What you need to know about Islam #6

So as we seen yesterday Muhammad’s peaceful side is now gone and he had become a military power. First he took care of those who persecuted him in his home city of Medina. The He conquered those who in the region (The Arabian Desert) who rejected Islam. Finally he gave the commands to conquer the world in the name of Islam as he received revelation from Allah to do so. This is where we are today also. This new revelation from the Quran is this:

Surah 8:39. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone [in the whole of the world ]. But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allah), then certainly, Allah is All-Seer of what they do.

So Muhammad told his follower this: 

“I heard the apostle of Allah say, I command by Allah to fight all people till they say there is no god but Allah and I am his apostle. And whoever says that will save himself and his money.” Hadith-Al-Nisei

Immediately the Muslims put these words into practice by taking jihad outside Arabia, attacking what was the known world at the time...Asia, Africa, and Europe. Sound familiar? We are seeing these attacks still in our day in the same areas and now the rest of the world including the United States!

No Quranic revelation contradicted this final command of jihad, so it is still the goal od Islam today! That is a key point to remember!

Muhammad died in 632 AD from a fever. After having two leaders of Islam after Muhammad a power struggle took place and Islam was split into two groups....the Shiites, and the Sunnis. Google these two groups to find the differences. It has to do with leadership from the past. 

Tom