The Growing Greatness of Muhammad (S+) In The Eyes of Much of The World

[al-amiyr]

I have come across so many misconceptions on this forum and many other forums from many members about the Prophet Muhammad (may the peace and blessings of God be upon him). As I hold all the Prophets of God in honor and respect it is necessary for me to come to the defense without delay of this last great messenger prophet of God the all-Mighty and Mightier.

Approximately six hundred years after the ascension of The Christ (D+) came Muhammad (S+). In 610 ACE he made announcement that he was the last messenger prophet of ALLAAH (God) bringing the last divine revelation. About a hundred days before his death he presented to those who had believed the completion of a twenty three year unfolded revelation wherein it is referred to as The Recitation Reading within The Matrix of The Hidden Book.

The Recitation Reading or The Qur’aan as its function in The Arabic Language of its revelation was a direct transmission of knowledge from The Knowledge of God, The All Knower. It was then dictated by the prophet to his scribes who then wrote it down in a written script used at the time in which he was illiterate. But ALLAAH (God) also sent the letters of his written alphabet - without publicly making known their meanings - to replace the script that went before so that the words of the Book (al_kitaab) may be read with its correct symbols. But ALLAAH (God) also promised that sometime towards the end of the Era He would make known their meanings and then the entire world would see and be astounded at the Truth.

The Qur’aan is a personal one way communication that was revealed at a particular time from ALLAAH (God) to his eternal messenger on his journey and role to guide all creation throughout eternity.
It is a confirmation of the revelations and events that came before it and a detailed explanation of the Book (al_kitaab) wherein there is no uncertainty.
It is the book of the Seven Seals containing all the Models of Knowledge through which all things are explained in detail.
And it is a guide and a mercy which ALLAAH (God) had sent to those of His creation who would submit towards and believe in His Glorious Holy Name.

But as soon as the messenger of ALLAAH (God) began to deliver his message his enemies became hell bent on destroying him and his message.
One night – halfway during his life’s mission when they had planned to take his life during sleep and after he had sent his followers ahead of him – he quietly left the city of his birth – leaving behind his beloved heir to occupy his bed and his faithful companion to accompany him – and then set out towards the city that would become the place where ALLAAH (God) would again one day take his soul.
One night on his way during that hard journey across the inhospitable desert – from Makkah to Madiynah – with his enemies closing in from behind, the Prophet and his trustworthy companion were in a cave. But that night a spider came and spun a web at the entrance that confused the hasty unbelievers. Not thinking the likelihood of the prophet being in the cave and not wanting to waste any time they left in their hurried search bent on finding and bringing an end to him.
And thus it was that the prophet of peace upon whom ALLAAH (God) had sent his tranquility was saved to labour still harder on and then ultimately to return with such power that he was able to crush or forgive all his enemies.

Many well known books have been written about the life of this extraordinary and humble prophet of Islaam. He was a great and an outstanding man of many dimensions. His influence upon all facets of the world has never stopped growing. In fact even in our very day there is an escalation in the rise of the desire of humanity wanting to know more about and follow him in whichever way they can. The name Muhammad is now the most uttered name of any human being in the entire history or for that matter evolution of the human race. Every calculation that is made shows that Muhammad (S+) is even growing greater and greater. And no one has any reason to fear as the teaching of this compassionate and intelligent man slowly becomes the teaching of the human race. Only the Fools and the Ungrateful ones among humanity can hate a man like Muhammad (S+). Even if you are one of those who do not believe in his mission right now he still deserves your full respect because he has been the cause of many good things to you that you may as yet have no knowledge of. May the peace and salutations of ALLAAH (God) be upon Muhammad and his family and his companions.

I have selected some quotations about what some non-Muslim historians have written about the Prophet (S+). I shall make them known in subsequent posts

 

[al-amiyr]

Muhammad as a great revolutionary leader
“The words ‘revolution’ and ‘revolutionary’ have a modern ring to them. Yet they do not seem out of place when applied to Muhammad’s achievement in seventh century Arabia. Muhammad’s career was the classic one of a revolutionary leader.”

