Submitted by Mohamad Nozzi (Singapore), Apr 30, 2009 at 11:19
Allah's message to Prophet Muhammad is preaching. For instance, if Prophet Muhammad would just kill the pagans without preaching the message from Allah, his wife, friend, servant and daughters would not be saved since he would simply see the pagans to kill and kill.
If Prophet Muhammad was so cruel that he liked killing but did not like preaching. He simply killed and killed. The message from Allah would not reach out to other countries since the place that he went to should be a number of non-muslim dead bodies lying here and there.
As the number of places that Prophet Muhammad went to, there were new converts. It implies that Prophet Muhammad did preach the message there so that many pagans to repent.
For instance, if Allah's message to Prophet Muhammad was simply slaughtered the pagans without mercy to preach the message of Allah to them, the places where his followers had gone through, such as, North America, Spain and northwest China, there should not be any non-muslims there or else these countries would turn up to be muslim countries nowadays. As muslims did not kill all the pagans, it implies that they were patiently to wait for the repentance of the pagans to become muslims.
I personally hope that muslim extremists would not be mislead by false message in the public and they will be on the same tracks as us to continue to reach out to non-muslims and to show good conducts for their repentance and this is my final hope, the wish of a moderate muslim.
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