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What do they said
about him
Mahatma Gandhi
Speaking on the character of Muhammad (pbuh), Mahatma Gandhi says in (Young
India),
"I wanted to know the best of one who holds today's undisputed sway over the
hearts of millions of mankind....I became more than convinced that it was not
the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was
the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet, the scrupulous
regard for his pledges, his intense devotion to this friends and followers, his
intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission.
These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every
obstacle. When I closed the 2nd volume (of the Prophet's biography), I was sorry
there was not more for me to read of the great life."
George Bernard Shaw
If a man like Muhamed were to assume the dictatorship of the
modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems that would bring it the
much needed peace and happiness. Read the following writings of other Western
authors...
W. Montgomery Watt
"His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the
high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as
leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all argue his
fundamental integrity. To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems than
it solves. Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly
appreciated in the West as Muhammad."
W. Montgomery Watt, MOHAMMAD AT MECCA, Oxford, 1953, p. 52.
Sarogini Naidu
Sarogini Naidu, the famous poetess of India says about Islam:
"It was the first religion that preached and practiced democracy; for in the
mosque, when the call for prayer is sounded and worshippers are gathered
together, the democracy of Islam is embodied five times a day when the peasant
and king kneel side by side and proclaim: 'God Alone is Great'… I have been
struck over and over again by this indivisible unity of Islam that makes man
instinctively a brother."
Lamartine
"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 modern history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms,
laws and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material
powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only
armies, legislations, 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 religions, 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
imposture but to a firm conviction which gave him the power to restore a dogma.
This dogma was twofold, the unity of God and the immateriality of God; the
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 words.
"Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer
of rational 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 man
greater than he?"
Lamartine, HISTOIRE DE LA TURQUIE, Paris, 1854, Vol. II, pp. 276-277.
Edward Gibbon and Simon Ocklay
"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 Mecca and
Medina is preserved, after the revolutions of twelve centuries by the Indian,
the African and the Turkish proselytes of the Koran. . . The Mahometans have
uniformly withstood the temptation of reducing the object of their faith an
devotion to a level with the senses and imagination of man. 'I believe in One
God and Mahomet the Apostle of God' is the simple and invariable profession of
Islam. The intellectual image of the Deity has never been degraded by any
visible idol; the honours 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.
Bosworth Smith
"He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without
Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing
army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever
any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammed,
for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports."
Bosworth Smith, MOHAMMAD AND MOHAMMADANISM, London, 1874, p. 92.
Annie Besant
"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 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."
"But do you mean to tell me that the man who in the full flush of youthful
vigour, a young man of four and twenty (24), married a woman much his senior,
and remained faithful to her for six and twenty years (26), at fifty years of
age when the passions are dying married for lust and sexual passion? Not thus
are men's lives to be judged. And you look at the women whom he married, you
will find that by every one of them an alliance was made for his people, or
something was gained for his followers, or the woman was in sore need of
protection."
Annie Besant, THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF MUHAMMAD,Madras,1932, p. 4.
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