Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon's attribute to Muhammad PBUH

Edward Gibbon

 

Edward Gibbon is considered to be the first historian of ancient Rome, he aptly pays attribute to Muhammad PBUH in his vivid and bold style.

"The greatest crimes, the greatest "sin" of Mohammed in the eyes of Christian West is that he did not allow himself to be slaughtered, to be "crucified" by his enemies. He only defended himself, his family and his followers; and finally vanquished his enemies. Mohammed's success is the Christians' gall of disappointment… He did not believe in any vicarious sacrifices for the sins of others." 

"The good sense of Muhammad despised the pomp of royalty. The Apostle of God submitted to the menial offices of the family; he kindled the fire; swept the floor; milked the ewes; and mended with his own hands his shoes and garments. Disdaining the penance and merit of a hermit, he observed without effort of vanity the abstemious diet of an Arab. (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1823)".

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire wrote a book of history in which he narrates different aspects of Western civilization. He also gives account of the Islamic and Mongolian conquests from the beginning of the Roman Empire to the fall of Byzantium. It covers the history of the Roman Empire, Europe, and the Catholic Church from 98 to 1590 and discusses the decline of the Roman Empire in the East and West.

 

Non Muslim Scholars' attribute to Muhammad PBU

Non Muslim Scholars' attribute to Muhammad PBU

Non muslims attributes about Muhammad PBUH

Diwan Chand Sharma 

in his "The Prophets of the East," Calcutta 1935, p. 122.

"MUHUMMAD WAS THE SOUL OF KINDNESS, AND HIS INFLUENCE WAS FELT AND NEVER FORGOTTEN BY THOSE AROUND HIM."

John William Draper

M.D., LLD., in his "A History of the lntellectual Development of Europe", London 1875.

"FOUR YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF JUSTINIAN, A.D. 569, WAS BORN AT MAKKAH, IN ARABIA THE MAN WHO, OF ALL MEN EXERCISED THE GREATEST INFLUENCE UPON THE HUMAN RACE ...MOHAMMED ..."

R. V. C. Bodley

in "The Messenger,"- London 1946, p.9.

 "I DOUBT WHETHER ANY MAN WHOSE EXTERNAL CONDITIONS CHANGED SO MUCH EVER CHANGED HIMSELF LESS TO MEET THEM."

George Bernard Shaw 

in "The Genuine Islam,- Vol. 1, No. 81936.

 "I HAVE STUDIED HIM - THE WONDERFUL MAN - AND IN MY OPINION FAR FROM BEING AN ANTICHRIST,HE MUST BE CALLED THE SAVIOUR OF HUMANITY."

R. Bosworth-Smith 

in "Mohammed and Mohammedanism".- 1946.

 "BY A FORTUNE ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE IN HISTORY, MOHAMMED IS A THREEFOLD FOUNDER OF A NATION, OF AN EMPIRE, AND OF A RELIGION."

Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition

 "MOHAMMED WAS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL OF ALL RELIGIOUS PERSONALITIES."

Alphonse de La Martaine

Alphonse de La Martaine 

Alphonse de La Martine

Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine born on 21 October 1790 in Macon,Burgundy.He was a great French writer,poet and politician. He was a political idealist and he always supported the democracy. His moderate ideas never get popular due to biased society behaviours. He died on 28 February 1869 in poverty. His appraisal of Muhammad PBUH in his book Historie de la Turquie is the outstanding description of the Holy Prophet in which he covered salient features of the personality of Muhammad PBUH arguing that the Muhammad is the greatest man in the history of manking. Here are his exact words from (Historie de la Turquie, Paris 1854, Vol. 11 pp. 276-277)

Exalted Aim

"Never has a man set for himself, voluntarily or involuntarily, a more sublime aim, since this aim was superhuman; to subvert superstitions which had been imposed between man and his Creator, to render God unto man and man unto God; to restore the rational and sacred idea of divinity amidst the chaos of the material and disfigured gods of idolatry, then existing. Never has a man undertaken a work so far beyond human power with so feeble means, for he (Muhammad) had in the conception as well as in the execution of such a great design, no other instrument than himself and no other aid except a handful of men living in a corner of the desert. Finally, never has a man accomplished such a huge and lasting revolution in the world, because in less than two centuries after its appearance, Islam, in faith and in arms, reigned over the whole of Arabia, and conquered, in God's name, Persia Khorasan, Transoxania, Western India, Syria, Egypt, Abyssinia, all the known continent of Northern Africa, numerous islands of the Mediterranean Sea, Spain, and part of Gaul."

Is there any comparison really exists?

"If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls."

Restoration of the dogma

"The idea of the unity of God, proclaimed amidst the exhaustion of the fabulous theogonies, was in itself such a miracle that upon it's utterance from his lips it destroyed all the ancient temples of idols and set on fire one-third of the world. His life, his meditations, his heroic revelings against the superstitions of his country, and his boldness in defying the furies of idolatry, his firmness in enduring them for fifteen years in Mecca, his acceptance of the role of public scorn and almost of being a victim of his fellow countrymen: all these and finally, his flight his incessant preaching, his wars against odds, his faith in his success and his superhuman security in misfortune, his forbearance in victory, his ambition, which was entirely devoted to one idea and in no manner striving for an empire; his endless prayers, his mystic conversations with God, his death and his triumph after death; all these attest not to an imposture but to a firm conviction which gave him the power to restore a dogma. This dogma was twofold the unity of God and the immateriality of God: the former telling what God is, the latter telling what God is not; the one overthrowing false gods with the sword, the other starting an idea with words."

Super Human personality

"Philosopher, Orator, Apostle, Legislator, Conqueror of Ideas, Restorer of Rational beliefs.... The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?"

In the end I pray for this honest man "Alphonse de La Martaine", May his soul rest in peace in heaven.