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Reverend Bosworth Smith in 'Muhammad and Muhammadanism,' London, 1874.
"Head of the State as well as the Church, he was Caesar and Pope in
one; but he was Pope without the Pope's pretensions, and Caesar
without the legions of Caesar, without a standing army, without a
bodyguard, without a police force, without a fixed revenue. If ever
a man ruled by a right divine, it was Muhammad, for he had all the
powers without their supports. He cared not for the dressings of
power. The simplicity of his private life was in keeping with his
public life."
"In Mohammadanism every thing is different here. Instead of the
shadowy and the mysterious, we have history....We know of the
external history of Muhammad....while for his internal history
after his mission had been proclaimed, we have a book absolutely
unique in its origin, in its preservation....on the Substantial
authority of which no one has ever been able to cast a serious doubt."
Sir George Bernard Shaw in 'The Genuine Islam,' Vol. 1, No. 8, 1936.
"If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe
within the next hundred years, it could be Islam."
“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 itself appeal to every age. I
have studied him - the wonderful man and in my opinion for from
being an anti-Christ, 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.”
In the quotations below, Western writers have used the word
Muhammadanism for Islam. The word Muhammadanism connotes worship of
Muhammad, an absolutely unworthy statement for any learned man to
use. Prophet Muhammad's mission was to propagate the worship of the
One and Only God (in Arabic Allah), the Creator and Sustainer of
the Universe. His mission was essentially the same as that of
earlier Prophets of God. In the historical context, many such
terminologies about Muhammad, Islam, and Muslims were borrowed from
earlier European writings of the Eleventh to the Nineteenth
century, a time when ignorance and prejudice prevailed. The
quotations below attest to the facts.
Thomas Carlyle in 'Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in
History,' 1840
"The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped
round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only."
"A silent great soul, one of that who cannot but be earnest. He was
to kindle the world, the world’s Maker had ordered so."
A. S. Tritton in 'Islam,' 1951
The picture of the Muslim soldier advancing with a sword in one
hand and the Qur'an in the other is quite false.
De Lacy O'Leary in 'Islam at the Crossroads,' London, 1923.
History makes it clear, however, that the legend of fanatical
Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point
of sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically
absurd myths that historians have ever repeated.
Gibbon in 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' 1823
The good sense of Muhammad despised the pomp of royalty. The
Apostle of God submitted to the menial offices of the family; he
kindled the fire; swept the floor; milked the ewes; and mended with
his own hands his shoes and garments. Disdaining the penance and
merit of a hermit, he observed without effort of vanity the
abstemious diet of an Arab.
Edward Gibbon and Simon Oakley in ‘History of the Saracen Empire,’
London, 1870
"The greatest success of Mohammad’s life was effected by sheer
moral force."
“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 and 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 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.”
Reverend Bosworth Smith in 'Muhammad and Muhammadanism,' London, 1874.
"Head of the State as well as the Church, he was Caesar and Pope in
one; but he was Pope without the Pope's pretensions, and Caesar
without the legions of Caesar, without a standing army, without a
bodyguard, without a police force, without a fixed revenue. If ever
a man ruled by a right divine, it was Muhammad, for he had all the
powers without their supports. He cared not for the dressings of
power. The simplicity of his private life was in keeping with his
public life."
"In Mohammadanism every thing is different here. Instead of the
shadowy and the mysterious, we have history....We know of the
external history of Muhammad....while for his internal history
after his mission had been proclaimed, we have a book absolutely
unique in its origin, in its preservation....on the Substantial
authority of which no one has ever been able to cast a serious doubt."
Edward Montet, 'La Propagande Chretienne et ses Adversaries
Musulmans,' Paris 1890. (Also in T.W. Arnold in 'The Preaching of
Islam,' London 1913.)
"Islam is a religion that is essentially rationalistic in the
widest sense of this term considered etymologically and
historically....the teachings of the Prophet, the Qur'an has
invariably kept its place as the fundamental starting point, and
the dogma of unity of God has always been proclaimed therein with a
grandeur a majesty, an invariable purity and with a note of sure
conviction, which it is hard to find surpassed outside the pale of
Islam....A creed so precise, so stripped of all theological
complexities and consequently so accessible to the ordinary
understanding might be expected to possess and does indeed possess
a marvelous power of winning its way into the consciences of men."
