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2/. About the Turks, the Prophet said: "One of the portents of the Hour is that you will
fight with people wearing shoes made of hair; and one of the portents of the Hour is that
you will fight with broad faced people whose face will look like shields coated with
leather." (Shih Al-Bookmark, Vol. IV: 178)

Again, the Prophet said about the Turks: "The hour will not be established until
you fight with the Turks; people with small eyes, red faces, and flat noses. Their faces
will look like shields coated with leather. The Hour will not be established till you fight
with people whose shoes are made of hair." (SahihAl-Bokhari, Vol. IV: 179)

3/. About Khosrau (Iran) and Caesar (Constantinople), the Prophet said: "Khosrau will
be ruined, and there will be no Khosrau after him, and Caesar will surely be ruined and
there will be no Caesar after him and you (the Arabs) will spend their treasures in Allah's
cause." He said, "War is deceit." (Sahih Al-Bokhari, Vol. IV: 267)

Before I explain these hadiths, I ought to add that the Prophet Muhammad was
not only a preacher but also a warrior. A hadith states that, when the Battle of Badr took
place: "The Prophet was clad in his armor at that time. He went out saying to me (the
narrator, Ibn Abbas): their multitude will be put to flight and they will show their backs.
Nay but the Hour is their appointed time (for their full recompense) and the Hour will be
more bitter than their worldly failure." (Sahih Al-Bokhari, Vol.IV: 164)

1/. The Prophet was a warrior because he participated in battles wearing armor.

2/. He actually led his armies with the sole purpose of winning battles because he
believed that "war is deceit", and therefore he might resort to any tactic, which would
produce the desired result. Yet he called himself the "Mercy of Allah to entire mankind,"
which ought to include unbelievers as well, but it does not. On the contrary, it seeks their
annihilation.

3/. To make his people most zealous warriors, he not only trained them militarily but
also brainwashed them with the doctrine of Jehad, which preached destruction of
unbelievers in the name of Allah as the greatest virtue against all principles of morality.
Its purpose was to make his followers indifferent to the appeal of conscience.

From the hadiths quoted above, it is evident that the Prophet had a keen desire to
create an Arab Empire. So he expressed it as the will of God that the Arabs must build a
huge empire to gain the pleasure of Allah. What a shrewd plan of Imperialism it was! To
give it the Divine authority, he stated as a predestined fact that the Hour would not come
until the Arab had smashed up the Jews and the Turks as well as the Iranian and Roman
(Byzantinian) Empires. This is exactly what happened, enabling the Arabs to set up
within twenty years of the Prophet's death an empire, which was larger than the Roman
Empire that had required centuries to build.