Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 937
Muhammad sa The Perfect Man 937 was brought up by his uncle and from his youth exhibited an upright honourable character: gentle and quiet, faithful to his duties, beloved by his kinsmen and his neighbours. Later he was given the name of Al-Am i n or 'the Trustworthy', by his people of Mecca. " "Mohammad was not dogmatic in his teachings about the afterlife or in any of his teaching. The Koran is remarkably free from dogma. It appeals to the inner conscience of man and to the rational nature. It stresses man's direct relation to God, intuition from God and from his conscience, with no intervening intermediaries. " "Mohammad never instigated fighting and bloodshed. Every battle that he fought was in rebuttal. He fought in order to survive – and he fought with the weapons and in the fashion of his time. " "Thirteen hundred years before the Atlantic Charter incorporated freedom of religion and freedom from fear, Mohammad made treaties with the Jewish and Christian tribes he had conquered and gave them freedom of religious worship and local self- government. In many Moslem invaded countries there has been conspicuously fair and just treatment of the non-