Was Persia Forced to Accept Islam
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A student drama student from Iran explains to a student from the US that they were born as a Muslim because they were born as a religious family. They share their disAP- qualmed status and believe in good things, but did not want to be worshiped by anyone. The speaker discusses the importance of history and the lack of political Islam in the media, highlighting the significance of history and the lack of political Islam in the media.Transcript ©
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Do we have a question from this mic
here? Sure. I'd just first like to say
thank you for coming here.
And my name is Pouya,
so I'm a student drama
and I come from Iran, not Iraq. Iran,
the old name Persia.
So
I come from a religious family. My father
and my family are Muslim.
But I was born as a Muslim, but
I didn't want to be born as a
Muslim because, you know, so as a family
I was born, but still I haven't accepted
Islam because of substantive points.
My main question was about,
I mean,
about the time, like, Asian time, back to
the 1000 years ago, when the time Islam
come to my country and we became a
Muslim. So as I read in the history
and those kinds of stuff, I found out
that
the Arab countries, they attacked my country and
they invade my country and they brought Islam
by force.
Without my king accepted.
So Persia was an old country, and it
was the most civilized country from the ancient
time until now. We believe a real God.
We were worshiping a real God. And our
religious was Zartosh,
so he was a prophet also. So we
believe in good things, good thoughts, good words.
So even Cyrus, he was the king of
the world and he was doing a lot
of good things. Even some people, they was
confused. They called him.
He was doing many good things but he
never said, I'm a prophet, I'm a god.
But even though that king, when he attacked
the other country, he never killed a civilian,
he never raped a woman, and he never
made them change a religion. Even if somebody
was worshiping a cow, he respects for them,
even though he was worshiping a real god.
He could make them worship also the same
as what he's worshiping.
But in the Islam way, if you are
if you're gonna promote your religion,
it doesn't mean that you have to force
it to somebody else or you have to
make them accept that religion.
Because you know, human beings mean freedom. So
anyone that should have a right, human rights.
So maybe those people, they didn't wanted that
religion. So why they have to attack and,
you know, to bring it by force? That
was the main question that make my heart
a bit, you know,
to make me to my belief go
down. So Brother, are you Farsi?
Pardon? Yeah. I'm from Farsi. Are you a
Farsi?
You mean Farsi? Are you a Farsi? Are
you a Zoroastrian?
No. I I'm not following any religion. You
don't belong to any religion? I don't I
don't believe But you said the parents, sir?
My parents are Muslim, but because of this
confusion and stuff, I never try to follow
the religion. I just believe in real God
and doing the good things. So you believe
in your God and good things. What are
the good things? Where do you get the
good things from? Good things like I don't
harm the others. Whatever I'm doing,
not try to harm the others. That's the
first thing.
As much as you can do the good
deeds even helping the others and believe in
the real God, not worshiping a stone or
leaf or whatever.
And I believe God is single.
So but I didn't So you have your
own philosophy?
So you want to make a new religion?
I'm not gonna make any religion. I'm just
following my brain
because as I know, god give us a
brain. So I didn't make my mind busy
by following the books. I always when I
was 10 years old, I was just thinking,
thinking, thinking until now even.
So I tried to thinking, thinking, he's saying,
God, as long as not a stone. Who
told you stone is not a god? Anyway,
I'll I'll show you a basic question. Your
basic question is, that Muslims came to Persia
and they conquered and they forced
people to accept Islam.
So no one should force at all. I
agree with you.
Point to be noted is, that today the
media,
the media,
media promotes that Islam was fed by the
sword.
I'm aware
that there are certain black sheep in the
Muslim community,
and there are certain Muslim rulers who did
wrong things. But as a whole, Islam was
never spread by the sword.
Islam was never spread by the sword. Speak
by sword. Sword. Sword.
Sword. Sword me force. Force it. Like you
said, now Muslims came and conquered Persia, etcetera.
You'll see everywhere it's happening.
There are wars taking place.
But in Islam, it's clearly mentioned in Suri
Baqarah chapter 2 verse number 256.
Like
there's no compulsion religion. Truth stands out clear
from error. What do we see today?
If we analyze
that we Muslims.
We Muslims, we were the Lord of the
Arab lands
for more than 1400 years. For the past
1400 years, the Muslims were the Lord of
the Arab lands. For a few years the
British came. For a few years the French
came. But overall, the Muslims were the ruler
of the Arab land. Yet today,
there are more than 9,000,000
Christians
who are Coptic Christians. That means, they're Christians
in generation. If the Muslims wanted, they could
have forced each and every non Muslim to
accept Islam at the point of the sword.
In the Arab language,
these more than 9,000,000 top peak Christians, they
are giving.
They are bearing witness that Islam was just
spread by the sword.
We Muslims,
we rule India for more than a 1000
years.
We ruled India for more than a 1000
years.
If we wanted, we could have forced every
non Muslim Indian to accept Islam at the
point of the sword. Today,
more than 80%
of the Indian are non Muslims. These more
than 80%
non Muslim Indians, they are giving.
