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The Defensive War That<br />
Decisively Changed the World<br />
By: Adil Rashid Bhatt<br />
One of the grandest and profoundly<br />
immortal achievements of humanity<br />
has been the dramatic rise of<br />
magnificent Islamic civilization, on the<br />
blemished horizon of the forlorn world; it was<br />
purely founded on unshakable and integral<br />
faith and godly justice, inter alia natural<br />
longing to worship one true God. Islam rose as<br />
an enduring spiritual revolution that shook<br />
cultures, and nations cum echelons of power<br />
across the three continents within a short span<br />
of time of its ascendency, after the departure of<br />
Prophet Muhammed (SAW); and firmly<br />
established an empire, the Islamic Imperium.<br />
For the people of other faiths from Asia to<br />
Europe much of the history of Islam has been<br />
obscured behind the veil of fear, concoction,<br />
false propaganda and misunderstanding; still<br />
Islam' s forgotten history is intricately woven<br />
with civilizations across the nations; it has left<br />
deep imprints of its profound and magnificent<br />
culture and architectures across the world it<br />
ruled for a number of centuries. At a time when<br />
Europe languished in dark ages and reading<br />
science was penalized with excommunication (<br />
banishment) by the church Muslim scholars not<br />
only translated earlier works of Greek, Persian<br />
,and Indian scholars but , in fact, made great<br />
strides in different fields of science and arts that<br />
ultimately culminated in the transfer of<br />
knowledge to Europe and European<br />
renaissance.<br />
The rise of Islam was a revolution par<br />
excellence the like of which have had never<br />
been witnessed by the world. But all of this<br />
began with the life of single blessed man, and<br />
the profound message he proclaimed which<br />
changed the world for all times to come .This<br />
man was none other than the magnanimous<br />
“Prophet Muhammed”(PBUH) who was born<br />
in around 570AD in the sun blasted Arabian<br />
peninsula, a land of severe water famine whose<br />
unruly Bedouin tribes were locked in perennial<br />
state of bloody animosity, a violent people who<br />
even killed neighbors camel if that trespassed<br />
into their de facto territory, rivalry over the<br />
control of a single water well, that made<br />
difference between life and death, could<br />
provoke a bloody feud that would run into<br />
generations, and culminate in recurrent blood<br />
splashed skirmishes.<br />
There were myriad factions across the<br />
peninsula, each guarding its own territories<br />
,trade routes, and wells. These tribes would<br />
attack each other enroute, and plunder precious<br />
valuables that they later sold in markets. In<br />
Mecca, pagans had perched almost three<br />
hundred idols of different demigods into the<br />
Qaba, the sacred house built by Prophet<br />
Ibrahim (PBUH). Each clan worshipped their<br />
own god; in fact these God's were attributed to<br />
be harbingers of fortunes of many a kind and<br />
scale; some God's were supposed to be<br />
harbingers of rain ,and some were supposed to<br />
bring profit in trade and so on.<br />
The Holy Prophet(PBUH) preached against<br />
worshipping demi gods, and called people<br />
towards the powerful message of Islamic<br />
20<br />
May 2019
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