him far away. These are the gentle lambs that if the Muslims had left them alone and not provoked their sensitive feelings with jihad of the sword, they would not have transgressed against anyone, and everyone would live within their borders safe from each other.

2. Slavery by Christians (Christian Slavery): David Stannard mentioned in his book "American Holocaust" that the number of Africans killed during the process of enslavement and before reaching the lands of their enslavers to work as slaves is 30 to 60 million Africans, most of whom were children and young people at the beginning of their lives. We have, if God wills, a stop with the topic of slavery practiced by the Christians to shed light on some of the painful events, and to know that some of these Africans were Muslims and children of wealthy families and memorizers of the Quran like Omar bin Said.

3. The third striking aspect of religious tolerance is the Inquisition: Such as the one faced by Muslims in Andalusia after they concluded the surrender treaty in Granada in 1492 AD. And in fact, I do not advise reading much about the Inquisition, because reading about it leaves a wound in the heart that is difficult to heal. Rather, I advise those who still believe in the theory of the "happy world" mentioned at the beginning to refer to the book "The Inquisition in Spain, Portugal, and Others" by Dr. Ali Mashhur. In short, if the Spaniards did what they did to the poor Indians, what do you think they did to the Muslims who had wars between them and the Spaniards before the fall of Andalusia, which filled their black hearts with hatred for the Muslims, especially if you know that the year Granada fell is the same year Columbus discovered America and the massacres against the Native Americans began in 1492 AD.

Historical Surprises

After this review of twenty-one of the bloodiest events in human history, come four surprises.

The First Surprise: The Low Bloodshed of Muslims

If we know that on the mentioned Wikipedia page, we do not find any of the events that killed millions were carried out by the hands of Muslims, except for the Armenian massacres carried out by the Ottoman state. And regardless of the reasons and the extent of the credibility of the numbers mentioned, we know that there is no argument in what any of the Muslims do, but in the act of the Messenger of Allah peace be upon him or the act agreed upon by the Muslims. Nevertheless, Muslims, even with many of them being far from their religion, are the least bloody of nations.

The Second Surprise: The Number of Casualties in the Prophet's Wars

This refers to the total number of casualties in the wars that took place during the time of the Prophet peace be upon him. Among the disbelievers, there were nine hundred casualties, about two-thirds of whom were from the Banu Qurayza, whom the Prophet peace be upon him punished when they betrayed him during the Battle of the Trench. Among the Muslims, there were three hundred and twenty-six martyrs. This is according to Al-Liwa' Ahmad Abd al-Wahhab in his book "The Sanctioned Wars in Religions" page 44. This number is less than the casualties in what is known as the "Football War" between El Salvador and Honduras in South America in 1969 during the preparatory matches for the World Cup, where a thousand civilians were killed in four days and more than 300,000 were displaced.

Of course, brothers, here is a very important note: we should not measure the issue by the number of casualties, but by what they were killed for and whether they deserved to be killed or not. The conviction of the principle of jihad to impose the dominance of Islam is the result of the conviction that this religion is from Allah the Almighty, so it is not appropriate to discuss the validity of this jihad with those who do not accept that Islam is from Allah the Almighty. Whoever believes in Islam believes that Allah the Almighty has the right to legislate for the spread of His religion and for the benefit of His servants whatever He wills of jihad and otherwise. And whoever does not believe, how can we discuss with him the validity of a method for spreading a religion that he considers fundamentally invalid? But I mention these numbers to show that even if the debater says: I want the language of numbers to prove that your Prophet was sent only as a mercy to the worlds, we say to him: Here are the numbers speaking.

