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Khalid ibn al-Walid was sent by Muhammad to destroy the idol of Al Uzza, the major Arab goddes. He broke it successfully.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20110927030955/http://www.witness-pioneer.org/vil/Books/SM_tsn/ch6s6.html</ref> | Khalid ibn al-Walid was sent by Muhammad to destroy the idol of Al Uzza, the major Arab goddes. He broke it successfully.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20110927030955/http://www.witness-pioneer.org/vil/Books/SM_tsn/ch6s6.html</ref> | ||
The Sealed Nectar | The book The Sealed Nectar details similar acts of idol-breaking by early Muslims. Quote: | ||
{{Quote|https://web.archive.org/web/20110927030955/http://www.witness-pioneer.org/vil/Books/SM_tsn/ch6s6.html|Later, in the same month, ‘Amr bin Al-‘As was sent on an errand to destroy another idol, venerated by Hudhail, called Suwa‘. It used to stand at a distance of three kilometres from Makkah. On a question posed by the door-keeper, ‘Amr said he had been ordered by the Prophet [pbuh] to knock down the idol. The man warned ‘Amr that he would not be able to do it. ‘Amr was surprised to see someone still in the wrong, approached the idol and destroyed it, then he broke the casket beside it but found nothing. The man immediately embraced Islam. | {{Quote|https://web.archive.org/web/20110927030955/http://www.witness-pioneer.org/vil/Books/SM_tsn/ch6s6.html|Later, in the same month, ‘Amr bin Al-‘As was sent on an errand to destroy another idol, venerated by Hudhail, called Suwa‘. It used to stand at a distance of three kilometres from Makkah. On a question posed by the door-keeper, ‘Amr said he had been ordered by the Prophet [pbuh] to knock down the idol. The man warned ‘Amr that he would not be able to do it. ‘Amr was surprised to see someone still in the wrong, approached the idol and destroyed it, then he broke the casket beside it but found nothing. The man immediately embraced Islam. | ||
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That is the story of the conquest of Makkah and the decisive battle that exterminated paganism once and for all. }} | That is the story of the conquest of Makkah and the decisive battle that exterminated paganism once and for all. }} | ||
When the Persian capital of Ctesiphon in province of Khvarvaran (today Iraq) fell to the Muslims | When the Persian capital of Ctesiphon in province of Khvarvaran (today Iraq) fell to the Muslims under the military command of Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqqas in 637 during the caliphate of Umar, the palaces and their archives were burned. The History of Tabari describes that Waqqas wrote to Caliph Umar asking what should be done with the books at Ctesiphon. Umar wrote back: "If the books contradict the Qur'an, they are blasphemous. On the other hand, if they are in agreement, they are not needed, as for us Qur'an is sufficient."<ref>Zeidan, Georgie, ''The History of the Islamic Civilization'', '''III''', pp.42-51</ref> Thus, the huge library was destroyed and the books, the product of the generations of Persian scholars were thrown into fire or the river Euphrates. | ||
Persecution of Zoroastrians increased significantly under the Abbasids. Their temples and sacred fire shrines were destroyed. | Persecution of Zoroastrians increased significantly under the Abbasids. Their temples and sacred fire shrines were destroyed. | ||
Al-Baldahuri, writing under the reign of Caliph al-Mansur, states that when Hisham bin 'Amr al-Taghlibi conquered Kandahar he destroyed its idol temple and built a mosque in its place .<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Israel Oriental Studies|volume=2|title= A note on early Muslim attitudes to idolatry|publisher=Faculty of Humanities, [[Tel Aviv University]]|author=[[Yohanan Friedmann]]|page=177|year=1972}}</ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||