RE: Islam and its History and Impact of Prophet Muhammad(PBUH)
January 7, 2016 at 9:33 pm
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2016 at 9:37 pm by yukapuka.)
Obviously people here are not accepting what i am writing, actually if you bring our attention towards books written by western historians, but proper unbiased books, such as the ones i quoted from, you will find what i am saying is truth and fact
Also unfortunately today there is a lot of propaganda against the prophet so they are spreading falsehood, but if you go back to a time before there was agendas and hate, you will find unbiased and unprejudiced books by western authors about the life in post Islam Arab and Muhammd(PBUH)
The most recent is actually the book from Michael Hart who wrote a book "100 Most Influential Men of all time" and he put Muhammad(PBUH) as number one, and he gives his reason
"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...
Muhammad founded and promulgated one of the world's great religions, and became an immensely effective political leader. Today, thirteen centuries after his death, his influence is still powerful and pervasive... Like all religions, Islam exerts an enormous influence upon the lives of its followers. It is for this reason that the founders of the world's great religions all figure prominently in this book. Since there are roughly twice as many Christians as Moslems in the world, it may initially seem strange that Muhammad has been ranked higher than Jesus. There are two principal reasons for that decision. First, Muhammad played a far more important role in the development of Islam than Jesus did in the development of Christianity. Although Jesus was responsible for the main ethical and moral precepts of Christianity (insofar as these differed from Judaism), St. Paul was the main developer of Christian theology, its principal proselytizer, and the author of a large portion of the New Testament.
Muhammad, however, was responsible for both the theology of Islam and its main ethical and moral principles. In addition, he played the key role in proselytizing the new faith, and in establishing the religious practices of Islam. Moreover, he is the author of the Moslem holy scriptures, the Koran, a collection of certain of Muhammad's insights that he believed had been directly revealed to him by Allah. Most of these utterances were copied more or less faithfully during Muhammad's lifetime and were collected together in authoritative form not long after his death. The Koran therefore, closely represents Muhammad's ideas and teachings and to a considerable extent his exact words. No such detailed compilation of the teachings of Christ has survived. Since the Koran is at least as important to Moslems as the Bible is to Christians, the influence of Muhammed through the medium of the Koran has been enormous It is probable that the relative influence of Muhammad on Islam has been larger than the combined influence of Jesus Christ and St. Paul on Christianity. On the purely religious level, then, it seems likely that Muhammad has been as influential in human history as Jesus.
Furthermore, Muhammad (unlike Jesus) was a secular as well as a religious leader. In fact, as the driving force behind the Arab conquests, he may well rank as the most influential political leader of all time... the Arab conquests of the seventh century have continued to play an important role in human history, down to the present day. It is this unparalleled combination of secular and religious influence which I feel entitles Muhammad to be considered the most influential single figure in human history."
George Bernard Shaw wrote: "I have studied him - the wonderful ma- and in my opinion far from being an anti-christ , he must be called the saviour of humanity" "The genuine Islam Vol 1 No 81936
R Bosworth Smith wrote : "By a fortune absolutely unique in history, Muhammad is a threefold founder of a nation, of an empire, and of a religion" Muhammad and Muhammadanism(book)
Encyclopedia Britannica 1th edition "Muhammad was the most successful of all religious personalities"
Thomas Carlyle : "The great man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of: nay, i suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? no, the great man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: i would rather say , his sincerity does not depend on himself : he cannot help being sincere!"
"A silent great soul, he was one of those who cannot but be in earnest, whom nature herself has appointed to be sincere. While others walk in formulas and hearsay, contended enough to dwell there, this man could not screen himself in formulas ; he was alone with his own soul and the reality of things...such sincerity, as we named it, has in veery truth something divine. The word of such a man is a voice direct from natures own heart. Men do and must listen to that as to nothing else....all else is wind in comparison" Heroes and Hero worship p.71
There is another i want to bring your attention towards
a treaty that Muhammad(PBUH) made with the Christians which today can be found in a Museum , and this treaty will again show the true nature of Prophet Muhammad(PBUH)
called the "Ashtiname of Muhamamd"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtiname_of_Muhammad
where he hand stamped a treaty which says that he offers protection to all Christians until the end of time and that not one of them is to be harmed or hurt or even taxed under his government
Also unfortunately today there is a lot of propaganda against the prophet so they are spreading falsehood, but if you go back to a time before there was agendas and hate, you will find unbiased and unprejudiced books by western authors about the life in post Islam Arab and Muhammd(PBUH)
The most recent is actually the book from Michael Hart who wrote a book "100 Most Influential Men of all time" and he put Muhammad(PBUH) as number one, and he gives his reason
"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...
