HOW ISLAM CONSOLIDATED ITS POWER

AND SPREAD ITS MESSAGE

PART 1 OF 4

 

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To help you understand how Islam established itself as a regional power and threat to the West, I am posting a blog of four articles entitled, “How Islam Consolidated its Power and Spread its Message.” The information presented focuses on the four leaders who succeeded Mohammed. This article is about Abu Bakr.

 

Abu Bakr (632-634)

 

When Mohammed died in 632, he was succeeded by four leaders who were instrumental in solidifying Mohammed’s teachings and spreading them with the sword. The first of these Caliphs or successors, was Abu Bakr

Abu Bakr was a father-in-law to Mohammed and one of his first converts. His immediate challenge was that many Mohammed had forced to covert by the sword began to revolt. If the Mohammed’s teachings were to survive, Abu Bakr had to crush the rebellion and forcibly keep the people submitted to the teachings of Mohammed.

Abu Bakr turned to his commander, Khalid ibn al-Walid, to put down the revolt. Al-Walid was a brutal, ruthless war-lord who showed no mercy in slaughtering those revolting. He said, “The taste of blood is pleasant on my mouth.” He became known as the “Sword of A-l-l-ah.” He was successful in stopping the revolt and firmly establishing Islam as the new religious/idealogy of Arabia. We see from the very beginning of Islam, that the only way this “religion of peace” survived and spread, was by the sword.

Abu Bakr died of a sickness on August 23, 634 and was buried beside Mohammed. He was 63 years old. He was the only one of the four successors who died of natural causes. The others were murdered in blood rivalries.

Before he died, Abu Bakr realized that many of Mohammed’s trusted companions had been killed. In order to preserve Mohammed’s sayings, Abu Bakr had Mohammed’s secretary, Zayd ibn Thabit, collect as many of Mohammed’s sayings as possible. This proved to be a difficult task and there was no oversight, no team of scholars, no sound methodology, and no and checks and balances to validate or verify the integrity of Zayds work. It was all based on hearsay.