Alphonse de LaMartaine in 'Historie de la Turquie,' Paris, 1854.
"Never has a man set for himself, voluntarily or involuntarily, a
more sublime aim, since this aim was superhuman; to subvert
superstitions which had been imposed between man and his Creator,
to render God unto man and man unto God; to restore the rational
and sacred idea of divinity amidst the chaos of the material and
disfigured gods of idolatry, then existing. Never has a man
undertaken a work so far beyond human power with so feeble means,
for he (Muhammad) had in the conception as well as in the execution
of such a great design, no other instrument than himself and no
other aid except a handful of men living in a corner of the desert.
Finally, never has a man accomplished such a huge and lasting
revolution in the world, because in less than two centuries after
its appearance, Islam, in faith and in arms, reigned over the whole
of Arabia, and conquered, in God's name, Persia Khorasan,
Transoxania, Western India, Syria, Egypt, Abyssinia, all the known
continent of Northern Africa, numerous islands of the Mediterranean
Sea, Spain, and part of Gaul.
"If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing
results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare
compare any great man in 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, 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 the souls.
"On the basis of a Book, every letter which has become law, he
created a spiritual nationality which blend together peoples of
every tongue and race. He has left the indelible characteristic of
this Muslim nationality the hatred of false gods and the passion
for the One and Immaterial God. This avenging patriotism against
the profanation of Heaven formed the virtue of the followers of
Muhammad; the conquest of one-third the earth to the dogma was his
miracle; or rather it was not the miracle of man but that of reason.
"The idea of the unity of God, proclaimed amidst the exhaustion of
the fabulous theogonies, was in itself such a miracle that upon
it's utterance from his lips it destroyed all the ancient temples
of idols and set on fire one-third of the world. His life, his
meditations, his heroic revelings against the superstitions of his
country, and his boldness in defying the furies of idolatry, his
firmness in enduring them for fifteen years in Mecca, his
acceptance of the role of public scorn and almost of being a victim
of his fellow countrymen... 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, Conqueror of Ideas,
Restorer of Rational beliefs.... 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?"
Mahatma Gandhi, statement published in 'Young India,'1924.
I wanted to know the best of the life of one who holds today an
undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind.... I became
more than ever 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 pledges, his intense devotion to his 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 second volume (of the Prophet's biography), I was sorry there
was not more for me to read of that great life.
Sir George Bernard Shaw in 'The Genuine Islam,' Vol. 1, No. 8, 1936.
"If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe
within the next hundred years, it could be Islam."
“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 itself appeal to every age. I
have studied him - the wonderful man and in my opinion for from
being an anti-Christ, 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.”
Michael Hart in 'The 100, A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons
In History,' New York, 1978.
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 secular and religious level. ...It is
probable that the relative influence of Muhammad on Islam has been
larger than the combined influence of Jesus Christ and St. Paul on
Christianity. ...It is this unparalleled combination of secular and
religious influence which I feel entitles Muhammad to be considered
the most influential single figure in human history.
Dr. William Draper in 'History of Intellectual Development of Europe'
Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born in
Mecca, in Arabia, the man who, of all men, has exercised the
greatest influence upon the human race... To be the religious head
of many empires, to guide the daily life of one-third of the human
race, may perhaps justify the title of a Messenger of God.
Arthur Glyn Leonard in 'Islam, Her Moral and Spiritual Values'
It was the genius of Muhammad, the spirit that he breathed into the
Arabs through the soul of Islam that exalted them. That raised them
out of the lethargy and low level of tribal stagnation up to the
high watermark of national unity and empire. It was in the
sublimity of Muhammad's deism, the simplicity, the sobriety and
purity it inculcated the fidelity of its founder to his own tenets,
that acted on their moral and intellectual fiber with all the
magnetism of true inspiration.
Philip K. Hitti in 'History of the Arabs'
Within a brief span of mortal life, Muhammad called forth of
unpromising material, a nation, never welded before; in a country
that was hitherto but a geographical expression he established a
religion which in vast areas suppressed Christianity and Judaism,
and laid the basis of an empire that was soon to embrace within its
far flung boundaries the fairest provinces the then civilized world.