The Third Surprise: The Massacres of the Christians in the Name of Religion

This refers to the massacres carried out by the Christians, which were done in the name of their religion, their corrupted religion, which they claim is, unlike Islam, a religion of love and peace. David Stannard mentioned in his book "American Holocaust" that the Spanish conquerors were required to recite the following phrases to those they faced among the Native Americans: "I acknowledge that with the help of God we will enter your land by force and wage war against you by all means and methods possible, and we will subject you to the subjugation of the Church and the subjugation of Their Highnesses" (it seems to me that the intended meaning of Their Highnesses is the high-ranking religious figures). "We will take you and your wives and children and enslave them, and we will also sell them according to the orders of Their Highnesses, and we will take your possessions and subject you to all the harm and destruction that we can." This is what the Christian conquerors were supposed to face the poor Native Americans with.

Compare this speech with what the Muslim conquerors did. In the fifth verse, it says: "Pass through the city behind him, do not spare your eyes nor be merciful, the old man, the youth, the virgin, the child, and the women kill them for destruction, and do not approach a human being who has a mark, and begin with my sanctuaries. So begin with the men and the elders who are in front of the house. And he said to them: Defile the house and fill the houses with corpses, defile the house and fill the houses with corpses, go out. So they went out and killed in the city." Then he says in the book of Hosea chapter 13 verse 16: "Samaria shall bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped open." These are the principles of the Spanish conquerors and the Crusaders in cutting the wombs of pregnant women and smashing the heads of children. "Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped open." Then they claim that the Lord said in the book of Isaiah chapter 13 verse 16: "Their children shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes, their houses shall be plundered, and their women ravished." Look at the morality. And whoever wants more of these texts should refer to the tape of Sheikh Abdullah al-Mahdi titled "Thus Christianity Spread," which is the first tape in the series of responses to the Vatican's door, as it contains very valuable information.

Compare these texts with the saying of the Prophet peace be upon him in Sahih Muslim: "Fight in the cause of Allah, those who disbelieve in Allah. Fight, but do not transgress, do not betray, do not mutilate, and do not kill a child or the monks."

The Fourth Surprise: The Current Pope and the Presidency of the Inquisition Courts

Check the English Wikipedia website and type in the name Benedict as follows: "Benedict XVI" (Benedict the sixteenth in Roman numerals). You will get complete information from Western sources, and in it there is a title that talks about the appointment of this Benedict as an honorary member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1981 to 2005. Directly under the title is a phrase whose literal translation is: "On November 25, 1981, Pope John Paul II bestowed upon Ratzinger the honorary title of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly known as the Holy Office, and known in history as the Inquisition." Therefore, the current Christian pope headed the Inquisition courts. This is like the head of an office known historically for the Inquisition who does not hesitate to read a text describing the Prophet peace be upon him as cruel. But soon you will come to know a more shocking truth than this to learn that these impostors attack Islam and describe it with what they deserve more than us.

Why This Lie and Slander Against Islam?

If we all knew that, if we knew that the corrupted religion of the Vatican is the first to be described as bringing something evil and inhuman, and that it spread by the sword, then why this lie and deception from it and its followers? Why slander Islam?

The answer is in His saying, may He be exalted: "{Or do they envy people for what Allah has given them of His bounty?}" [An-Nisa': 54]. And in His saying, may He be exalted: "{Many of the People of the Scripture wish they could turn you away from the truth after you have believed, out of envy from themselves, [even] after the truth has become clear to them}" [Al-Baqarah: 109].

The German Federal Statistical Office announced that the decline in Germany's population cannot be stopped. The writer Dutschi Willi on 26-11-2006 said that Germany is heading to become an Islamic state by 2050, of course through a study of the speed of Muslim growth compared to Christians in Germany. Germany, from which the Vatican uttered its slanders.

On the website "catholic.org", which is the official website of the global Catholic Church, there is an article titled "Muslims of the world outnumber Catholics", in which the following statement is made: "Vittorio Formenti, head of the Vatican Statistics Office, announced on 4.1.2008 that for the first time in history we are no longer in the lead, for the Muslims have surpassed us." No wonder then, brothers, that they are angry when they see the growth of Muslims in terms of offspring, and also the entry of Christians into Islam.

