| In a Time When Many Religions Are Decreasing In Numbers, Islam On The Other Hand Is Increasing. Islam Is the Fattest Growing Religion In The World. This Phenomenon Indicates Islam Is The Truth. It Is Unreasonable That So Many People Converted To Islam Without Careful Consideration And Deep Contemplation Before Concluding That Islam Is True. "This is no less than a reminder to (all) the worlds. And you shall certainly know the truth of it (all) after a while." (Quran 38:87-88) |
Unfortunately, instead of sincerely trying to understand
the phenomenal success of Islam, some consider it as a rival religion. For centuries this
trend gained much force and impetus and a huge amount of literature was produced to
tarnish the image of Islam. But Islam is the truth which shines on its own and has begun to
unfold its genuineness to the modern scholars whose bold and objective observations on
Islam belie all the charges leveled against it by the so-called unbiased orientalists.
Here we furnish some observations on Islam by great and
acknowledged scholars of modern time. Truth needs no advocates to plead on its behalf, but
the prolonged malicious propaganda against Islam has created great confusion even in the
minds of free and objective thinkers.
About Islam
"Already more than
a billion-people strong, Islam is the world’s fastest-growing religion." ABCNEWS.
"But Islam has a still further service
to render to the cause of humanity. It stands after all nearer to the real East than
Europe does, and it possesses a magnificent tradition of inter-racial understanding and
cooperation. No other society has such a record of success uniting in an equality of
status, of opportunity, and of endeavours so many and so various races of mankind . . .
Islam has still the power to reconcile apparently irreconcilable elements of race and
tradition. If ever the opposition of the great societies of East and West is to be
replaced by cooperation, the mediation of Islam is an indispensable condition. In
its hands lies very largely the solution of the problem with which Europe is faced in its
relation with East. If they unite, the hope of a peaceful issue is
immeasurably enhanced. But if Europe, by rejecting the cooperation of Islam, throws
it into the arms of its rivals, the issue can only be disastrous for both." --H.A.R.
Gibb, WHITHER ISLAM, London, 1932, p. 379.
"The picture of the Muslim soldier
advancing with a sword in one hand and the Qur'an in the other is quite false." A. S.
Tritton in 'Islam,' 1951
"Medieval
Islam was technologically advanced and open to innovation. It acheived far higher literacy
rates than in contemporary Europe; it assimilated the legacy of classical Greek
civilization to such a degree thatmany classical books are now known to us only through
Arabic copies. It invented windmills, trigonometry, lateen sails and made major advances
in metallurgy, mechanical and chemical engineering and irrigation methods. In the
middle-ages the flow of technology was overwhelmingly from Islam to Europe rather from Europe to Islam. Only after
the 1500's did the net direction of flow begin to reverse." (pg 253) Jared
Diamond a world renowned UCLA sociologist, and physiologist won the Pulitzer Prize for
his book: "Guns, Germs, and Steel."
"It (Islam) replaced monkishness
by manliness. It gives hope to the slave, brotherhood to mankind, and recognition of the
fundamental facts of human nature." --Canon Taylor, Paper read before
the Church Congress at Walverhamton, Oct. 7, 1887; Quoted by Arnoud in THE PREACHING OF
ISLAM, pp. 71-72.
"No other
society has such a record of success in uniting in an equality of status, of opportunity
and endeavour so many and so varied
races of mankind. The great Muslim communities of Africa, India and Indonesia, perhaps
also the small community in Japan, show that Islam has still
the power to reconcile apparently irreconcilable elements of race and tradition. If ever
the opposition of the great societies of the East and west is
to be replaced by cooperation, the mediation of Islam is an indispensable
condition." (H.A.R. Gibb, WHITHER ISLAM, p. 379)
"How, for instance, can any
other appeal stand against that of the Moslem who, in approaching the pagan, says to him,
however obscure or degraded he may be 'Embrace the faith, and you are at once equal and a
brother.' Islam knows no color line." (S. S. Leeder, VEILED MYSTERIES OF
EGYPT)
"History makes it clear however,
that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the
point of the sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths that
historians have ever repeated." --De Lacy O'Leary, ISLAM AT THE
CROSSROADS, London, 1923, p. 8.
"My problem to write this monograph is
easier, because we are not generally fed now on that (distorted) kind of
history and much time need not be spent on pointing out our
misrepresentations of Islam. The theory of Islam and sword, for
instance, is not heard now in any quarter worth the name. The principle
of Islam that “there is no compulsion in religion” is well known." K. S.
Ramakrishna Rao in 'Mohammed: The Prophet of Islam,' 1989.
