1. The True Essence of the Jihad
The rejection denounces the corrupt practices of many people. ... The circumstances that Muhammad lived while struggling for the spread of Islam is far more different than what people live in today. 5 The religious rationale for conquest and expansion was not to force conversion to Islam upon other faiths who had their own prophets and revelations, the Qur'an states that: "There is no compulsion in religion", it is rather to spread its righteous order so that ignorance and unbelief could be replaced by societies throughout the world.6 The prophet did indeed establish a politica...
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