The Great Mohammed (PBUH)

"If Greatness of Purpose, Smallness of mean and astounding results are the three criteria of human genius who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with Mohammed?

The most famous men created arms, laws and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers in which of ten crumbled away before their eyes. This man Mohammed moved not only arms, legislations, empires, peoples and dynasties, but millions of men and more that that, he moved altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls.

On the basis of a book, every letter of which has become law, he created a spiritual nationality, which blended together peoples of every tongue and of every race.

The idea of unity of god, proclaimed amidst the exhaustion of fabulous theologies, was it itself such a miracle that upon its utterance from his lips it destroyed all the ancient superstitions.

His endless prayers, his mystic conversations with God, his death and 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 two fold, the unity of god and the immateriality of god; the former telling that what God is, the latter telling what God is not.

PHILOSOPHER, ORATOR, APOSTLE, LEGISLATOR, WARRIOR, CONQUEROR OF IDEAS, RESTORER OF RATIONAL BELIEFS, of a cult without images; the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Mohammed. AS REGARDS ALL STANDARDS BY WHICH HUMAN GREATNESS MAY BE MEASURED, WE MAY WELL ASK, IS THERE ANY MAN GREATER THAN HE?”

(La Martine, Historie de la Turquie, Paris 1854, Vol II, P 276-277)

Say: "Truly, my worship and my sacrifice and my living and my dying are for Allah, Lord of the Worlds. He has no partner. This am I commanded, and I am first of those who surrender to Him."