"Sense of justice is one of the most
wonderful ideals of Islam, because as I read in the Qur'an I find those dynamic principles
of life, not mystic but practical ethics for the daily conduct of life suited to the whole
world." --Lectures on "The Ideals of Islam;" see SPEECHES AND
WRITINGS OF SAROJINI NAIDU, Madras, 1918, p. 167.
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estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears
to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence which can
make itself appeal to every age." G.B. Shaw, THE GENUINE
ISLAM, Vol. 1, No. 81936.
"Islam is a religion that is essentially rationalistic
in the widest sense of this term considered etymologically and historically....the
teachings of the Prophet, the Qur'an has invariably kept its place as the fundamental
starting point, and the dogma of unity of God has always been proclaimed therein with a
grandeur a majesty, an invariable purity and with a note of sure conviction, which it is
hard to find surpassed outside the pale of Islam....A creed so precise, so stripped of all
theological complexities and consequently so accessible to the ordinary understanding
might be expected to possess and does indeed possess a marvelous power of winning its way
into the consciences of men." Edward Montet, 'La Propagande
Chretienne et ses Adversaries Musulmans,' Paris 1890. (Also in T.W. Arnold in 'The
Preaching of Islam,' London 1913.)
"The doctrine of brotherhood of Islam
extends to all human beings, no matter what color, race or creed. Islam is the only
religion which has been able to realize this doctrine in ractice. Muslims wherever on the
world they are will recognize each other as brothers." Mr. R. L. Mellema,
Holland, Anthropologist, Writer and Scholar.
"The extinction of race
consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in
the temporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this
Islamic virtue." --A.J. Toynbee, CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL, New York, 1948,
p. 205.
"For some time now, striving for
more and more precision and brevity, I have tried to put on paper, in a
systemic way, all philosophical truths, which, in my view, can be
ascertained beyond reasonable doubt. In the course of this effort it
dawned on me that the typical attitude of an agnostic is not an
intelligent one; that man simply cannot escapee a decision to believe;
that the createdness of what exists around us is obvious; that Islam
undoubtedly finds itself in the greatest harmony with overall reality.
Thus I realize, not without shock, that step by step, in spite of myself
and almost unconsciously, in feelings and thinking I have grown into a
Muslim. Only one last step remained to be taken; to formalize my
conversation. As of today I am a Muslim. I have arrived." WILFRIED
HOFMAN, Ph.D (law) Harvard. Social Scientist and Diplomat.
"The nation's claim to be a
Christian country is about to meet its first challenge: the number of practising
Muslims is set to overtake Anglican Christians.... There has also been a number of
high-profile conversions to Islam from Christianity. These include Mike Tyson, the former
world champion boxer; Chris Eubank, the British middleweight boxing champion, who has
changed his name to Hamdan; and Cat Stevens, the pop musician, who calls himself Yousef
Islam.... Prince Charles courted controversy earlier this year when he reaffirmed his
claim that when he succeeds the throne, he does not wish to be the defender of only the
Christian faith." Rajeev Syal and Christopher Morgan Sunday Times (London,
U.K.)
"Five to 6 million strong,
Muslims in America already outnumber Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and Mormons, and they
are more numerous than Quakers, Unitarians, Seventh-day Adventists, Mennonites, Jehovah's
Witnesses, and Christian Scientists, combined. Many demographers say Islam has overtaken
Judaism as the country's second-most commonly practiced religion; others say it is in the
passing lane." JOHAN BLANK, USNEWS (7/20/98)
"In fact,
religion experts say Islam is the second-largest religion in the United States...
Islam has 5 million to 6 million members, followed by Judaism, with approximately 4.5
million..... And Islam is believed to be fastest-growing religion in the country, with
half its expansion coming from new immigrants and the other half from conversions." By
ELSA C. ARNETT Knight-Ridder News
Service.
"There are more Muslims in North
America then Jews Now." Dan Rathers, CBSNEWS
"Islam continues to grow in
America, and no one can doubt that!" CNN, December 15, 1995
Ahmed Versi, editor of the
weekly Muslim News, said the growth of Islam has been constant: "The younger
generation of Muslims that I have encountered is becoming more aware of its Muslim
identity and is therefore practising its faith with vigour."
"The
extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements
of Islam and in the contemporary world
there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue..."
(A.J. Toynbee, CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL, New York, p.
205)
"Islam is the fastest-growing religion
in the United States..." NEW YORK TIMES, Feb 21, 1989, p.1
"Islam is the fastest-growing
religion in America, a guide and pillar of stability for many of our people..."