Muhammad founded and promulgated one of the world's great religions, and became an immensely effective political leader. Today, thirteen centuries after his death, his influence is still powerful and pervasive... Like all religions, Islam exerts an enormous influence upon the lives of its followers. It is for this reason that the founders of the world's great religions all figure prominently in this book. Since there are roughly twice as many Christians as Moslems in the world, it may initially seem strange that Muhammad has been ranked higher than Jesus. There are two principal reasons for that decision. First, Muhammad played a far more important role in the development of Islam than Jesus did in the development of Christianity. Although Jesus was responsible for the main ethical and moral precepts of Christianity (insofar as these differed from Judaism), St. Paul was the main developer of Christian theology, its principal proselytizer, and the author of a large portion of the New Testament.
Muhammad, however, was responsible for both the theology of Islam and its main ethical and moral principles. In addition, he played the key role in proselytizing the new faith, and in establishing the religious practices of Islam. Moreover, he is the author of the Moslem holy scriptures, the Koran, a collection of certain of Muhammad's insights that he believed had been directly revealed to him by Allah. Most of these utterances were copied more or less faithfully during Muhammad's lifetime and were collected together in authoritative form not long after his death. The Koran therefore, closely represents Muhammad's ideas and teachings and to a considerable extent his exact words. No such detailed compilation of the teachings of Christ has survived. Since the Koran is at least as important to Moslems as the Bible is to Christians, the influence of Muhammed through the medium of the Koran has been enormous It is probable that the relative influence of Muhammad on Islam has been larger than the combined influence of Jesus Christ and St. Paul on Christianity. On the purely religious level, then, it seems likely that Muhammad has been as influential in human history as Jesus.
Furthermore, Muhammad (unlike Jesus) was a secular as well as a religious leader. In fact, as the driving force behind the Arab conquests, he may well rank as the most influential political leader of all time... the Arab conquests of the seventh century have continued to play an important role in human history, down to the present day. It is this unparalleled combination of secular and religious influence which I feel entitles Muhammad to be considered the most influential single figure in human history."
George Bernard Shaw wrote: "I have studied him - the wonderful ma- and in my opinion far from being an anti-christ , he must be called the saviour of humanity" "The genuine Islam Vol 1 No 81936
R Bosworth Smith wrote : "By a fortune absolutely unique in history, Muhammad is a threefold founder of a nation, of an empire, and of a religion" Muhammad and Muhammadanism(book)
Encyclopedia Britannica 1th edition "Muhammad was the most successful of all religious personalities"
Thomas Carlyle : "The great man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of: nay, i suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? no, the great man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: i would rather say , his sincerity does not depend on himself : he cannot help being sincere!"
"A silent great soul, he was one of those who cannot but be in earnest, whom nature herself has appointed to be sincere. While others walk in formulas and hearsay, contended enough to dwell there, this man could not screen himself in formulas ; he was alone with his own soul and the reality of things...such sincerity, as we named it, has in veery truth something divine. The word of such a man is a voice direct from natures own heart. Men do and must listen to that as to nothing else....all else is wind in comparison" Heroes and Hero worship p.71
There is another i want to bring your attention towards
a treaty that Muhammad(PBUH) made with the Christians which today can be found in a Museum , and this treaty will again show the true nature of Prophet Muhammad(PBUH)
called the "Ashtiname of Muhamamd"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtiname_of_Muhammad
where he hand stamped a treaty which says that he offers protection to all Christians until the end of time and that not one of them is to be harmed or hurt or even taxed under his government
