Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 952
CHAPTER 42 The Greatest and the most Successful Prophet 952 questions! But in Mohammedanism every thing is different here, instead of the shadowy and the mysterious, we have his story. We know as much of Mohammed as we do even of Luther and Milton. The mythical, the legendary, the supernatural is almost wanting in the original Arab authorities, or at all events can easily be distinguished from what is historical. Nobody here is the dupe of himself or of others; there is the full light of day upon all that, that light can ever reach at all. The abysmal depths of personality indeed are, and must always remain, beyond the reach of any line and plummet of ours. But we know every thing of the external history of Mohammed, his youth, his appearance, his relations, his habits; the first idea and the gradual growth, intermittent though it was, of his great revelation; while for his internal history, after his mission had been proclaimed, we have a book absolutely unique in its origin. " 22 (20) A writer, La Martine (1869) in his book, 'History of Turkey' writes: "Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas; the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual