God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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expedition against the Romans. Cabades II, the son
of Chosroes II, entered into a peace treaty with the
Romans and handed over all Roman territories. The
wood of the Holy Cross was restored at the urgent
entreaties of Constantine’s successor. Chosroes’ son
abandoned the conquests of his father with no
apparent regret.
‘The return of Heraclius from Tauris to
Constantinople was a perpetual triumph. After a
long impatience, the senate, the clergy, and the
people went forth to meet their hero, with tears and
acclamations, with olive branches and innumerable
lamps; he entered the capital in a chariot drawn by
four elephants’.
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Thus the Quranic prediction about the Romans
regaining their lost territories came true, to the
letter, within the specified period of ten years.
Gibbon expressed astonishment at this prediction
but at the same time, in order to lessen its
importance, he has quite wrongly related it to the
epistle sent by the Prophet Muhammad to Chosroes
II. Gibbon observes: ‘While the Persian monarch
contemplated the wonders of his art and power, he
