Muhammad: Seal of the Prophets — Page 255
MUHAMMAD : SEAL OF THE PROPHETS 255 soldiers be fussed over by their womenfolk and give their versions of the fight, he fell them in. He was wounded himself, he was stiff, he was tired, he was fifty - six years old, but he put his legs across a horse and rode off as if he was pursuing a demora lized and routed enemy. It was masterly strategy, magnificent psychology, above anything any commander has ever conceived to revive the spirits of a shattered body of men. Neither did he relax or give ground when he arrived in Medina. On the contrary, he a dopted a commanding, almost reproving, attitude. G. M. Draycott has observed ( Mahomet, p. 201): Reverses show the temper of heroes, and Muhammad is never more fully revealed than in the first gloomy days after Uhud, when he steadfastly set himself to retrieve what was lost, refusing to acknowledge that his position was impaired, impervious to the whi spers that spoke of failure, supreme in his mighty asset of an impregnable faith.