The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 327
Jihad with the Sword 115 لا إله إلا الله 327 to the confines of Europe? Now say honestly whether these can be the achievements of those who are converted forcibly to Islām, so that they disbelieved in their hearts and professed Islām only by their tongues? Indeed not. These are the achievements of those whose hearts are filled with the light of faith wherein God alone dwells. [Paigham-e-Ṣulḥ, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 23, pp. 468-469]. The Promised Messiah has come into the world so that he should repel the notion of taking up the sword in the name of religion, and that through his reasoning and arguments he should establish that Islām is a faith which does not at all need the help of the sword for the purpose of its propagation, but that the inherent qualities of its teaching and its verities, insights, reasons, proofs and the living support and signs of God Almighty and its inherent attractions are the factors that have throughout contributed to its progress and its propagation. Let all those who proclaim that Islām had been spread by the sword take note that their claim is false. Islām is not in need of any coercion for its propagation. Should anyone doubt this, let him come to me and stay with me for a while and observe for himself that Islām proves through reasoning and divine signs that it is a living faith. God. Almighty now desires and has so determined that all such objections as have been raised against Islām by evilminded people should be effectively repelled. Those who allege that Islām was spread by the sword will now be put to shame. [Malfūzāt, vol. III, p. 176] 115. There is none worthy of worship except Allāh. [Publisher]