The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 328
328. Essence of Islam II. The Promised Messiah will not Fight Disbelievers with Sword. The commonly held doctrine professed by some of the divines that the Promised Messiah will descend from heaven and will fight the disbelievers and will not accept the poll tax and will offer only the choice of death or. Islām, is utterly false. It is brimful of all types of error and mischief, and is utterly opposed to the Holy Qur'ān and is only an invention of the impostors. [Nūr-ul-Haq, Part 1, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 8, p. 67]. There is no compulsion in Islām. There are only three types of wars in Islām: (1) Those undertaken in self-defence. (2) Those undertaken as chastisement for aggression. (3) Those undertaken for the establishment of freedom of conscience, that is to say for breaking up the strength of those who inflicted death upon such as accepted Islām. . As Islām does not permit the use of force or coercion for the purpose of its propagation, it is altogether vain and absurd to wait for a bloody Mahdi or a bloody Messiah; for it is not possible that anyone should appear who should convert people to Islām by the sword contrary to the clear teaching of the Qur'an. [Masīḥ Hindustan Mein, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 15, p. 12]. It is worthy of reflection that if a person does not accept the true faith because he is not yet aware of its holy teaching and its inherent good qualities, then should he be immediately put to the sword? Indeed such a person deserves to be treated mercifully and should be informed gently and courteously of the truth and excellence and spiritual beneficence of the faith and not that his denial