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Muslims, Christians were delighted for having been saved from the
cruelty and oppression of the Byzantine emperors that they had
been suffering for years. They wept with joy. Most of them became
Muslims willingly. They volunteered to spy upon Byzantine armies
for Muslim armies. Thus Abû Ubayda was informed daily with all
the novements of Heraclius’ armies. In the grand Yermuk
campaign, these Byzantine spies were of much help. The
establishment and spreading of Islamic states was never based on
aggression or killing. The greatest and the most essential power
maintaining and enlivening these states was the power of îmân,
justice, rectitude and self-sacrifice.”]
Russians have been taking one gold yearly for every individual
Muslim, from the smallest children to the oldest people alike, in
Kazan, Uzbekistan, Crimea, Daghistan and Turkistan, which they
have been invading for a hundred years. With all this and, in
addition, various kinds of torments and oppressions such as
compulsory military service, prohibition from speaking Turkish in
schools and coersion to learn Russian, how many Muslims in
Russia have become Christians throughout all these years? In fact,
as a result of the peace agreement made after the Crimean War,
the Christians that had remained in the Ottoman land were
allowed to migrate to Russia and the Muslims being in Russia
could go to the Ottoman territory. Thus, more than two million
Muslims migrated from Russia to the Ottoman country. On the
other hand, though the Russians offered to pay 20 roubles as the
travelling expense for each Christian to migrate to their side, the
Christians that were used to living in comfort and ease under the
Ottoman government could not be taken in by Russia’s promise;
they did not barter away Islam’s bestowments of rights and
freedom for going there.
The statement, “Hadrat ’Umar ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ had four
thousand churches demolished,” is an apparent slander against all
the historical facts. According to Christian historians, when ’Umar
‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ conquered Jerusalem, the Christians suggested
that he could choose any of their churches as a temple for
themselves (Muslims). ’Umar refused this offer vehemently. He
performed his first prayer of namâz outside, instead of in a church.
He had the site called Haykal-i-muqaddas [the site of Bayt-imuqaddas],
which had been a rubbish heap for a long time,
cleaned, and had a beautiful mosque built there.
The course of action that Muslims are obligated to follow in
their dealings with Christians and Jews is prescribed in the
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