Fariq Naik – The Sword that Forced People into Accepting Islam

We Muslims, we ruled India for a thousand

years.

If we wanted, we could have converted each

and every non-Muslim on the point of

the sword.

We didn't do it.

Today, more than 80% of the population

of India, they are non-Muslims.

These 80% non-Muslims, they are giving

shahada.

They are bearing witness that Islam was not

spread by the sword.

Indonesia has the maximum number of Muslims.

Which Muslim army went to Indonesia?

Which Muslim army went to the east coast

of Africa?

Which Muslim army went to Malaysia?

Which sword?

The reply to this is given by the

famous historian Thomas Carlyle in his book, Heroes

and Hero Worship.

And he places Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

as hero number one.

He says that the sword indeed, but where

will you get your sword?

Every opinion at its beginning, it is precisely

in one man's head.

One man against the whole world believes in

it.

One man against all men.

That you will pick up the sword and

propagate it will do little for him.

You must take your sword and propagate it.

Thomas Carlyle is talking about the sword of

reasoning, the sword of intellect.