Prophet Muhammad and his followers suffered torture and persecution at the hands of disbelievers in Mecca, forcing them to emigrate. Claims that Muhammad launched attacks to loot and kill are false; his invasions were to defend borders and spread Islam. While anti-Islam groups claim Muhammad was a terrorist, a review of his biography shows he led few military campaigns, with a small number of enemy casualties compared to figures in the Bible. Muhammad's raids aimed to compensate early Muslim losses, demonstrate growing military strength, protect caravans, and secure borders of the emerging Islamic state.

1. Was Prophet Muhammad a
Terrorist ( part one)
By Magdy Abdalshafy

2. Anti-Islam groups claim that Prophet Muhammad
was a terrorist who led aggressive wars against
the other tribes.
This is not true and a cursory look in his biography
will prove that the opposite.

3. An Introduction
• Prophet Muhammad, along with his adherents
suffered so much at the hands of the
disbelievers.
• They were physically tortured,
• they were made to emigrate to a far land to
escape the ceaseless torture.
• The disbelievers even fought his call among the
tribes to make people not to believe.

4. • So the claim that Prophet Muhammad launched
his attacks to loot and kill is false.
• It was him and his adherents who were tortured
and looted
• All his invasions were to defend the borders of
his state and to spread his call as much as
possible among the Arabs.

5. • In this presentation you will find that the prophet
was never a terrorist as claimed by the anti-
Islam groups.
• Please note that the total number of the
disbelievers soldiers killed in all his invasion
was 112 while the total numbers of the Muslims
was 132.
• Compare this to the total number killed in the
bible .

6. • Date: an 1 A.H., i.e. 623 A.D Al-Bahr Platoon
• Purpose: showing that the once weak Muslims
were no longer weak.
• To compensate the losses the Muslims left
behind.

7. Date :
(Shawwa l, 1 A.H., i.e. April 623 A.D.)
Purpose:
Reconnaissance platoon, no actual fighting took
plac
Result:
No actual fighting took placee.

8. Date:
(In Dhul Qa‘dah 1 A.H., i.e. May 623 A.D)
Goal
• To prove that the once weak fighters became
strong

9. Date (Safar 2 A.H., i.e. 623 A.D.)
• Goal:
• Getting back what could compensate the early
Muslims who left their possessions in Mecca,
• Guaranteeing the borders of the nascent Islamic
state
• settling peace with nearby tribes

10. • Date (Rabi‘ Al-Awwal 2 A.H., i.e. 623 A.D)
• Goal: To intercede caravan from qurish, who
were the bitter enemies,
• Moreover it was to cement and increase the
Muslims morale and border the Islamic state.