Muhammad (PBUH); The Greatest man in the History of Mankind

We are seeing this happening again and it has not happened the first time. Some mentally retards have again tried to mock the Holy Prophet in the name of freedom of expression. This is in complete disregard to the sentiments of more than a billion muslims who follow the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and who love him.

The result is world wide protests, violence and anger.

Just to show all my readers that those who have done it are fraudsters and small time theives who could go to any lengths to get their seconds of fame on the media, even if these are the moments of shame for them. They represent all what can be seen as mentally and morally ill.

I thought of registering my protest against this shameful act. I believe that I must not attack the life and property of any non muslim in order to protest against the shameful act of some people. So I will not do that. I also believe in the prophethood of Jesus (PBUH) and Moses (PBUH), so I cannot insult them.

So I thought I must look out and see what other non muslims of standing in history say about my Holy Prophet(PBUH). I looked out and found that those who have achieved great feats in the field of lietrature, history or battlefields, the accoplished ones, they have all praised the greatest personality of all times. Their praise include their awe in the face of a personality that despite of lack of means and without coercion challenged the status quo, changed the face of the world , emancipated humanity from the shackles of bondage and slavery, may that be physical or mental. He was the one who proclaimed the equality of human race and abolished the structures of cast and creed. He was the one who talked about the human rights and taught the world about the rights of the women. He was the mercy to the mankind and even to the animals.

 

Let me first quote Lamartine who was a French historian, but before copying what he said about the Holy Prophet (PBUH) a few words from wikipedia about Lamartine himself:

Lamartine was a successful person. He was instrumental in the founding of the Second Republic of France, having met with Republican Deputies and journalists in the Hôtel de Ville to agree on the makeup of its provisional government. Lamartine himself was chosen to declare the Republic in traditional form in the balcony of the Hôtel de Ville.

During his term as a politician in the Second Republic, he led efforts that eventually led to the abolition of slavery and the death penalty, as well as the enshrinement of the right to workand the short-lived national workshop programs. He was a political ideaist who supported democracyand pacifismthroughout his life.He wrote in his - Histoire de la Turquie, Paris 1854, Vol II, pp. 276-77:

“Never has a man set himself, voluntarily or involuntarily, a more sublime aim, sincethis aim was superhuman: to subvert superstitions which had been interposed betweenman and his Creator, to render God unto man and man unto God; to restore therational and sacred idea of divinity amidst the chaos of the material and disfiguredgods of idolatry, then existing. Never has a mane undertaken a work so far beyond human power with so feeblemeans, for he had in the conception as well as in the execution of such a great designno other instrument than himself, and no other aid, except a handful of men living in acorner of the desert. Finally, never has a man accomplished such a huge and lastingrevolution in the world…"

"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... the 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 unit 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?"

Second I would quote Thomas Caryle – Heros and Heros Worship

As per Wikipedia: "Carlyle was one of the very few philosophers who witnessed the industrial revolution but still kept a non-materialistic view of the world. The book included people ranging from the field of Religion through to literature and politics. He included people as coordinates and accorded Muhammad a special place in the book under the chapter title "Hero as a Prophet". In his work, Carlyle declared his admiration with a passionate championship of Muhammad as a Hegelian agent of reform, insisting on his sincerity and commenting 'how one man single-handedly, could weld warring tribes and wandering Bedouins into a most powerful and civilized nation in less than two decades.' For Carlyle, the hero was somewhat similar to Aristotle's "Magnanimous" man – a person who flourished in the fullest sense."

In the book he wrote :

“how one man single-handedly, could weld warring tribes and Bedouins into a most powerful and civilized nation in less than two decades?”
“…The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammed) are disgraceful to ourselves only…How one man single-handedly, could weld warring tribes and wandering Bedouins into a most powerful and civilized nation in less than two decades….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."

The third I would quote Rev. Bosworth Smith, Mohammed and Mohammadanism, London 1874, p. 92:

"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."

There are many more that can be quoted, I will do that in a next post. However I went over a good slide show that captured much of what I wanted to say. Here is the link and do have a look at the presentation:

Muhammad PBUH in the eyes of non muslims