Lawrence Brown wrote: 'Incidentally these well-established facts dispose of the idea so widely fostered in Christian writings that the Muslims, wherever they went, forced people to accept Islam at the point of the sword'.
["The Prospects of Islam", 1944]
James Michener wrote: 'No other religion in history spread so rapidly as Islam. The west has widely believed that this surge of religion was made possible by the sword. But no modern scholar accepts this idea".
["Reader's Digest", May 1955, pp. 68-70]
De Lacy O'Leary wrote: 'History makes it clear, however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths that historians have ever repeated'.
["Islam at the Crossroads", London, 1923, p. 8]
As muslims scholars have mentioned, such as Imam Ibn al-Qayyim for instance, the vast majority of reversions to Islam was not through the sword.
Rather, it was through peaceful da'wah, justice, kindness and good argumentation that people reverted to Islam in multitudes.
Non-muslims could also pay the jizyah, whose amount was definitely not burdensome but moderate, and this jizyah is only paid by able-bodied men. Jizya is not obligated upon women, it is not obligated upon those who have not reached puberty, it is not obligated upon the very old, it is not obligated upon the insane, it is not obligated upon the blind or chronically ill etc and obviously it is not taken from the very poor who are unable to pay it.
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