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Edward Gibbon and Simon Ocklay
Dec 4, 2024 11:22 AM

  "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."

  History of the Saracen Empire, London, 1870, p. 54:

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Thomas Carlyle
  how one man single-handedly, could weld warring tribes and wandering Bedouins into a most powerful and civilized nation in less than two decades. ...
Encyclopedia Britannica
  " a mass of detail in the early sources shows that he was an honest and upright man who had gained the respect and loyalty of others who were likewise honest and upright men." (Vol. 12) ...
Lamartine
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Wolfgang Goethe
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George Bernard Shaw
  "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." ...
Diwan Chand Sharma
  Muhammad was the soul of kindness, and his influence was felt and never forgotten by those around him.   D.C. Sharma, The Prophets of The East, Calcutta, 1935, pp. 12 ...
Sarogini Naidu
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Mahatma Gandhi
  "I wanted to know the best one who holds today's undisputed way over the hearts of millions of mankind....I became more than 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...
Edward Gibbon and Simon Ocklay
  "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...
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