How did Islam spread so quickly?

Answer 1

Prophet Muhammad teachings are based on Quran that reflects real God words in their real language (Arabic). Those teachings call for worship of Allah (God in English); the one and only one God with no partner, no son, no companion, and no associate. This is the main call of all God prophets; including Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad (peace be upon them all).

In addition, Islam is a social universal system that; for the first time; laid the rules for:

• elimination of racism and discrimination based on gender, color, hierarchy, or culture
• protection and equality of human rights
• right of property
• Women rights,
• rights of prisoners ,
• respect for all religions,
• protection of faith and worship places of all religions,
• helping the poor,
• rights of widows and orphans,
• rights for technical education and employment,
• protection of children ladies and elders of all religions,
• decisions based on consulting the public,
• provision of justice,
• equality of all in front of the law with no exceptions for rulers or officials,
• excellent relationship with neighbors
• social security and respect for senior citizen

and many other morals that could be referred to in related question below.

In addition to the above, Islam guarantees for the basic four democracy principles; namely:

• Freedom to chose their leaders, having accountancy on them, and controlling their doings.
• Equality in front of the law and constitution irrelevant to their faiths, hierarchy in the society, gender, races, or colors.
• Freedom of expressing their opinions and freedom of debate.
• Equal rights of work, education, and other civil rights.

Answer 2

Answer 1

one reason is that Arab armies were united by their beliefs.Islam taught that Muslim warriors who died in the service of Islam would win a place in paradise.the idea of jihad also motivated many Muslim soldiers.the lure of riches to be won in the conquered lands was another powerful incentive.

Answer 2

Islam was both a religion and a political entity. While the religion was not often spread by "Convert or Die" pronouncements (such as was the case in Christendom), Islam as a political entity was spread by armies and warfare. In general, the following reasons account for the spread of Islam both politically and religiously.

1) Arabia - What's that?: Prior to Mohammed, Arabia had been seen as a cultural and political backwater barely worth notice and therefore Mohammed's consolidation of the Arab Tribes was not seriously considered by the Byzantine and Sassanian Empires. This lead to a very porous southern defense and miscalculation of the Islamic Armies.

2) Byzantine-Sassanian Wars: Since the Byzantines and Sassanians considered each other the only real civilizations in the region, they fought each other numerous times in the early 600s C.E. over control of what is today East Turkey and Iraq. These were intense religious wars (Christian vs. Zoroastrian) and greatly weakened both empires at just the wrong time.

3) Tribal Command Structure: Arab Tribes and warriors owed their loyalty to their Sheikhs and leaders without fault because the Sheikh provided each person with all of the amenities and protection necessary to live a full life. Whenever the Arabs went to war, the Sheikhs could count on the ability to muster their tribesmen as soldiers without issue.

4) Support of the Locals: Since the Byzantine Empire and Sassanian Empire were engaged in religious zealotry, it stands to reason that they did not tolerate their religious minorities very well. The Muslims professed to (and did) treat minorities far better than either of these Empires. This led to religious minorities (especially Jews) from within the conquered territories helping Muslims to secure outposts and positions, freeing the Muslims to continue to spread the religion.

5) Citizenship by Conversion: The Islamic Empire was interesting in that being the leader or a person of import in the Empire was not contingent on ethnicity or place of birth as was the case of most prior empires. All a person had to do to gain power and prestige was to convert to Islam. This simple integration mechanism resulted in massive number of Persians, Berbers, and Turks converting to Islam. In fact, the furthest expansions of Islam (Spain, India, West China, South Russia, the Balkans) were all accomplished by non-Arabs (respectively Berbers, Persians/Mughals, Turkmen, Azeris, and Ottomans).

6) Warfare: The leaders charged with expanding the influence of Islam were thoughtful and diligent military leaders. Caliph 'Omar, who conquered much of the Levant, Egypt, Persia, and Iraq was well-known as a strategist and a fighter. It was this knowledge of warfare that allowed Muslim forces to expand the territory's influence.

7) Universality: Islam, as a religion, claims salvation for all people in all places, making the religion very attractive, especially to people born into low castes and bad economic positions.

8) Commerce: Islam, like most religions, spread also through peaceful means of commerce and education whereby non-Muslims learned of the faith and adopted as their own amidst business dealings with Muslims.

