The Call of the Quran
2. The Call to God and Unity
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lost this very nobility of character in their
detachment from the cause of propagating God’s
message among the people.
Very soon after this military action had been taken
against the Romans, in the times of the first pious
caliph, the Persians (Sassanids) turned hostile to the
Muslims forcing them to resort to confrontation.
This afforded Muslims a large sphere of Islamic
action spreading over Asia, Africa and Europe, as
these two empires, the Roman and the Persian,
dominated most of
the populated world.
This stance taken by the Muslims against the
Romans and Iranians was not aimed at any political
gain or territorial expansion: its sole purpose was
the propagation of the message of Islam. Muslims,
imbued with a divine instinct, had left their homes
to convince people to give up the worship of their
fellow men and to become true worshippers of God.
Past events are testimony to the fact that both Rome
and Persia were the main targets for the
propagation of the message of God, but the
aggression demonstrated by the two empires forced
Muslims to use military power against them. There
