Recently, we have seen false
accusations made against Islam and Muslims in India and Kashmir.
I would like to suggest everyone ignore these hate mongrels who
will go to any length to cause dissention and animosity between
Muslims and Non-Muslims. Let's look at what some well respected
Indians had to say about Islam, Muslim, and their prophet
Muhammad (Peace be upon him):
Mr.
Mahatma Gandhi:
"Someone has said that Europeans in South
Africa dread the advent Islam -- Islam that civilized Spain,
Islam that took the torch light to Morocco and preached to the
world the Gospel of brotherhood. The Europeans of South Africa
dread the Advent of Islam. They may claim equality with the
white races. They may well dread it, if brotherhood is a sin. If
it is equality of colored races then their dread is well
founded."
And in "Young India", he wrote:
"I wanted to know the best of one who
holds today's undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of
mankind....I became more than convinced that it was not the
sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of
life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of
the Prophet, the scrupulous regard for his pledges, his intense
devotion to this friends and followers, his intrepidity, his
fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission.
These and not the sword carried everything before them and
surmounted every obstacle. When I closed the 2nd volume (of the
Prophet's biography), I was sorry there was not more for me to
read of the great life."
Miss. Sarojini Naidu, Poetess, in Ideals
of Islam:
"It was the first religion that preached
and practiced democracy; for in the mosque, when the minaret is
sounded and the worshipers are gathered together, the democracy
of Islam is embodied five times a day when the peasant and the
king kneel side by side and proclaim, God alone is great." The
great poetess of India continues, "I have been struck over and
over again by this indivisible unity of Islam that makes a man
instinctively a brother. When you meet an Egyptian, an Algerian
and Indian and a Turk in London, it matters not that Egypt is
the motherland of one and India is the motherland of another."
Prof. Ramakrishna Rao, in "Muhammad the
Prophet of Islam":
"The personality of Muhammad, it is most
difficult to get into the whole truth of it. Only a glimpse of
it I can catch. What a dramatic succession of picturesque
scenes! There is Muhammad, the Prophet. There is Muhammad, the
Warrior; Muhammad, the Businessman; Muhammad, the Statesman;
Muhammad, the Orator; Muhammad, the Reformer; Muhammad, the
Refuge of Orphans; Muhammad, the Protector of Slaves; Muhammad,
the Emancipator of Women; Muhammad, the Judge; Muhammad, the
Saint. All in all these magnificent roles, in all these
departments of human activities, he is alike a hero." ...
Muhammad is the "Perfect model for human life."
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