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“By a fortune absolutely unique in history, Muhammed is a
three fold founder of a nation, an empire, and of a religion.”
“Head of the State as well as the Church, he was Caesar and
Pope in one; but, he was Pope without the Pope’s pretensions,
and Caesar without the legions of Caesar, without a standing
army, without a bodyguard, without a police force, without a
fixed revenue. If ever a man had the right to say that he ruled
by a right divine, it was Muhammed, for he had all the powers
without their supports. He cared not for the dressings of
power. The simplicity of his private life was in keeping with
his public life.”
Reverend Bosworth Smith.
“Muhammed was the soul of kindness, and his influence was
felt and never forgotten by those around him.”
Diwan Chand
Sharma. The Prophets of the East, Calcutta 1935; page 122.
“Four years after the death of Justinian, 569 years of the
Christian era, was born a man who, of all men exercised the
greatest influence upon the human race…Muhammed….”
John William Draper, M.D.; L.L.D. A history of the Intellectual
Development of Europe, London 1875, Vol. 1, pp 329-330.
“ In little more than a year he was actually the Spiritual,
nominal, and temporal ruler of Madina, with his hands on the
lever that was to shake the whole world.”
John Austin
,
“Muhammed the Prophet of ALLAH,” in T.P.’S and Cassel’s
Weekly of 24 th September 1927.
“Philosopher, Orator, 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