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"A large number of early sources show that he is someone who is honest and virtuous well-respected and obeyed the people who seem (both honest and virtuous) (Vol. 12)"
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Mahatma Gandhi (Commentaries on the character of Muhammad in YOUNG INDIA):
"Ever wonder who I figure that most affect human ... I am more than convinced that it's not the sword that gives greatness of Islam in his time. But he comes from simplicity, modesty, prudence, Muhammad, and extraordinary devotion to his friends and followers, his determination, courage, and faith in God and his duty. All this (and not a sword) get rid of all obstacles. When I closed the last page of volume 2 (biography of Muhammad), I was sad because nothing else was left of his life story is great. "
Sir George Bernard Shaw (The Genuine Islam, 'Vol. 1, No. 8, 1936.) "If any religion is a chance to master English - and even Europe - a few hundred years from now, Islam was the religion."
"I always respect the religion of Muhammad because of its potential. This is the only religion which to me has the ability to unite and changing civilization. I've studied Muhammad - a figure that is far from great personal impression of an anti-christ, he must be called 'the savior of humanity'. "
"I'm sure, if people like Muhammad holds the sole power in the modern world, he will successfully solve all the problems so that it brings peace and happiness the world needs: Ramalanku, which brought the accepted belief in the future of Europe and indeed he has started to receive European current "
"He was the greatest man who ever set foot on this earth. He brought a religion, founded a nation, laid down a moral code, initiated numerous social and political reform movement, established a strong and dynamic society to carry out and represent the whole teaching, and he also has revolutionized the mind and human behavior for the whole period to come.
He is Muhammad (SAW). He was born in Arabia in the year 570 BC, started his mission of preaching the religion of Truth, Islam (submission to God) at the age of 40 and leave this world at age 63.
Throughout the period of his Prophethood that short (23 years) he has changed the Arabian Peninsula from paganism and become the devotee devotee being the One God, from war and disunity among the tribes into a united nation, from the drunks and vandals to be the thinkers and the patient, from the not arbitrate and anarchy to organized, from the majesty of moral depravity. Human history has never known transformation of a society or place sedahsyat this - and imagine it happening within a period of just over TWO DECADES.
MICHAEL H. HART (THE 100: A RANKING OF THE MOST influential PERSONS IN HISTORY, New York, 1978)
My choice to put Muhammad on the top may surprise everyone, but he is the only person who had good success at the level of secular or religious. (P. 33). Lamar tine, a leading historian states that:
"If greatness of purpose, size of facilities provided to achieve those goals, and astounding results are achieved the benchmark of human genius, who would dare compare any great figure in modern history with Muhammad? Famous men created arms, laws and empires only. They are just creating more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes.
This man moved not only armies, legislation, empires, peoples and dynasties, but millions of men in two-thirds of the world; more than that, he has turned the altars of worship, god, religion, thoughts, beliefs and souls ... patience in victory and ambition that is dedicated to one goal without at all eager to build power-sembahyangnya prayer, dialogue with God, his death and its triumphs (his followers) after his death, all his people carry conviction until he has the power to restore a dogma. The dogma which teaches oneness and the magic (immateriality) of God that teaches who the real God. He rid of false gods with the power and introducing a real god with the policy.
A philosopher who is also an orator, Apostle (hawariyyun, 12 people were followers of Jesus-pen.), Soldiers, lawyers, conqueror of ideas, pegembali rational dogmas of a doctrine without pengidolaan, founder of the 20 kingdoms of the earth and a spiritual kingdom, is Muhammad. Of all the standards of how a human greatness is measured, perhaps we should ask: is there any that are greater than he? "
(Lamar tine, Histoire DE LA TURQUIE, Paris, 1854, Vol. II, pp 276-277)
"The world has witnessed many great personalities. However, of these were people who succeed in one or two areas, such as religious or military. Life and teachings of these people are often enveloped in mists of time and age. So much speculation about the time and place of their birth, their ways and lifestyle, nature and detail of their teachings and the degree and measure of their success so difficult for humans to reconstruct the lives and teachings of these men.
Not so with this guy. Muhammad (pbuh) accomplished so much in such diverse fields of human thought and behavior in the fullest blaze of human history. Every detail of private life and public utterances has been accurately documented and faithfully preserved to this day. Authenticity of his teaching was so awake, not only because of searches done loyal followers but also by its opponents.
Muhammad was a religious teacher, social reformer, a moral guide, loyal friend, fun friend, a loving husband and a loving father - all in one. No longer human beings in the history of exceeding or even match it in every aspect of life - just like her personality was like this can be achieved greatness. "
K. S. RAO Ramakrishna, Professor of Philosophy in bookletnya, "Muhammad, The Prophet of Islam"
Personality of Muhammad, hhmm very difficult to describe precisely. I was only able to catch a glimpse of it: how he is a beautiful painting. You can see the Prophet Muhammad, Muhammad the warrior, the businessman Muhammad, Muhammad the statesman, the orator Muhammad, Muhammad the reformer, Muhammad was the protector orphan, Muhammad the slave protector, the defender of women's rights Muhammad, Muhammad the judge, Mohammed the religious leaders. In each role before, he was a hero.
Today, 14 centuries later, the life and teachings of Muhammad remain safe, nothing is lost or changed a bit. The doctrine that offers a glimmer of hope for any lasting about drug humanitarian disease that exists and has existed since the time of his life. This is not the claims of his followers but also an inevitable conclusion of a critical historical analysis and unbiased.
PROF. (Snouck) Hurgronje:
League of nations that founded the Muslim prophet has laid the foundations of international unity and human brotherhood on which illuminate the universal foundation for other nations. The proof, until now no one nation in the world who can match the achievements of Islam to realize the idea of ??unity of nations.
