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begun. Moreover, it was on this account that the preacher
inquires, “Who has informed you to flee from the coming
wrath?” They were warned and exhorted to bear good
fruits and good harvest by repentance and belief in the
true Messengers of God, especially in the Rasul Allah,
who was the true and the last powerful Commander.

4. The Jews and the Christians have always charged
Muhammad (pbuh) of having established the religion of Islam
by force, coercion, and the sword. The Muslim modernists
have always tried to refute this charge. However, this
does not mean to say that Muhammad (pbuh) never wielded
the sword. He had to use it to preserve the name of God.
Every patience has limits and every favour has an end. It
is not that Allah’s patience or favour is finite; with Him,
all is settled, defined and fixed. The chance and the time
graciously granted by Allah to the Jews, to the Arabs, and
to the Gentiles lasted for more than four thousand years.
It was only after the expiry of this period that Allah sends
His beloved Muhammad (pbuh) with power and sword,
with fire and spirit, to deal with the wicked unbelievers.
With the ungrateful children of Abraham (pbtuhem) -both the
Ishmaelites and the Israelites- and to deal with the power
of the Devil, once for all.

The whole of the Old Testament is a tale of theocracy
and of idolatry. Now and then a little sparkle of Islam
that is, the religion of Allah- glittered in Jerusalem
and in Makkah; but it was always persecuted by the
power of the Devil. The four diabolical Beasts had
to come and trample under their feet the handful of
believers in Allah. Then comes Muhammad (pbuh) to
crush and kill the Venemous Serpent and to give him
the opprobrious title of “Iblis”-the “Bruised” Satan.
Certainly Muhammad (pbuh) was a fighting Prophet, but
the object of that fighting was victory not vengeance,
defeat of the enemy and not his extermination, and,