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Refutation of the Allegations Made Against Islam 21 nobody—no matter how powerful he may be—is able to achieve. Such a man, is highly respectable and estimable. ( H im a yat-e-Isl a m, Lahore, 1935) Furthermore, Bernard Shaw says: The Medieval ecclesiastics either through ignorance or bigotry painted Muhammadanism in the darkest col- ours. They were in fact trained both to hate the man Muhammad and his religion. … I have studied him — the wonderful man — and in my opinion…he must be called the Saviour of Humanity. ( The Light, vol. XII, No. 4 &5, p. 15, under the heading Bernard Shaw’s Latest on Islam, dated January, 24, 1933) Another Christian Historian, Reverend Bosworth says: … he was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope with- out the Pope’s pretensions, and Caesar without the legions of Caesar. Without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue, if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by a right Divine, it was Mohammed; for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports. ( Mohammed and Muhammedanism, by R. Bosworth Smith, p. 288–289, published 1889 by John Murray, London)