Islamic conquest

Islam has always grown by conquest. This page lists many of the conquests since the advent of the religion.

• 605: The Holy Prophet arbitrates in a dispute among the Quraish about the placing of the Black Stone in the Kaaba.
• 610: The first revelation in the cave at Mt. Hira. The Holy Prophet is commissioned as the Messenger of God.
• 613: Declaration at Mt. Sara inviting the general public to Islam.
• 614: Invitation to the Hashimites to accept Islam.
• 615: Persecution of the Muslims by the Quraish. A party of Muslims leaves for Abyssinia.
• 616: Second Hijrah to Abysinnia.
• 617: Social boycott of the Hashimites and the Holy Prophet by the Quraish. The Hashimites are shut up in a glen outside Makkah.
• 619: Lifting of the boycott. Deaths of Abu Talib and Hadrat Khadija. Year of sorrow.
• 620: Journey to Taif. Ascension to the heavens.
• 621: First pledge at Aqaba.
• 622: Second pledge at Aqaba. The Holy Prophet and the Muslims migrate to Yathrib.
• 623: Nakhla expedition.
• 624: Battle of Badr. Expulsion of the Bani Qainuqa Jews from Madina.
• 625: Battle of Uhud. Massacre of 70 Muslims at Bir Mauna. Expulsion of Banu Nadir Jews from Madina. Second expedition of Badr.
• 626: Expedition of Banu Mustaliq.
• 627: Battle of the Trench. Expulsion of Banu Quraiza Jews.
• 628: Truce of Hudaibiya. Expedition to Khyber. The Holy Prophet addresses letters to various heads of states.
• 629: The Holy Prophet performs the pilgrimage at Makkah. Expedition to Muta (Romans).
• 630: Conquest of Makkah. Battles of Hunsin, Auras, and Taif.
• 631: Expedition to Tabuk. Year of Deputations.
• 632: Farewell pilgrimage at Makkah.
• 632: Death of the Holy Prophet. Election of Hadrat Abu Bakr as the Caliph. Usamah leads expedition to Syria. Battles of Zu Qissa and Abraq. Battles of Buzakha, Zafar and Naqra. Campaigns against Bani Tamim and Musailima, the Liar.
• 633: Campaigns in Bahrain, Oman, Mahrah Yemen, and Hadramaut. Raids in Iraq. Battles of Kazima, Mazar, Walaja, Ulleis, Hirah, Anbar, Ein at tamr, Daumatul Jandal and Firaz.
• 634: Battles of Basra, Damascus and Ajnadin. Death of Hadrat Abu Bakr. Hadrat Umar Farooq becomes the Caliph. Battles of Namaraq and Saqatia.
• 635: Battle of Bridge. Battle of Buwaib. Conquest of Damascus. Battle of Fahl.
• 636: Battle of Yermuk. Battle of Qadsiyia. Conquest of Madain.
• 637: Conquest of Syria. Fall of Jerusalem. Battle of Jalula.
• 638: Conquest of Jazirah.
• 639: Conquest of Khuizistan. Advance into Egypt.
• 640: Capture of the post of Caesaria in Syria. Conquest of Shustar and Jande Sabur in Persia. Battle of Babylon in Egypt.
• 641: Battle of Nihawand. Conquest Of Alexandria in Egypt.
• 642: Battle of Rayy in Persia. Conquest of Egypt. Foundation of Fustat.
• 643: Conquest of Azarbaijan and Tabaristan (Russia).
• 644: Conquest of Fars, Kerman, Sistan, Mekran and Kharan.Martyrdom of Hadrat Umar. Hadrat Othman becomes the Caliph.
• 645: Campaigns in Fats.
• 646: Campaigns in Khurasan, Armeain and Asia Minor.
• 647: Campaigns in North Africa. Conquest of the island of Cypress.
• 648: Campaigns against the Byzantines.
• 651: Naval battle of the Masts against the Byzantines.
• 652: Discontentment and disaffection against the rule of Hadrat Othman.
• 656: Martyrdom of Hadrat Othman. Hadrat Ali becomes the Caliph. Battle of the Camel.
• 657: Hadrat Ali shifts the capital from Madina to Kufa. Battle of Siffin. Arbitration proceedings at Daumaut ul Jandal.
• 658: Battle of Nahrawan.
• 659: Conquest of Egypt by Mu'awiyah.
• 660: Hadrat Ali recaptures Hijaz and Yemen from Mu'awiyah. Mu'awiyah declares himself as the Caliph at Damascus.
• 661: Martyrdom of Hadrat Ali. Accession of Hadrat Hasan and his abdication. Mu'awiyah becomes the sole Caliph.
• 662: Khawarij revolts.
• 666: Raid of Sicily.
• 670: Advance in North Africa. Uqba b Nafe founds the town of Qairowan in Tunisia. Conquest of Kabul.
• 672: Capture of the island of Rhodes. Campaigns in Khurasan.
• 674: The Muslims cross the Oxus. Bukhara becomes a vassal state.
• 677: Occupation of Sarnarkand and Tirmiz. Siege of Constantinople.
• 680: Death of Muawiyah. Accession of Yazid. Tragedy of Kerbala and martyrdom of Hadrat Hussain.
• 682: In North Africa Uqba b Nafe marches to the Atlantic, is ambushed and killed at Biskra. The Muslims evacuate Qairowan and withdraw to Burqa.
• 683: Death of Yazid. Accession of Mu'awiyah II.
• 684: Abdullah b Zubair declares himself aS the Caliph at'Makkah. Marwan I becomes the Caliph' at Damascus. Battle of Marj Rahat.
• 685: Death of Marwan I. Abdul Malik becomes the Caliph at Damascus. Battle of Ain ul Wada.
• 686: Mukhtar declares himself as the Caliph at Kufa.
• 687: Battle of Kufa between the forces of Mukhtar and Abdullah b Zubair. Mukhtar killed.
• 691: Battle of Deir ul Jaliq. Kufa falls to Abdul Malik.
• 692: The fall of Makkah. Death of Abdullah b Zubair. Abdul Malik becomes the sole Caliph.
• 695: Khawarij revolts in Jazira and Ahwaz. Battle of the Karun. Campaigns against Kahina in North Africa. The' Muslims once again withdraw to Barqa. The Muslims advance in Transoxiana and occupy Kish.

John 15:18-16:6 

"If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember the words I spoke to you: 'No servant is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the One who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates me hates my Father as well. If I had not done among them what no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: 'They hated me without reason.'

The Comforter promised 

vs. 26ff  "When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me. And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.

Persecution foretold

Chapter 16 "All this I have told you so that you will not go astray. They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God. They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. I have told you this, so that when the time comes you will remember that I warned you. I did not tell you this at first because I was with you. "Now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?' Because I have said these things, you are filled with grief."

04/25/2000