Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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Role of Islam in History April 5, 2009

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Quran 82:6 · Al-Infitar
Quran 84:6 · Al-Inshiqaq
Sirat Ibn Hisham, vol.1, p.182
Sirat Ibn Hisham, vol.1, pp.293-294
Sirat Ibn Hisham, vol.1, p.437
Musnad Ahmad, Hadith no. 13318
Musnad Al-Shihab, Hadith no. 577
Matthew, 9:34
Musnad al-Shihab, Hadith no. 577
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2 min 53 sec
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Non-Muslim historians rate Islam more scientifically
“Muslim scholars ki kitaben sirf praise hoti hain”
35 sec
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Historian calls Islam's change history's greatest miracle
“Dr. Roy ne likha Islam ne jo change laya”
5 min 42 sec
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Prophet's timeline and the two-point change formula
“Prophet Muhammad paanch sau sattar AD mein paida hue”
40 sec
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Islam's real target is not politics
“Yeh absolutely wrong hai ke Islam ka nishana politics hai”
1 min 36 sec
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Black Stone dispute shows Prophet's leadership
“Kaaba ka Hajr-e-Aswad rakhne par jhagda ho gaya”
5 min 27 sec
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Black Stone story, refusing kingship, migrating to Medina
“Kaaba ka Hajr-e-Aswad rakhne par bada jhagda ho gaya”
2 min 8 sec
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Why the Prophet turned down kingship
“Unhon ne kaha aap ko hum apna badshah bana lete hain”
47 sec
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Prophet refuses offer to be made king
“Aap ne farmaya 'ma atlub al-mulk alaikum'”
43 sec
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Debunking the Mecca-oppression Medina-power myth
“Yeh ghalat hai, bilkul ghalat hai”
6 min 21 sec
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Two centuries of Muslim leaders' failed struggle explained
“Do sau saal se zyada sacrifice ki, mila kuch nahi”
2 min 9 sec
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Leaders wrongly blamed loss of political empire
“Yeh log samjhe ke sirf political empire khatam hua”
33 sec
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Cart before the horse metaphor for failed movements
“Yeh dete were putting the cart before the horse”
5 min 27 sec
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How political struggle bred worldwide hate and backwardness
“Iske natije mein duniya se hamein hate mil gaya”
42 sec
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Mosque curses against the West called absurd
“Aaj bhi masjidon mein baddua ki jati hai”
3 min 37 sec
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War verses in Bible, Gita and Quran in context
“Hazrat Isa ne farmaya 'I did not come to bring peace'”
5 min 20 sec
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Peace is the rule, war the rare exception
“Har nation ko kabhi defensive war karni padti hai”
1 min 31 sec
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Badr, Uhud, Hunain were half-day skirmishes not wars
“Teen ladai hui Islam mein: Badr, Uhud, Hunain”
48 sec
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Palestinian children's war song vs real Islamic teaching
“Yeh Falasteeni bachon ka gana hai, 'aao hum ladein'”
1 min 50 sec
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Distinguishing Muslims' failures from Islam itself
“Do issue alag hain: Muslim kya hain, Islam kya hai”
2 min 55 sec
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Khilafah was never a fixed political system
“Jo log kehte hain Islam ka maqsad khilafat hai”
36 sec
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Four caliphs, four different succession patterns
“Char khalifa the aur chaaron ka pattern alag tha”
48 sec
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Definition of a true believer's sole concern
“Giving the best means making your supreme concern”
42 sec
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Fatwa on Sania Mirza's dress called nonsense
“Some mufti issued a fatwa on Sania Mirza's dress”
2 min 59 sec
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Muslims absent from modern science and invention
“Modern inventions mein Muslims ka naam na ke barabar hai”
4 min 40 sec
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Muslims fell behind in science by hating the West
“Modern inventions mein Muslims ka naam na ke barabar hai”
1 min 41 sec
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Ulama blamed for misleading Muslims after West's rise
“Again to my experience, the blame goes to ulama”
2 min 5 sec
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Mutual-recognition formula historically failed repeatedly
“Akbar failed, Gandhi failed, Vivekananda failed”
47 sec
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Urgent need for harmony can't wait centuries
“We cannot wait up to seven hundred years”