The author continues​

“In the course of the struggle his ideology had been refined and amplified so that finally the old order was replaced by an entirely new system whose internal dynamism combined with its attractiveness to outsiders, enabled it to impose itself far beyond the particular society to which the original message had been addressed. If that is not a revolution, what is? (Pages 39 - 40)

Edward Mortimer​

Faith and Power – The Politics of Islam​

Muhammad’s amazing energy and power of influence
“His character must have been one of amazing energy and persuasiveness, and we may catch some sense of the power which he exercised over his tribesmen from the more personal utterance of the Koran in which his preaching is enshrined.” (Pages 223 - 224)

A J Grant​

A History of Europe​

P ii - the constructive forces of the Middle Ages​

“He was a man of extraordinary powers and gifts-“
“He showed deep sincerity and must have been a man of unusual personality and charm, for he not only bound to himself men of different types, but also kept their devotion.” (Page 462)

Chambers Encyclopaedia Vol. ix (1959)​

Muhammad‘s successful actions at unification a marvel to historians
“How Muhammad succeeded in so short a time, both in subduing the long-standing feuds among the Arabs of Medina and in establishing a brotherly unity between his Meccan fellow immigrants and the native Medinese Arabs, has been a marvel to historians.” (Page 516)

John B Noss​

Man’s Religions (1969)​

Muhammad commands loyalty second to none
“-followers adhered to the new prophet with a loyalty and devotion seldom paralleled in the world’s history.” (Page 223)

Huston Smith​

The Religions of Man (1958)​

Muhammad could win over his strongest enemies
“His personality was so overwhelming that he could win even his strongest enemies to his side.”

Oxford Junior Encyclopaedia (1971)​

Vol. 5 Great Lives​

Muhammad, the most rapidly successful man in history
“Never before or since has a prophet won such success so quickly; nor has the work of a single man so rapidly and radically transformed the course of world history. Through his inspired utterances, his personal example, and the organizational framework he established for Islam, Mohammed laid the basis for a distinctive new style of life, which within the space of two centuries attracted the allegiance of a major fraction of the human race and today commands the loyalty of about one seventh of mankind.”

W.H. McNeill​

The Rise of the West (1963)​

Muhammad (S+), a universal personality or manifold of many dimensions
“- a thinker and judge, military leader and organizer, emissary of God and educator,”(Page 48)

G.E. Grunebaum​

Classical Islam A History (1963)​

“Mohammed died in 632. During his short life, he was a successful merchant, a devotee to the verge of fanaticism, a great religious teacher, and a successful military leader – the founder of an empire of great extent.”

Consolidated Encyclopaedia V.6 LEI – MUL​

"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​

[FONT=&quot]Histoire de la Turquie, Paris 1854, Vol. II[/FONT]​

Muhammad (S+), the most misrepresented man in history
“…The lies which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man are disgraceful to ourselves only…”

[FONT=&quot]Thomas Caryle[/FONT]​

[FONT=&quot]Heros and Hero Worship[/FONT]​

“No great religious leader has been so maligned and misrepresented, outside his religion,-“ (Page 85)

Geoffrey Parrinder​

Encountering World Religions (1987)​

 

[al-amiyr]

Encountering World Religions (1987)​

Muhammad, the greatest and most influential man in history
"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." (Page 33)

Michael H. Hart​

The 100:​

A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History (1978)​

If you had read the quotations of the previous you would have seen that there have been many great things written about the prophet Muhammad (S+). Those are the independent opinions of the authors and none of them are Muslims or for that matter followers of the teaching of Muhammad (S+). It was necessary that I quoted them to show what type of a man it was who brought the Qur’aan to the world. Now I will continue and give a few more quotations about the impact of Muhammad upon his society and the world in general soon after he was no longer in the world. After that we shall discuss some aspects of the Qur’aan and how it led to the advancement of what we call science. Then thereafter we shall discuss the specific issue about the Qur’aan and its relationship to the study of the universe and how it promoted and led to its advancement. Then finally after that we shall come to the subject of our book which is ‘The Qur’aan cosmological model. ’inshaa allaah.
Muhammad gives rise to the Mightiest Empire
“The Sudden Eruption of the Arab peoples in the 7th century is something unique in history.- How was it achieved? – It was Muhammad, a magnetic personality and statesmen of genius, in whom all the forces coalesced.” (Page 40)

