*👉🏿 Who is Muhammad?*
A #Peacemaker, a #Good_Examplar, a #Warner, a #Merciful, #Truth seeker, a #Successor, a #Counselor....etc
👉🏿 In defense of Prophet Muhammad
In her book, Muhammad, a Biography of the Prophet, Karen Armstrong wrote:
"But the very idea that Muhammad would have found any thing to be optimistic about in the carnage committed in his name on September 11th is an obscenity, because, as I try to show in these pages, Muhammad spent most of his life trying to stop that kind of indiscriminate slaughter.
The very word Islam, which denotes the existential “surrender” of the whole being to God, which Muslims are required to make, is related to salam, “peace.”
And most importantly, Muhammad eventually abjured violence and pursued a daring, inspired policy on non-violence that was the culmination of his prophetic career. In imagining that the holy war was the culmination of his career, the fundamentalists (extremists) have distorted the whole meaning of his life.
Far from being the father of Jihad, Muhammad was a #peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost his closest companions, because he was so determined to effect a reconciliation with Mecca.
Instead of fighting an intransigent war to the death, Muhammad was prepared to negotiate and to compromise. And this apparent humiliation and capitulation proved, in the words of the Qur’an, to be a great victory ....
If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known."
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Remember Nepolean Bonaparte ?
"I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of Qur'an which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness."
Quoted in Christian Cherfils' Bonaparte Et Islam, Paris, 1914
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Michael Heart made the most honest decision
"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 levels.“
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George Bernard Shaw >
"I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion, which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence, which can make itself appeal to every age.
I have studied him - the wonderful man and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ, #he_must_be_called_the_Savior_of_Humanity.
I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness.
I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today.
If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.“
Sir George Bernard Shaw in 'The Genuine Islam,' Vol. 1, No. 8, 1936.
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In Encyclopedia Britannica >
"Muhammad is the most successful of all Prophets and religious personalities."
“.... A mass of detail in the early sources show that he was an honest and upright man who had gained the respect and loyalty of others who were like-wise honest and upright men."
....Mind you Muhammad is ALIVE before His Lord Allah.
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