Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 959
Muhammad sa The Perfect Man 959 decline and fall of the Eastern empire; and our eyes are curiously intent on one of the most memorable revolutions which have impressed a new and lasting character on the nations of the globe. His memory was capacious and retentive; his wit easy and social; his imagination sublime; his judgment clear, rapid, and decisive. He possessed the courage both of thought and action;. . . The creed of Mo h ammed is free from suspicion or ambiguity; and the Koran is a glorious testimony to the unity of God. The prophet of Mecca rejected the worship of idols and men, of stars and planets, on the rational principle that whatever rises must set, that whatever is born must die, that whatever is corruptible must decay and perish. . . . the sayings of Mo h ammed were so many lessons of truth; his actions so many examples of virtue;. . . he asserted the liberty of conscience, and disclaimed the use of religious violence:the deputy of Mecca was astonished by the attention of the faithful to the words and looks of the prophet, by the eagerness with which they collected his spittle, a hair that dropped on the ground, the refuse water of his ablutions, as if they participated in some degree of the prophetic virtue. 'I