Since the advent of Islam, as the final and all-compassing Message to mankind up to the moment, its adversaries left no opportunity to thwart it and curb its followers. Right from day one, they did their level best to kill it in the bud using different ways.

Due to the fact that this new religion holds all people equal in terms of rights, duties, human value, etc, regardless of their ethnic, social or economic backgrounds, the rich and leading figures in Makkah, fearing lest they would lose their prestige and wealth, stood adamantly in the face of the then nascent Message. They tried to put different kinds of obstacles to hinder the spread of Islam, in feverish attempts to maintain their positions and prevent any sort of threat to their interests.

In their war against Islam, they tried many kinds of weapons: bodily torture, economic sanctions, false propaganda, and financial seduction, none of which was of any fruit.

With the Help of Allah, the Most Exalted, then the will, patience and perseverance of Prophet Muhammad sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allah exalt his mention ) and his faithful companions, may Allah be pleased with them, Islam could successfully pass all those hard tests. It survived all the hardships and expanded its span to include not only the Arabian Peninsula, rather spacious lands outside it.

By the tenth century, Islam became the main religion, or at least, the religion of the majority of nations in an area covering more than half of the civilized world stretching over three continents from the Pyrenees and Siberia in West and North Europe to the farthest end of Asia, up to China and New Guinea in the East; from Morocco in North Africa to the southern tip of Africa, covering two-thirds of the African continent.

It is one of the most striking facts of human history that the spread of Islam over such a vast area took place within three centuries. Most striking of all, within half a century after the Hijrah (Prophet Muhammad's sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allah exalt his mention ) Migration from Makkah to Al-Madeenah), Islam had already conquered the whole of North Africa from Egypt to Morocco, all the Middle Eastern lands from Yemen to Caucasia and from Egypt to the lands beyond Transoxiana (portion of Central Asia corresponding approximately with modern-day Uzbekistan and southwest Kazakhstan).

What makes Islam spread?
There are many reasons why nations have been, from past to the present, so ready to embrace Islam, what is pointed out by Muhammad Asad, a Jewish convert to Islam, probably being the foremost:
“Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other, nothing lacking, with the result of an absolute balance and solid composure. Everything in the teaching and postulate of Islam is in its proper place.” [Islam at the Crossroads, p.5]

Most of Western writers, especially those under the influence of the Church, have never failed to accuse Islam of spreading by the sword. The causes of this prejudice lie mainly in the fact that the spread of Islam has often occurred at the expense of Christianity. While Islam has, for centuries, obtained numerous conversions from Christianity without much effort or organized missionary activities, Christianity has almost never been able to achieve conversions from Islam in spite of sophisticated means and well-organized missionary activities, and it has always been at a disadvantage in its competition with Islam for fourteen centuries.

This has caused its missionaries and most of the orientalists to develop a complex within themselves by depicting Islam and introducing it as a regressive, vulgar religion of savage people.

If history is to be read with an objective eye, such allegations will easily be debunked.

In addition to many other reasons which are responsible for the spread of Islam, it is the exemplary life-style and unceasing efforts of individual Muslims to transmit the message of Islam throughout the world which lie at the root of the conquest of the hearts by Islam. Islamic universalism is closely associated with the principle of 'enjoining the good' for Islam is to be spread by Muslims by means of this principle. This principle seeks to convey the message of Islam to all human beings in the world and to establish a model Islamic community on a world-wide basis.

Among every four humans in the world, one of them is Muslim. Muslims have increased by over 235% in the last fifty years up to nearly 1.6 billion. By comparison, Christians have increased by only 47 %... Islam is the second largest religious group in France, Great Britain and USA.

The following statistics show the growth of Islam in the world from (1989-1998):

North America: (25%)
Africa: (2.15%)
Asia: (12.57%)
Europe: (142.35%)
Latin America: (4.73%)
Australia: (257.01%)

Western fierce media campaign against Islam and Muslims escalated after the 11th of September attacks. Biased media, especially in the USA, rushed into a feverish contest to depict Islam as a religion based on savagery, intolerance and blood-thirst.

Not only in the media were Muslims harassed in the United States of America, Britain, Australia, and other European countries; rather, they were physically attacked at their homes, in the streets, in public places, and in their Mosques, Islamic centers, etc. The same attitude was, unfortunately, maintained toward the Noble Prophet of Islam sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allah exalt his mention ) and the Noble Quran.

Islamophobia reached its peak when a Danish newspaper published heinous caricatures picturing the Prophet sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allah exalt his mention ) as a terrorist. The noble Quran was also desecrated in the US and some other countries, which indicates the deep hatred towards Islam and Muslims.

There have been many rigid regulations and extremist procedures enacted against Muslims in the US and some European countries, on the pretext of their "war on terror". Many Muslim students were banned from completing their studies, many families expatriated, Islamic activities limited or stopped, Muslim men and women subjected to sophisticated checking and screening procedures in airports, women with hijab and men with beards mocked or harassed, etc. In brief, a Muslim has become for them a word synonymous to “suspect”.

Nonetheless, even after the events of September, a wave of new Muslims embraced Islam all over the world. In the USA alone, more than 30000 persons embraced Islam.

By the year 2020, Islam is projected to be the largest religion in the world.

To sum up, in spite of all the feverish attempts on the part of the adversaries of Islam, old and new, Islam is still sweeping the globe easily and peacefully, thus conquering and illuminating the minds and hearts, no matter how hard and intricate their conspiracies are. Allah, the Most Glorious, Says in the Quran (what means): “It is He (Allah) Who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to manifest it over all religion, although they who associate others with Allah dislike it.” [Quran 9: 33]

Source [url=hhttps://library.islamweb.net/en/article/137596/despite-obstacles-islam-continues-to-spread]Islamweb[/url]

all religion must start somewhere, grow, blossom and then wither

Rashduct4luv:
Since the advent of Islam, as the final and all-compassing Message to mankind up to the moment, its adversaries left no opportunity to thwart it and curb its followers. Right from day one, they did their level best to kill it in the bud using different ways.

Due to the fact that this new religion holds all people equal in terms of rights, duties, human value, etc, regardless of their ethnic, social or economic backgrounds, the rich and leading figures in Makkah, fearing lest they would lose their prestige and wealth, stood adamantly in the face of the then nascent Message. They tried to put different kinds of obstacles to hinder the spread of Islam, in feverish attempts to maintain their positions and prevent any sort of threat to their interests.

In their war against Islam, they tried many kinds of weapons: bodily torture, economic sanctions, false propaganda, and financial seduction, none of which was of any fruit.

With the Help of Allah, the Most Exalted, then the will, patience and perseverance of Prophet Muhammad sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allah exalt his mention ) and his faithful companions, may Allah be pleased with them, Islam could successfully pass all those hard tests. It survived all the hardships and expanded its span to include not only the Arabian Peninsula, rather spacious lands outside it.

By the tenth century, Islam became the main religion, or at least, the religion of the majority of nations in an area covering more than half of the civilized world stretching over three continents from the Pyrenees and Siberia in West and North Europe to the farthest end of Asia, up to China and New Guinea in the East; from Morocco in North Africa to the southern tip of Africa, covering two-thirds of the African continent.

It is one of the most striking facts of human history that the spread of Islam over such a vast area took place within three centuries. Most striking of all, within half a century after the Hijrah (Prophet Muhammad's sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allah exalt his mention ) Migration from Makkah to Al-Madeenah), Islam had already conquered the whole of North Africa from Egypt to Morocco, all the Middle Eastern lands from Yemen to Caucasia and from Egypt to the lands beyond Transoxiana (portion of Central Asia corresponding approximately with modern-day Uzbekistan and southwest Kazakhstan).

What makes Islam spread?
There are many reasons why nations have been, from past to the present, so ready to embrace Islam, what is pointed out by Muhammad Asad, a Jewish convert to Islam, probably being the foremost:
“Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other, nothing lacking, with the result of an absolute balance and solid composure. Everything in the teaching and postulate of Islam is in its proper place.” [Islam at the Crossroads, p.5]

Most of Western writers, especially those under the influence of the Church, have never failed to accuse Islam of spreading by the sword. The causes of this prejudice lie mainly in the fact that the spread of Islam has often occurred at the expense of Christianity. While Islam has, for centuries, obtained numerous conversions from Christianity without much effort or organized missionary activities, Christianity has almost never been able to achieve conversions from Islam in spite of sophisticated means and well-organized missionary activities, and it has always been at a disadvantage in its competition with Islam for fourteen centuries.

This has caused its missionaries and most of the orientalists to develop a complex within themselves by depicting Islam and introducing it as a regressive, vulgar religion of savage people.

If history is to be read with an objective eye, such allegations will easily be debunked.

In addition to many other reasons which are responsible for the spread of Islam, it is the exemplary life-style and unceasing efforts of individual Muslims to transmit the message of Islam throughout the world which lie at the root of the conquest of the hearts by Islam. Islamic universalism is closely associated with the principle of 'enjoining the good' for Islam is to be spread by Muslims by means of this principle. This principle seeks to convey the message of Islam to all human beings in the world and to establish a model Islamic community on a world-wide basis.

Among every four humans in the world, one of them is Muslim. Muslims have increased by over 235% in the last fifty years up to nearly 1.6 billion. By comparison, Christians have increased by only 47 %... Islam is the second largest religious group in France, Great Britain and USA.

The following statistics show the growth of Islam in the world from (1989-1998):

North America: (25%)
Africa: (2.15%)
Asia: (12.57%)
Europe: (142.35%)
Latin America: (4.73%)
Australia: (257.01%)

Western fierce media campaign against Islam and Muslims escalated after the 11th of September attacks. Biased media, especially in the USA, rushed into a feverish contest to depict Islam as a religion based on savagery, intolerance and blood-thirst.

Not only in the media were Muslims harassed in the United States of America, Britain, Australia, and other European countries; rather, they were physically attacked at their homes, in the streets, in public places, and in their Mosques, Islamic centers, etc. The same attitude was, unfortunately, maintained toward the Noble Prophet of Islam sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allah exalt his mention ) and the Noble Quran.

Islamophobia reached its peak when a Danish newspaper published heinous caricatures picturing the Prophet sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allah exalt his mention ) as a terrorist. The noble Quran was also desecrated in the US and some other countries, which indicates the deep hatred towards Islam and Muslims.

There have been many rigid regulations and extremist procedures enacted against Muslims in the US and some European countries, on the pretext of their "war on terror". Many Muslim students were banned from completing their studies, many families expatriated, Islamic activities limited or stopped, Muslim men and women subjected to sophisticated checking and screening procedures in airports, women with hijab and men with beards mocked or harassed, etc. In brief, a Muslim has become for them a word synonymous to “suspect”.

Nonetheless, even after the events of September, a wave of new Muslims embraced Islam all over the world. In the USA alone, more than 30000 persons embraced Islam.

By the year 2020, Islam is projected to be the largest religion in the world.

To sum up, in spite of all the feverish attempts on the part of the adversaries of Islam, old and new, Islam is still sweeping the globe easily and peacefully, thus conquering and illuminating the minds and hearts, no matter how hard and intricate their conspiracies are. Allah, the Most Glorious, Says in the Quran (what means): “It is He (Allah) Who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to manifest it over all religion, although they who associate others with Allah dislike it.” [Quran 9: 33]

Source [url=hhttps://library.islamweb.net/en/article/137596/despite-obstacles-islam-continues-to-spread]Islamweb[/url]

Sorry bro, the growth of Islam in Europe is 90% as a result of hijra, migration, from Muslim countries to non-muslim countries. Between 1970 and 2019, there is over 10000% increase in migration of Muslims from the Arab and South east Asian world to Europe and these migrants come with their culture.

The second and the third generation migrants, in most cases, retain the religion of their ancestors which is Islam. And since life in Europe and American is easier than life in the Muslim world, most Muslim do not have problems maintaining a very large family; the state welfare system (now the modern jizya) will always pay their bills. Hundreds of thousands of muslim Turkish citizens living in Germany do not like to work because the German government will always pay them free money (jizya) every month as welfare.

If you can colllect free money as the best of mankind (the ummah) from the kafir ((the worst of creatures), why won't you migrate to their lands? So the 'growth' has nothing to do with conversation, though a very very insignificant number of natives do convert and most later leave, but it all has to do with Muslim migration to non-muslim lands where there is religious freedom (no religious freedom in many Muslim lands).

true2god:
Sorry bro, the growth of Islam in Europe is 90% as a result of hijra, migration, from Muslim countries to non-muslim countries. Between 1970 and 2019, there is over 10000% increase in migration of Muslims from the Arab and South east Asian world to Europe and these migrants come with their culture.

The second and the third generation migrants, in most cases, retain the religion of their ancestors which is Islam. And since life in Europe and American is easier than life in the Muslim world, most Muslim do not have problems maintaining a very large family; the state welfare system (now the modern jizya) will always pay their bills. Hundreds of thousands of muslim Turkish citizens living in Germany do not like to work because the German government will always pay them free money (jizya) every month as welfare.

If you can colllect free money as the best of mankind (the ummah) from the kafir ((the worst of creatures), why won't you migrate to their lands? So the 'growth' has nothing to do with conversation, though a very very insignificant number of natives do convert and most later leave, but it all has to do with Muslim migration to non-muslim lands where there is religious freedom (no religious freedom in many Muslim lands).

Off point as usual. Thank you for marking a register on my thread.

TheExecutioner:
Don't you mean the fastest breeding religion?

It's only natural that a religion which places a high emphasis on polygamy and which encourages its women to breed in litters will eventually achieve numerical superiority.

The real problem will be how islime intends to deal with the rise of apostasy and the growing numbers of people leaving the religion. What will Islam do when it can no longer punish apostasy? I think Sheikh Yusuf Al Qaradawi knows the honest truth:

After years of tolerating Muslim rape gangs and putting up with lazy Muslim migrants who only want to live on welfare, the West is gradually getting fed up.

75% of non Muslims who convert to islam end up leaving the religion after about 3 years. They usually leave the religion after they begin to find out that it is often at odds with basic common sense and intelligence:

The rise of apostasy in the islamic world is a source of bewilderment for Muslim governments who cannot understand why people are leaving islam even though it might cost them their lives:

Islamophobic and jargon as usual...Not surprised though.

Rashduct4luv:


Off point as usual. Thank you for marking a register on my thread.

Good morning Rashduct4luv. I 'no fit' argue today. Today is my day for a sombre reflection, and how I can contribute to move this country forward.

It seems like the word "islamophobic" has become another name for the truth

Tell me, will Leah Sharibu's parents or the parents of the Chibok girls be considered islamophobic for refusing to live next door to Muslims after what they have experienced?

Rashduct4luv:


Islamophobic and jargon as usual...Not surprised though.

TheExecutioner:
It seems like the word "islamophobic" has become another name for the truth

By the truth do you mean lies, profanity, abuse, crass ignorance & arrogance?

TheExecutioner:

Tell me, will Leah Sharibu's parents or the parents of the Chibok girls be considered islamophobic for refusing to live next door to Muslims after what they have experienced?

Everyone has the right to live wherever they want so far they can afford it and are able to... And what should those Muslims who also lost their kids/relatives to the BH menace do?

It is one thing to hate an action. It is another thing to hate Islam.

Where are the lies, profanity, abuse and crass ignorance? Every fact I have ever presented is from authentic sources. I don't patronise bloggers or peddlers of fake news.

I also have copies of the complete Sahih Hadith collections, whether Sahih Al Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abu Dawud, Al Tirmidhi Sirat Rasul Allah Al Tabari, Tafseers etc

I guess my only sin is that I interpret islamic texts objectively instead of in the biased and intellectually dishonest way that people like you and other Muslim apologists do it.

