Allah(swt) says to Muhammad(pbuh).. (Muhammad) he did not like to fight.  He was a peaceful man.  He took abuses just as the story goes of Jesus Christ.  He took terrible abuses before he had any spirit to fight.  In fact, he never had on his own the spirit to go to physical war.  G-d had to tell him to do that.  G-d said, “Now return the attack.  Attack those who have been attacking you. Fight them back.”  G-d had to tell him to do that.

And listen to these words very carefully.  Please.  I’ve said them to you many times before.  G-d says, “Fight until no more persecution and religion is free for G-d.”  What is that saying to us?  When our enemy stops doing us wrong, we should stop fighting them.  That is what it says in the first instance.  But what it says in the  second instance is more important than even that.

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