31 Mart 2018 Cumartesi

warlord? / warmonger?

Muhammad Mustafa, the Messenger of God, had to fight a series of battles in the defense of Islam from his new home in Medina. Those battles in which he led the army of Islam in person, are called “Ghazwa” and those expeditions which he sent out from Medina under the command of any one of his companions, are called “Sariyya”.
Roughly speaking, the Prophet launched 80 campaigns during the ten years from his migration in A.D. 622 to his death in A.D. 632. Some of these campaigns were nothing more than reconnaissance missions.
The numbers involved in them were minuscule, and all they did was to watch the movements of some clan or tribe. Some were missionary expeditions. Many others were minor skirmishes. Still others were of interest only because of some particular incident attaching to them. I shall give a cursory account of the minor campaigns, and will then put the focus on the major battles of Islam.
Long before Islam, the Greeks and the Romans had learned that a battle could change the destinies of nations. Among the campaigns of the Prophet, there are five battles about which it can be said that they changed the destinies of nations. They are the battles of Badr, Uhud, Khandaq, Khyber and Hunayn.

These battles were inevitable. The Quraysh of Makkah believed that if all Arabs accepted Islam, it would mean to them (the Quraysh) the loss of all the pilgrim revenues, and the loss of their privileges which they enjoyed as the guardians of the idols. A triumph of Islam was correctly foreseen by them as a death blow to privilege. It was this fear, the fear of the loss of economic and political power and prestige that precipitated war between them and the Muslims.
Since the emigration of the Muslims from Makkah, a de facto state of war had existed between them and the Quraysh. In the early days in Medina, the Muslims did not dare to remove their armor at any time. Pickets were posted around the city every night to warn the citizens if the enemy made a sudden raid.
The Apostle could not sleep at nights being fearful of an attack at any time. It was in these circumstances that he had to take some defensive measures for the security of Medina. As head of the nascent state, its security was his first responsibility.
In the interests of security, the Muslims had to keep an eye on the movements of the enemy, his friends and his allies.
The Prophet sent out the first expedition in the ninth month of the first year of Hijra, under the command of his uncle, Hamza ibn Abdul Muttalib. Thirty Muhajirs took part in it. Their aim was to intercept a caravan of Quraysh. But a tribe, friendly to both sides, interposed
 between them. There was no fighting, and the expedition returned to Medina.
In the following month, the Prophet sent sixty Muhajirs under the command of his cousin, Obaida ibn al-Harith, to Rabigh, near the Red Sea. They encountered a caravan of the Quraysh. Both sides shot a few arrows at each other but there were no casualties. Two Makkan traders deserted their caravan, came over to the Muslim side, accepted Islam, and accompanied the expedition when it returned to Medina.
Obaida ibn al-Harith is said to have shot an arrow at the enemy. It was the first arrow shot for Islam.
Sir William Muir
Obaida is distinguished in tradition as he who upon this occasion, “shot the first arrow for Islam.” (The Life of Mohammed, London, 1877)
There were no more campaigns in the remainder of the first year of Hijra.

 As pointed out, Mohammad only sought to preach the Divine Message. The rejecters of the Divine Message dedicated themselves to annihilate Mohammad and his followers. Whatever defensive and pre-emptive measures Mohammad took to preserve himself and followers Mohammad was fully justified.

Was Muhammed (PBUH) a warlord?

Answer : No.

The first point, The Egyptian author Zaki Mubarak had made a survey about the casualties of the battles of Muhammad from both sides "In 10 Years" and "more than 63 battles and engagements" :

a. 262 Muslims / 1022 Non-Muslim. (These numbers included individual cases's casualties as well) so the sum = 1284
(N.B: Mr. Mubarak relied on the exaggerating reports that boosted the numbers of the Non-Muslim casualties)

b. In order not to raise the question about their percentage, he calculated the number of casualties in regard to the total number of combatants in both sides and found that the percentage of Muslim casualties = 1% / while the percentage of Non-Muslim casualties = 2%.

