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The places that the early Muslims conquered were majority non-Muslim for literal centuries after having been conquered.

> for at least two centuries the majority of the inhabitants of the Islamic empire were non-Muslims.”[22] Furthermore, according to Hugh Kennedy, forced conversion to Islam was “almost impossible” following the early Muslim conquests, as Muslims were a small minority in newly-conquered areas―perhaps about 10% of the population in Egypt and 20% in Iraq. “In these circumstances, forcing unwilling people to convert was out of the question.”[23]

>In the regions conquered by Muslims by 732 (i.e., in the first century after Prophet Muhammad ﷺ), Islam did not become a majority religion until 850-1050. Nearly all of Iran, for example, had been conquered by 705; however, empirical research by Richard Bulliet has shown that it was only in the mid-9th century that the Muslim population of Iran reached 50%, and it took nearly another century for that figure to hit 75%.[24] As some historians have pointed out, “if forced conversion to Islam had been the impetus behind the conquests, they were a miserable failure.”[25]

https://yaqeeninstitute.org/en/hassam-munir/did-islam-spread-by-the-sword-a-critical-look-at-forced-conversions/

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The first Muslims wanted to keep non-Muslims as non-muslims, because that was the only way to extract Jizya from them.