As Seen By The Scholars:
"MUHAMMAD was born in the full light of history": Professor Philip K. Hitti in his book "THE HISTORY OF ARABS". Each and every aspects, not only what he said but also what was his posture when he said that is also available to us today, even after 14 centuries. No one till to date is able to point a better person than him to follow. He was the best of the human being who said "Follow Me".
Even his worst enemies never called him a liar, they said "O Muhammad, we do not call you liar, But we deny "Him" who has given you a "Book" (Qur'an) and inspired you with a "Message")
This page lists the views of the scholars of the world about this Greatest Man.
"Muhammad (PBUH) is the most successful of all Prophets and religious personalities. But this success was not the result of mere accident. It was not a windfall. It was a recognition of the fact that he was found to be of true mettle by his contemporaries. It was the result of his admirable and all compelling personality."
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA.
"Good All This", "The natural voice of humanity of "piety and equity", dwelling in the heart of this wild son (Prophet) of nature speaks"
THOMAS CARLYLE.
"If Muhammad was alive today, he would have solved the problems of the world"! I have the highest regard and reverence for the Holy Prophet and the Holy Quran. I will assemble at one place all the eminent scholars and philosophers of the world and request them to evaluate a procedure and a system based on the teachings of the Holy Quran, since I strongly believe that only Qur'anic teachings alone can bring real happiness to man kind.
"Europe Is, but a molehill" There never have been any mighty empires, There never have occurred great revolutions. But the "East, where live hundreds of millions of men, is the "cradle of all" faiths, The birth place of all metaphysics.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
"Principle of Islam that there is no compulsion in religion is well known. Pernicious tenet has been imputed to the Muhammadans, the duly of extirpating all the religions by the sword". This charge of ignorance and bigotry is refuted by the Quran, by the history of Mussalman conquerors and by their public and legal toleration of Christian worship. The greatest success of "Muhammad's life" was effected by the sheer moral force without the stroke of a "sword".
- GIBBON - a historian
"To the Arabs who would fight for forty years on the slight provocation that a camel belonging to the guest of one tribes had strayed into the grazing land belonging to another tribe and both the sides had fought till they lost 70,000 lives in all, threatening the extinction of both tribes, to such furious Arabs, the "Prophet of Islam" taught, "self-control" and "discipline" to the extend of praying even on the battle field.
The personality of Muhammad (PBUH), it is most difficult to get into the whole truth of it. Only a glimpse of it I can catch. What a dramatic succession of picturesque scenes? "There is Muhammad (PBUH) the Prophet". "There is Muhammad, the General";: "Muhammad, the King"; "Muhammad, the Warrior"; "Muhammad, the Businessman"; "Muhammad, the preacher" ; "Muhammad, the Philosopher"; "Muhammad, the Statesman"; "Muhammad, the Orator"; "Muhammad, the Reformer"; "Muhammad, the Refuge of Orphans"; "Muhammad, the Protector of Slaves;" "Muhammad, the Emancipator of Women;" "Muhammad, the Judge"; "Muhammad, the Saint". And in all these magnificent roles, in all these departments of human activities he is alike a hero.
- PROF. K.S.RAMAKRISHNARAO
"Islam was the first religion that preached and practiced democracy; for in the mosque, when the minaret is sounded and the 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 again, and again by this indivisible unity of Islam that makes a man instinctively a brother. When you meet an Egyptian, an Algerian, an Indian and a Turk in London, what matters is that Egypt is the motherland of one and India is the motherland of another"
- SAROJINI NAIDU - The great Poetess of India.
"Some one has said that Europeans in South Africa dread the advent of Islam that civilized Spain; Islam that took the torch of light to Morocco and preached to the world the Gospel of Brotherhood. The Europeans of South Africa dread the advent of Islam as than may claim equality with the white races. They may well dread it. If brotherhood is a sin, if it is equality of the colored races that they dread, then their dread is well founded".
MAHATHMA GANDHI
"From the very beginning that he was unique in his person and behaviors. His whole nation testified to his truthfulness and sincerity of purpose. They called him 'Al-Sadiq' - The Truthful and 'Al-Ameen' - the Trustworthy. In all his multifarious dealings with all sorts of people he was gentle, and kind, straightforward, and upright. He had sweetness and charm of his own in his talk and department, he never indulged in any kind of indecency. He stood aloof from the feuds and wrangling of his people. On the other hand, he shared the weal and woes of everyone, and was always ready to give a helping hand to the needy and the downtrodden, the helpless and the indigent. Widows and orphans, slaves and wayfarers. In such a topsy-turvy world he towered above all. He was a beacon of light in the vast ocean of darkness spreading all around.
All authorities agree in ascribing to the youth of Mahomet a modesty of department and purity of manners rare among the people of Mecca."
SIR WILLIAM MUIR (Life of Mahomet").
"It was he who purified Arabia of idolatry and released it from foreign bondage. It was he who substituted an inviolable and inviolate system of law in place of blood-revenge, law of might and caprice. It was he who laid down the law for all times. It was he who softened the hard log of slaves, and showed a paternal care for the poor, the orphan and widow. It was he who assigned a share to them in the poor-tax".
