Numb what you have posted is all true. Except Muhammad Sallalaho-Alyhi-wa-aliyhi-wasalam was not a secular ruler.
Why? although it's easy to view him as such, he always justified his decisions according to what Allah had guided him to do in the koran and through personal meetings with Allah in the Meeraj.
He is not a secular leader this is wrong. He was no different in theory to Moses and Jesus who as the author say's were not secular. Did jesus not indeed the downfall of Rome! Did Moses not lead his people to Canaan? Just becuase Rasoolalah led the Arabs politically as head of state doesn't make him secular.
Furthermore brother numb you can see by now the point i'm making here. So let me move on with the next point which seems to be another one we should make clear. the Islamic conquests did not stop. Although it is true that by the late 7th Century the Arabs had been halted in thier expansions. Now we can see the universally beneficial nature of Islam, becuase as the Arabs became ever more corrupt and lost the gas behind thier powerhouse it was time for Allah to defend his final messengers faith with new vigour. For although Arabs were becoming corrupt the islamic message was now carried by the Ahle bayt and Awliyah, Sufi's, Dervish to distant lands beyond the Oxus river where the arabs had not pushed so far. from here the new converts like the Persians would introduce ancient arts to the Muslim forces and using these skills Islam was given more fuel to continue it's push. In thier turn the Muslim missionaries passed on the message to the turkic tribes. these people proved to be saviours of Islam despite the fact that at one point the turks were killing muslims before converting. The turks adopted Islam and pushed the frontiers of the faith beyond those created by the Arabs. In thier turn the Mongols who came to desrtroy islam also became muslims pushing the frontiers ever further into more distant lands. Even today Islamic conquests have not stopped.
Sorry to be such a stickler but i thought it most neccassry to correct the author on these two points. Everything else is perfect. He rightly points out all these great things about our faith.
So why don't the kaffirs see this rather than kill us! Can they blame us for being extreme fanatics afterall do we not have something here worthy of protecting from others!
Islam is the last and final covenant. May Allah guide them to accept the true faith of Muhammed Rasoolalah the last and final Prhophet.
Long live Islam.
No one can equal the Rasool who hath no shadow! No one can equal the followers of the leader who is so pure as to leave no shadow!
Why resist those that harm you less than you harm yourself!
Very well said brother. I just hilighted something in your post for Numb...