Those who come for purification and tattooing in various body parts for protection from Satan claimed. And where do they have children to practice their perversions and filth that one is ashamed to mention? I ask you, brother, to go back to the internet and type in YouTube the following phrase: "Vatican sexual crimes". A documented documentary film produced by the BBC will come out for you, follow at least the first part and the second part to know who they are. As for the worst scandals, I will not mention them out of modesty, but I will mention significant parts of the documentary film.

In a single rural diocese, 26 priests violated the rights of more than 100 boys and girls with their frenzied sexual behavior. In the film, there is a statement from an American report that says that 2500 American Catholic priests (meaning followers of Benedict) are accused of bad practices with children. The most bitter truth in the film is the decree of "the crime of seduction" issued by the former Pope of the Vatican in 1962. The strange thing about this written decree was that it ordered the victim who was sexually abused to keep silent about what happened to him and not to mention it to anyone, and also that his parents should keep silent, otherwise the victim and his parents would be subjected to severe punishment and excommunication. And what about the criminal cleric who violated the child's dignity? The church investigated him and hid him from the eyes of the local authorities, and in reality, he was covered up, and in the best case, he was transferred to another church to practice his debauchery there.

In the film, there is an interview with a man who was in charge of implementing the decree of the crime of seduction in America, but he was disgusted by his work when he knew its reality and said: "We had a budget estimated at seven million dollars in 1996 for such cases". A budget allocated for covering up criminal clerics who practice perversion and silencing the boys and girls whose dignity was violated and silencing their parents. That is, the matter has become a normal operation for which the Catholic Church allocates a budget.

The surprise now is that according to the film, the person in charge of implementing the decree of the crime of seduction for twenty years is Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the current Pope Benedict. The Pope of the Vatican is the one who supervises the covering up of his perverted clergy to practice their perversions and filth freely and covers them with a special budget. In 2001, Ratzinger issued an appendix to the decision, which is just a confirmation of the decision of the crime of seduction, in addition to secrecy and excommunication and threatening the victim, he added one addition: "the law of the exclusive jurisdiction of the Vatican", meaning that all cases of child abuse must go to the Vatican only, and he sent a copy to every bishop in the world. This man who should be treated like a leprous sheep is the one who is received with pomp in the lands of the Muslims, and there is no power except in Allah.

Indeed, last Thursday, 26/5/1430 AH corresponding to 21/5/2009, Al-Jazeera published a news item titled: "Priests accused of sexual attacks on orphans in Ireland". It said: "The investigation committee said that sexual abuse was an endemic problem in boys' schools run by the clergy, and described the sexual abuse of children at Artane Industrial School on the outskirts of Dublin and Letterfrack School in western Ireland as a chronic problem."

So, brothers and sisters, these are the ones who insult the Chosen One, peace be upon him. These are the ones who, on their official Catholic site, promote a book that attacks the Prophet, peace be upon him, for his noble marriage to Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, and his other chaste wives, the Mothers of the Believers. The scholars of Islam, by the grace of Allah, have not accused any of them of this dirty accusation in which thousands of Catholic clergy indulge.

The Blessing of Islam

If you know the blessing of Allah, then gather your breaths and submit your hearts and say with full mouths: O Lord, to You be the praise that You sent to us Muhammad, a witness, a bringer of good tidings, a warner, and a caller to Allah by His leave, and a shining lamp. Pray for the one for whom Allah, may He be exalted, said: "{And indeed, you are of a great moral character}" [Al-Qalam: 4].

If you know the blessing of Allah, then pray for the one who guided you to Allah so that you worshipped Him, and to the mosque, the house of Allah, so that you entered it, and to monotheism, the path to Paradise, so that you followed it, if Allah wills. If you know the blessing of Allah, then pray for the one whose forehead was injured, whose ribs were broken, whose back was lashed with the lash, and who was stoned until he bled, and was choked with his garment until he fainted, and was harmed in his daughter by the torment of Uqba bin Abi Mu'ait, so she was thrown and her pregnancy miscarried, and the prayer and peace be upon him was twisted with hunger, not finding from the bad dates what would fill his stomach, and he died and was not satisfied with barley bread, and in that he did not see himself nor care about what befell him, and he had no demand except to say: "O Allah, my ummah, my ummah." It was said to him: "We will please you in your ummah and will not harm you." Pray for him and send greetings of peace.

