Opinion

Exploiters or victims of history?

May 08, 2018
Exploiters or victims of history?

Saeed Al-Suraihi



Okaz newspaper

NEITHER the extremist groups in their distorted theories nor the terrorists in their search for legitimacy to their inhuman deeds were in need of much time and effort to find in the history books what they were looking for.

The history books, as written by a number of historians, were replete with bloodshed, fires, massacres, beheadings, loots and war slaves which were backed by fatwas (Islamic edicts) to justify them.

The fatwas made this violence the most peaceful means for spreading Islam and for building an Islamic state.

We can safely claim that the extremist groups and the terrorist gangs did not take advantage of the violence which was propagated by history books but they were themselves the natural breed and the byproduct of it as it came in the perverted history books.

History books claimed that the spread of Islam was through battles, wars, victories, defeats, casualties and loots.

These books traced the spread of Islam in the West completely ignoring its spread in the East until it reached the Malaya, south Philippines and other areas without any bloodshed, or battles or loots and slavery.

Islam reached the east by the correct da'wa (call) and the role model which was portrayed by the Muslims who reached those areas in early times.

We may all remember the names of the leaders who fought the battles and led the Muslim armies to the West but none of us would recall the names of the traders and the peaceful Muslim scholars who took Islam to the East.

Their ethics and good mannerism was the best call for Islam which reached the end of the globe to the east.

The extremist groups and the terrorists came out of the dust of the battles which the historians have written about.

They would not have found any violence to lean on in their endeavor to revitalize the Islamic state if history books had written about the methods by which Islam was spread eastward.

History books should have given more attention to the spread of Islam in the east through wisdom and the ideal behavior instead of focusing on wars and battles.

The extremists and terrorists are completely erroneous in their false belief that Islam had spread in the world by the sword, the killing and destruction.

If history books had given enough space to the means by which Islam reached the far east, the terrorists would never have found anything to justify their inhuman deeds of coercion, blood and killings.


May 08, 2018
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