Thames and Hudson​

The Dark Ages (1965)​

iii – The Empire of the Prophet​

“But ten years later ,when Mohammed died, the latest of the great religions of the world was fully formed, and its believers ready for the holy war which in less than a century carved out for Islam an empire greater than the Roman empire at its height.
As early as 638 the Arabs had swallowed up all Persia and seized from Byzantium Palestine and Syria; they had taken Egypt in 642; well before 732 they had won central Asia as far as the roof of the world, northern Africa to the fringes of the tropics, the Iberian Peninsula up to the gorges and passes of the Pyrenees. Their vanguard had even passed, or would soon pass, beyond those limits in a series of offences against Chinese, Hindus, Byzantines and Franks, which, taken as a whole, could be called the first ‘hemispheric’ (or even ‘world&#8217 war that the earth has known. (Page 73)

R.S. Lopez​

The Birth of Europe.​

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“The story of its rise is in every way an amazing one.” (Page 223)
“However we explain it, his preaching had kindled a fire in the hearts of the tribesmen of Arabia which made them above all things a body of warriors, irresistible for over a century by all enemies that they met.” (Page 224)

A.J. Grant​

A History of Europe (1918)​

 

[al-amiyr]

Vast majority of original followers of Jesus (D+) (i.e. Christians) convert to Islaam and accept Muhammad as the last prophet of God (ALLAAH)
“…no spiritual leader has founded a faith which so rapidly appealed to such an enormous number of people.”
“In the seventh and eighth centuries the great majority of the Christian populations who lived along the eastern and southern shores of the Mediterranean went over to this new faith founded by Muhammad. It was a great blow for Christianity that its oldest and most intensive centres should have been lost to Islam. Yet, from the point of view of the history of human values, when the high quality of Islamic theology and ethics is taken into account, it cannot be said that a great disaster had occurred. Why the Christians should have so readily accepted Islam remains something of a mystery in view of the fact that no historian has yet been able to work out the details of this conversion.” (Page 169)

Norman F. Cantor​

Medieval History (1963)​

(ii) The impact of Islam on Early Medieval Europe​

Below we shall proceed to give some additional quotations about what non-Muslim historians have said about the prophet Muhammad (S+) and the great book called the Qur’aan he presented to the world. It always delights the soul whenever one hears about all the good things that independent scholars have said about the one whom one regards as the last and greatest messenger of God (ALLAAH) whom He sent with the guidance and the religion of truth for the whole of mankind.

 

[al-amiyr]

of truth for the whole of mankind.
The origin of the Qur’aan
“-though we know it to have sprung, Minerva- like, direct from the brain of the Arabian prophet;-“ (Page 454)

H.P. Blavatsky​

The Secret Doctrine (1888)​

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“Although the revelations were given to Mohammed piecemeal, Muslims believe that they exist complete in a heavenly book, which contains all that has happened and will happen in the universe.” (Pages 684)

The Macmillan Encyclopedia (1981)​

“The Qur’an, then, is the Word of God, for Muslims. While controversies have raged among them as to the sense in which this is true – whether it is the created or uncreated Word, whether it is true of every Arabic letter or only of the message as a whole, that it is true has never been questioned by them -” (Page 15)

John Alden Williams​

Islam (1962)​

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“Despite their fervor for the Prophet, however, Muslims never mistake him for the earthly cornerstone of their faith. This place is reserved for Islam’s bible, the Koran.
So great was Muhammad’s personal regard for it that he considered it the only miracle God worked through him – his “standing miracle” as he called it.” (Pages 227)

