Muhammad(PBUH) In The Eyes of Non-Muslim Thinkers and Scholars

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What non Muslims great thinkers say about Prophet Mohammed(PBUH)

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ItIn the face of those who do not understand him and still pour forth torrents of abuse on the Prophet and shamefully scandalise him, what better homage to Prophet Muhammad can we pay than quote the testimony of great Western historians, thinkers and scholars who expressed their views on the greatest of benefactors of humanity.

[/td] [/tr] [tr style="mso-yfti-irow:3"] [td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"] "Muhammad is no longer an imposter, but a great reformer. He is no longer a neurotic patient suffering from epilepsy, but a man of tremendous character and unbending will. He is no longer a self-seeking despot, ministering to his own selfish ends but a beneficent ruler shedding light and love around him. He is no longer an opportunist, but a Prophet with a fixed purpose, a man of strong will, undeviating in his consistency....

[/td] [/tr] [tr style="mso-yfti-irow:5"] [td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"] George Bernard Shaw said"I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phases of existence which can make itself appeal to everyone. I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of today. The medieval ecelesiastics either through ignorance or bigotry painted Islam in the darkest colours. they were, in fact, trained to hate the man Muhammad and his religion. To them, Muhammad was anti-Christ. I have studied him-the wonderful man, and in my opinion, far from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the saviour of humanity. I believe that if a man like him wereto assume 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.

But to proceed, it was in the nineteenth century that honest thinkers like Carlyle, Gibbon and Goethe perceived intrinsic worth in the religion of Muhammad-already, even, at the present time many of our people have gone to his faith , and Islamization of Europe may be said to have begun.

[/td] [/tr] [tr style="mso-yfti-irow:9"] [td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"] "Philospoher,orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of cult without images the founder of twenty terrestrial empires, 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?''

[/td] [/tr] [tr style="mso-yfti-irow:11"] [td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"] "Nor is anything in religious history more remarkable than the way in which Muhammad fitted his transfiguring ideas into the existing social system of Arabia. To his everlasting credit, it must be said that in lifting to a higher place of life the communities of his day and place, he achieved that which neither the Judaism nor Christianity of Medievel Arabia could accomplish. Nay more, in the fulfilment of that civilising work Muhammad rendered valuable service, not only to Arabia,
but also to the entire world."

[/td] [/tr] [tr style="mso-yfti-irow:13"] [td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"] "In the fifth and sixth centuries the civilised world stood on the verge of a chaos.The old emotional cultures that had made civilisation possible, since they had given to men a sense of unity and of reverence for their rulers, had broken down and nothing had been found adequate to take their place...

[/td] [/tr] [tr style="mso-yfti-irow:15"] [td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"] "For few and simple were the precepts of Muhammad. His teaching had wrought a marvellous and mighty work. Never since the days when the primitive Christianity startled the world from its sleep and waged moral combat with heathenism had men seen the like arousing of spiritual life, the like faith that suffered sacrifices and took joyfully the spoiling of goods for conscience's sake.''

[/td] [/tr] [tr style="mso-yfti-irow:19"] [td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"] "Muhammad's thoroughly democratic conception of the divine government, the universality of his religious ideal, his simple humanity, all affiliate him with the modern world."

[/td] [/tr] [tr style="mso-yfti-irow:21"] [td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"] "Islam (meaning resignation), as the religion of Muhammad is properly called, has done more for the progress of civilisation and morality than any other faith which has animated the souls of men since the creation of this world. Through many centuries and at the present day it has been, and is, a power for good among hundreds of millions of the human race, and without its high moral code there is no doubt that the blackest barbarism and the most idolatrous worship would reign omnipotent where Allah and faith of nobility lead men to light."

[/td] [/tr] [tr style="mso-yfti-irow:23"] [td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"] "If ever a man on this earth found Allah, if ever a man devoted his life to Allah's service with a good and great motive, it is certain that the Prophet of Arabia (Muhammad) is the man. Muhammad was not only the greatest but truest man that humanity has ever produced."

[/td] [/tr] [tr style="mso-yfti-irow:25"] [td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"] "I salute Muhammad as one of the world's mighty heroes. Muhammad has been a world force, a mighty power of the uplift of many peoples."

[/td] [/tr] [tr style="mso-yfti-irow:27"] [td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"] " When I closed the second volume of the Prophet's Biography', I was sorry that there was no more for me to read of that great life. I was 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 - efacement of the Prophet, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in Allah and his own mission."

[/td] [/tr] [tr style="mso-yfti-irow:29"] [td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"] "His moral teachings sprang from a pure and exaltedmind aflame with religious enthusiasm. From being a persecuted preacher exiled to Madina, he rose to political power. This he enjoyed only in the last few years of his life, and this he used for the spiritual and material welfare of Muslims.

[/td] [/tr] [tr style="mso-yfti-irow:31"] [td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"] "He lived in great humility, performing the most menial tasks with his own hands; he kindled the fire, swept the floor, milked the ewes, patched his own garments and cobbled his own shoes.
[/td][/tr][tr style="mso-yfti-irow:33"][td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"]In (The Ethics of the Great Religions) Gorham said:

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