ISLAM & THE PROPHET OF ISLAM BY THE NON-MUSLIMS
My thanks are due to a Brother who sent the following... Download this file and circulate to Muslims & non-Muslims. If you have an authentic quote to add here, please do send... ISLAM "Moslems are the world's fastest-growing group..." "Already more than a billion-people strong, Islam is the world’s fastest-growing religion." ABCNEWS, Abcnews.com "The religion of Islam is growing faster than any other religion in the world." Mike Wallace, 60 MINUTES "Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the United
States..." "Islam is the fastest-growing religion
in the country." "There are more Muslims in North America then Jews Now." "Islam is the fastest growing religion in North America." "Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, a guide and
pillar of stability for many of our people..." "Islam continues to grow in America, and no one can doubt that!" CNN, December 15, 1995 "Five to six million strong, Muslims in America already
outnumber Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and Mormons, and they are more
numerous than Quakers, Unitarians, Seventh-day Adventists, Mennonites,
Jehovah's Witnesses, and Christian Scientists, combined. Many demographers
say Islam has overtaken Judaism as the "In fact, religion experts say Islam is the second-largest
religion in the United States... Islam has 5 million to 6 million
members, followed by "But Islam has a still further service to render to the cause
of humanity. It stands after all nearer to the real East than Europe does,
and it possesses a magnificent tradition of inter-racial understanding "It (Islam) replaced monkishness by manliness. It gives
hope to the slave, brotherhood to mankind, and recognition of the
fundamental facts of human nature." "How, for instance, can any other appeal stand against that of
the Moslem who, in approaching the pagan, says to him, however obscure or
degraded he may be 'Embrace the faith, and you are at once equal and a
brother.' Islam knows no color line." "Sense of justice is one of the most wonderful ideals of Islam, because as I read in the Qur'an I find those dynamic principles of life, not mystic but practical ethics for the daily conduct of life suited to the whole world." Lectures on "The Ideals of Islam;" SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF SAROJINI NAIDU, Madras, 1918, p. 167. "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 most fantastically absurd myths "The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one
of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world
there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic
virtue." A. J. Toynbee, CIVILIZATION
ON TRIAL, New York, "I am not a Muslim in the usual sense, though I hope I am a
"Muslim" as "one surrendered to God," but I believe
that embedded in the Quran and other expressions of the Islamic vision are
vast stores of divine truth from which I and other occidentals have still
much to learn, and 'Islam is certainly a strong contender for the
supplying of the basic framework of the one religion of the future.'" 'I believe in One God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the
simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image of
the Deity has never been degraded by any visible idol; the honours of the "The doctrine of brotherhood of Islam extends to all human
beings, no matter what color, race or creed. Islam is the only religion
which has been able to realize this doctrine in practice. Muslims wherever
on "Medieval Islam was technologically advanced and open to
innovation. It achieved far higher literacy rates than in contemporary
Europe;it assimilated the legacy of classical Greek civilization to such a
degree that many classical books are now known to us only through Arabic
copies. It invented windmills ,trigonometry, lateen sails and made
major advances in metallurgy, mechanical and chemical engineering and
irrigation methods. In the middle-ages the flow of technology was THE PROPHET OF ISLAM "Muhammed is the most successful of all Prophets and religious personalities." Encyclopedia Britannica "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 "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 "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 level." "In little more than a year he was actually the spiritual,
nominal and temporal rule of Medina, with his hands on the lever that was
to shake the world." John Austin,
MUHAMMAD THE PROPHET OF "Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at
Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence
upon the human race... Mohammed" "Muhammad was the soul of kindness, and his influence was felt and never forgotten by those around him." Diwan Chand Sharma, The Prophets of the East, Calcutta 1935, p. l 22. "People like Pasteur and Salk are leaders in the first sense.
People like Gandhi and Confucius, on one hand, and Alexander, Caesar and
Hitler on the other, are leaders in the second and perhaps the third
sense. "He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's
pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing
army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; "It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character
of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he lived,
to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, one of the great SOME MORE QUOTATIONS: I wanted to know the best of the life of
one who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of
mankind.... I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword
that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the
rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet the scrupulous
regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his
intrepidity, his He was the most faithful protector of those he
protected, the sweetest and most agreeable in conversation. Those who saw
him were suddenly filled with reverence; those who came near him loved
him; they who described him would say, "I have never seen his like
either before or after." He was of great taciturnity, but when he
spoke it was with emphasis and deliberation, and no one could forget what
he said... His military triumphs awakened no pride nor
vain glory as they would have done had they been effected by selfish
purposes. In the time of his greatest power he maintained the same
simplicity of manner and appearance as in the days of his adversity. So
far from affecting regal state, he was displeased if, on entering a room,
any unusual testimonial of respect was shown to him. “Like almost every major prophet before him,
Muhammad fought shy of serving as the transmitter of God’s word sensing
his own inadequacy. But the Angel commanded ‘Read’. So far as we know,
Muhammad was unable to read or write, but he began to dictate those
inspired words which would soon revolutionize a large segment of the
earth: "There is one God"." Incidentally these well-established facts
dispose of the idea so widely "During all the first part of the Middle
Ages, no other people made as "Despite the growth of antagonism, Moslem
(Muslim) rulers seldom made their Christian subjects suffer for the
Crusades. When the Saracens finally resumed the full control of Palestine
the Christians were given their former status as dhimmis. The Coptic
Church, too had little cause for complaint under Saladin's (Salahuddin)
strong government, and during the time of the earlier Mameluke sultans who
succeeded him the Copts experienced more enlightened justice than they had
hitherto known. The only effect of the Crusaders upon Egyptian Christians
was to keep them for a while from
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