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    Sword of Islam 81011The
    first few who embraced the

    "new" religion in Makkah in the
    Arabian Peninsula at the hands of the Prophet,

    were his
    wife Khadijah, his servant Zaid and his eleven-year-old cousin Ali.
    Among the

    ones who later joined this faith were the honest
    merchant, Abu Bakr; the iron man of

    Arabia, Umar the Great;
    the shy businessman, Uthman; the Prophet's brave uncle Hamza and a

    slave of a pagan, Bilal. They simply couldn't resist the MAGIC
    SWORD of a humble and

    lonely Prophet! The negligible
    minority of the believers in this new Faith was soon exiled


    from Makkah and they arrived in the city called Yathrab which later
    became known as

    MADINAH.

    The Muslim emigrants
    to Madinah brought their SWORD with them. The SWORD continued to

    "pull" people towards it until the whole of Arabia joined the
    Faith. Compared to

    the population of the rest of the world
    at that time, the Arabs constituted a tiny

    minority. A
    fraction of this minority decided to take the SWORD beyond the
    boundaries of

    the Arabian desert to the mighty empires of
    Rome and Persia, the shores of the

    Mediterranean, the coast
    of Malabar and the far away East Indies Islands.

    People
    after people continued surrendering to this SWORD and joining the Faith.
    So

    sharp was the edge of the SWORD! It simply conquered
    the hearts; bodies yielded

    automatically. It is the SWORD
    OF TRUTH, whose mere shine eliminates falsehood just like


    light wipes away darkness. HAS THE SWORD GONE BLUNT? NO, FAR FROM IT. It
    continues to

    pierce the hearts of countless men and women
    even today - in spite of the relentless

    efforts by persons
    with vested interests who like darkness to prevail, so that they may

    rob people of their good things.

    Read below the
    impressions of some who were recently conquered by the same SWORD. They

    are from different countries, speak different languages and have
    different backgrounds.

    Their present addresses are also
    given. Perhaps you may like to ask them how it feels to

    be
    struck by the SWORD OF TRUTH.

    1. LEOPOLD WEISS (now
    Mohammad Asad): Austrian statesman, journalist, former foreign


    correspondent for the Frankfuerter Zeitung; author of ISLAM AT THE
    CROSSROADS and ROAD TO

    MECCA and translator of the Qur'an.
    He embraced Islam in 1926. (1) "Islam appears to

    me like a
    perfect work of Architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived
    to

    complement and support each other. Nothing is
    superfluous and nothing lacking, with the

    result of an
    absolute balance and solid composure."

    2. AHMED HOLT:
    British Civil Contractor, traveler in search of the Divine truth, spent

    much of his time in research and comparative study of Judaism,
    Christianity and Islam. He

    embraced Islam in 1975. (2) "The
    SWORD OF ISLAM is not the sword of steel. I know

    this by
    experience, because the sword of Islam struck deep into my own heart. It
    didn't

    bring death, but it brought a new life; it brought
    an awareness and it brought an

    awakening as to who am I and
    what am I and for what am I here?"

    3. BOGDAN DOPANSKI
    (now Bogdan Ataullah Kopanski): Originally Polish, now American;

    Ph.D. in history and politics, had a very interesting journey to
    Islam and faced severe

    hardships; was imprisoned twice by
    the Polish communist regime (1968, 1981-82). He

    embraced
    Islam in 1974. (3) "When I was 12 years old I rejected illogical and

    contradictory faith of the Church. Two years later in 1962 - I was
    fascinated by

    victorious struggle of the Algerian Muslim
    mujahideen against French colonialism. It was

    the first
    ARROW of Islam.... The high school and earliest days of my education in
    the

    University, I was a typical example of 'rebel
    generation' of Reds.... My way to the truth

    of Al-Qur'an
    was slow and unpaved.... In 1974 I visited Turkey, I wrote my M.A.

    dissertation about Sultan and Caliph Suleiman Kanuni's policy
    towards the Polish Kingdom.

    There, I was hit by the most
    beautiful voice of mankind, the ADHAN, the call to prayer. My


    hair stood up. An unknown powerful force led me to old masjid in
    Istanbul. There, old

    smiling Turkish, bearded men taught me
    WUZU, ablution. I confessed to tears SHAHADAH and I

    prayed
    my first SALAH Maghrib.... I swept out the rubbish ideologies.... The
    first time in

    my life, my mind was relaxed and I felt
    pleasure of Allah's love in my heart. I was a

    Muslim...."

    4. VENGATACHALAM ADIYAR (now Abdullah Adiyar): Indian, noted Tamil
    writer and

    journalist; worked as a news editor in Dr. M.
    Karunanidhi's daily MURASOLI for 17 years;

    assisted 3
    former Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu. Received Kalaimamani Award (Big
    Gem of

    Arts) from Tamil Nadu Government in 1982. He
    embraced Islam in 1987. (4) "In Islam I

    found suitable
    replies to nagging queries arising in my mind with regard to the theory
    of

    creation, status of woman, creation of the universe,
    etc. The life history of the Holy

    Prophet attracted me very
    much and made it easy for me to compare with other world leaders

    and their philosophies."

