The Seal of Prophets - His Personality and Character — Page 8
8 The Seal of Prophets God’s true Creation, let us disbelieve them wholly! They are the product of an Age of Scepticism; they indicate the saddest spiritual paralysis, and mere death-life of the souls of men: more godless theory, I think, was never promulgated in this Earth. A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house! If he do not know and follow truly the properties of mortar, burnt clay and what else he works in, it is no house that he makes, but a rubbish-heap. It will not stand for twelve centuries, to lodge a hundred-and eighty millions; it will fall straitway. ” (Page 279) He observes: “The lies, which well-meaning zeal has heaped around this man, are disgraceful to ourselves only. When Pococke inquired of Grotius, Where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet’s ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof! It is really time to dismiss all that. ” (Page 279) The one central, most important epithet in the Kalima is the word Abd , which describes the Prophet sa as a man and a slave; a man so true that he became the most devoted servant of his Lord. Today I have chosen to speak not on the prophesies of Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, but have elected to highlight his personality as a man, as a simple servant of God and as a humble person who lived all