The Seal of Prophets - His Personality and Character — Page 4
4 The Seal of Prophets Smith goes on to develop this by saying: “ It was, as I have endeavoured to show, no fiction to Mohammed himself or to his followers; had it been so, Mohammedanism could never have risen as it did, nor be what it is now. ” (Pages 82-83) We are grateful to Bosworth Smith for fairly presenting one excellent western attitude towards Islam, and particularly towards the Holy Founder of Islam, Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. He discussed the two phases of Islam’s rise and fall in his lecture Mohammed and Mohammedanism and I quote from him: “During the first few centuries of Mohammedanism, Christendom could not afford to criticise or explain; it could only tremble and obey. But when the Saracens had received their first check in the heart of France, the nations which had been flying before them, faced round, as a herd of cows will sometimes do when the single dog that has put them to fight is called off; and though they did not yet venture to fight, they could at least calumniate their retreating foe. ” (Page 56) Now follow the examples of calumniation as recorded by Smith; he says: “In the romance of ‘Turpin’, quoted by