HILLARY RODMAN CLINTON, Los Angeles Times, May 31, 1996, p.3
"The
Muslim community is much more aware of its religion and the use that religion plays within
its community." Dr Peter Brierley, executive director of the Christian
Research Association, a London-based charity.
"The rise of Islam is perhaps
the most amazing event in human history. Springing from a land and a people like
previously negligible, Islam spread within a century over half the earth, shattering great
empires, overthrowing long established religions, remoulding the souls of races, and
building up a whole new world - world of Islam.
"The
closer we examine this development the more extraordinary does it appear. The other great
religions won their way slowly, by painful struggle and finally triumphed with the aid of
powerful monarchs converted to the new faith. Christianity had its Constantine,
Buddhism its Asoka, and Zoroastrianism its Cyrus, each lending to his chosen cult the
mighty force of secular authority. Not so Islam. Arising in a desert land sparsely
inhabited by a nomad race previously undistinguished in human annals, Islam sallied forth on its great adventure with the slenderest
human backing and against the heaviest material odds. Yet Islam triumphed with seemingly
miraculous ease, and a couple of generations saw the Fiery Crescent borne victorious from
the Pyrenees to the Himalayas and from the desert of Central Asia to the deserts of
Central Africa." --A.M.L. Stoddard, quoted in ISLAM - THE RELIGION OF
ALL PROPHETS, Begum Bawani Waqf, Karachi, Pakistan, p. 56.
"I am not a Muslim in the usual
sense, though I hope I am a "Muslim" as "one surrendered to God," but
I believe that embedded in the Quran and other expressions of the Islamic vision are vast
stores of divine truth from which I and other occidentals have still much to learn, and
'Islam is certainly a strong contender for the supplying of the basic framework of the one
religion of the future.'" --W. Montgomery Watt, ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY
TODAY, London, 1983, p. ix.
'I believe in One God and Mahomet the
Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image
of the Deity has never been degraded by any visible idol; the honours of the prophet have
never transgressed the measure of human virtue, and his living precepts have restrained
the gratitude of his disciples within the bounds of reason and religion." --Edward
Gibbon and Simon Ocklay, HISTORY OF THE SARACEN EMPIRE, London, 1870, p. 54.
"If any religion had the chance of ruling over
England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam." Sir George Bernard Shaw in 'The Genuine Islam,' Vol. 1, No. 8, 1936.
"The universal brotherhood of
Islam, regardless of race, politics, color or country, has been brought home to me most
keenly many times in my life -- and this is another feature which drew me towards the
Faith." Col. Donald S. Rockwell, U.S.A. Poet, Critic and Author.
"There
was once a civilization that was the greatest in the world. It was able
to create a continental super-state that stretched from ocean to ocean,
and from northern climes to tropics and deserts. Within its dominion
lived hundreds of millions of people, of different creeds and ethnic
origins. One of its languages became the universal language of much of
the world, the bridge between the peoples of a hundred lands. Its armies
were made up of people of many nationalities, and its military
protection allowed a degree of peace and prosperity that had never been
known. The reach of this civilization’s commerce extended from Latin
America to China, and everywhere in between. And this civilization was
driven more than anything, by invention. Its architects designed
buildings that defied gravity. Its mathematicians created the algebra
and algorithms that would enable the building of computers, and the
creation of encryption. Its doctors examined the human body, and found
new cures for disease. Its astronomers looked into the heavens, named
the stars, and paved the way for space travel and exploration. Its
writers created thousands of stories. Stories of courage, romance and
magic. Its poets wrote of love, when others before them were too steeped
in fear to think of such things. When other nations were afraid of
ideas, this civilization thrived on them, and kept them alive. When
censors threatened to wipe out knowledge from past civilizations, this
civilization kept the knowledge alive, and passed it on to others. While
modern Western civilization shares many of these traits, the
civilization I’m talking about was the Islamic world from the
year 800 to 1600, which included the Ottoman Empire and the courts of
Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo, and enlightened rulers like Suleiman the
Magnificent. Although we are often unaware of our indebtedness to this
other civilization, its gifts are very much a part of our heritage.
The technology industry would not exist without the contributions of
Arab mathematicians." Carly Fiorina, chairman and chief executive
officer of Hewlett-Packard Company.
(Reference: A lecture titled: What
does our future demand of leaders today?).
Fiorina holds a bachelor's degree
in medieval history and philosophy from Stanford University; a master's
degree in business administration from the Robert H. Smith School of
Business at the University of Maryland at College Park, Md.; and a
master of science degree from MIT's Sloan School.
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About Muhammad (pbuh)
"Muhummed is the most successful
of all Prophets and religious personalities." Encyclopedia Britannica.
"If a man
like Muhamed were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in
solving its problems that would bring it
the much needed peace and happiness." George Bernard Shaw.