Huston Smith​

The Religions of Man (1958)​

The Qur’aan, the first and greatest book in the entire history of the Arabic language
“The text is in rhymed prose; is recognized as the finest production of Arabic literature, and remains the absolute standard of good Arabic writing” (Page 450)

The Book of Knowledge Vol. 4​

The Koran​

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“-(The Holy Koran) the greatest literary achievement known to the Arab World.” (Page 19)

David Sapsted​

Kuwait (1980)​

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“The literary importance of the Koran is indicated by the fact that it was solely responsible for preventing the various Arabic dialects from falling apart into distinct languages as, for instance, Latin branched into the Romance tongues.” (Page 142)
“While the style of the Koran reflects the pre-Islamic rhymed prose, its language is that of seventh- century Mecca.
Though all of it bears the imprint of a great mind, the later sections differ considerably from the first.” (Page 143 – 144)

Colliers Encyclopedia Vol. 14 (1965)​

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“The best of Arab writers have never succeeded in producing equal in merit to the Qur’an itself.” (Page55)

Palmer​

Introduction to his Qur’an translation​

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“The Koran is one of the world classics which cannot be translated without grave loss. It has a rhythm of peculiar beauty and a cadence that charms the ear. Many Christian Arabs speak of its style with warm admiration and most Arabists acknowledge its excellence. When it is read aloud or recited it has an almost hypnotic effect that makes the listener indifferent to its sometimes repellent content. It is this quality it possesses of silencing criticism by the sweet music of its language that has given birth to the dogma of its inimitability. Indeed it may be affirmed that within the literature of the Arabs, wide and fecund as it is both in poetry and in elevated prose there is nothing to compare with it.” (Page 73)

Professor Alfred Guillaume​

Islam, Pelican pocket book​

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The Qur’aan, the greatest influential book in history
“As to the influence of the Koran, it may be said that, even at this date, it is read aloud in the presence of more people and has more influence on private conduct than any other book ever written or printed, even the Bible not excepted.”

Consolidated Encyclopaedia​

Consolidate World Research Society LTD London​

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“Meaning “to read” or “to recite”, the purpose for which it was intended, the Koran is perhaps the most read book in the world. Certainly it is the most memorized and possibly it exerts the most influence on those who read it.” (Pages 227)

Huston Smith​

The Religions of Man (1958)​

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Arabic, the largest and most flexible language in the world
“The Arabic language commands the attention of students of the history of civilization because;
(1) with the exception of English it is spoken (widely) by more people than is any other language;
(2) it is the language of the Koran, and therefore the sacred tongue of one of the world’s great religions;
(3) it is the instrument of expression of a vast and varied literature, through which the elements of science and philosophy were communicated to European scholars during the middle ages, thus, in large part, giving rise to the renaissance; and
(4) through it many familiar stories, such as of the Thousand and One Nights, were brought to the western world.
Arabic is a Semitic language, with a vocabulary far larger probably than that of any other language, and possessing a flexibility that permits the utmost delicacy and imagery of expression. It is primarily the language of the nomad tribes of the Arabian desert, but through the rapid development and spread of Mohammedanism it became the language of a very large part of the Orient.”

The Lincoln Library – of essential information (1963)​

Vol. 1 Literature​

“Neither Alexander nor the Romans made as profound an impression on their subject races as did the Arabs, who taught them the sacred language of the Koran as a profound religious duty. Arabic became the international scientific language; any scientific text of importance was written in Arabic and read all over the cultured world.”

A General History of The Sciences​

Ancient and Medieval Science​

Part 111 Chapter 2​

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“and it was as well the language for the “instrumental sciences”: falsafa (philosophy), astronomy, medicine, mathematics, chemistry, and so on.” (Page 548)

John B Noss​

Man’s Religions (1969)​

I hope that all those who have not realized it before can now begin to see what a great man Muhammad (S+) was. Like a powerful spinning singularity of knowledge and activity that crunched and then with a mighty big bang exploded raising the vast dimensions of the world. Up to this point you have not seen and heard anything yet. Muhammad, himself, have not yet spoken. But for now let us linger a little longer and see what historians have to say – but this time we will hear of the mighty impact of Muhammad (S+), the Qur’aan he presented, the religion he established and his faithful followers upon the advancement of the knowledge which led to the construction of our modern scientific and industrial world.

 

[al-amiyr]

Muhammad (S+), the Qur’aan and Islaam, the foundations of modern science
“Every single specialized science in the West owes its origins to the Islamic impulse – or at least its direction from that time on. It was from Islam that the Middle Ages learned to look on nature as an infinitely varied reality, not as a philosophical idea. Till then, the West had considered science as a type of philosophical thought (so that William of Conches quite logically called it philosophia). The encounter with Islam changed that conception to the modern one, of a diversified body of specialized knowledge. Philosophia evolved into scientia.” (Page 99)

Thomas Goldstein (City College New York)​

Dawn of Modern Science (1980)​

Chapter Four- The Gift of Islam​

“The Moslem conquerors were most anxious to learn what they could from their ancient subject peoples, if only because the Koran enjoined them to study the sky and the earth to find proofs of their faith.” (Page 385)
“When we speak of Arabic science, we refer to works in the Arabic language. Hence all the peoples conquered by Islam and taught the sacred language of the Koran had a share in Arabic science,-“ (Page 386)
“- there can be no doubt at all that they did yeoman service in widening the scientific horizon, and breaking down age-old barriers to scientific progress.” (Page 393)
“- the Arab conquerors were the first to give science the international character which we consider one of its fundamental characteristics.” (Page 396)
“What we have said about Arabic science should make it clear that, far from being mere transmitters of ancient notions, the Arabs reawakened scientific interest, exercised their critical faculties, and subjected Greek doctrines to the empirical test. As a result of their original concern with the practical applications of science, they invented remarkable instruments in astronomy, mechanics, and chemistry, and set up the first great hospitals, the maristans, in which they not only treated diseases, but trained physicians and carried out scientific research.
The torch of learning , which the Barbarians had extinguished in the West, was kept alight by that other Mediterranean race, whose sons and daughters strove ceaselessly to praise Allah in all his manifestations.” (Page 421)

A General History of The Sciences​

Ancient and Medieval Science​

Part 111 Chapter 2​

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“-the debt of our science to the Arabs does not consist in startling discoveries or revolutionary theories. Science owes a great deal more to the Arab culture: It owes its existence”
“The Greeks systematized, generalized and theorized but the patient ways of investigation, the accumulation of positive knowledge, the minute methods of science, detailed and prolonged observation, experimental enquiry, were altogether alien to Greek temperament. What we call science arose in Europe as a result of new methods of investigation, of the method of experiment, observation, measurement, of the development of mathematics in a form unknown to the Greeks……. That spirit and these methods were introduced into the European world by the Arabs.” (Page 191)

Robert Briffault​

The Making of Humanity (1919)​

Chapter V (The Home of Science)​

The Qur’aan, Islaam, Muslims and the study of Astronomy and Cosmology
“It was, indeed, the Arabs who were responsible for the re-birth of astronomy.” (Page 39)

Patrick Moore​

Watches of the Stars (1973)​

Chapter 2 - The Questioners​

“The Moslems looked upon astronomy as the noblest, most exalted and the most beautiful (al-Battani) of sciences, if only because the study of the stars was an indispensable aid to religious observance. They helped to determine the month of Ramadan, the hours of prayer and the orientation of mosques towards Mecca. Moreover, the Koran enjoined the faithful to contemplate the glory of God in the construction of His universe.” (Page 409)

A General History of The Sciences​

Ancient and Medieval Science​

Part 111 Chapter 2​

“Islamic astronomy was not fettered by the restrictions that a rigid - and erroneous – interpretation of the Bible imposed upon Western astronomers. Conversely the Qur’an, the sacred book of Islam that was supposedly revealed to Muhammad by Allah, seemed to encourage a study of astronomy.”

