Muhammad a Prophet For all Humanity
7. The Revolution of the Prophet
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democratic revolution in France also took a heavy
toll, which ran into thousands.
The Muslims like this comparison, because it
gratifies their pride. But there is another
comparison to be made here, which they have never
even considered. Perhaps their failure to give
thought to this second comparison is simply a way
of avoiding admonishment, for no one ever likes
being admonished.
It would mean taking the number of dead in the
initial Islamic missionary drive, and comparing it
with the toll that modern-day Islamic movements
have exacted; in other words seeing how many
people died in the original Islamic revolution, and
how many have died in Muslim revolutionary
attempts of modern times. The 20th century has
seen grand Islamic revolutionary movements, great
“holy crusades”, in the Muslim world. Just as
Muslims compare the Prophet’s Islamic revolution
with modern, non-Islamic, secular revolutions, so
also should they look at their own movements in
the light of the revolution of the Prophet, and see
how they stand up to the comparison.