"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,
Historie de la Turquie, Paris 1854, Vol. 11 pp. 276-2727.
"The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal
has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only."
"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." Thomas Carlyle
in 'Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History,' 1840.
"Muhammad, the inspired man who
founded Islam, was born about A.D. 570 into an Arabian tribe that worshipped idols.
Orphaned at birth, he was always particularly solicitous of the poor and needy, the widow
and the orphan, the slave and the downtrodden. At twenty, he was already a successful
businessman, and soon became director of camel caravans for a wealthy widow. When he reached twenty-five, his employer, recognizing his
merit, proposed marriage. Even though she was fifteen years older, he married her, and as
long as she lived, remained a devoted husband.
"Like almost every major prophet before him, Muhammad fought shy of serving as the
transmitter of God's word, sensing his own inadequacy. But the angel commanded
'Read.' So far as we know, Muhammad was unable to read or write, but he began to
dictate those inspired words which would soon revolutionize a large segment of the earth:
'There is one God.'
"In all things Muhammad was profoundly practical. When his beloved son Ibrahim died,
an eclipse occurred, and rumours of God's personal condolence quickly arose. Whereupon
Muhammad is said to have announced, 'An eclipse is a phenomenon of nature. It is foolish
to attribute such things to the death or birth of a human being.
"At Muhammad's own death an attempt was made to deify him, but the man who was to
become his administrative successor killed the hysteria with one of the noblest speeches
in religious history: 'If there are any among you who worshipped Muhammad, he is dead. But
if it is God you worshipped, He lives forever." --James A. Michener,
"Islam: The Misunderstood Religion," in READER'S DIGEST (American edition),
May 1955, pp. 68-70.
"My choice of Muhammad to lead
the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be
questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on
both the religious and secular level....It is probable that the relative influence of
Muhammad on Islam has been larger than the combined influence of Jesus Christ and St. Paul
on Christianity. ...It is this unparalleled combination of secular and religious influence
which I feel entitles Muhammad to be considered the most influential single figure in
human history." --Michael H. Hart, THE 100: A RANKING OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL
PERSONS IN HISTORY, New York: Hart Publishing Company, Inc., 1978, p. 33.
"The good sense of Muhammad despised the pomp of
royalty. The Apostle of God submitted to the menial offices of the family; he kindled the
fire; swept the floor; milked the ewes; and mended with his own hands his shoes and
garments. Disdaining the penance and merit of a hermit, he observed without effort of
vanity the abstemious diet of an Arab." Gibbon in 'The
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' 1823.
"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."
George Bernard Shaw in "The Genuine Islam".
"Muhammad was a shining example to his people. His
character was pure and stainless. His house, his dress, his food - they were characterized
by a rare simplicity. So unpretentious was he that he would receive from his companions no
special mark of reverence, nor would he accept any service from his slave which he could
do for himself. He was accessible to all and at all times. He visited the sick and was
full of sympathy for all. Unlimited was his benevolence and generosity as also was his
anxious care for the welfare of the community." Dr. Gustav Weil
in 'History of the Islamic Peoples'.
"Never has a man set for himself, voluntarily or
involuntarily, a more sublime aim, since this aim was superhuman; to subvert superstitions
which had been imposed between man and his Creator, to render God unto man and man unto
God; to restore the rational and sacred idea of divinity amidst the chaos of the
material and disfigured gods of idolatry, then existing. Never has a man undertaken a
work so far beyond human power with so feeble means, for he (Muhammad) had in the
conception as well as in the execution of such a great design, no other instrument than
himself and no other aid except a handful of men living in a corner of the desert.
Finally, never has a man accomplished such a huge and lasting revolution in the world,
because in less than two centuries after its appearance, Islam, in faith and in arms,
reigned over the whole of Arabia, and conquered, in God's name, Persia Khorasan,
Transoxania, Western India, Syria, Egypt, Abyssinia, all the known continent of Northern
Africa, numerous islands of the Mediterranean Sea, Spain, and part of Gaul."
"If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the
three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in 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, 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 the souls."
"On the basis of a Book, every letter which has become law, he created a spiritual
nationality which blend together peoples of every tongue and race. He has left the
indelible characteristic of this Muslim nationality the hatred of false gods and the
passion for the One and Immaterial God. This avenging patriotism against the profanation
of Heaven formed the virtue of the followers of Muhammad; the conquest of one-third the
earth to the dogma was his miracle; or rather it was not the miracle of man but that of
reason."
