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Some famous quotes on Islam

Napoleon Bonaparte

Moses has revealed the existence of God to His nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Mohammed to the Old Continent.

Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Mohammed introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses and Jesus. The Aryans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the East by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Mohammed declared that there was none but one God, who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.

I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the (Holy) Quran, which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.

As Quoted in Cherfils, ‘Bonaparte et Islam’ Paris, France

George Bernard Shaw

If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next 100 years, it could be Islam.

I have always held the religion of Mohammed in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion, which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence, which can make it appeal to every age. I have studied Him-the wonderful man and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ, he must be called the Savior of Humanity.

I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness. I have prophesied about the faith of Mohammed that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today.

The Genuine Islam,’ Vol. 1, No. 8, 1936

Bertrand Russell

“Our use of the phrase ‘The Dark Ages’ to cover the period from 699 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe.

From India to Spain, the brilliant civilisation of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time was not lost to civilisation, but quite the contrary.

To us it seems that West-European civilisation is civilisation but this is a narrow view.

History of Western Philosophy, London, 1948

H G Wells

The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behaviour and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings of the highest order and at the same time practicable. These teachings brought into existence a society in which hard-heartedness and collective oppression and injustice were the least as compared with all other societies preceding it; Islam is replete with gentleness courtesy and fraternity.

Dr William Draper

During the period of the Caliphs, the learned men of the Christians and the Jews were not only held in great esteem but were appointed to posts of great responsibility and were promoted to the high-ranking job in the government. He (Caliph Haroon Rasheed) never considered to which country a learned person belonged nor his faith and belief but only his excellence in the field of learning.

History of Intellectual Development of Europe

Edward Montet

Islam is a religion that is essentially rationalistic in the widest sense of this term considered etymologically and historically…. the teachings of the Prophet and the (Holy) Quran have invariably kept their place as the fundamental starting point and the dogma of unity of God has always been proclaimed therein with a grandeur as a majesty, an invariable purity and with a note of sure conviction, which it is hard to find surpassed outside the pale of Islam. A creed so precise, so stripped of all theological complexities and consequently so accessible to the ordinary understanding might be expected to possess and does indeed possess a marvelous power of winning its way into the consciences of men.

La Propagande Chrétienne et ses Adversaires Musulmans,’ Paris 1890. (Also in T W Arnold in ‘The Preaching of Islam,’ London 1913.)

Thomas Carlyle

As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslims), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can…

When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet’s (Mohammed’s) ear and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!

A greater number of God’s creatures believe in Mahomet’s word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?

A poor, hard-toiling, ill-provided man; careless of what vulgar men toil for. Not a bad man, I should say; Something better in him than hunger of any sort or these wild Arab men, fighting and jostling three-and-twenty years at his hand, in close contact with him always, would not revered him so! They were wild men bursting ever and anon into quarrel, into all kinds of fierce sincerity; without right worth and manhood, no man could have commanded them. They called him Prophet, you say? Why he stood there face to face with them; bare, not enshrined in any mystery; visibly clouting his own cloak, cobbling his own shoes; fighting, counseling, ordering in the midst of them: they must have seen what kind of man he was, let him be called what you like! No emperor with his tiaras was obeyed as this man in a cloak of his own clouting. During three-and-twenty years of rough actual trial. I find something of a veritable Hero necessary for that, of itself…

These Arabs, the man Mahomet and that one century, is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame.

Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History, 1840

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