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ISLAM & THE PROPHET OF ISLAM BY THE NON-MUSLIMS
My thanks are due to a Brother who sent the following... Download this file and circulate to Muslims & non-Muslims. If you have an authentic quote to add here, please do send... ISLAM "Moslems are the world's fastest-growing group..."
"Already more than a billion-people strong, Islam is the world’s fastest-growing religion." ABCNEWS, Abcnews.com "The religion of Islam is growing faster than any other religion in the world." Mike Wallace, 60 MINUTES "Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the United States..."
"Islam is the fastest-growing religion in
the country."
"There are more Muslims in North America then Jews Now."
"Islam is the fastest growing religion in North America."
"Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, a guide and pillar
of stability for many of our people..."
"Islam continues to grow in America, and no one can doubt that!" CNN, December 15, 1995 "Five to six million strong, Muslims in America already outnumber
Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and Mormons, and they are more numerous than
Quakers, Unitarians, Seventh-day Adventists, Mennonites, Jehovah's Witnesses,
and Christian Scientists, combined. Many demographers say Islam has overtaken
Judaism as the
"In fact, religion experts say Islam is the second-largest religion
in the United States... Islam has 5 million to 6 million members,
followed by
"But Islam has a still further service to render to the cause of
humanity. It stands after all nearer to the real East than Europe does,
and it possesses a magnificent tradition of inter-racial understanding
"It (Islam) replaced monkishness by manliness. It gives hope
to the slave, brotherhood to mankind, and recognition of the fundamental
facts of human nature."
"How, for instance, can any other appeal stand against that of the
Moslem who, in approaching the pagan, says to him, however obscure or degraded
he may be 'Embrace the faith, and you are at once equal and a brother.'
Islam knows no color line."
"Sense of justice is one of the most wonderful ideals of Islam, because as I read in the Qur'an I find those dynamic principles of life, not mystic but practical ethics for the daily conduct of life suited to the whole world." Lectures on "The Ideals of Islam;" SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF SAROJINI NAIDU, Madras, 1918, p. 167. "History makes it clear however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims
sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of the sword
upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths
"The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of
the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there
is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue."
A.
J. Toynbee, CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL, New York,
"I am not a Muslim in the usual sense, though I hope I am a "Muslim"
as "one surrendered to God," but I believe that embedded in the Quran and
other expressions of the Islamic vision are vast stores of divine truth
from which I and other occidentals have still much to learn, and 'Islam
is certainly a strong contender for the supplying of the basic framework
of the one religion of the future.'"
'I believe in One God and Mohammed 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
"The doctrine of brotherhood of Islam extends to all human beings,
no matter what color, race or creed. Islam is the only religion which has
been able to realize this doctrine in practice. Muslims wherever on
"Medieval Islam was technologically advanced and open to innovation.
It achieved far higher literacy rates than in contemporary Europe;it assimilated
the legacy of classical Greek civilization to such a degree that many classical
books are now known to us only through Arabic copies. It invented
windmills ,trigonometry, lateen sails and made major advances in metallurgy,
mechanical and chemical engineering and irrigation methods. In the middle-ages
the flow of technology was
THE PROPHET OF ISLAM "Muhammed is the most successful of all Prophets and religious personalities." Encyclopedia Britannica "The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire,
that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may
be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than
"I have always held the religion of Muhammad 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
"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."
"In little more than a year he was actually the spiritual, nominal
and temporal rule of Medina, with his hands on the lever that was to shake
the world." John Austin, MUHAMMAD THE PROPHET
OF
"Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca,
in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon
the human race... Mohammed"
"Muhammad was the soul of kindness, and his influence was felt and never forgotten by those around him." Diwan Chand Sharma, The Prophets of the East, Calcutta 1935, p. l 22. "People like Pasteur and Salk are leaders in the first sense. People
like Gandhi and Confucius, on one hand, and Alexander, Caesar and Hitler
on the other, are leaders in the second and perhaps the third sense.
"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;
"It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of
the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he lived,
to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, one of the great
SOME MORE QUOTATIONS: I wanted to know the best of the life
of one who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of
mankind.... I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword
that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was
the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet the scrupulous
regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers,
his intrepidity, his
He was the most faithful protector of those
he protected, the sweetest and most agreeable in conversation. Those who
saw him were suddenly filled with reverence; those who came near him loved
him; they who described him would say, "I have never seen his like either
before or after." He was of great taciturnity, but when he spoke it was
with emphasis and deliberation, and no one could forget what he said...
His military triumphs awakened no pride nor
vain glory as they would have done had they been effected by selfish purposes.
In the time of his greatest power he maintained the same simplicity of
manner and appearance as in the days of his adversity. So far from affecting
regal state, he was displeased if, on entering a room, any unusual testimonial
of respect was shown to him.
“Like almost every major prophet before him,
Muhammad fought shy of serving as the transmitter of God’s word sensing
his own inadequacy. But the Angel commanded ‘Read’. So far as we know,
Muhammad was unable to read or write, but he began to dictate those inspired
words which would soon revolutionize a large segment of the earth: "There
is one God"."
Incidentally these well-established facts dispose
of the idea so widely
"During all the first part of the Middle Ages,
no other people made as
"Despite the growth of antagonism, Moslem (Muslim)
rulers seldom made their Christian subjects suffer for the Crusades. When
the Saracens finally resumed the full control of Palestine the Christians
were given their former status as dhimmis. The Coptic Church, too had little
cause for complaint under Saladin's (Salahuddin) strong government, and
during the time of the earlier Mameluke sultans who succeeded him the Copts
experienced more enlightened justice than they had hitherto known. The
only effect of the Crusaders upon Egyptian Christians was to keep them
for a while from
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