DIALOGUE, NOT WARS
English book, p. 79
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
DIALOGUE, NOT WARS only to those whom God blesses with His support. Without God’s help, success is impossible. The truth is that God has promised His help to those who follow the prophetic model in their efforts. This prophetic model aims to make people aware of God and His divine plan through peaceful dialogue. The true success of believers depends on this same model established by the Prophet. However, Muslim leaders today have been heavily influenced by the Sultanate model, which focuses on political power and confrontation, set up by later Muslim rulers. As a result, they have based all their movements on this model. This shift is the main reason for the current destruction of Muslims. Muslim leaders observed that later Muslim sultans expanded into different regions with armed forces, defeated existing governments’ armies, and established their own rule. The Sultanate model became so dominant that most Muslim histories written afterward focused on it. Today’s Muslim leaders read these histories and mistakenly think that the Sultanate model is the only way for Islamic movements. Whether intentionally or not, they accept the Sultanate model as the standard, and in the name of armed jihad, they spread it everywhere. This mistake is the main cause of Muslims’ downfall today. The proper Islamic model is illustrated by Prophet Muhammad and other prophets. It is a model based on

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