Answer 3

Islam spread, and still is spreading; so quickly for many reasons among them are:

1. Islam is a true and logic God religion. It is the religion and mission of all God prophets to humanity since Adam, through Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Them All), that calls for worship Allah (God in English) as the one and only one God with no partner, no son, no companion, no associate, and no equivalence.
2. Islam calls for justice among all people irrelevant to their beliefs, colors, or social classes
3. Islam calls for practicing good morals
4. Islam honors human free will of choice and thinking
5. Islam is against racism and discrimination based on color, culture, gender, or anything else except piety.
6. Quran, Muslims holy book, is authentic as true God words without single letter change
7. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is a true human model of good conduct. character, and leader in all aspects of human life.
8. Quran scientific miracles had been validated only with current scientific discoveries and achievements.
9. The Islamic principles control all aspects of human life in a way that lead to both individual benefits and society benefits in a wonderful balance
10. Muslim traders who were traveling every where and demonstrating the good morals and principles of Islam
11. The deviations of former religions from the main call of all God prophets to worship God (Allah) as one and only one God without a partner, son, father, partner, or companion.

Some claim that Islam was spread by war or by sword. This is a false argument for many reasons. One of these reasons is that the Muslim country of the biggest population is Indonesia while Muslims never invaded Indonesia. The claim that Islam spread by war or by sword is a false claim and is a lie propagated by enemies of Islam.

For more information on this refer to related questions below.

Answer 3

Islam was spread so fast for many reasons. Most of important of them are:

1. Islam is a true and logic God religion. It is the religion and mission of all God prophets to humanity since Adam, through Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Them All), that calls for worship Allah (God in English) as the one and only one God with no partner, no son, no companion, no associate, and no equivalence.
2. Islam calls for justice among all people irrelevant to their beliefs, colors, or social classes
3. Islam calls for practicing good morals
4. Islam honors human free will of choice and thinking
5. Islam is against racism and discrimination based on color, culture, gender, or anything else except piety.
6. Quran, Muslims holy book, is authentic as true God words without single letter change
7. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is a true human model of good conduct. character, and leader in all aspects of human life.
8. Quran scientific miracles had been validated only with current scientific discoveries and achievements.
9. The Islamic principles control all aspects of human life in a way that lead to both individual benefits and society benefits in a wonderful balance
10. Muslim traders who were traveling every where and demonstrating the good morals and principles of Islam
11. The deviations of former religions from the main call of all God prophets to worship God (Allah) as one and only one God without a partner, son, father, partner, or companion.

Some claim that Islam was spread by war or by sword. This is a false argument for many reasons. One of these reasons is that the Muslim country of the biggest population is Indonesia while Muslims never invaded Indonesia. The claim that Islam spread by war or by sword is a false claim and is a lie propagated by enemies of Islam.

For more detailed information refer to related questions below.

Answer 4

Muhammad didn't bring any new faith , he just made the teachings of Allah , the teachings of Jesus more specific and famous . since the concept of worship was same except without any corruption like Christianity with time...

As per Muslim ,Islam and Quran ... the Islam is absolute religion which exists from the day one of the mankind and Adam (peace be upon him) was the first prophet/messenger of Allah ....and the last being Muhammad (peace be upon him) ......

The following verses from Quran proves the point ....

And He(Allah) taught Adam the names of all things; then He placed them before the angels, and said: "Tell me the names of these if ye are right."

( Quran,Al-Baqara, Chapter #2, Verse #31)

Allah did choose Adam and Noah, the family of Abraham, and the family of 'Imran above all people,-

( Quran,Aal-e-Imran, Chapter #3, Verse #33)

We(Allah) have sent thee inspiration, as We sent it to Noah and the Messengers after him: we sent inspiration to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes, to Jesus, Job, Jonah, Aaron, and Solomon, and to David We gave the Psalms.

( Quran,An-Nisa, Chapter #4, Verse #163)

And remember We(Allah) took from the prophets their covenant: As (We did) from thee: from Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus the son of Mary: We took from them a solemn covenant:

( Quran,Al-Ahzab, Chapter #33, Verse #7)

We(Allah) gave Moses the Book and followed him up with a succession of apostles; We gave Jesus the son of Mary Clear (Signs) and strengthened him with the holy spirit. Is it that whenever there comes to you an apostle with what ye yourselves desire not, ye are puffed up with pride?- Some ye called impostors, and others ye slay!

