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spoke it was with emphasis and deliberation, and no one could forget what he said.
SAROJINI NAIDU- INDIAN POETESS (S. Naidu, Ideals of Islam,
Speeches and Writings, Madaras, 1918):
It was the first religion that preached and practiced democracy; for, in the mosque,
when the call for prayer is sounded and worshippers are gathered together, the
democracy of Islam is embodied five times a day when the peasant and king kneel
side by side and proclaim: ‘God Alone is Great…’
EDWARD GIBBON and SIMON OCKLAY (History of the Saracen
Empire, London, 1980, p. 54):
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 and 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 honors 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.
REV. BASWORTH SMITH (Mohammed and Mohammadanism, London
1874, p. 92):
He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope’s pretentions,
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 Mohammad, for he had all the power without its
instruments and without its supports.