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Everybody's Choice
WHAT SAY THE SCEPTICS
Michael h. Hart put Muhummed No.1 on his list and his own Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ (pbuh) No. 3.
Why? "He was bribed!" (?)
William McNeill considers Muhummed as worthy of honour in his list of
the first three names of his.
Why? "He was bribed!" (?)
James Gavin puts Muhummed (pbuh) before Christ (pbuh).
Why? "He was bribed!" (?)
Jules Masserman adjudges Muhummed (pbuh) No.1 and his own hero Moses
(pbuh) a close second.
Why? "He was bribed!" (?)
"ARE WE TO SUPPOSE THAT ALL THE GLOWING ADULATION OF MUHUMMED
(PBUH) WAS A MISERABLE PIECE OF INTELLECTUAL LEGERDE-MAIN, HOCUS POCUS
... I, FOR MY PART, CANNOT FORM ANY SUCH SUPPOSITION ... ONE WOULD BE
ENTIRELY AT A LOSS WHAT TO THINK OF MANKIND AT ALL. IF QUACKERY SO GREW
AND FLOURISHED IN THE WORLD." (with apologies to Thomas Carlyle
and his "Hero and Hero-worship.")
Yet the scoffers bemoan anyone who has anything good to say about Muhummed
(pbuh) or Islam AS HAVING BEEN BRIBED by the Arabs! The are giving too
much credit to my bretheren. I repeat: "It is possible, but it
is improbable!"
During the second World War, Norway produced only one "Quisling
("Quisling" has come to mean a person who is a traitor to his
nation and his country.)". He was tried for treason and executed.
It is unlikely that America and the Western world have just reached puberty
to spawn a breed of Quislings nurtured by hot petro-dollars from the Middle
East. Please do not demean your honest, courageous men, who without fear
or favour are prepared to suffer obloquy for their convictions. We must
all admire them!
We can now justifyable conclude that the God of Mercy, Who forever recognises
the sincere efforts of His servents, is only fulfilling His Promise to
Muhummed (pbuh) His Chosen Messenger -
AND HAVE WE NOT RAISED HIGH THE ESTEEM (IN WHICH) THOU (ART
HELD)?
(Sura Inshirah, Holy Qur'an 94:4)
Alternative renderings (these quotes are from different translations
of the Holy Qur'an. there are no seperate "versions" of the
Holy Qur'an)
- Have we not exalted thy fame?
- And heve we not raised thy name for thee?
- Have we not given you high renown?
Friends and foe alike, as if by some secret compulsion are made to pay
unsolicited tributes to this mighty Messenger of God. But the Almighty
commandeers even the devil into His service, as He had done in the time
of Jesus (pbuh), Matthew (4:1 - 11). Even the devil sometimes speaks Gospel
truths.
Professor K.S. Ramakrishna Rao, a Hindu philosopher, in his book "Muhummed
- The Prophet of Islam," quotes the arch devil himself, yes Adolf
Hitler, to prove the unique greatness to Muhummed (pbuh).
The professor, like jules Masserman who had eveluated the Propher of
Islam on three grounds also saw in Hitler's "Mein Kanof" a three-faceted jewel, a rare commodity which he found in our hero under
discussion. Quoting Hitler, he says:
"A GREAT THEORIST IS SELDOM A GREAT LEADER. AN AGITATOR IS FAR
MORE LIKELY TO POSSESS THESE QUALITIES. HE WILL ALWAYS BE A BETTER LEADER.
FOR, LEADERSHIP MEANS THE ABILITY TO MOVE MASSES OF MEN. THE TALENT
TO PRODUCE IDEAS HAS NOTHING IN COMMON WITH THE CAPACITY FOR LEADERSHIP."
Hitler continues, "THE UNION OF THE THEORIST, ORGANISER,
AND LEADER IN ONE MAN IS THE RAREST PHENOMENON ON THE EARTH;
THEREIN CONSISTS GREATNESS." professor Rao concludes, in his own
words, IN THE PERSON OF THE PROPHET OF ISLAM THE WORLD HAS SEEN THIS
RAREST PHENOMENON ON EARTH< WALKING IN FLESH AND BLOOD."
SHARE THE ANGER
Before anyone assails the professor of undue bias and "bribery," let me give them a few more names of admirers of Muhummed (pbuh).
- "MUHUMMAD WAS THE SOUL OF KINDNESS, AND HIS INFLUENCE WAS FELT
AND NEVER FORGOTTEN BY THOSE AROUND HIM."
A Hindu scholar - Diwan Chand Sharma in his "The Prophers of the
East," Calcutta 193, p.122.
- FOUR YEARS AFTER THE TEATH OF JUSTINIAN A.D. 569, WAS BORN AT MAKKAH,
IN ARABIA THE MAN WHO, OF ALL MEN EXERCISED THE GREATEST INFLUENCE UPON HUMAN RACE ... MOHAMMED ..."
Johan William Draper, M.D, LLD., in his "A History of the
Intellectual Development of Europe," London 1875.
- "I DOUBT WEATHER ANY MAN WHOSE EXTERNAL CONDITIONS CHANGED SO
MUCH EVER CHANGED HIMSELF LESS TO MEET THEM."
R.V.C. Bodley in "The Messenger," London
1946, p.9.
- "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 Gernard shaw, in "The Genuine Islam," Vol. 1. No. 81936.
- "BY A FORTUNE ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE IN HISTORY, MOHAMMED IS A THREEFOLD
FOUNDER OF A NATION, OF AN EMPIRE, AND OF A RELIGION."
R.Bosworth-Smith in "Mohammed and Mohammedanism," 1946.
- "MOHAMMED WAS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL OF ALL RELIGIOUS PERSONALITIES."
Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition
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