As for Leah Sharibu's parents and the parents of the Chibok girls, their decision not to live side by side with Muslims is more than just a simple desire to live wherever one wants to live. It's also an act of self preservation and survival.

I am always amused when Muslims try to portray themselves as the biggest victims of islamic fundamentalism. It's like the father of a child who is a notorious cultist or criminal gang member trying to claim he is not responsible for any harm done to strangers by his child because he too has also suffered at the hands of that child. Such a lame, illogical and harebrained cop-out. But I wouldn't expect anything less from muslims.

Rashduct4luv:

By the truth do you mean lies, profanity, abuse, crass ignorance & arrogance?

Everyone has the right to live wherever they want so far they can afford it and are able to... And what should those Muslims who also lost their kids/relatives to the BH menace do?

It is one thing to hate an action. It is another thing to hate Islam.

TheExecutioner:
I also have copies of the complete Sahih Hadith collections, whether Sahih Al Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abu Dawud, Al Tirmidhi Sirat Rasul Allah Al Tabari, Tafseers etc

You can understand Islam if you only read these books in Arabic (According to Shabir Yusuf).

Yes I have heard that line before. Apparently Arabic is the only language where the entire meaning of a sentence is completely reversed when you translate it into another language

true2god:
You can understand Islam if you only read these books in Arabic (According to Shabir Yusuf).

TheExecutioner:
Yes I have heard that line before. Apparently Arabic is the only language where the entire meaning of a sentence is completely reversed when you translate it into another language

Lolll. You understand that gimmick; a perfect excuse that we hear so often. Apparently allah understands only arabic.

Meanwhile when it comes to the Bible nobody ever tells Muslims to go and read it in the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek in which it was written.

true2god:
Lolll. You understand that gimmick; a perfect excuse that we hear so often. Apparently allah understands only arabic.

true2god:
Sorry bro, the growth of Islam in Europe is 90% as a result of hijra, migration, from Muslim countries to non-muslim countries. Between 1970 and 2019, there is over 10000% increase in migration of Muslims from the Arab and South east Asian world to Europe and these migrants come with their culture.

The second and the third generation migrants, in most cases, retain the religion of their ancestors which is Islam. And since life in Europe and American is easier than life in the Muslim world, most Muslim do not have problems maintaining a very large family; the state welfare system (now the modern jizya) will always pay their bills. Hundreds of thousands of muslim Turkish citizens living in Germany do not like to work because the German government will always pay them free money (jizya) every month as welfare.

If you can colllect free money as the best of mankind (the ummah) from the kafir ((the worst of creatures), why won't you migrate to their lands? So the 'growth' has nothing to do with conversation, though a very very insignificant number of natives do convert and most later leave, but it all has to do with Muslim migration to non-muslim lands where there is religious freedom (no religious freedom in many Muslim lands).

Lol. I laugh in Chinese. What ignorance and hypocrisy! Anyway, you said " though a very very insignificant number of natives do convert and most later leave ". It is better for you to have a rethink and come to Islam before it is too late and stop deceiving yourself.

TheExecutioner:

Meanwhile when it comes to the Bible nobody ever tells Muslims to go and read it in the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek in which it was written.

Do you even know which bible language is the Original and first language,Is it Aramaic or Hebrew or Greek.

BroOptimist:




Lol. I laugh in Chinese. What ignorance and hypocrisy! Anyway, you said " though a very very insignificant number of natives do convert and most later leave ". It is better for you to have a rethink and come to Islam before it is too late and stop deceiving yourself.

I am already a Muslim but Mohammed is not my prophet. Lobatan!

Most of the Old Testament part of the Bible is in Hebrew, while most of the New Testament is in Greek with a little of Aramaic. Greek was the language of the educated classes by the time the New Testament was written.

sulasa07:

Do you even know which bible language is the Original and first language,Is it Aramaic or Hebrew or Greek.

true2god:
I am already a Muslim but Mohammed is not my prophet. Lobatan!

