05-21-2004, 10:26 PM
Quote:Moslems are the people who freed Persians from worhsipping Fire, I thought this is a fact. and the other fact is that moslems who fought under khlaid were all moslems and came from different ethnic origions(Arabic, African, former Jews,former christians and some of them were former persian soldiers that time and Allah bestowed on them by their believing in Islam.Islam united all Arabs and All moslems together in Brotherly union, the base of it is: La Ilaha Illa Allah Mohammadan rasul Allah!LOL..Dude what are you talking about? Persians saw the Arabs as barbarians and as enemies rather than liberators! They saw themselves as a superior people, and they were willing to fight to defend their homeland. Islam's warriors ran into resistance led by local Persian leaders.
To resist the Arabs, the last of the Sassanid kings, Yezdegird III, raised an army of 150,000 men. But with victory in Egypt, the Muslims were able to send reinforcements at a critical moment. At the Battle of Nihawand, 30,000 Muslims routed Yezdegird's army, the Muslims catching and massacring the Persians in narrow gorges. Muslims saw this as their greatest victory, and it was decided that all of Persia should be subdued. Umar was able to concentrate on this conquest. Yezdegird III fled eastward, and in 652, near Merv, he was murdered by local thieves for his jewelry. Sassanid Persia had come to an end, but it would be many years before Islam would be able to subdue Persia as far as its eastern border.
In Persia , Zoroastrianism was doomed as a great religion. In response to conquest by Islam's armies, the Zoroastrians would foment rebellions, and the conquering Muslims responded. In many provinces the Muslims forced Zoroastrians to convert to Islam, while many Zoroastrians adopted Nestorian Christianity instead. Here and there Zoroastrianism would survive. But in the coming centuries conversions to Islam would leave Zoroastrians a small minority.
Know what you are talking about before you speak. Islam was spread by FORCE.