Gerald E. Tauber​

Man’s view of the Universe (1979)​

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“Turning first to the question of the figure of the earth, we find a remarkable contrast between Europe and Asia. In the world under Islam there was an entire absence of that hostility to science which distinguished Europe during the first half of the Middle ages.” (Page 249)

J.L.E Dreyer​

A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler (1906)​

Chapter XI – Oriental astronomers​

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“The Universe: In order to proof the unity of God, the Qur’aan lays frequent stress on the design and order in the universe.” (Page 913)

Encyclopaedia Britannica (1979)​

Vol.9 15th Edition​

“- the Koran enjoined them to study the sky and the earth to find proofs of their faith.” (Page 385)

A General History of The Sciences​

Ancient and Medieval Science​

Part 111 Chapter 2​

“Wonderful as is Allah’s material creation- and the Koran abounds in lyric descriptions of the majesties of heaven and earth.” (Page 233)

Huston Smith​

The Religions of Man (1958)​

 

[Straw Dog]

I take it you have an affinity for Muhammad...??

 

[al-amiyr]

I take it you have an affinity for Muhammad...??

Very much. As well as for Jesus (the distinguished) and Moses (the honored) and all the other Divine Prophets (the blessed).

 

[England my lionheart]

I think Muhammed was a notable person in history along with the rise and fall of the empire he inspired,i think his politic and diplomacy for the time was calculated but inferior to Henry V of England for example and looking at the cradle of Islam and the Middle East as a whole one wonders what benefit his legacy has been,JMO.

 

[InvestigateTruth]

Yes, I believe Muhammad was a Divine Messenger, a Manifestation of God who was infallible. I had also made a separate thread regarding Muhammad:

http://www.religiousforums.com/foru...910-prophet-muhammad-christian-community.html



Although I disagree that Muhammad ever claimed to have the final revelation. Both Quran and Hadithes reject the idea that He claimed final revelation.

 

[al-amiyr]

I think Muhammed was a notable person in history along with the rise and fall of the empire he inspired,i think his politic and diplomacy for the time was calculated but inferior to Henry V of England for example and looking at the cradle of Islam and the Middle East as a whole one wonders what benefit his legacy has been,JMO.

Why was it inferior to Henry V of England (I have studied quite a lot about him as well). What has Muhammad (S+) to do with a people who claim to be his followers but break almost all the rules of his teaching.Does one blame Henry V of England if English soccer fans riot in other countries?

 

[Lady B]

Muhammad is not the father of any man among you, but he is the Messenger of God and the last (end) of the Prophets. And God is Ever All-Aware of everything. S. 33:40 Hilali-Khan

He did indeed claim it If you believe the hadiths

 

[al-amiyr]

Yes, I believe Muhammad was a Divine Messenger, a Manifestation of God who was infallible. I had also made a separate thread regarding Muhammad:

http://www.religiousforums.com/foru...910-prophet-muhammad-christian-community.html



Although I disagree that Muhammad ever claimed to have the final revelation. Both Quran and Hadithes reject the idea that He claimed final revelation.

Yes. Thanks for the link.We have many things to discuss inshaa allaah.

 

[England my lionheart]

Why was it inferior to Henry V of England (I have studied quite a lot about him as well). What has Muhammad (S+) to do with a people who claim to be his followers but break almost all the rules of his teaching.Does one blame Henry V of England if English soccer fans riot in other countries?

The OP states that Muhammed "the greatest Human being of all time" and in the context of politic and diplomacy i think he lacked finesse,what has it to do with the Middle East thats in turmoil right now,i would say its the ambiguoty of the Qur'an Hadith and Sunnah,thats three,the Qur'an which was supposedly sent down with a clear message from a God is at the centre of a belief sytem thats at least two thirds Human,thats just an opinion.

