#martyrdom

 The king fell into a rage, and gave orders that pans and caldrons be heated.

These were heated immediately, and he commanded that the tongue of their spokesman be cut out and that they scalp him and cut off his hands and feet, while the rest of the brothers and the mother looked on. 

When he was utterly helpless, the king ordered them to take him to the fire, still breathing, and to fry him in a pan.

2Maccabees 7: 3-5

...They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God. “These things they will do because they have not known the Father or Me." ...

(via Bowyer Bible Gospels: The Beheading of John the Baptist)

Why do these Muslims in small numbers defeat kuffar [non-Muslims] of great numbers? Why? Because the Muslims love death and the kuffar love life. That's why. Is another reason. Okay, so it doesn't matter the numbers, they have an advantage from the beginning because they love death. Meaning they love to die for the sake of Allah.

The problem is when we make the dunya [moral world] our ultimate goal and not the akhirah [afterlife]. Our goal in this dunya should not be to see who is the most powerful or who can make the most money, but to realize this dunya is nothing but a test, just a means to get to the akhirah.

The shaheed [martyrs] would not feel the struggle of death except like a mosquito bite. Akhirah is the long-lasting, not this dunya. We're not working in this dunya for dunya itself. We're taking this dunya as a transition to the hereafter.

If you become Muslim, you are like us and you are one of us. If you do not become Muslim, then I have brought a people with me that love death in the path of Allah, like you love your wine, your alcohol, your drink, or you love your life of dunya.

Allah told us directly that numbers don't really matter. Who's ready to die and become a martyr right now versus who is kind of clinging to the Earth, as Allah says in Surah At-Tawbah. So we don't care about numbers in that sense. We don't care if we're 1% of the population.

Sacrifice for a cause. What does it mean to live and to die for Allah, not just to live but to live and to die for Allah? The way the companions lived their lives, sacrificing for a cause, living and dying for Allah. So this idea of continuing a cause with patience and steadfastness for you and I. We learn from this battle, we learn from the companions that we remain patient and steadfast, teaching us that when people live and die for the sake of Allah, Allah will honor them.

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https://quranx.com/9.38

O you who have believed, what is [the matter] with you that, when you are told to go forth in the cause of Allah, you adhere heavily to the earth? Are you satisfied with the life of this world rather than the Hereafter? But what is the enjoyment of worldly life compared to the Hereafter except a [very] little.

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The "religion of peace."

I can't think of a single reason why we shouldn't give them exactly what they want, as efficiently as possible.