Islam Rediscovered
17. Prophetic Vision
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Prophet Muhammad, may peace be upon him, was
indeed a bloodless revolution. And this bloodless
revolution became possible only because he acted
on his belief in the power of peace.
In the later centuries of Islam, too, this peace
formula was followed. That is why Islam achieved
such great successes. One prominent example of
this matter is provided by an event which took
place in the thirteenth century. During this period
the barbaric Mongol tribes rose from Turkistan and
devastated the entire Muslim empire right from
Samarqand to Aleppo. The grand Abbasid
Caliphate vanished altogether.
In those days the Muslims’ political and military
power had so greatly weakened that the saying
spread among them that if you were told that the
Mongols had been defeated, you should not believe
it. It was in this situation that the Islamic policy of
peace performed a miracle. Muslim men and
Muslim women rose to the occasion, engaging
themselves in peaceful
da’wah
work. The result was
miraculous, within a period of 50 years the scene
was completely changed. In the words of the