"The idea of the unity of God, proclaimed amidst the exhaustion of the fabulous
theogonies, was in itself such a miracle that upon it's utterance from his lips it
destroyed all the ancient temples of idols and set on fire one-third of the world. His
life, his meditations, his heroic revelings against the superstitions of his country, and
his boldness in defying the furies of idolatry, his firmness in enduring them for fifteen
years in Mecca, his acceptance of the role of public scorn and almost of being a victim of
his fellow countrymen: all these and finally, his flight his incessant preaching, his wars
against odds, his faith in his success and his superhuman security in misfortune, his
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 unity
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." Alphonse de LaMartaine in 'Historie de la
Turquie,' Paris, 1854.
"I wanted to know the best of the life of one who
holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind.... I became 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-effacement of the Prophet
the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his
intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and
not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle. When I closed
the second volume (of the Prophet's biography), I was sorry there was not more for me to
read of that great life." Mahatma Gandhi, statement published
in 'Young India,'1924.
"Judged by the
smallness of the means at his disposal, and the extent and permanence of the work that he
accomplished, his name in world's history shines with a more specious lustre than that of
the Prophet of Makkah. To the impulse which he gave numberless dynasties have owed
their existence, fair cities and stately palaces and temples have arisen, and wide
provinces became obedient to the Faith. And beyond all this, his words have governed the
belief of generations, been accepted as their rule of life, and their certain guide to the
world to come. At a thousand shrines the voices of the faithful invoke blessings on him,
whom they esteem the very Prophet of God, the seal of the Apostles.... Judged by the
standards to human renown, the glory of what mortal can compare with his?" J.W.H. Stab.
"In
little more than a year he was actually the spiritual, nominal and temporal rule of
Medina, with his hands on the lever that
was to shake the world." John Austin, "Muhammad the Prophet of
Allah," in T.P. 's and Cassel's Weekly for 24th September 1927.
"Four
years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of
all men exercised the greatest influence
upon the human race . . . Mohammed . . . To be the religious head of many empires, to
guide the daily life of one-third of the human race, may perhaps justify the title of a
Messenger of God." John William Draper, M.D., L.L.D., A History of the
Intellectual Development of Europe, London 1875, Vol.1, pp.329-330
"Muhammad 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, p. l 22.
"He was the most faithful protector of those he
protected, the sweetest and most agreeable in conversation. Those who saw him were
suddenly filled with reverence; those who came near him loved him; they who described him
would say, "I have never seen his like either before or after." He was of great
taciturnity, but when he spoke it was with emphasis and deliberation, and no one could
forget what he said..." Lane-Poole in 'Speeches and Table Talk
of the Prophet Muhammad'.
"It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and
character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knew how he taught and how he lived, to feel
anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, one of the great messengers of the
Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which may be familiar
to many, yet I myself feel, whenever I reread them, a new way of admiration, a new sense
of reverence for that mighty Arabian teacher." Annie Besant in
'The Life and Teachings of Mohammad,' Madras, 1932.
"His readiness to undergo
persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and
looked up to him as leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all argue his
fundamental integrity. To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems than it
solves. Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the
West as Muhammad." --W. Montgomery Watt, MOHAMMAD AT MECCA, Oxford,
1953, p. 52.
"So great was his liberality to the poor that he often
left his household unprovided, nor did he content himself with relieving their wants, he
entered into conversation with them, and expressed a warm sympathy for their sufferings.
He was a firm friend and a faithful ally." W.C. Taylor in 'The
History of Muhammadanism and its Sects'
"People
like Pasteur and Salk are leaders in the first sense. People like Gandhi and Confucius, on
one hand, and Alexander, Caesar and
Hitler on the other, are leaders in the second and perhaps the third sense. Jesus and
Buddha belong in the third category alone. Perhaps the
greatest leader of all times was Mohammed, who combined all three functions. To a lesser
degree, Moses did the same." Professor Jules Masserman.
"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 police force,
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. He cared not for the dressings of power. The simplicity of his private life was
in keeping with his public life." --Bosworth
Smith, MOHAMMAD AND MOHAMMADANISM, London, 1874, p. 92.
"It is impossible for anyone who
studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and
how he lived, to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, one of the great
messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which
may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel whenever I re-read them, a new way of
admiration, a new sense of reverence for that mighty Arabian teacher." --Annie
Besant, THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF MUHAMMAD, Madras, 1932, p. 4.
"The greatest success of Mohammad’s life
was effected by sheer moral force."
