| What
They Say About Muhammad
(Peace Be Upon Him) Here we will furnish some observations on Islam by great and acknowledged non-Muslim scholars of the modern time. Truth needs no advocates to plead on its behalf, but the of prolonged malicious propaganda against Islam has created great confusion even in the minds of free and objective thinkers. We hope that the following observations would contribute to initiating an objective evaluation of the Prophet of Islam Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him).  |
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| If
greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astounding results are the
three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare
any great man in modem history with Muhammad (Peace
Be Upon Him)?
The most famous men created arms, laws and empires only they founded,
if anything all,
no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes.
This man moved not only armies, legislation, empires, peoples and dynasties,
but millions of men in one-third of the then-inhabited world; and more
than that he moved the altars, the gods the religious, the ideas, the
beliefs and souls… His forbearance in victory, his ambition which was
entirely devoted to one idea and in no manner striving for an empire,
his endless prayers, his mystic conversations with God, his death and
his triumph after death-all these attest not to an imposter but
to
a firm conviction which the gave him the power to restore a dogma. This
dogma was twofold: the unity of God and the immateriality of God; tile
former telling what God is, the latter telling what God is not; the one
overthrowing false gods with the sword, the other starting an
idea with the words.
Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas,
restorer of National dogmas, of a
cult "without images; the founder of twenty terrestrial empires
and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammad. As regards all standards
by which human greatness may, be measured, we may well ask, is there any
grater man than he is? Lamartine Histories de la Turquie, Pans 1854, Vol. 11, PP.276-77 |
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| It
is not the propagation but the permanency of his religion that deserves
our wonder; the same pure and perfect impression which he engraved at
Makkah and Madinah is preserved, after the revolutions
of twelve centuries by the Indian, the African and the Turkish proselytes
of the Koran... The Mahometans object of their- faith and devotion to
a level with the senses and imagination of man. 'I believe in One God
and Mahomet is the Apostle of God' is at
the
simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image
of the Deity has never been degraded by any visible idol; the honors of the prophet have never transgressed the measure of human virtue;
and his living precepts have restrained the
gratitude of his disciples within the bounds of reason and religion. Edward Gibbon and Simon Ocklay History of the Saracen Empire, London 1870, P 54 |
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| He
was Caesar and Pope in one; but he
was the Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions
of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace,
without fixed revenue.
If ever a man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine,
it was Muhammad he
had all
the power without its instruments and without its supports. Bosworth Smith Muhammad and Mohammedanism, London 1874, P-92 |
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| It
is impossible for anyone
who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia,
who knows how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but reverence
for that mighty Prophet, one of the great messengers of the Supreme.
And although in what I put to you I shall say feet a
is many things which may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel
whenever I re-read them, a new way of admiration, a new sense of reverence for that mighty Arabian
teacher. Annie Besant The Life and Teaching of Muhammad, Madras 1932, P 4 |
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| My
choice of Muhammad to
lead the list of the world’s most influential persons may surprise some
readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history
who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level. Michael H. Hart The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History New York: Hart Publishing Company Inc. 1978, P.33 |
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| "I
have always held the religion of Muhammad in
high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion,
which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing
phase of existence, which can make it appeal to every age.
I have studied him the wonderful man and in my opinion far from
being an antichrist, he must be called the Savior of Humanity.
I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship
of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems in a way
that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesied
about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the
Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of
today." G.B. Shaw The Genuine Islam, Vol-1, No.81936 |
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