Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will
look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mohandas Gandhi


On Mar 9, 1:29 pm, powersun <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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."
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