Which Criteria they used? (soul, followers, mission, preach, prophet)

[maj123]

Dear friends below I would post some quotes written by some authors which I think they are famous historiographers, but what interesting me more is the criteria that those people used to evaluate a man so beneficially while they are not of the same faith and not of the same environment.

Any help or any comment on this topic will be very estimated.

Thanks,

John William Draper says:

"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 . . ."

Source: John William Draper, A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, London 1875, Vol. 1, pp. 329-330.

Mahatma Gandhi, speaking on the character of Muhammad, (pbuh) says in (Young India):

"I wanted to know the best of one who holds today's undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind....I became more than 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 his pledges, his intense devotion to this friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle. When I closed the 2nd volume (of the Prophet's biography), I was sorry there was not more for me to read of the great life."

Thomas Carlyle in his (Heroes and Heroworship), was simply amazed as to:

"how one man single-handedly, could weld warring tribes and wandering Bedouins into a most powerful and civilized nation in less than two decades."

Diwan Chand Sharma wrote:

"Muhammad was the soul of kindness, and his influence was felt and never forgotten by those around him."

(D.C. Sharma, The Prophets of The East, Calcutta, 1935, pp. 12)

In the words of Prof. C. Snouck Hurgronje:

"The league of nations founded by the prophet of Islam put the principle of international unity and human brotherhood on such universal foundations as to show candle to other nations." He continues: "The fact is that no nation of the world can show a parallel to what Islam has done towards the realization of the idea of the League of Nations ."

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[BruceDLimber]

Greetings! :-)

Yet another such:
Leo Tolstoy:"The Baha’I Faith preaches brotherhood and equality between all men, and the sacrifice of material life in the service of God." Peace,Bruce