Throughout history, Islam has been an important religion for millions of people. It had it’s start in a cave on Mount Hira in 610 after the angel Gabriel came down from the heavens and squeezed the prophet Mohammed so hard the words of Allah, Islam’s God, came out of his mouth [BE]. In a 100 years, this new religion exploded onto the scene and all over the Middle East and Europe [BE], which begs the question: why did Islam spread so quickly?
One of the reasons it spread so quickly is because of military campaigns. Before Islam, the Arabs used the ghazu to steal resources from other tribes [DD]. After Islam, attacking other ummah was not permitted, so they began to use the ghazu to take over other non-Muslim countries surrounding them to protect