Prophet Muhammad- Know him better! (ritual, mystic, beliefs, evolution)

[Peace]

Salam dear RF members Want to know more about the man who affected humanity? The following link is an interesting one about the life of the seal of Prophets, don't hesitate to have a look at

http://www.islamway.com/mohammad/

Peace

[TashaN]

Thanks sister peace for the link. May Allah reward you.

[Cordoba]

Jazakum Allah Khairan sister Peace

IOL also has a very nice special section on their site dedicated to Prophet Muhammad:

Muhammad: Man & Message

http://mohammed.islamonline.net/English/index.shtml

[Peace]

Originally Posted by The Truth

Thanks sister peace for the link.

You are welcome brother !!

Originally Posted by The Truth

May Allah reward you.

Ameen

Originally Posted by Cordoba

Jazakum Allah Khairan sister Peace

Wa anta min ahli al jazaa'!!

Originally Posted by Cordoba

IOL also has a very nice special section on their site dedicated to Prophet Muhammad:

Muhammad: Man & Message

http://mohammed.islamonline.net/English/index.shtml

Thanks for the link brother

Peace

[Peace]

Larmatine, the French scholar says:
"If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astounding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern 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 and 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 souls. . . 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.”

[Peace]

"Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images; the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire; that is Muhammad. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?"
(Lamartine, Histoire De La Turquie, Paris, 1854, Vol. II, pp. 276-277)

[Katzpur]

Originally Posted by Peace

Salam dear RF members Want to know more about the man who affected humanity? The following link is an interesting one about the life of the seal of Prophets, don't hesitate to have a look at

http://www.islamway.com/mohammad/

Peace

Thank you, Peace. I don't have time to read through this right now, but I really do want to. I know very little about Muhammad (except for all the negative stuff his critics have to say about him -- which I discount as biased) and would like very much to know more. Thanks for a link to a site I can trust for accurate information.

[Peace]

Originally Posted by Katzpur

Thank you, Peace. I don't have time to read through this right now, but I really do want to. I know very little about Muhammad (except for all the negative stuff his critics have to say about him -- which I discount as biased) and would like very much to know more. Thanks for a link to a site I can trust for accurate information.

You are most welcome dear Katzpur You will surely know Prophet Muhammad better through that link, enjoy reading it

Wishing you all the best!!!

Peace

[Peace]

Edward Gibbon Edward Gibbon and Simon Oakley say:
“It is not the propagation but the permanency of his religion that deserves our wonder, the same pure and perfect impression which he engraved at Mecca and Medina is preserved, after the revolutions of twelve centuries by the Indian, the African and the Turkish proselytes of the Koran...
The Mahometans have uniformly withstood the temptation of reducing the object of their faith an devotion to a level with the senses and imagination of man. 'I believe in One God and Mahomet 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 prophet have never transgressed the measure of human virtue, and his living precepts have restrained the gratitude of his disciples within the bounds of reason and religion."
Edward Gibbon and Simon Ocklay, History of the Saracen Empire, London 1870, p. 54.)

[Peace]

Bosworth Smith says:
"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; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports."
(Bosworth Smith, Muhammad and Muhammedanism, London, 1874, p. 92)