Pray for the one for whom Allah has blessed you by sending him to you, saying: "{Indeed, Allah has conferred favor upon the believers when He sent among them a Messenger from themselves}" [Aal 'Imran: 164]. Servants of Allah, imagine for a moment that Allah did not send Muhammad. Imagine that fourteen centuries ago, the light did not shine in the darkness of humanity, and the centuries passed with humanity wallowing in its ignorance, misguidance, and bloodshed until you came out of your mothers' wombs, then look around you and see what you were chosen to be: worshippers of stone or worshippers of cows or beasts that play with their minds and trample their dignity and prostitute their priests and monks as we have seen?

Why Jihad of Demand?

O worshippers of Allah, after hearing this speech, do you know why the verses of the sword and the hadiths of the sword? Do you know why Muslims must impose the dominance of Islam on humanity? Do you know why, even though the conquests during the time of the Rightly Guided Caliphs led to the killing of thousands of soldiers, they were indeed a mercy to humanity? Do you know why Allah the Almighty said: {And We have not sent you except as a mercy to the worlds} [Al-Anbiya: 107]?

How many expeditions of the Messenger were noble, In which there was satisfaction for the truth or elevation, They were for the soldiers of Allah with severity, After which there was ease for the worlds. They struck ignorance a blow that removed it, So upon ignorance and misguidance, there is forgiveness. They supported war with peace and for a long time, Bloodshed was prevented in the time of bloodshed.

Do you know why Allah the Almighty said: {And fight them until there is no fitnah and [until] the religion is for Allah. But if they cease, then Allah is Seeing of what they do} [Al-Baqarah: 193]? What can be faced by such as those mentioned from soldiers who are harsh and monks who are stubborn except by fighting? Will a white rose or a dove of peace be of use with them? Do you know the foolishness of the statement of one who says, "People of different religions must coexist without wars"? This statement is like saying, "Water must agree with fire," "Light must coexist with darkness."

There is no security, no peace, and no protection of wealth, honor, and minds except under the shade of the righteous Islamic rule. {And if Allah had not repelled some people by means of others, there would have been demolished monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques in which the name of Allah is much mentioned. And Allah will surely support those who support Him. Indeed, Allah is Powerful and Exalted in Might} [Al-Baqarah: 251]. So, the jihad of conquests is a favor from Allah upon people, without which humans would devour each other.

Conclusion

O Muslim, raise your head with your religion, be proud of your Islamic identity, and be proud of every verse in the Book of your Lord, glorified and exalted be He, and every hadith in the Sunnah of your Prophet, peace be upon him, and your great Islamic history.

O Allah, benefit us with what You have taught us and teach us what benefits us, and make us among those who listen to the word and follow the best of it. And our final invocation is praise to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad and his family and companions altogether, and those who follow them in goodness until the Day of Judgment. And peace be upon you all, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.

Verses from Surah At-Tawbah

{Disassociation, from Allah and His Messenger, to the polytheists with whom you had a treaty} [9:1] {So travel freely for four months throughout the land, but know that you will not escape Allah and that Allah will disgrace the disbelievers} [9:2] {And an announcement from Allah and His Messenger to the people on the day of the greater pilgrimage that Allah is disassociated from the polytheists and [that] His Messenger. And if they repent, it is better for them; but if they turn away - then know, O mankind, that Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise} [9:3] {Excepted are those with whom you made a treaty at al-Masjid al-Haram. So long as they are upright toward you, be upright toward them. Indeed, Allah loves the righteous} [9:4] {But if they break their oaths after their treaty and defame your religion, then fight the leaders of disbelief - they have no oaths - that they might cease} [9:12]