Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 935
Muhammad sa The Perfect Man 935 administrator and, behind these, his trust in God and firm belief that God had sent him, a notable chapter in the history of mankind would have remained unwritten. " 8 (6) A great scholar, James A. Michener (1955) "Orphaned at birth, he was always particularly solicitous of the poor and the needy, the widow and the orphan, the slave and the downtrodden. He lifted women from the bondage in which desert custom held them and preached general social justice. . . . Among drunkards he abolished alcohol,. . . He preached that slaves should be set free, that fathers should not kill unwanted baby girls, that those oppressed by society inherit the earth, that peace is better than war, that justice prevails. . . . No other religion in history spread so rapidly as Islam. . . . The West has widely believed that this surge of religion was made possible by the sword. But no modern scholar accepts that idea, and the Koran is explicit in support of freedom of conscience. . . . Many Westerners, accustomed by their history books to believe that Muslims were barbarous infidels, find it difficult to comprehend how profoundly our intellectual life has been influenced by