 

[al-amiyr]

The OP states that Muhammed "the greatest Human being of all time" and in the context of politic and diplomacy i think he lacked finesse,what has it to do with the Middle East thats in turmoil right now,i would say its the ambiguoty of the Qur'an Hadith and Sunnah,thats three,the Qur'an which was supposedly sent down with a clear message from a God is at the centre of a belief sytem thats at least two thirds Human,thats just an opinion.

Can the gentle explain
1)-in the context of politic and diplomacy i think he lacked finesse,
2)-what has it to do with the Middle East thats in turmoil right now
-i would say its the ambiguoty of the Qur'an
-i would say its the ambiguoty of the Hadith
-i would say its the ambiguoty of the Sunnah
the Qur'an which was supposedly sent down with a clear message from a God is at the centre of a belief sytem thats at least two thirds Human,thats just an opinion.

Please can you give examples so we can see if the arguments are valid. They may be but furnish it. For if it is not then it would be grave injustice about a man who is not present to defend himself. I am here to defend the Prophet. You can speak to me about anything. Lets see!

 

[al-amiyr]

Although I disagree that Muhammad ever claimed to have the final revelation. Both Quran and Hadithes reject the idea that He claimed final revelation.

Can you show me one verse and one hadith.

 

[Surya Deva]

Silly thread. To consider any human being in the history of the planet the "greatest" is an entirely subjective opinion. This thread makes it sound like it is an objective fact that Mohammed is the greatest human being of all time.

I really wish Muslims would stop speaking with a voice of objective authority when they talk about their subjective opinions and beliefs. Mohammed may well be considered the greatest human being in Islam, but outside of Islam opinions about him are numerous from recognizing him a great political and religious leader, to regarding him as being of questionable character.

 

[Godobeyer]

Yes, I believe Muhammad was a Divine Messenger, a Manifestation of God who was infallible. I had also made a separate thread regarding Muhammad:

then you are muslim

 

[al-amiyr]

I have only quoted from the research of non-Muslim Historians. Do you want me to hide this information so that you can put up your own candidates if there are any.There is simply no one in history who can compare with Muhammad (S+).
Put me to the challenge. I have become sick and tired of people who have and are still heaping up lies against this great man. The day of reckoning has come for the earth. Just be fair. Don't let your own ideas prevent you from holding back what is true. I realize that it hurts you.

 

[InvestigateTruth]

Can you show me one verse and one hadith.

This is the verses: (Although there are many more)
To every people is a term appointed: when their term is reached not an hour can they cause delay nor (an hour) can they advance." (Qur'an 7:34)
"O children of Adam, verily apostles from among you shall come unto you, who shall expound my signs unto you: whosoever therefore shall fear God and amend, there shall come no fear on them, neither shall they be grieved." [Qur'an 7:35]

Some argue that the verse is addressing the children of Adam, but not Muslems, but if you look a few verse above in the same surih in 7:31, we see, it is addressing Muslems as Childeren of Adam:

O Children of Adam! Look to your adornment in every Masjid.

Some argue that, Masjid can mean a general place of worship, but this is a weak argument, because in Quran the term Masjid is never used as place of worship for Christians, Jews, etc...

With regards to Hadith, there are many Hadithes regarding coming of Mahdi and return of Christ. Some argue that these two would not bring a new revelation, but this argument is not Islamic, because it is upto God if He wants to reveal new Laws, moreover there are Hadithes that says Mahdi comes with a new Book and a new Law:

In the “Aválím,” an authoritative and well-known book, it is recorded: “A Youth from Baní-Háshim shall be made manifest, Who will reveal a new Book and promulgate a new law;” then follow these words: “Most of His enemies will be the divines.”


In “Arbá’in” it is recorded: “Out of Baní-Háshim there shall come forth a Youth Who shall reveal new laws. He shall summon the people unto Him, but none will heed His call. Most of His enemies will be the divines. His bidding they will not obey, but will protest saying: ‘This is contrary to that which hath been handed down unto us by the Imáms of the Faith.’”


I can bring Hadithes from Sunni sources as well, but would require more discussion.