- Category: ,PROPHET ﷺ
- Language: ENGLISH
- Format: PDF
This book unravels many of the humane aspects of Islam.
Mahatma Ghandi said about Muhammad (S): “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 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 no more for me to read of that great life.”
Thomas Carlyle says in his Mahomet the Ideal: “Much has been said about Mahomet propagating the Islamic religion by the sword. Nothing can be farther from the truth. Indeed the ones who make such claims should reflect for a while, for there must be a secret in that sword which in the hands of Muslim leaders went out of Arabia and reached the mountains of Spain in the west and Samarkand in the east. What is that secret? Doubtlessly it is the divine creed that the prophet Mahomet brought along with him, that mighty power that drove the idolaters of Arabia to submit and yield to this religion with its divine codes, laid forth by the Omniscient and Wise Lord to safeguard the happiness and progress of mankind. When Islam spread east and west, it had already swept all false doctrines and creeds in its victorious path. This is because Islam was the enduring truth emanating from the very essence of man, whereas other
creeds and doctrines were either false or contradictory to Human Nature and hence transient or fleeting.”
