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“Never has a man proposed for himself, voluntarily or involuntarily, a goal more sublime, since this goal was beyond measure: undermine the superstitions placed between the creature and the Creator, give back God to man and man to God, reinstate the rational and saintly idea of divinity in the midst of this prevailing chaos of material and disfigured gods of idolatry.

Never has a man accomplished in such a short time such an immense and long lasting revolution in the world, since less that two centuries after his predication, Islam, preaching and armed, ruled over three Arabias, and conquered to God’s unity Persia, the Khorasam, Transoxania, Western India, Syria, Egypt, Ethiopia, and all the known continent of Southern Africa, many islands of the Mediterranean, Spain and part of Gaulle.

If the grandeur of the aim, the smallness of the means, the immensity of the result are the three measures of a man’s genius, who would dare humanly compare a great man of modern history with Mohammad?

The most famous have only moved weapons, laws, empires; they founded, when they founded anything, only material powers, often crumbling before them. This one not only moved armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, millions of men over a third of the inhabited globe; but he also moved ideas, beliefs, souls. He founded upon a book, of which each letter has become a law, a spiritual nationality embracing people of all languages and races; and made an indelible imprint upon this Muslim nation, for the hatred of false gods and the passion for the God, One and Immaterial.

Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior conqueror of ideas, restorer of a rational dogma for a cult without imagery, founder of twenty earthly empires and of a spiritual empire, this is Mohammad.

Of all the scales by which one measures human grandeur, which man has been greater…”

- Extract from Alphonse de Lamartine’s Histoire de la Turquie, (1854). translation from French, Kenza. my appreciation to Kenza for sharing this.

:: Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) was a French poet and writer revered by many. He is considered one of the first „Romantic“ poets, said to be an inspiration to many after him.

Und die Juden sagen, Esra sei Gottes Sohn, und die Christen sagen, Jesus sei Gottes Sohn. Das ist das Wort aus ihrem Mund. Sie ahmen die Rede derer nach, die vordem ungläubig waren. Gottes Fluch über sie! Wie sind sie doch irregeleitet!

Sie haben sich ihre Pastoren und Mönche zu Herren genommen außer Gott; und Jesus, den Sohn der Maria. Und doch war ihnen geboten worden, allein den Einzigen Gott anzubeten. Es ist kein Gott außer Ihm. Gepriesen sei Er über das, was sie Ihm zur Seite stellen!

Sie wollten Gottes Licht mit ihrem Munde auslöschen; jedoch Gott will nichts anderes, als dass Sein Licht vollendet wird; mag es den Ungläubigen auch zuwider sein.

Er ist es, Der Seinen Gesandten mit der Führung und der wahren Religion geschickt hat, auf dass Er sie über alle anderen Religionen siegen lasse; mag es den Götzendienern auch zuwider sein.

(Dem Edlen Koran, 9/30-33)