Muhummed (pbuh) The Greatest (by Ahmed Deedat)

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WHAT SAY THE SCEPTICS

Michael h. Hart put Muhummed No.1 on his list and his own Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (pbuh) No. 3.

Why? "He was bribed!" (?)

William McNeill considers Muhummed as worthy of honour in his list of the first three names of his.

Why? "He was bribed!" (?)

James Gavin puts Muhummed (pbuh) before Christ (pbuh).

Why? "He was bribed!" (?)

Jules Masserman adjudges Muhummed (pbuh) No.1 and his own hero Moses (pbuh) a close second.

Why? "He was bribed!" (?)

"ARE WE TO SUPPOSE THAT ALL THE GLOWING ADULATION OF MUHUMMED (PBUH) WAS A MISERABLE PIECE OF INTELLECTUAL LEGERDE-MAIN, HOCUS POCUS ... I, FOR MY PART, CANNOT FORM ANY SUCH SUPPOSITION ... ONE WOULD BE ENTIRELY AT A LOSS WHAT TO THINK OF MANKIND AT ALL. IF QUACKERY SO GREW AND FLOURISHED IN THE WORLD." (with apologies to Thomas Carlyle and his "Hero and Hero-worship.")

Yet the scoffers bemoan anyone who has anything good to say about Muhummed (pbuh) or Islam AS HAVING BEEN BRIBED by the Arabs! The are giving too much credit to my bretheren. I repeat: "It is possible, but it is improbable!"

During the second World War, Norway produced only one "Quisling ("Quisling" has come to mean a person who is a traitor to his nation and his country.)". He was tried for treason and executed. It is unlikely that America and the Western world have just reached puberty to spawn a breed of Quislings nurtured by hot petro-dollars from the Middle East. Please do not demean your honest, courageous men, who without fear or favour are prepared to suffer obloquy for their convictions. We must all admire them!

We can now justifyable conclude that the God of Mercy, Who forever recognises the sincere efforts of His servents, is only fulfilling His Promise to Muhummed (pbuh) His Chosen Messenger -

AND HAVE WE NOT RAISED HIGH THE ESTEEM (IN WHICH) THOU (ART HELD)?

(Sura Inshirah, Holy Qur'an 94:4)

Alternative renderings (these quotes are from different translations of the Holy Qur'an. there are no seperate "versions" of the Holy Qur'an)

1. Have we not exalted thy fame?
2. And heve we not raised thy name for thee?
3. Have we not given you high renown?

Friends and foe alike, as if by some secret compulsion are made to pay unsolicited tributes to this mighty Messenger of God. But the Almighty commandeers even the devil into His service, as He had done in the time of Jesus (pbuh), Matthew (4:1 - 11). Even the devil sometimes speaks Gospel truths.

Professor K.S. Ramakrishna Rao, a Hindu philosopher, in his book "Muhummed - The Prophet of Islam," quotes the arch devil himself, yes Adolf Hitler, to prove the unique greatness to Muhummed (pbuh).

The professor, like jules Masserman who had eveluated the Propher of Islam on three grounds also saw in Hitler's "Mein Kanof" a three-faceted jewel, a rare commodity which he found in our hero under discussion. Quoting Hitler, he says:

"A GREAT THEORIST IS SELDOM A GREAT LEADER. AN AGITATOR IS FAR MORE LIKELY TO POSSESS THESE QUALITIES. HE WILL ALWAYS BE A BETTER LEADER. FOR, LEADERSHIP MEANS THE ABILITY TO MOVE MASSES OF MEN. THE TALENT TO PRODUCE IDEAS HAS NOTHING IN COMMON WITH THE CAPACITY FOR LEADERSHIP." Hitler continues, "THE UNION OF THE THEORIST, ORGANISER, AND LEADER IN ONE MAN IS THE RAREST PHENOMENON ON THE EARTH; THEREIN CONSISTS GREATNESS." professor Rao concludes, in his own words, IN THE PERSON OF THE PROPHET OF ISLAM THE WORLD HAS SEEN THIS RAREST PHENOMENON ON EARTH< WALKING IN FLESH AND BLOOD."

SHARE THE ANGER

Before anyone assails the professor of undue bias and "bribery," let me give them a few more names of admirers of Muhummed (pbuh).

1. "MUHUMMAD WAS THE SOUL OF KINDNESS, AND HIS INFLUENCE WAS FELT AND NEVER FORGOTTEN BY THOSE AROUND HIM."
   A Hindu scholar - Diwan Chand Sharma in his "The Prophers of the East," Calcutta 193, p.122.
2. FOUR YEARS AFTER THE TEATH OF JUSTINIAN A.D. 569, WAS BORN AT MAKKAH, IN ARABIA THE MAN WHO, OF ALL MEN EXERCISED THE GREATEST INFLUENCE UPON HUMAN RACE ... MOHAMMED ..."
   Johan William Draper, M.D, LLD., in his "A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe," London 1875.
3. "I DOUBT WEATHER ANY MAN WHOSE EXTERNAL CONDITIONS CHANGED SO MUCH EVER CHANGED HIMSELF LESS TO MEET THEM."
   R.V.C. Bodley in "The Messenger," London 1946, p.9.
4. "I HAVE STUDIED HIM - THE WONDERFUL MAN - AND IN MY OPINION FAR FROM BEING AN ANTI-CHRIST, HE MUST BE CALLED THE SAVIOUR OF HUMANITY."
   George Gernard shaw, in "The Genuine Islam," Vol. 1. No. 81936.
5. "BY A FORTUNE ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE IN HISTORY, MOHAMMED IS A THREEFOLD FOUNDER OF A NATION, OF AN EMPIRE, AND OF A RELIGION."
   R.Bosworth-Smith in "Mohammed and Mohammedanism," 1946.
6. "MOHAMMED WAS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL OF ALL RELIGIOUS PERSONALITIES."
   Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition