Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 957
Muhammad sa The Perfect Man 957 Profound though its argument is, something far more profound was demanded before Mo h ammedanism pervaded the domestic life of Asia and Africa, before Arabic became the language of so many different nations. " 25 (22) The great historian and writer Thomas Carlyle (1840) further writes about the revolution brought about the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa : "A false man found a religion?. . . It will not stand for twelve centuries, to lodge a hundred-and-eighty millions; it will fall straightway. . . . This Mahomet, then, we will in no wise consider as an Insanity and theatricality, a poor conscious ambitious schemer; we cannot conceive him so. . . . To kindle the world; the world's Maker had ordered it so. . . . this deep- hearted Son of the Wilderness, with his beaming black eyes and open social deep soul, had other thoughts in him than ambition. . . . Much has been said of Mahomet's propagating his religion by the sword. . . . The sword indeed: but where will you get your sword! Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. In one man's head alone, there it dwells as yet. One man alone of the whole world believes it; there is one man against all men. That he take