So Muhammed (PBUH) wasn't a blood-thirsty warmonger as the bigot tries to depict.

i will give anyone some sources by respected academics, and hey! i will cite Western non-Muslim academics _due to the awful Euro-centricity the West has_ :

We have

And of course you have the Islamic sources which are the best sources.by  mohammed said


Warlord? Let's look at the facts. These are the killings done by some of the capitalist and communist states, Imperial nations, fascist regimes and warlords:

  1. Mao Zedong = 65 million[1]
  2. British colonization of India = 40 million[2]
  3. Genghis Khan = 40 million[3]
  4. USA (wars after 1945) = 20–30 million (and counting)[4]
  5. Joseph Stalin = 20 million[5]
  6. Genocide of Native Americans by colonizing Europeans = 12 million[6]
  7. King Leopold II of Belgium =10 million[7]
  8. Napoleonic Wars = 6 million[8]
  9. Wars waged by Alexander = 3 million

Now compare this to the total causalities, on both sides, due to the wars waged during the time of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) which have been estimated to be 1,284[9]. Yes you have read it correctly “One thousand, two hundred and eighty four only”. This was despite the fact that the Prophet (ﷺ) won all the wars and conquered whole of Arabia in 10 years, after suffering intense persecution for the initial 13 years of his prophetic mission. The population of Arabia at the time of the Prophet (ﷺ) has been estimated to be around 5.25 million[10]. This calculates to just 0.024% of the population killed in the conquest of whole of Arabia! Any lesser person would have killed thousands of vanquished enemies, particularly those who had tortured and persecuted him previously

Warlord is a ruler who comes to power primarily through military might, and controls the area under his rule through intimidation and military power. His primary expansionary strategy is through subjugation of adjoining areas through military might.

So you can say a warlord has following four characteristics:

  1. He attains power through military might.
  2. He maintains his controls through military power.
  3. He pursues a ruthless expansionary policy based on his military might.
  4. People obey him out of fear, and when he dies all his influence comes to an end.

Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) does not fit any of these characteristics. He (ﷺ) came with a universal message of Islam which completely changed the beliefs, convictions and actions of people in such a short time, and with such a phenomenal success that it is unmatched in the entire history of the world.

The Prophet (ﷺ) was established as ruler of Madinah by mutual consent of both the tribes of Madinah[11], although at the time he did not have any military might whatsoever. The Prophet (ﷺ) maintained his rule by the willing and unconditional submission of people to him, due to their belief in him as being the true Prophet of Allah.

Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) was the Head of State for mere 10 years, although his era of prophethood spanned 23 years. However, the impact he had on the whole world is way beyond that of all the warlords put together.

The evidence of success of the Prophet (ﷺ) and message of Islam is that despite the fact that Prophet (ﷺ) passed away more than 14 centuries ago, there are 1.8 billion Muslims in the world who love and unconditionally obey him (ﷺ), and Islam is the fastest growing religion of the world.

What is left of the legacy of Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Stalin, Hitler, Alexander the Greek, or any other warlord? Most of the warlords were in fact killed by their own people, while what is left of others is nothing more than stories and tales from history.

The ones who call Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) a warlord should be ashamed of themselves.

Footnotes

[1] The Legacy of Mao Zedong is Mass Murder
[2] Timeline of major famines in India during British rule - Wikipedia
[3] 10 Things You May Not Know About Genghis Khan
[4] U.S. Regime Has Killed 20-30 Million People Since World War II - Global Research
[5] Major Soviet Paper Says 20 Million Died As Victims of Stalin (Published 1989)
[6] US history riddled with massacres, genocide
[7] Leopold II: Belgium 'wakes up' to its bloody colonial past
[8] Napoleonic Wars casualties - Wikipedia
[9] https://www.wisemuslimwomen.org/the-prophet-muhammads-role-in-warfare/
[10] Atlas of World Population History

[11] Syed Hasan Shirazi's answer to What are the reasons that force Muhammad to migrate from Mecca to Medina? by syed hasan shirazi

Prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa salam, a warlord? - Ummah.com 

 

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