Muhammad a Prophet For all Humanity
7. The Revolution of the Prophet
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A COMPARISON
The Islamic revolution that occurred in the time of
the Prophet was achieved at the cost of only 1018
lives. During the 23-years in which this revolution
was completed, 80 military expeditions took place.
The Prophet, however, only participated in some
27 of them, and an even smaller number of
expeditions actually involved any fighting. 259
Muslims and 759 non-Muslims died in these
battles—a total of 1018 dead. This is an
extraordinarily small number of casualties to have
been inflicted during such a great revolution—
one, which changed the entire course of human
history. The Islamic revolution of the Prophet can,
to all intents and purposes, be called a bloodless
revolution.
Contemporary Muslim writers and speakers are
wrongly eulogistic in their comparison of the
Prophet’s revolution with modern non-Islamic
revolutions. They point with pride to the fact that
only a thousand people died in the Islamic
revolution, while in the Russian revolution of 1917
alone; 13 million people lost their lives. The