“It is not the propagation but the permanency of his religion that
deserves our wonder, the same pure and perfect impression which he
engraved at Mecca and Medina is preserved after the revolutions of
twelve centuries by the Indian, the African and the Turkish proselytes
of the Koran....The Mahometans have uniformly withstood the temptation
of reducing the object of their faith and devotion to a level with the
senses and imagination of man. ‘I believe in One God and Mahomet the
Apostle of God’ is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The
intellectual image of the Deity has never been degraded by any visible
idol; the honors of the prophet have never transgressed the measure of
human virtue, and his living precepts have restrained the gratitude of
his disciples within the bounds of reason and religion.”
Edward Gibbon and Simon Oakley in ‘History of the Saracen Empire,’
London, 1870.
"His military triumphs awakened no pride nor vain
glory as they would have done had they been effected by selfish purposes. In the time of
his greatest power he maintained the same simplicity of manner and appearance as in the
days of his adversity. So far from affecting regal state, he was displeased if, on
entering a room, any unusual testimonial of respect was shown to him." Washington Irving in 'Life of Muhammad,' New York, 1920.
"Deeply read in the volume of nature, though extremely
ignorant of letters, his mind could expand into controversy with the wisest of his enemies
or contract itself to the apprehension of meanest of his disciples. His simple eloquence
was rendered impressive by a manner of mixed dignity and elegance, by the expression of a
countenance where the awfulness of his majesty was so well tempered by an amiable
sweetness, that it exerted emotions of veneration and love. He was gifted with that
authoritative air or genius which alike influences the learned and commands the
illiterate." Charles Stuart Mills in 'History of Mohammadanis
"Within a brief span of mortal life, Muhammad called
forth of unpromising material, a nation, never welded before; in a country that was
hitherto but a geographical expression he established a religion which in vast areas
suppressed Christianity and Judaism, and laid the basis of an empire that was soon to
embrace within its far flung boundaries the fairest provinces the then civilized
world." Philip K. Hitti in 'History of the Arabs'
"He was one of those happy few who have attained the
supreme joy of making one great truth their very life spring. He was the messenger of One
God, and never to his life's end did he forget who he was or the message which was the
marrow of his being. He brought his tidings to his people with a grand dignity sprung from
the consciousness of his high office, together with a most sweet humility." Stanley Lane-Poole in 'Studies in a Mosque'
"Mohammad's career is a
wonderful instance of the force and life that resides in him who possesses an intense
faith in God and in the unseen world. He will always be regarded as one of those who have
had that influence over the faith, morals and whole earthly life of their fellow men,
which none but a really great man ever did, or can exercise; and whose efforts to
propagate a great verity will prosper." Rodwell in the Preface
to his translation of the Holy Qur'an.
"Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted
a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one regarded by any
section of the human race as Perfect Man has ever been imitated so minutely. The conduct
of the founder of Christianity has not governed the ordinary life of his followers.
Moreover, no founder of a religion has left on so solitary an eminence as the Muslim
apostle." D. G. Hogarth in 'Arabia'
"He was sober and abstemious in his diet and a
rigorous observer of fasts. He indulged in no magnificence of apparel, the ostentation of
a petty mind; neither was his simplicity in dress affected but a result of real disregard
for distinction from so trivial a source."
"In his private dealings he was just. He treated friends and strangers, the rich and
poor, the powerful and weak, with equity, and was beloved by the common people for the
affability with which he received them, and listened to their complaints."
"His military triumphs awakened no pride nor vain glory, as they would have done had
they been effected for selfish purposes. In the time of his greatest power he maintained
the same simplicity of manners and appearance as in the days of his adversity. So far from
affecting a regal state, he was displeased if, on entering a room, any unusual
testimonials of respect were shown to him. If he aimed at a universal dominion, it was the
dominion of faith; as to the temporal rule which grew up in his hands, as he used it
without ostentation, so he took no step to perpetuate it in his family." Washington
Irving 'Mahomet and His Successors'
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About Quran
Professor
Keith Moore, one of the world’s prominent scientists of anatomy and
embryology. University of Toronto, Canada.
"It has been a great pleasure for me to help clarify statements in the
Qur’aan about human development. It is clear to me that these statements
must have come to Muhammad from Allah, or Allah, because almost all of
this knowledge was not discovered until many centuries later. This proves to me that
Muhammad must have been a messenger of Allah."
Goethe, quoted in T.P. Hughes' DICTIONARY OF
ISLAM, p. 526.
"However often we turn to it [the Qur'an] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it
soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence... Its style, in accordance
with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime -- Thus
this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence."
Professor William W. Hay is
one of the best known marine scientists in the United States. satellite photography and
emote-sensing techniques. Professor Hay replied:
"I find it very interesting that this sort of information is in the
ancient scripture of the Holy Qur’aan, and I have no way of knowing
where they would come from, but I think it is extremely interesting that
they are there and that this work is going on to discover it, the
meaning of some of the passages. Professor Hay: Well, I would think it
must be the divine being!"