( Quran , Al-Baqara, Chapter #2, Verse #87)

Answer 5

Islam had already started spreading very rapidly in the time of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and after as well. It was spreading at this pace because non believers were inspired by Muslims characters, since Muslims practiced their faith well at the time.

Answer 6

because of:

• Islam truthfulness
• Islam good morals
• Quran authenticity
• prophet Muhammad (PBUH) honesty and modesty
• Quran scientific statements miracles that had been proved only with current developments in science and technology

Answer 7

Many reasons contributed to the fast spread of Islam and the convert of many people to Islam; among them are:

• Islam religion is based on very clear terms and logistics that are easily understood by even low educated people.
• It calls for worship one and only one God and calls for having faith in all God prophets and God holy books.
• It calls, in principle to submission to God with no partners and to perform good deeds for humankind benefits.
• It supports and encourages science and scientists. All Quran scientific statements, that were revealed in the seventh century, had been proved by current scientific developments and discoveries. So, no conflict between Islam religion and science.
• Prophet Muhammad is the only prophet that all his sayings and practices are fully recorded and are covering all aspects of life. So, prophet Muhammad is an integral human model in religion, in peace, in war, in State ruling, in marriage, in treating people, in morals and conduct, in normal life of trading, shopping, interacting with people, money borrowing and lending, ...
• Quran is the only holy book that is readable till now with same original revealed God words and with the same language of revelation. It is fully memorized by millions of Muslims over all centuries and recited daily all over the world by all Muslims, at least during the daily five praying.

Answer 8

Islam spread quickly due to a number of factors.

1) Arabia - What's that?: Prior to Muhammad, Arabia had been seen as a cultural and political backwater barely worth notice and therefore Muhammad's consolidation of the Arab Tribes was not seriously considered by the Byzantine and Sassanian Empires. This lead to a very porous southern defense and miscalculation of the Islamic Armies.

2) Byzantine-Sassanian Wars: Since the Byzantines and Sassanians considered each other the only real civilizations in the region, they fought each other numerous times in the early 600s C.E. over control of what is today East Turkey and Iraq. These were intense religious wars (Christian vs. Zoroastrian) and greatly weakened both empires at just the wrong time.

3) Tribal Command Structure: Arab Tribes and warriors owed their loyalty to their Sheikhs and leaders without fault because the Sheikh provided each person with all of the amenities and protection necessary to live a full life. Whenever the Arabs went to war, the Sheikhs could count on the ability to muster their tribesmen as soldiers without issue.

4) Support of the Locals: Since the Byzantine Empire and Sassanian Empire were engaged in religious zealotry, it stands to reason that they did not tolerate their religious minorities very well. The Muslims professed to (and did) treat minorities far better than either of these Empires. This led to religious minorities (especially Jews) from within the conquered territories helping Muslims to secure outposts and positions, freeing the Muslims to continue to spread the religion.

5) Citizenship by Conversion: The Islamic Empire was interesting in that being the leader or a person of import in the Empire was not contingent on ethnicity or place of birth as was the case of most prior empires. All a person had to do to gain power and prestige was to convert to Islam. This simple integration mechanism resulted in massive number of Persians, Berbers, and Turks converting to Islam. In fact, the furthest expansions of Islam (Spain, India, West China, South Russia, the Balkans) were all accomplished by non-Arabs (respectively Berbers, Persians/Mughals, Turkmen, Azeris, and Ottomans).

6) Warfare: The leaders charged with expanding the influence of Islam were thoughtful and diligent military leaders. Caliph 'Omar, who conquered much of the Levant, Egypt, Persia, and Iraq was well-known as a strategist and a fighter. It was this knowledge of warfare that allowed Muslim forces to expand the territory's influence.

7) Universality: Islam, as a religion, claims salvation for all people in all places, making the religion very attractive, especially to people born into low castes and bad economic positions.

8) Commerce: Islam, like most religions, spread also through peaceful means of commerce and education whereby non-Muslims learned of the faith and adopted as their own amidst business dealings with Muslims.

Answer 9

because he teaches a right thing. in concordance with the nature, logic, mind, heart, body, etc.