    5. HERBERT HOBOHM (now Aman
    Hobohm): German diplomat, missionary and social worker. An


    intellectual who has been serving the German diplomatic missions in
    various parts of the

    world. Presently working as Cultural
    Attache in German Embassy in Riyadh. He embraced

    Islam in
    1941. (5) "I have lived under different systems of life and have had the

    opportunity of studying various ideologies, but have come to the
    conclusion that none is

    perfect as Islam. None of the
    systems has got a complete code of a noble life. Only Islam


    has it; and that is why good men embrace it. Islam is not theoretical;
    it is practical. It

    means complete submission to the will
    of God."

    6. CAT STEVENS (now Yousuf Islam): British;
    formerly a Christian and a world famous pop

    singer. He
    embraced Islam in 1973. (6) "It will be wrong to judge Islam in the
    light

    of the behavior of some bad Muslims who are always
    shown on the media. It is like judging

    a car as a bad one
    if the driver of the car is drunk and he bangs it into the wall. Islam

    guides all human beings in the daily life - in its spiritual,
    mental and physical

    dimensions. But we must find the
    sources of these instructions, the Qur'an and the example


    of the Prophet. Then we can see the ideal of Islam."

    7.
    MS. MARGARET MARCUS (now Maryam Jamilah): American, formerly a Jewess,
    essayist and

    an author of many books. She embraced Islam in
    1962. (7) "The authority of Islamic

    Morals and Laws
    proceeds from Almighty God. Pleasure and happiness in Islam are but the

    natural byproducts of emotional satisfaction in one's duties
    conscientiously performed for

    the pleasure of God to
    achieve salvation. In Islam duties are always stressed above


    rights. Only in Islam was my quest for absolute values satisfied. Only
    in Islam did I at

    last find all that was true, good,
    beautiful and which gives meaning and direction to

    human
    life and death."

    8. WILFRIED HOFMAN (now Murad Hofman):
    Ph.D. in law (Harvard); German social scientist

    and
    diplomat; presently German Ambassador in Algeria. He embraced Islam in
    1980. (اتفاق

    "For some time now, striving for more and
    more precision and brevity, I have tried to

    put on paper,
    in a systematic way, all philosophical truths, which in my view, can be

    ascertained beyond reasonable doubt. In the course of this effort
    it dawned on me that the

    typical attitude of an agnostic is
    not an intelligent one; that man simply cannot escape a


    decision to believe; that the createdness of what exists around us is
    obvious; that Islam

    undoubtedly finds itself in the
    greatest harmony with overall reality. Thus I realize, not


    without shock, that step by step, in spite of myself and almost
    unconsciously, in feeling

    and thinking I have grown into a
    Muslim. Only one last step remained to be taken: to


    formalize my conversion. As of today I am a Muslim. I have arrived."

    9. CASSIUS CLAY (now Muhammad Ali): American; three times World
    Heavyweight Champion,

    formerly a Christian. He embraced
    Islam in 1965. (9) "I have had many nice moments in

    my
    life. But the feelings I had while standing on Mount Arafat on the day
    of HAJJ

    (Muslims' pilgrimage), was the most unique. I felt
    exalted by the indescribable spiritual

    atmosphere there as
    over a million and a half pilgrims invoked God to forgive them of

    their sins and bestow on them His choicest blessings. It was an
    exhilarating experience to

    see people belonging to
    different colors, races and nationalities, kings, heads of states

    and ordinary men from very poor countries all clad in two simple
    white sheets praying to

    God without any sense of either
    pride or inferiority. It was a practical manifestation of


    the concept of equality in Islam." (Speaking to the daily "Al-Madinah,"

    Jeddah, 15 July, 1989.)

    These were the impressions
    of a few persons who had themselves been struck by the SWORD


    OF TRUTH, that is, the Message of Islam. AS FOR THE PROPAGANDA THAT IT
    WAS THE SWORD OF

    STEEL, THAT IS, FORCE, WHICH WAS
    INSTRUMENTAL IN THE UNIVERSAL EXPANSION OF ISLAM, WE GIVE


    BELOW QUOTATIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF SOME OF THE PROMINENT NON-MUSLIM
    SCHOLARS AND

    LEADERS REFUTING THIS BASELESS ACCUSATION.

    1. M.K. GANDHI: "....I became more than ever convinced that it was
    not the sword

    that won a place for Islam in those days in
    the scheme of life. It was the rigid

    simplicity, the utter
    self-effacement of the prophet, the scrupulous regard for his


    pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his
    intrepidity, his

    fearlessness, his absolute trust in God
    and in his own mission. These, and not the sword

    carried
    everything before them and surmounted every trouble." YOUNG INDIA, 1924.
    (10)



    2. EDWARD GIBBON: "The greatest success
    of Mohammad's life was effected by sheer

    moral force
    without the stroke of a sword." HISTORY OF THE SARACEN EMPIRE, London,

    1870.

