His military triumphs awakened no pride nor vain glory, as they would have done had they been effected for selfish purposes. He treated friends and strangers, the rich and poor, the powerful and the weak, with equity, and was beloved by the common people for the affability with which he received them, and listened to their complaints. He indulged in no magnificence of apparel, the ostentation of a petty mind neither was his simplicity in dress affected, but the result of a real disregard to distinction from so trivial a source. “He was sober and abstemious in his diet, and a rigorous observer of fasts.Moreover, no Founder of a religion has been left on so solitary an eminence as the Muslim Apostle.” Washington Irving (1783-1859) Well-known as the “first American man of letters'. The conduct of the Founder of Christianity has not so governed the ordinary life of His followers. No one regarded by any section of the human race as Perfect Man has been imitated so minutely. “Serious or trivial, his daily behaviour has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious mimicry.Mohammed.' David George Hogarth (1862-1927) English archaeologist, author, and keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race. 'Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D.John William Draper (1811-1882) American scientist, philosopher, and historian. 'The greatest success of Mohammad's life was effected by sheer moral force without the stroke of a sword.'.These, and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every trouble.' Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) Considered the greatest British historian of his time. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the prophet, the scrupulous regard for his pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. '.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.235] Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian thinker, statesman, and nationalist leader. Without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue, if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by a right Divine, it was Mohammed for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports.' Mohammed and Mohammedanism, London, 1874, p. '… he was Caesar and Pope in one but he was Pope without the Pope's pretensions, and Caesar without the legions of Caesar.As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?' Reverend Bosworth Smith (1794-1884) Late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. 'Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammad.Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad.' Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) French poet and statesman. To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems than it solves. '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.'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.' William Montgomery Watt (1909- ) Professor (Emeritus) of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

Hart (1932- ) Professor of astronomy, physics and the history of science. These words, therefore, reflect their personal views on various aspects of the life of the Prophet. To our knowledge none of them ever became Muslims. This is a collection of short quotations from a wide variety of Non-Muslim notables, including academics, writers, philosophers, poets, politicians, and activists belonging to the East and the West. Muhammad is not the father of any of your men, but he is the Messenger of God and the Last of the Prophets. What Non-Muslims Say About Muhammad, The Prophet of Islam (Peace and Blessings be Upon Him and His Family) A brief text on what non-Muslims have said about Prophet Muhammad (as), Islam's prophet and final messenger.

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