opinions of non-muslims about muhammad (pbuh)

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Note: When the name of Prophet, Muhammad or Ahmad comes, do remember to

say, Sallallahu Alayhe Wasallam

Opinions of non-Muslims about Islam

Sword-A Fantastically Absurd Myth Of Historians

De Lacy OLeary writes: History makes it clear, however, that the legend of fanatical

Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of the sword upon

conquered races is one of the mist fantastically absurd myths that historians have ever

repeated.

Well Established Facts, No Sword

(Islam at the Crossroads, London, 1923, page 8, De Lacy OLeary).

Lawrence E. Browne opines: Incidentally these well established facts dispose of the idea so

widely fostered in Christian writings that the Muslims, wherever they went, forced people

to accept Islam at the point of the sword.

Deplorable Contriving To Put Out Scientific Obligation

(The Prospects of Islam, London, 1944, page 14, Lawrence E. Browne).

H.G. Farmer says: One of the most deplorable things in history, said Dr. J.W. Draper, is the

systematic way European writers have contrived to put out of sight the scientific obligations

of the Arabs.

No Temples Needed

(Historical facts in the Arabian Musical Influence H.G Farmer).

Hunter says: It is one of the glories of Islam that temples are not made with hands and that

its ceremonies can be performed anywhere upon Gods earth or under His heaven.

Europes Extrication From Darkness by Muslims

(Our Indian Musulmans Humter).

Marquis of Dufferin says: It is to Muslims science, to Muslims art and to Muslims literature

that Europe has been in a great measure indebted for its extrication from the darkness of

the Middle Ages.

Islamic Brotherhood

(Speeches Delivered in India, London, 1890, page 24, Marquis of Dufferin and Ava).

Browne says further: The Islamic brotherhood which they proclaimed was a real thing, and

a new thing, and a new thing among Eastern nations. It is doubtful whether Christian

Syrians ever felt the same sense of brotherhood with Christian Persians as Muslim Syrians

did with Muslim Persians.


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(The Prospects of Islam, London, 1944, page 12, Lawrence E. Browne)

Stones And Sneers Could Not Kill It

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Edward Clodd says: A religion which has fed the heart-hunger of millions of men for nigh

thirteen hundred years cannot have been cradled in fraud. It did not grow without a

struggle, for, if stones and sneers could have killed it, it would have died during

Muhammads lifetime.

Puts Christian Nations To Shame

E. Alexander Powell states: In their wars of conquest, however, the Muslims exhibited a

degree of toleration which puts many Christian nations to shame.

Sword, Quite False

(The Struggle for Power in Moslem Asia, New York 1923, page 48 E. Alexander Powell).

A.S. Tritton says: The picture of the Muslim soldiers advancing with a sword in one hand

and a Koran in the other is quite false.

On It Could Be Built Perfect World Religion

(Islam, London, 1951, page 21A.S. Tritton)

Greenless says: The nobility and broad tolerance of this creed, which accepts as

God-inspired all the real religions of the world, will always be a glorious heritage for

mankind. On it could indeed be built a perfect world religion.

Jihad (Holy War) Defensive Against Those Who Menaced Existence Of Islam

(The Gospel of Islam Adyar 1948, page 27, Duncan Greenleers, M.A. [Oxon]).

O Houdes opines: The Jihad was not really obligatory except against peoples who had no

revealed religion or who menaced the existence of Islam Jihad had to be waged to defend

Islam against aggressions Once this was terminated the Muslims always displayed a great

tolerance towards the conquered peoples leaving them their legislation and religious

beliefs.

The System Of The Wisest: Ever Existed In The World

(La Grande Encyclopaedia, 1894, Tome 20, page 1006, O Houdes).

Edmund Burke writes: The Muhammadan law which is binding on all from the crowned

head to the meanest subject is a law interwoven with a system of the wisest, the most

learned and the most enlightened jurisprudence that ever existed in the world.

(Impeachment of Warren Hastings by The English statesman and Orator.)


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To The World More Suited Than Christianity

Lancelot Lawton says: As a religion the Mohomedan religion, it must be confessed, is more

suited to Africa than is the Christian religion; indeed, I would even say that it is more suited

to the world as a whole It is undeniable that polygamy, or to speak more accurately, the

principle underlying it, is not confined to Moslem peoples. To put the matter plainly, who

can honestly say that the sexual morality of the West is superior to that of the East? A fair

comparison would, I believe, very much favour the latter. Then it is undeniable also that

faith in the power of the sword is by no means restricted to the Islamic world. Who can bear

more telling witness to the truth of this assertion than Moslems themselves, who have

suffered greatly from the swords of the Western nations? Putting aside these two points of

resemblance, the achievement of the Moslem faith enjoys, I maintain a definite superiority,

in proof of which may be cited Moslem abstinence, sense of fraternity, condemnation of

usury, recognition of prophets other than its own. Its quality may be summed up by sayingthat it takes a man as he is, and while it does not pretend to make a god out of him, it seeks

to regulate his conduct so that at least he shall become a good neighbour.

More Cruelty Under Christianity

(The Sphere, London for 12th

May, 1928 Lancelot Lawton).

J.M. Robertson writes:

Under Christianity there was certainly more cruelty than under early Islam. The Caliph Abu

Bakr had given to his followers three injunctions: Be just, die rather than yield; Be merciful,

slay neither old men, children nor women; Destroy neither fruit trees, grain nor cattle. Keep

your word even to your enemies.

Purer Than System Of Zoroaster: More Liberal Than Law Of Moses

(A short History of Christianity, page 4)

Gibbon says: More pure than the system of Zoroaster, more liberal than the law of Moses,

the religion of Mohamet might seem less inconsistent with reason than the creed of

mystery and superstition which in the seventh century disgraced the simplicity of the

gospels.

(The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, London 1938 and 1939 Vol. V,

page 487, by Edward Gibbon).


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Christianity Continually Changing From Origin, Not Islam

Lheureux writes: Islam had the power of peacefully conquering souls by the simplicity of

its theology, the clearness of its dogma and principles, and the definite number of the

practices which it demands. In contrast to Christianity which has been undergoing continual

transformation since its origin, Islam had remained identical with itself.

(Etude sur LIslamisme, page 35,Jean Lheureux).

Corrupted Christianity; Decaying Zoroastrian

Wells says: Can a man who has no good qualities hold a friend? Because those who knew

Muhammad best believed in him most. Khadija for all her days believed in him but she may

have been a fond woman. Abu Bekr is a better witness, and he never wavered in his

devotion. Abu Bekr believed in the Prophet, and it is very hard for anyone who reads the

history of these times not to belive in Abu Bekr. All again risked his life for the Prophet in his

darkest days. Muhammad was no imposter, at any rate But the personal quality of

Muhammad is one thing and the quality of Islam is quite another. Muhammad was not

pitted against Jesus or Mani, and his relative stature is only a very secondary question for us;

it is Islam which was pitted against the corrupted Christianity of the seventh century and

against the decaying tradition of the Zoroastrian Magi with which the historian has the

greater concern. And whether it was through its Prophet or whether it was in spite of its

Prophet, and through certain accidents in its origin and certain qualities of the desert from

where it sprang, there can be no denying that Islam possesses many fine and noble

attributes. (Ibid, page 325)

HKIYA --- May 2010

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