Alas! You're a Muslim, but Mohammed(PBUH) is not your Prophet , right? Definitely, you're NOT a Muslim in any manner. Do you believe in oneness of Allah? Do you observe 5-time daily prayers? Do you fast during Ramadan? If you do all those above mentioned, who taught you how to do them, if truly you are still a Muslim

My friend, eschew being deceived and bambozzeld. No Islam, no Paradise!

TheExecutioner:
Most of the Old Testament part of the Bible is in Hebrew, while most of the New Testament is in Greek with a little of Aramaic. Greek was the language of the educated classes by the time the New Testament was written.

What language did Jesus speak?

Jesus spoke Hebrew and Aramaic.

sulasa07:

What language did Jesus speak?

BroOptimist:
Alas! You're a Muslim, but Mohammed (PBUH) is not your Prophet , right? Definitely, you're NOT a Muslim in any manner. Do you believe in oneness of Allah? Do you observe 5-time daily prayers? Do you fast during Ramadan? If you do all those above mentioned, who taught you how to do them, if truly you are still a Muslim

My friend, eschew being deceived and bambozzeld. No Islam, no Paradise!

According to Islam all man is born a muslim so that makes me a muslim. I am a muslim but I dont believe in mohammed as a messenger; I believe in God alone. I dont follow religion blindly but God and I like doing good to my fellow man.

true2god:
According to Islam all man is born a muslim so that makes me a muslim. I am a muslim but I dont believe in mohammed as a messenger; I believe in God alone. I dont follow religion blindly but God and I like doing good to my fellow man.

Please, provide answers to the questions above and stop displaying your ignorance and hypocrisy here.

TheExecutioner:
Jesus spoke Hebrew and Aramaic.

Does the Aramaic language still exist?

It is still used as a liturgical language for Church services in some of the Chaldean Churches in Syria and Lebanon

sulasa07:

Does the Aramaic language still exist?

TheExecutioner:
It is still used as a liturgical language for Church services in some of the Chaldean Churches in Syria and Lebanon

Are you sure they still speaking the pure Aramaic in that region or they are speaking Aramaic-Arabic style,beta check it source again

Aramaic is used in church services as a liturgical language, not as an everyday language of conversation.
Most Chaldeans who remain in the Middle East and who have not migrated to Europe and North America can also speak Arabic.

sulasa07:

Are you sure they still speaking the pure Aramaic in that region or they are speaking Aramaic-Arabic style,beta check it source again

TheExecutioner:
Aramaic is used in church services as a liturgical language, not as an everyday language of conversation.
Most Chaldeans who remain in the Middle East and who have not migrated to Europe and North America can also speak Arabic.

Do you know what I'm trying to prove by asking all these questions?

Your ignorance perhaps?

sulasa07:

Do you know what I'm trying to prove by asking all these questions?

TheExecutioner:
Your ignorance perhaps?

Jesus's language isn't spoken in his country and residence anymore,the Aramaic bible can't be read by any living Christian,even the language is about to go fully extinct and you still believe you are on the right path.Everything to verify Jesus's existence is no more.

The Aramaic language is still spoken by Syriac Catholic priests and it is used in their seminaries.
Just like the Latin language, it can't go into extinction because it is a preserved language. Jewish Rabbis can also speak Aramaic because both the Jerusalem and Babylon Talmuds are written in both Hebrew and Aramaic.

sulasa07:

Jesus's language isn't spoken in his country and residence anymore,the Aramaic bible can't be read by any living Christian,even the language is about to go fully extinct and you still believe you are on the right path.Everything to verify Jesus's existence is no more.

I can see a huge dishonesty in the OP article.

Islam was spread through conquest and establishing caliphates in places just like Christians did same. Slave trade also occur, these are historical fact.

There might be some places where it was embraced through conversion(due to some reasons) but denying there were never a conquest is dishonesty!

And as for Islam still growing, this is by rate of birth not by conversion, Muslims have the highest birth rate in the world, the immigrants of Muslims alone in Europe and America are huge.

The OP should get his fact right and stop this dishonesty. It's lame!