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George Bernard Shaw

(1856 – 1950), Irish writer, playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925

„I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him – the wonderful man and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the Savior of Humanity.

I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today.

Islam is the best religion, with the worst followers. If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam. (G.B. Shaw, The Genuine Islam, Vol.1. NO. 81936.)

Europe is beginning to be enamored of the creed of Muhammad. In the next century I may go still further in recognizing the utility of that creed in solving its problems, and it is in this sense that you must understand my prediction. (A collection of writings of some of the Eminent Scholars’ p.77, by the Working Muslim Mission, 1993 edition)

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John William Draper

(1811-1882), American (English-born) scientist, philosopher, physician, chemist, historian, and photographer.

„Four years after the death of Justinian, AD 569, was born in Mecca, in Arabia, the man who, of all men, has exercised the greatest influence upon the human race.“ (John William Draper, A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, London, 1875, Kap. XII)

„The Koran abounds in excellent moral suggestions and precepts; Its composition is so fragmentary that we cannot turn to page without finding maxims of which all men must approve. This fragmentary construction yields texts, and mottoes, and rules complete in themselves, suitable for common men in any of the incidents of life.“ (A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Kap. XI)

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Michael H. Hart

1932- ), Astrophysicist and Historian

„My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world’s most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular levels.“

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Reverend Bosworth Smith

(1794-1884) Late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford

„He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope’s pretensions, 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 the right divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports.“ (Reverend Bosworth Smith, MOHAMMAD AND MOHAMMADANISM, London, 1874, p. 92)

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Washington Irving

(1783-1859), American author of the early 19th century

„His military triumphs awakened no pride nor vainglory, as they would have done had they been effected for selfish purposes. In the time of his greatest power, he maintained the same simplicity of manners and appearances as in the days of his adversity. So far from affecting a regal state, he was displeased if, on entering a room, any unusual testimonial of respect was shown to him.“ (Washington Irving, Life of Mohammed, IX)

„He was sober and abstemious in his diet, and a rigorous observer of fasts. He indulged in no magnificence of apparel, the ostentation of a petty mind, neither was his simplicity in dress affected, but the result of a real disregard to distinction from so trivial a source.“ (Washington Irving, Life of Mohammed, Chapt. VIII)