They are bearing witness that Islam was inspired
by the sword. Which
Muslim army
has come to Indonesia? Indonesia today had the
largest number of Muslims in any country. More
than 200,000,000 Muslims. In Malaysia,
more than 55%
of the citizens of Malaysia are Muslim. I'm
asking you, which Muslim army came to Malaysia?
Your country. Which Muslim army came? Which Muslim
army went to the East Coast of Africa?
It was the business. It was the traders.
When they came here, people accepted this religion.
It is the media hype which talks about
Islam was fed by the sword. Yes. There
were a few people. There were a few
black sheeps of the Muslim community. Whether you
ask the question, you're listening or you're raising
the hand. Okay. Sure. Sure. You ask the
question, you give the background and listen to
it and now you want to raise your
hand. I have not completed my answer. Okay.
Sure. Continue. If you ask the question, you
should think. Because if you're thinking something,
I'm a doctor.
If you're thinking that means you don't hear
man. If I ask you to repeat, you
won't be able to repeat 25%.
So when you listen, you should give attention.
I'm a doctor.
I've been in psychology also.
So
this is the media hype.
If you read Thomas Carlyle.
Historian, he writes in his book, heroes and
hero worship.
He puts number 1 hero prophet
as prophet Musa. He's a Christian.
He says,
if every new idea originates in one man's
head.
One man's head dwells alone in the full
world. It will do little good if he
takes up a sword and propagates it.
You have to first get your sword. He's
talking about sword of intellect. There was a
survey
done in the plain truth magazine.
A survey in the increase of the major
world religions in a span of 50 years.
In a span of 50 years,
from
1934
to 1984.
In a span of 50 years,
the increase in the major world religion. It
came in reader digest. I'll manage your book,
1984.
Number one maximum increase in religion,
it's Islam,
235%.
Christianity,
only 47%.
I'm asking you which war took place between
1934 and 1984
which forced the non muslim to accept Islam?
Which war? Which war?
Today
today, leave aside the past. Today, the fastest
growing religion in America is Islam. The fastest
growing religion in Europe is Islam. I'm asking
you, who's forcing the American to accept Islam?
Who's forcing the European to accept Islam?
You were not there born.
Were you present in the past? Arabs came
to my land and forced. Where were you
present?
This is history.
Many think the history is false.
So that's what okay. Okay.
A very famous historian, Deleksey Oleri. He writes
in the book, Islam at the crossroad with
number 8. He says, history makes it clear.
History makes it clear
that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping across
the world, forcing Islam at the point of
the sword is the most fantastic,
absurd myth that historians ever repeated.
Who says that?
History makes it clear
that the legend of Muslim
forcing Islam at the point of the sword
over conquered races is the most
fantastic
observed myth that historians ever repeated.
This is just in the media today. Muslim
terrorist, Muslim terrorist. I'm asking you, did any
Muslim attack you in this country?
No. Never. But the media say Muslim the
terrorist.
Yeah. Media is just nonsense. Yes. Same way
your history is also on then.
When media is nonsense, the history is also
nonsense. Some is correct. Some is wrong. That
the reason
if you hear the answer, I would like
to end my answer with the quotation of
doctor Adam Pearson. Doctor Adam Pearson says that
people worry
that one day nuclear weaponry will fall in
the hands of the Arabs, they fail to
realize that the Islamic bomb has already been
dropped.
The bomb of peace. It fell the day
prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, was born.
Good. Thank you, doctor, for your answer. But
the point is, I didn't get the right
answer because
that's not media. That's history.
And history is not something that can be
written a false way. Because if it's written
a false way, it can changed. But that
was a true history in all over the
world and it's written every Brother, did you
hear my quotation of Deleksey Oleri? Can you
repeat it?
Repeat what? Repeat
quotation.
I said it twice, not once, twice.
Most of my answer was once. I said
twice. Now repeat it. Repeated 50%.
So what's the point of repeating that word?
I want to know whether you it went
into your head or not.
No. Because that's what is in my head
is that is a history. First thing I'm
asking you can you repeat the statement answer
which I gave earlier. If you cannot repeat
that, it means useless me repeating the answer.
You're not listening to me. You're thinking something.
No. I'm listening to you. You're saying that
that
very famous historian.
No. I can't I can't I'm saying it
for 3rd time. Listen
listen to it and go behind the queue.
The lessor Olei says
that history makes it clear.
The legend
of political Muslims
forcing Islam at the point of the sword
over conquered racist at the most fantastic
absurd myth that historians are repeated.
The lessor is history has been telling falsehood
and you're saying history, I believe in history.
Deleksey Oler is saying that what history says
that Muslims are forcing Islam at the point
of the sword is the most fantastic myth
that is true and they repeated. So you
have got
influenced by the myth. So now think it's
a myth and forget it
and believe in the fact. The fact is
you read the Quran, and Inshallah, I want
to the religion of your parents Inshallah.
to the religion of your parents Inshallah.