Muhammad a Prophet For all Humanity
7. The Revolution of the Prophet
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Were the Muslims to take this comparison, they
would be startled to find that their own movements
are, in relation to that of the Prophet, no better than
revolutionary movements in the non-Muslim world.
Just as non-Muslim revolutions have been highly
expensive in human terms, so the death toll in
Muslims’ revolutionary struggles has been incredibly
high: two and half million dead in the Algerian war
of independence; 500,000 Muslim martyrs in the
Indian freedom struggle; 10 million lives lost in the
formation of the Muslim state of Pakistan. The
number of people who have given their lives for
Islam in Syria, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Palestine and various
other countries, runs into millions. And for all that,
these sacrifices have amounted to nothing. The effects
of the Prophet’s revolution were felt the world over,
yet it was accomplished at the cost of only 1000 lives.
Islamic movements of modern times, on the other
hand, have involved millions of human lives, yet,
despite this, one cannot point to even a small area in
which Islamic revolution has been truly successful
and effective.
The matter does not end there. Far from being
successful, our recent struggle has produced a