Saifuddin Dirk Walter Mosig,
U.S.A.
"I have read the Sacred Scriptures of every religion; nowhere have I found
what I encountered in Islam: perfection. The Holy Qur'an, compared to any other scripture
I have read, is like the Sun compared to that of a match. I firmly believe that anybody
who reads the Word of Allah with a mind that is not completely closed to Truth, will
become a Muslim."
G. Margoliouth, Introduction to J.M.
Rodwell's, THE KORAN, New York: Everyman's Library, 1977, p. vii.
"The Koran admittedly occupies an important position among the great
religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works belonging to
this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has
produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new phase of human thought and
a fresh type of character. It first transformed a number of heterogeneous desert tribes of
the Arabian peninsula into a nation of heroes, and then proceeded to create the vast
politico-religious organizations of the Muhammadan world which are one of the great forces
with which Europe and the East have to reckon today."
Professor
Yushudi Kusan: Director of the Tokyo Observatory,
"I can say, I am very mush impressed by finding
true astronomical facts in the Qur’aan"
Professor
Alfred Kroner who is one of the world’s most famous geologists,
"Thinking about many of these questions and thinking where
Muhammad came from, he was after all a bedouin. I think it is almost impossible that he
could have known about things like the common origin of the universe, because scientists
have only found out within the last few years with very complicated and advanced
technological methods that this is the case."
Dr. T.V.N. Persaud is a
Professor of Anatomy and Head of the Department of Anatomy, and a professor of Pediatrics
and Child Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is the author or
editor of 25 books, and has published over 181 scientific papers. In 1991, he received the
most distinguished award presented in the field of anatomy in Canada,
"It seems to me that Muhammad was a very ordinary man. He could not read
or write. In fact, he was illiterate. We are talking about 1400 years
ago. You have someone who was illiterate making profound pronouncement
and statements and are amazingly accurate about scientific nature. I
personally cannot see how this could be mere chance. There are too many
accuracy’s and, like Dr. Moore, I have no difficulty in my mind in
concerning that this is a divine inspiration or revelation which led him
to these statements."
Dr. Steingass, quoted in T.P. Hughes'
DICTIONARY OF ISLAM, pp. 526-527.
"A work, then, which calls forth so powerful and seemingly incompatible
emotions even in the distant reader - distant as to time, and still more so as a mental
development - a work which not only conquers the repugnance which he may begin its
perusal, but changes this adverse feeling into astonishment and admiration, such a work
must be a wonderful production of the human mind indeed and a problem of the highest
interest to every thoughtful observer of the destinies of mankind."
Maurice Bucaille, THE BIBLE, THE QUR'AN AND
SCIENCE, 1978, p. 125.
"The above observation makes the hypothesis advanced by those who see
Muhammad as the author of the Qur'an untenable. How could a man, from being illiterate,
become the most important author, in terms of literary merits, in the whole of Arabic
literature? How could he then pronounce truths of a scientific nature that no other human
being could possibly have developed at that time, and all this without once making the
slightest error in his pronouncement on the subject?"
Ali Selman Benoist, France, Doctor
of Medicine.
"The essential and definite element of my conversion to Islam was the Qur'an. I began
to study it before my conversion with the critical spirit of a Western intellectual ....
There are certain verses of this book, the Qur'an, revealed more than thirteen centuries
ago, which teach exactly the same notions as the most modern scientific researches do.
This definitely converted me."
Joe Leigh
Simpson, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the North Western University in
Chicago in the United States of America. Professor Simpson said:
"It follows, I think, that not only is there no conflict between
genetics and religion, but in fact religion can guide science by adding
revelation to some traditional scientific approaches. That there exists
statements in the Qur’aan shown by science to be valid, which supports
knowledge in the Qur’aan having been derived from Allah."
Professor
Palmer a scientist from the U.S.
"We need research into the history of early Middle
Eastern oral traditions to know whether in fact such historical events
have been reported. If there is no such record, it strengthens the
belief that Allah transmitted through Muhammad bits of his knowledge
that we have only discovered for ourselves in recent times. We look
forward to a continuing dialogue on the topic of science in the Qur’aan
in the context of geology. Thank you very much."
Professor Tagata Tagasone,
formerly Head of the Department of Anatomy and Embryology at the University of Shiang Mai
in Thailand. He is now the Dean of the College of the Medicine at the University.