Rodwell in the Preface to his translation of the Holy Qur'an
Mohammad's career is a wonderful instance of the force and life
that resides in him who possesses an intense faith in God and in
the unseen world. He will always be regarded as one of those who
have had that influence over the faith, morals and whole earthly
life of their fellow men, which none but a really great man ever
did, or can exercise; and whose efforts to propagate a great verity
will prosper.
W. Montgomery Watt in 'Muhammad at Mecca,' Oxford, 1953.
His readiness to undergo persecution for his beliefs, the high
moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him
as a leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all
argue his fundamental integrity. To suppose Muhammad an impostor
raises more problems that it solves. Moreover, none of the great
figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as
Muhammad.... Thus, not merely must we credit Muhammad with
essential honesty and integrity of purpose, if we are to understand
him at all; if we are to correct the errors we have inherited from
the past, we must not forget the conclusive proof is a much
stricter requirement than a show of plausibility, and in a matter
such as this only to be attained with difficulty.
D. G. Hogarth in 'Arabia'
Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which
millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one regarded by
any section of the human race as Perfect Man has ever been imitated
so minutely. The conduct of the founder of Christianity has not
governed the ordinary life of his followers. Moreover, no founder
of a religion has left on so solitary an eminence as the Muslim
apostle.
Washington Irving 'Mahomet and His Successors'
He was sober and abstemious in his diet and a rigorous observer of
fasts. He indulged in no magnificence of apparel, the ostentation
of a petty mind; neither was his simplicity in dress affected but a
result of real disregard for distinction from so trivial a source.
In his private dealings he was just. He treated friends and
strangers, the rich and poor, the powerful and weak, with equity,
and was beloved by the common people for the affability with which
he received them, and listened to their complaints.
His military triumphs awakened no pride nor vain glory, as they
would have done had they been effected for selfish purposes. In the
time of his greatest power he maintained the same simplicity of
manners and appearance as in the days of his adversity. So far from
affecting a regal state, he was displeased if, on entering a room,
any unusual testimonials of respect were shown to him. If he aimed
at a universal dominion, it was the dominion of faith; as to the
temporal rule which grew up in his hands, as he used it without
ostentation, so he took no step to perpetuate it in his family.
James Michener in ‘Islam: The Misunderstood Religion,’ Reader’s
Digest, May 1955, pp. 68-70.
"No other religion in history spread so rapidly as Islam. The West
has widely believed that this surge of religion was made possible
by the sword. But no modern scholar accepts this idea, and the
Qur’an is explicit in the support of the freedom of conscience."
“Like almost every major prophet before him, Muhammad fought shy of
serving as the transmitter of God’s word sensing his own
inadequacy. But the Angel commanded ‘Read’. So far as we know,
Muhammad was unable to read or write, but he began to dictate those
inspired words which would soon revolutionize a large segment of
the earth: "There is one God"."
“In all things Muhammad was profoundly practical. When his beloved
son Ibrahim died, an eclipse occurred and rumors of God 's personal
condolence quickly arose. Whereupon Muhammad is said to have
announced, ‘An eclipse is a phenomenon of nature. It is foolish to
attribute such things to the death or birth of a human being'."
“At Muhammad's own death an attempt was made to deify him, but the
man who was to become his administrative successor killed the
hysteria with one of the noblest speeches in religious history: ‘If
there are any among you who worshiped Muhammad, he is dead. But if
it is God you Worshiped, He lives for ever'.”
Lawrence E. Browne in ‘The Prospects of Islam,’ 1944
Incidentally these well-established facts dispose of the idea so
widely fostered in Christian writings that the Muslims, wherever
they went, forced people to accept Islam at the point of the sword.
K. S. Ramakrishna Rao in 'Mohammed: The Prophet of Islam,' 1989
My problem to write this monograph is easier, because we are not
generally fed now on that (distorted) kind of history and much time
need not be spent on pointing out our misrepresentations of Islam.
The theory of Islam and sword, for instance, is not heard now in
any quarter worth the name. The principle of Islam that “there is
no compulsion in religion” is well known.
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