The world has many familiar with the concept of God, has many individuals who live and mission vanished into legend. History shows not a single match this legend that even some of what Muhammad accomplished. The whole soul of his body he was devoted to one goal: to unite people in devotion to God in the rules of moral elevation.
Muhammad or his followers never in the history reveals that he is the son of God or reincarnation of God or an incarnation of God - he's always been since ancient till now considered himself and was regarded by followers as a chosen messenger of God.
Thomas Carlyle in his HEROES AND HEROWORSHIP
"(How amazing) one man alone can change the tribes who fought each other and nomads (Bedouin) into a nation's most advanced and most civilized in less than two decades."
"Lies of the Western propaganda that diselimutkan to this man (Muhammad) is only embarrass ourselves."
"A figure of a quiet spirit, one that inevitably must be upheld. He was created to enlighten the world, that commands the Creator of the World. "
EDWARD SIMON OCKLEY Gibbon and speaking on the profession of ISLAM write:
"'I believe that God is singular and that Muhammad is His messenger' is a confession of the truth of Islam are simple and uniform. God never humiliated by idol-worship kemakhlukan; respect for the Prophet was never turned into a cult of excessive, and the principles of his life had given him the respect of his followers within the bounds of reason and religion (HISTORY OF THE Saracen Empires, London, 1870, p . 54).
Muhammad is no more than an ordinary human. But he is a man with a noble mission to unite men in devotion to the one and only one God and to teach an honest and upright life according to God's command. He always described himself as 'servant and messenger of God' and thus also every action.
Sarojini Naidu, the famous poet of India (S. Naidu, Ideals OF ISLAM, vide Speeches & Writings, Madras, 1918, p. 169):
This is the first religion that preached and practiced democracy; in every mosque, when the call to prayer echoed and the congregation had gathered, democracy in Islam realized five times a day when a servant and a king kneel side by side and admit: 'Allah is Great' ... I am amazed again and again by the unity of Islam that makes man instinctively a brother.
Diwan Chand SHARMA:
"Muhammad is a benevolent figure, his influence dirasakkan and never forgotten the people closest.
(DC Sharma, The Prophets OF THE EAST, Calcutta, 1935, pp. 12)
James A. Michener, "Islam: The misunderstood Religion," in Reader's Digest (American edition), May 1955, pp. 68-70.
Muhammad, an inspiration who founded Islam, was born in the year 570 AD in pagan Arab society. Orphans small since he specifically gives attention to the poor, orphans and widows, as well as slave and the weak. At the age of 20 years, he has become a successful businessman, and became business manager of a rich widow. When we reach the age of 25, the employer
melamarnya.Meski women aged over 15 years old he married her and remained faithful to him throughout the life of the wife.
"Like other prophets, Muhammad started his prophetic duties with sembunyi2 and ragu2 recognizing weaknesses. But the "Read" is a command that obtained,-and although until recently it was believed that Muhammad could not read and write - and out of her mouth one sentence that will soon change the world: "There is no god but God."
"In any case, Muhammad was a forward sense. When his son, Ibrahim, died along with eclipse his community and raises the assumption that it is a manifestation of God condolences to him, Muhammad said: "The eclipse is a common natural occurrence, are foolishness to link him to the death or birth of a human being."
"Shortly after he died, some of his followers want to worship him as God's revered, but his leadership successors (Abu Bakr-pen.) Dismissed his community desires it with one of the most beautiful religious speech of all time: 'If there is diatara you who worship Muhammad, then know that he had died. But if you want to worship God, know that He lives forever. "
(Paragraph related: Q. S. Al Imran, 144 - pen.)
W. Montgomery Watt, MOHAMMAD AT Mecca, Oxford, 1953, p. 52.
"Readiness to take the challenge of his conviction, the moral elevation of his followers, as well as remarkable achievements - all point to its integrity. Thinking Muhammad as a charlatan just give the problem and not an answer. More than that, no great figure who portrayed so badly in the West other than Muhammad "
Annie Besant, THE LIFE AND Teachings OF MUHAMMAD, Madras, 1932, P.4.
"It is impossible for someone who memperlajari character of the Prophet The Arabs, who knows how his teaching and how her life to feel other than respect for him, one of His messengers. And though in all that I have described many of the things that seem ordinary, but every time I reread his stories, each time I mersakan admiration and reverence for the Arab Nation is The Teacher. "
Bosworth Smith, MOHAMMAD AND MOHAMMADANISM, London, 1874, p. 92.
"He is a blend of Caesar and Pope, but he is the Pope without pretensinya and a Caesarean without Legionnaire her: without an army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without pengahasilan remains: if there is a human being who deserves to say that he was the representative of God ruler of the world, Muhammad was the man, because he has the power even though he did not have any instruments or backers. "
John William Draper, MD, LLD, A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, London 1875, Vol.1, pp.329-330
"Four years after the death of Justinian, in 569 AD, was born in Mecca Arabia a very large human influence on mankind. Muhammad "
John Austin, "Muhammad the Prophet of Allah," in TP 'S and Cassel's Weekly for 24th September 1927.
Within little more than a year, he has been a leader in Medina. The two hands holding a lever that is ready to shake the world.
Professor Jules Masserman
"Pasteur and Salk are leaders in one respect (intellectually-pen). Gandhi and Confucius on other things as well as Alexander, Caesar and Hitler was probably the leader on the second and third categories (religious and military pen.). Jesus and Buddha may be only the second category. Perhaps the greatest leader of all time is Muhammad, who succeed in all three categories. In a smaller scale Moses did the same.
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