What does fighting in the cause of Allah mean?

[USResident]

Re: What does fighting in the cause of Allah mean?

@Debater

The original and principal aim of Muslims is to establish the deen of Allah (Islam) in this world because this world is **owned **and **created **by Allah (God) and everything in this world including humans are created and owned by Allah, so this world and its inhabitants must obey and surrender to Allah. This means that all people in this world have to obey the teachings of Quran. This is like all people in the US or UK have to obey state laws in these lands, otherwise they would be punished or giving penalty to go against the law e.g if someone rapes a girl in UK, one is punished by the state law or if one parks one's car in no parking zone, one has to give penalty for that.

Allah has sent His message (Quran) to humans, whites, blacks, browns all of them from all corners of this world. Those who accept this message are expected to establish supremacy of Allah in this world, so the very first step they do is what was done by their Prophet Muhammad sallAllahu 'alayhe wasallam i.e founding an Islamic State. After the Islamic State is established and fortified, the next step is to convey the message of Allah (Quran) to people next to the Islamic State, if people accept this message and enter Islam then it means Islam spreads easily without any use of force but if the people next to the Islamic State refuse to accept Islam, the Muslim Army (Mujahideen) suggest them to surrender in their favour and accept Islam as the ruling law upon them, in case if they surrender to the Muslim Army, their land is merged with the original Islamic State and they are given peace and security by the Muslim Ruler against a small amount of tax which is called Jizyah. The Non Muslims are allowed to pracitse their religion and go to their places of worship without any fear and enjoy all fundamental rights which Muslims have. Jizyah in fact is less than the tax which Muslims pay which is called Zakaat.

But if the people next to the Islamic State (Non Muslims) (1) refuse to accept Islam and (2) refuse to surrender then the Muslim Army fights with them untill they get defeated and so the situation appears as I stated above.

I will give more details about it later, inshaAllah.

This is close to what I understand however then it does not make sense that most of the muslim majority in the world keep cowering under the expression "Islam was spread by sword" and keep proposing theories and go all the way quoting quranic ayahs with tangential interpretations that Islam is a religion of peace. It is a religion in which peace prevails after the law of Allah has been established but there is no peace with those who do not accept the word of Allah and those we have to fight. It seems to me that muslims have lost their ability to prove that Islam is the message of Allah and in order to circumvent our disability we are riding under the banner that Islam was not spread by sword than rather be proud of those rulers who managed to spread it this far. The present day muslim countries have abandoned the quest for spreading Allahs religion and conceded defeat by giving their personal peace priority to the establishment of Allah law. Muslims have become so impotent that we are unable to group and fight to establish Allahs law and are embracing alternate theories imagining that we are saving face.