    3. A.S. TRITTON: "The picture of the Muslim
    soldier advancing with a sword in one

    hand and the Qur'an
    in the other is quite false." ISLAM, London, 1951, page 21. (12)

    4. DE LACY O'LEARY: "History makes it clear, however, that the
    legend of fanatical

    Muslims, sweeping through the world and
    forcing Islam at the point of sword upon conquered

    races
    is one of the most fantastically absurd myths that historians have ever

    repeated." ISLAM AT CROSSROADS, London, 1923, page 8.


    5. K.S. RAMAKRISHNA RAO: "My problem to write this monograph is easier
    because we

    are not generally fed now on that (distorted)
    kind of history and much time need not be

    spent on pointing
    out our misrepresentations of Islam. The theory of Islam and sword, for

    instance, is not heard now in any quarter worth the name. The
    principle of Islam, there is

    no compulsion in religion, is
    well known." MOHAMMED THE PROPHET OF ISLAM, Riyadh,

    1989,
    page 4.

    6. JAMES A MICHENER: "No other religion in history
    spread so rapidly as Islam...

    The West has widely believed
    that this surge of religion was made possible by the sword.


    But no modern scholar accepts that idea, and the Qur'an is explicit in
    support of the

    freedom conscience." ISLAM - THE
    MISUNDERSTOOD RELIGION, READERS' DIGEST (American

    Edition)
    May 1955.

    7. LAWRENCE E. BROWNE: "Incidentally these
    well-established facts dispose of the

    idea so widely
    fostered in Christian writings that the Muslims, wherever they went,
    forced

    people to accept Islam at the point of the sword."
    THE PROSPECTS OF ISLAM, London

    1944. IF YOU TOO POSSESS A
    SOFT, TENDER HEART AND AN OPEN MIND, DO WRITE TO US FOR SOME


    BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT THE WAY OF LIFE CALLED "ISLAM." DO NOT BELIEVE
    IN

    HEARSAY AND LEARN FROM THE DIRECT SOURCES. WE ARE READY
    TO HELP.



    ADDRESSES:



    1. Muhammad Asad, (deceased recently)

    2. Ahmad Holt,
    23 Welland Garden Perivale, Middlesex UB6 8SZ, U.K.

    3.
    Bogdan Ataullah Kopanski, 3013 Harrel Drive, Grand Prairie, TX 75051.

    4. Abdullah Adiyar, 1 Ashok Avenue, Rangarajapuram, Kodambakkam,
    Madras, India.

    5. Aman Hobohm, Cultural Attache, P.O. Box
    8974, Riyadh 11492, Saudi Arabia.

    6. Yousuf Islam,
    Chairman, Muslim Aid, 3 Furlong Road, London, N7, U.K.

    7.
    Maryam Jamilah, c/o Mohammad Yusuf Khan, Sant Nagar, Lahore, Pakistan.

    8. Murad Hofman, Ambassador, Embassy of Federal Republic of
    Germany, BP 664, Alger-gare,

    Algeria. 9. Muhammad Ali, c/o
    Masjid Al-Faatir, 1200 East 49th Street, Chicago, IL 60615.


    NOTE: 10. Twentieth century champion of non-violence who lead the
    Indian movement of

    freedom from British colonization.



    RECOMMENDED INTRODUCTORY PUBLICATIONS:




    1. III&E Brochure Series may be obtained from the address
    given below.



    2. WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW
    ABOUT ISLAM AND MUSLIMS by Suzanne Haneef, Kazi Publications,


    Chicago, IL.

    3. ISLAM IN FOCUS by H. Abdulati, American
    Trust Publications, Indianapolis, IN.

    4. THE BIBLE, THE
    QUR'AN AND SCIENCE by Maurice Bucaille, American Trust Publications,

    Indianapolis, IN.

    5. QUR'AN, AN INTRODUCTION by A.R.
    Doi, Kazi Publications, Chicago, IL.

    6. HADITH, AN
    INTRODUCTION by A.R. Doi, Kazi Publications, Chicago, IL.


    7. MUHAMMAD, HIS LIFE BASED ON THE EARLIEST SOURCES by Martin Lings,
    Inner Traditions

    International, Rochester, VT.


    8. LIFE OF MUHAMMAD by A.H. Siddiqi, Kazi Publications, Chicago, IL.

    9. HISTORY OF ISLAM by Masud-ul-Hasan, Islamic Publications,
    Lahore, Pakistan.

    10. THE CULTURAL ATLAS OF ISLAM by I.R.
    al-Faruqi and Lois L. al-Faruqi, Macmillan

    Publishing
    Company, New York, NY.
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    مُساهمة من طرف لؤلؤة الاسلام 2010-07-06, 12:36 am

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