Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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Lessons from The Islamic History (English) November 30, 2007

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Quran 96:1 · Al-Alaq
Quran 74:1 · Al-Muddaththir
Quran 3:96 · Aal-Imran
Musnad Ahmad, Hadith No. 16603
Musnad Ahmad, Hadith No. 16957
Sahih Al-Bukhari, Hadith No. 3560
Quran 33:21 · Al-Ahzab
Sahih Al-Bukhari, Hadith No. 2732
Quran 48:1 · Al-Fath
Quran 94:6 · Ash-Sharh
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2 min 41 sec
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First revelation Iqra shows Islam begins with education
“This first revelation, in the cave of Hira, was very simple”
43 sec
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Islam begins from education not the sword
“The first thing required in Islamic activism is reading”
32 sec
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Correcting the myth that Islam spread by the sword
“It is general impression that Islam begins from sword”
1 min 37 sec
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Three-point Quranic formula for dawah work
“In these verses you find that there are three points”
2 min 1 sec
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Prophet avoided destroying idols to avoid confrontation
“The Prophet was a prophet of Tawhid, worshipping one God”
30 sec
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Prophet's only opening message was God is One
“Ayyuhan-nas, qoolu la ilaha illallah”
3 min 16 sec
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Why the Prophet migrated from Mecca to Medina
“At the time, there were two leaders in Mecca: Abu Jahl and Abu Lahab”
2 min 2 sec
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Aisha's hadith: Prophet always chose the easier option
“I would like to narrate a very relevant hadith”
5 min 31 sec
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Full story of the Hudaybiyyah treaty and its revelation
“In 622 AD there was an agreement called the Hudaybiyyah agreement”
1 min 4 sec
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Umar objects to the humiliating Hudaybiyyah terms
“Umar Farooq said: why do we accept this agreement?”
50 sec
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Apparent defeat called a clear victory in the Quran
“It was a sign of defeat, but Quran says it is a fath”
4 min 3 sec
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How an apparent defeat became a clear victory
“It means that victory is the outcome of defeat, a very strange formula”
1 min 27 sec
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Companions grew from 1500 to 10000 after the treaty
“At the time of the agreement, the companions were hardly 1500”
5 min 34 sec
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Mongols destroyed the empire then embraced Islam themselves
“In the thirteenth century, the Mongols occupied the whole Abbasi empire”
2 min 4 sec
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Historian Philip Hitti on Islam conquering where arms failed
“I will quote Professor Philip Hitti, a great Christian scholar”
30 sec
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Ideological power beats political power
“Ideological power of Islam is far more greater than political power”
2 min 33 sec
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Islam's ideological power despite lost political power today
“Then let us take the present situation”
5 min 57 sec
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Hardship and ease as an unbreakable law of nature
“There is a verse in the Quran: with every hardship, there is ease”
34 sec
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With every hardship there is ease
“There is a verse in the Quran: with every hardship, there is ease”
31 sec
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The formula: ignore problems, avail opportunities
“Ignore the problems and avail the opportunities”
4 min 57 sec
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Freedom, media, and curiosity as today's dawah opportunities
“Our present world has opened so many new doors of work”
1 min 55 sec
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Religious freedom and media as modern dawah opportunities
“For the first time in history, we enjoy complete religious freedom”
44 sec
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Complaint and protest are haram in Islam
“I think that complaint and protest is haram in Islam”