Wolfgang Goethe

　　He is a prophet and not a poet and therefore his Koran is to be seen as Divine Law and not as a book of a human being, made for education or entertainment. 　　Noten und Abhandlungen zum Weststlichen Dvan, WA I, 7, 32 ...

Sarogini Naidu

　　The famous poetess of India says about Islam: It was the first religion that preached and practiced democracy; for in the mosque, when the call for prayer is sounded and worshippers are gathered together, the democracy of Islam is embodied five times a day when the peasant and king kneel...

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. ...

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...

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) ...

The Prophet’sbiography proves the truthfulness of Islam

　　If a person is given a chance to examine the biography of Prophet Muhammad comprehensively from all aspects, while breaking free from the fetters of personal bias, he will definitely conclude that such a great man cannot be but a Prophet who received revelation and a Messenger from the Lord...

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...

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 ...

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." ...

Lamartine

　　"If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astounding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material...