Q&A: Islam as conquest: What merits a place in Islam?
A friend asked about "Alexander/Iskandar" the pagan Grecian conqueror being mentioned in the Quran. A Muslim acquaintance had never heard of such.
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A. Are Abraham Lincoln, Lenin & Stalin, or Columbus mentioned in the Q
document, in the same conquistadorian vein of reasoning? Ah, but they
are post-Mo folks (though I doubt Islam would have reached the
Americans without Columbus).
B. Are any Chinese leaders mentioned in the Q document?
C. What about Indian leaders / conquerors that spread regional
ideologies before Islam hit the subcontinent?
Rhetorical questions ... but the idea of conquest as Islam / Islam as
conquest seems to keep the problem in focus rather than providing any
solution.
Here are some more sober questions:
1. How does one conquer the human heart & tongue, and their fallen tendencies?
2. What does this reveal of the uniquely Goodness of the News which we share?
When a soul savors the Flavor of forgiveness,
it knows the Father's favor in the Lord.
This is the kind of salt that
removes the rot & makes right.
In Christ Jesus the Victor,
Mert H.
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A. Are Abraham Lincoln, Lenin & Stalin, or Columbus mentioned in the Q
document, in the same conquistadorian vein of reasoning? Ah, but they
are post-Mo folks (though I doubt Islam would have reached the
Americans without Columbus).
B. Are any Chinese leaders mentioned in the Q document?
C. What about Indian leaders / conquerors that spread regional
ideologies before Islam hit the subcontinent?
Rhetorical questions ... but the idea of conquest as Islam / Islam as
conquest seems to keep the problem in focus rather than providing any
solution.
Here are some more sober questions:
1. How does one conquer the human heart & tongue, and their fallen tendencies?
2. What does this reveal of the uniquely Goodness of the News which we share?
When a soul savors the Flavor of forgiveness,
it knows the Father's favor in the Lord.
This is the kind of salt that
removes the rot & makes right.
In Christ Jesus the Victor,
Mert H.