The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam — Page 172
172 We are here to heal the wounds of today’s world and we will definitely try and remove the perversity of today’s world. We shall do it through admonishing and reasoning, through counsel with love and care. However, we shall not take on the role of a warden. If one does not believe one has the right to reject: 161 Our task is to carry the message. But along with it we shall pray, for the arsenal of prayer is the greatest weapon of all. The land of Arabia witnessed such miracles of the prayers of the Holy Prophet sa that the world is still astonished by them. The fact of the matter is that the tremendous revolution that took place in the Arabian Peninsula within a few years was a fruit of the prayers of the Holy Prophet sa and not just a result of his preaching. One Hadith relates that, with the obvious exception of Mecca and Medina, Ta ’if too was, not among the areas which apostatized and that these areas were blessed by the personal education and training of the Holy Prophet sa. The fact of the matter is that Islam reached the rest of Arabia, and indeed the world, by virtue of the prayers of the Holy Prophet sa. The town of Taif did not join the apostates because it has accepted 161 Wherefore let him who will, believe, and let him who will, disbelieve. (The Holy Qur’an 18:30). [Publisher]