"From my studies and from what I have learned throughout this
conference, I believe that everything that has been recorded in the
Qur’aan 1400 years ago must be the truth, that can be proved by the
scientific means. Since the Prophet Muhammad could neither read nor
write, Muhammad must be a messenger who relayed this truth which was
revealed to him as an enlightenment by the One Who is an eligible
Creator. This Creator must be Allah, or Allah. Therefore, I think this
is the time to say ‘Laa ilaaha illallah’, that there is no Allah to
worship except Allah, ‘Muhammad Rasool Allah’, Muhammad is messenger of
Allah..."
Dr. Steingass, quoted in T.P. Hughes'
DICTIONARY OF ISLAM, p.528.
"Here, therefore, its merits as a literary production should perhaps not be measured
by some preconceived maxims of subjective and aesthetic taste, but by the effects which it
produced in Muhammad's contemporaries and fellow countrymen. If it spoke so powerfully and
convincingly to the hearts of his hearers as to weld hitherto centrifugal and antagonistic
elements into one compact and well-organized body, animated by ideas far beyond those
which had until now ruled the Arabian mind, then its eloquence was perfect, simply because
it created a civilized nation out of savage tribes, and shot a fresh woof into the old
warp of history."
Arthur J. Arberry, THE KORAN INTERPRETED,
London: Oxford University Press, 1964, p. x.
"In making the present attempt to improve on the performance of my
predecessors, and to produce something which might be accepted as echoing however faintly
the sublime rhetoric of the Arabic Koran, I have been at pains to study the intricate and
richly varied rhythms which - apart from the message itself - constitute the Koran's
undeniable claim to rank amongst the greatest literary masterpieces of mankind... This
very characteristic feature - 'that inimitable symphony,' as the believing Pickthall
described his Holy Book, 'the very sounds of which move men to tears and ecstasy' - has
been almost totally ignored by previous translators; it is therefore not surprising that
what they have wrought sounds dull and flat indeed in comparison with the splendidly
decorated original."
Professor
Armstrong, Scientist works at NASA,
"I am impressed that how remarkably some of the ancient writings seem to correspond
to modern and recent Astronomy. There may well have to be something beyond what we
understand as ordinary human experience to account for the writings that we have seen."
Professor Dorja Rao,
"It is difficult to imagine that this type of knowledge was existing at that time,
around 1400 years back. May be some of the things they have simple idea about, but do
describe those things in great detail is very difficult. So, this is definitely not a
simple human knowledge."
Maurice Bucaille, THE QUR'AN AND MODERN SCIENCE,
1981, p. 18.
"A totally objective examination of it [the Qur'an] in the light of modern
knowledge, leads us to recognize the agreement between the two, as has been already noted
on repeated occasions. It makes us deem it quite unthinkable for a man of Muhammad's time
to have been the author of such statements on account of the state of knowledge in his
day. Such considerations are part of what gives the Qur'anic Revelation its unique place,
and forces the impartial scientist to admit his inability to provide an explanation which
calls solely upon materialistic reasoning."
Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), former
British pop star.
"Everything made so much sense. This is the beauty of the Qur'an; it asks you
to reflect and reason....When I read the Qur'an further, it talked about prayer, kindness
and charity. I was not a Muslim yet, but I felt the only answer for me was the Qur'an and
God had sent it to me."
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The scientists
who participated in these dialogues were all non-Muslims, most of whom were explaining
some scientific facts which they have realized only very recently and after
several years of research and study. When they were told that what they have just
discovered recently was already referred to either directly or indirectly in the Holy
Qur'aan more than 1400 years ago, they showed a great deal of astonishment. Their comments
were varied, but almost all of them confessed that this Qur'aan could not have come from
any human or ordinary source. Indeed, some of them were convinced and have affirmed that
the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him,
is a messenger from Allah, to the point that one of them even embraced Islam by declaring
the Islamic creed otherwise known as the "Shahaadah" and thus became a Muslim.
The Qur'aan which was revealed 14
centuries ago mentioned facts only recently discovered by proven scientists. This proves
without doubt that the Qur'aan must be the literal word of Allah, revealed by Him to the
Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) and it also proves that Muhammad (Pbuh) is truly a Messenger and
Prophet sent by Allah. It is beyond reason that anyone fourteen hundred years ago would
have known these facts discovered or proven only recently with advanced equipment
and sophisticated methods. Moreover, the Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) reviewed the Qur'aan with
the Angel Jibreel once each year and twice in the last year of his life. Since the Qur'aan
was revealed up until this day, there has always been a huge number of Muslims who have
memorized all of the Qur'aan, letter by letter. Some of them have been able to memorize
all of the Qur'aan by the age of ten. Not one letter of the Qur'aan has been changed for
centuries.
After reading this, I ask the reader the
question…. Is it possible that anyone could have wrote this book over
1400 years ago?
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