DR.GUSTAV WEIL
"Prophets, the most wanted guides of the mankind, were unfortunately, or rather ironically, the least recorded persons in history. Hence people in general are in utter confusion to identify their Prophesied in the read perspective. For example, the great "Prophet Jesus", despite having millions of followers was very scantily recorded in the history. But, fortunately, the life and mission of Prophet Muhammad is very clearly documented in history".
W.M.THOMSON
"By the force of his extraordinary personality, Muhammed revolutionized life in Arabia and throughout the east. With his own hands he smashed ancient idols and established a religion dedicated to one God. He lifted women from the bondage in which desert customs held them and preached general social justice".
JAMES A.MICHENER - Reader's Digest American Edition May 1955 Page 68-70)
Prophet Muhammad declared by reminding the Muslims that the women have rights over men", just as men have rights over them" Prophet Muhammad not only gave the women the "dignity" they deserved by raising their status, but also informed them that they have a right to own property, In Islam woman can own property and can engage in and conduct their "own business". This is reformation of the highest order.
Radiance "THE PROPHET WHO CHANGED THE WORLD Page: 90, Special Edition)
"Mohammad maintains to the end , the role of Prophet to which he was called about 23 years ago. It is with a heart as stout as ever, that he waits his end. He shows none of the weakness of a man when confronted with death nor does he for moment lose any of the strength of character or will, that has been dominant features of his career. In his last moments, he still proves himself on of those extraordinary men who are born to change the face of the world and unchain humanity to the chariots".
L.K.GAUBA ("The Prophet of the Desert").
"It is not the weapon, but the 'man' behind the weapon, that wins the war. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) developed human beings who were the real weapon and force. The principle of war, "High morale" is best witnessed in the life of prophet and his followers, who always faced superior enemy qualitatively in terms of means and quantitatively in both in terms of men and material. He came out victorious in Badr, Uhad, Kaiber, and Tabouk. It was the quality of man which he prepared that resulted in providing the best possible leadership during his times and the times of khula-fe-a-Rashideen (First four Caliphs of Islamic Empire), when Muslim forces moved in all possible directions in the world to propagate Islam and peace to mankind".
- Military Expert - Lt.Col. S.S.M.D.Nahri In "Prophet Muhammad the greatest Conqueror".
"Whether it acknowledges or not, humanity owes a great "debt of gratitude to "Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)" and the holy Quran for stimulating man's inductive thoughts and reasoning and cleaning the concept of God of polytheistic and idolatrous taints with which men had smeared it. A God, Creator and Sustainer of the world the most compassionate and Merciful, All powerful, Omnipresent, Omniscient, besides Whom there is no other God. "Knowledge and thought became the way of the world, with the very first revolution to the last Prophet of God.
'Read with the name of your Lord, who created; created man from a clot; read, and your Lord is the most bounteous, Who taught with pen; taught man what he did not know' ".
ATHAR HUSSAIN ("Prophet Mohammad and his Mission")
"Among all the conquerors and law givers of the world there is not a single instance to be seen whose anecdotes of life have been recorded with so much precision, authenticity and details as that of Muhammad
- JOHN DEVENPORT (An apology for Muhammad and the Koran).
"It is often said that Muhammad was the only great religious leader to live in the full light of history, meaning that his life and works are known to us in details, recorded by himself and by contemporaries whose works survive"
- HOTMAS W.LIPPMAN ("Understanding Islam - An introduction to the Muslim World).
"They (Muhammad's critics) see fire instead of light, ugliness instead of good. They distort and present every good quality as a great vice. It reflects their own depravity… the critics are blind. They cannot see that the only 'sword Muhammad wielded was the sword of mercy, compassion, friendship and forgiveness - the sword that conquers enemies and purifies their hearts. His sword was sharper than the sword of steel.
- Pundit GYANANDRA DEV SHARMA SHASTRI, at a meeting in Gorakhpur (India). 1928.
"If greatness of purpose, smallness of means and astounding results" are the 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 Muhammad moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples and dynasties, but millions of men.
On the basis of a Book, every letter of which has become law, he created a spiritual nationality which blended together peoples of every tongue and of every race.
Philosopher, Orator, Apostle, Legislator, Warrior, Conqueror of ideas, Restorer of rational beliefs, of a cult without images; the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. AS REGARDS ALL STANDARDS BY WHICH HUMAN GREATNESS MAY BE MEASURED, WE MAY WELL ASK, IS THERE ANY MAN GREATER THAN HE? - LAMARTINE ("Historic de la Turquie, Parise 1854, VoI. I PP.276-277)
Ali, Abu Turab (as) said: "By Allah, even if I am given all the domains of the seven (skies) with all that exists under the skies in order that I may disobey Allah to the extent of snatching one grain of barley from an Ant, I would not do it. For me, your world is lighter than the leaf in the mouth of a locust that is chewing it. What has Ali to do with bounties that will pass away and pleasures that will not last?" Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib
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