The first few who embraced the "new" religion in Makkah in the Arabian Peninsula at the hands of the Prophet were his wife Khadijah, his servant Zaid, and his eleven year old cousin Ali. Among the ones who later joined this faith were the honest merchant, Abu Bakr; the iron man of Arabia, Umar the Great; the shy businessman, Uthman; the Prophet's brave uncle, Hamza: and the slave of a pagan, Bilal. They simply couldn't resist the ?MAGIC SWORD? of a humble and lonely Prophet! The negligible minority of the believers in this new Faith was soon exiled from Makkah and they arrived in a city called Yathreb, which later became known as MADINAH. The Muslim emigrants to Madinah brought their ?SWORD? with them. The ?SWORD? continued to work and its magnetic force continued to "pull" people towards it until all of Arabia joined the Faith. Compared to the population of the rest of the world at that time, the Arabs constituted a tiny minority. A fraction of this minority decided to take the ?SWORD? beyond the boundaries of the Arabian desert to the mighty empires of Rome and Persia, the shores of the Mediterranean, the coast of Malabar and the far away East Indies Islands. Nation after nation continued surrendering to this ?SWORD? and joining the Faith.
So sharp was the edge of the ?SWORD?! It simply conquered the hearts and bodies yielded automatically. It is the ?SWORD OF TRUTH?, whose mere shine eliminates falsehood just like light wipes away darkness.
HAS THE SWORD GONE BLUNT? NO, FAR FROM IT.
It continues to pierce the hearts of countless men and women even today, in spite of the relentless efforts by persons with vested interests who like darkness to prevail, so that they may rob people of their good things. Read below the impressions of some who were recently conquered by the same ?SWORD?. They are from different countries, speak different languages, and have different backgrounds
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