Our God — Page 121
Logical Arguments for the Existence of God 121 horse lest it turn back in the face of arrows and spurred his horse forward towards the enemy shouting: انا ابن عبد المطلب انا النّبی ّ ال کذب Meaning, I am the Prophet of God, not a liar. 1 As if by magic, all the Muslims who heard this voice scram- bled and fought their way back and gathered around their master and shattered the advancing columns of the enemy. In short, this war surely took place; nine years had not gone by since the recluse of the Cave of Hira took refuge in Madinah that the vast land of Arabia—nine hundred thousand square miles of it—was rever- berating with the slogans of takb i r [i. e. God’s greatness] from one end to the other. One might say this was all due to the sword; I say, show me how you would achieve such a result with the sword! One man— all alone, poor, and powerless, weak and impoverished, stands up and, within a few years, transforms the whole country—a country laced with arms from head to toe against him. Is that the work of a sword or the miracle of a protective God? O naive ones! Who raised the sword? Is there any among you who can prove that Muslims were the first to use the sword? Again, is there any among you who can prove that, when Muslims did use the sword to defend themselves and establish peace, they converted a single person to Islam with the sword? O unfortunate 1. The second Arabic statement, not translated by the author, reads, ‘I am the son of Abdul Muttalib’, who was the Prophet’s saw paternal grandfa- ther. [Publisher]