How Islam Spread In The Past | Freedom From Superstition | Mufti Abu Layth

honestly this is how islam rapidly spread in the past you know people really are either misinformed massively ignorant or just belligerent when it comes to explaining how islam spread they like to say islam spread by the sword or by fear or by you know scaring people that if you don't do this we'll do this then tell me why didn't christianity spread in those places during colonialism why didn't it spread the same

you might say well it did spread a bit it did but why didn't everybody become christian or most of the muslim world was all under colonialism for i mean we're talking you know many parts of it for maybe one to two some places three centuries maybe yet people didn't change religion why not because this because you got it wrong it was not how people left their religions of old in the first place it was not by sword it's very difficult to make a person

give up their heart and mind it's very difficult they have to want to and i'll tell you how it happened with islam people had as they still do they had crazy superstitions and people relied on their superstitions for providence for risk for the crops to grow for it to rain for this to happen for that to happen and they saw yes they saw muslims come in yes they saw them as a force as well they did see

that so they saw yes there was an element one could say of identified superiority one could say that i'm not saying that the muslims necessarily saw themselves as superior but one could claim that maybe these people felt that muslims see themselves as superior to us they possibly may have felt that when they encountered muslims but it was the belief the success they were having in life and then the confidence that muslims showed

don't you dare fall into grief and sadness at all times own what god has given you whatever circumstances you're in that mean everything is goodness why that if something bad happens to him you know he he's he's patient to god and he's he glorifies god if something good happens he's grateful to god and he praises god it's the

mindset of belief were they doing wacko things getting hold of a black cat getting hold of this animal doing some kind of weird no in fact they seemed rather strange they didn't have odd ritual i mean they seem to bow down to to no statue they seem to just do something but they do it in this rhythm and union and and other than that they seem to be these very s well-spirited ambitious confident happy

you could say what's he so happy about seems ever so happy people thought i want in on that what do you know that i don't know you worship one god god we can't even see okay let me try it

if you want to show the path the the way to your lord show it like this with wisdom show it by just being a source of positivity and and just well-being the person thinks wow what the hell is this guy so happy about what's his secret i want in on that i'll have whatever he's having and this is how like wildfire beam of positive iman spread

people tried it their lives started to improve why wouldn't it if you break away from superstition your well-being will radically improve you will start to feel it you know what if you if it improves you're more positive if you're more positive your immune system is better you're more healthier you live longer better things happen to you you're more optimistic you're more confident in life you attain more opportunities you see whatever you put out comes back with that

frequency it comes back so if you had tried it at that time if you and i had lived in that iran we saw these people thought what the hell these guys so cheerful about let's try what they do all of a sudden our lives would naturally improve so this and people it's it's a shame and i feel that sometimes this is done in it's done sometimes contemptuously that it's not that people can't think that this could be a reason but they

that wouldn't be the reason i feel that there's an element of you know this um partiality prejudice and contemptuous outlook on saying huh what could they have had that would have made them so positive