"Indeed the Prophet himself was a good role model for you to expect God's grace and the coming of the Hour and many call God." [Al Ahzab: 31]
That is the word of God is the glory of the Prophet Muhammad. Even non-Muslims such as Sir George Bernard Shaw in the book 'The Genuine Islam,' Vol. 1, no. 8, 1936 states that if any religion that will dominate the UK or Europe in the next century may be that is Islam. Muhammad is an amazing person and deserve is the Savior of Man (the Savior of Humanity). So he says.
Mahatma Gandhi, in a statement published in 'Young India, said that '1924 is not a sword to spread Islam. But caring, courage, and faith in the Prophet of God that caused it. When I closed the book the second volume of the Acts of the Prophet Muhammad, I am sorry because there is no longer readable.
And indeed Muhammad who was then his only wife and nephew, Ali, it is not possible to spread Islam with sword. Because of his personality and truth of Islam was so the people rushing to embrace Islam. If there was war, then it is nothing more than self-defense as known that the first 3 major wars like the war of Badr, Uhud and Trench happening in the city where Muslims living in Medina. Similarly Mu'tah war occurred in Arab lands when the Roman army attacked Christians to destroy Islam.
Michael H Hart in the book 'The 100, A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons In History,' New York, 1978 placing the Prophet Muhammad in the first order of 100 most influential people in the world defeating Isaac Newton, Paul, and Jesus.
According to Michael H Hart, most of the great people who are in his book becomes great by accident of birth in developed countries who became the center of the world civilization. Even without them even still, these countries will step forward and there will be many who will replace him to lead the progress is. For example Napoleon Bonaparte who led France to conquer Europe is because France is the European country which is big and strong. Napoleon could not do that if France is a country small and weak. And in the end, Napoleon had failed and died in exile.
Latin America will also remain independent from Spanish colonization though Simon Bolivar did not exist. Will be many other fighters who could replace him. Jesus even though Christianity is the propagator of the first, but he was arrested and crucified by Roman soldiers. The number of followers when Jesus died not many. Paul was the one who succeeded in developing the Christian religion that accepted the Europeans.
Instead, the Prophet Muhammad was born in a backward region. Mecca is the birthplace of the Prophet on the outskirts of a small town far from the center of commerce, arts, and science. As it is a great country is Roman and Persian. There are also Arabs who colonized underdeveloped nation with a population that until now was not a lot and split into different tribes battle each other with each other.
At the time of the Prophet's birth, most Arabs to worship idols. During the first 3 years of the Islamic prophet Muhammad called on family and close friends. Only in the year 613 the Prophet of Islam in public broadcasting that Islam began to spread. Lord of the infidels of Mecca the Prophet Muhammad regarded as a danger and wanted to kill him so the Prophet Muhammad migrated to Medina. After 3 times attack the infidels of Mecca in the battle of Badr, Uhud and Trench fail, the Prophet Muhammad and his followers conquered Mecca in 630 cities. At the time of death in 632 the Prophet Muhammad that many years in the early days of prophetic pagan Quraysh opposed the population within 23 years able to unite the Arabs in Islam.
Arabs are not only able to resist the onslaught of the Roman and Persian armies, even able to conquer it. Until now, the Roman capital, Constantinople, under the leadership of the Islamic state and so renamed Istanbul (Turkey). Similarly, previous Baghdad became the capital of Persia in Iraq an Islamic state.
To remember is that the war made by the Prophet Muhammad is not a bloody battle as the Crusader army that massacred all those Muslims who conquered as in the movie "Kingdom of Heaven." Warfare is done by the Prophet Muhammad as the battle of Badr, Uhud , Trench, and Tabuk because they defend themselves from attack the infidels. War against the Roman empire and Persia, it frees the colony of the kingdom so that they escape the oppression of the Roman empire and Persia. At the time of the conquest of Mecca as there is virtually no bloody wars. But a peaceful surrender.
In the 100 years since the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the Islamic Empire spread from India, Pakistan, Iran, Middle East, North Africa, Albania, Yugoslavia, to Spain. This is one of the greatest empire ever in history. Although Spain dominated again after the 7th century Roman Catholic, but remained in power in the Islamic countries of North Africa, Middle East, Iran, and Pakistan. Islam is not only advanced the political and military. In science suddenly Arabs who formerly backward under Greek or Persian scientist suddenly become a leader. Many Islamic discovery / scientist Arab / Islamic world recognized until now.
For example, the number system used by the world today is Arabic numeral system (Arabic Numeral) replaces the system of Roman numerals (Roman Numeral) is rigid. With Arabic numerals you can write easily 93,567,794,214,698. This figure can not be written with the Roman numeral system. In Microsoft's Encarta encyclopaedia in the world is that Islam is spreading to the West to Spain produced many scientific discoveries such as Arabic numerals:
Arab astronomer (read Muslim astronomers) are also a lot who discovered and named stars such as Aldebaran, Altair, and Deneb. Al-Haytham (Alhacen) which deliver the science Optic also find that stresses scientific method to observations, experiments, and the accurate recording. In short, the Prophet Muhammad is not merely a religious leader or prophet. But he also was a military leader, the leader of the country, and also the development founder science foundations of Islam (the Islamic Golden Age) among Muslims.
No wonder if a non-Muslim like Michael H Hart also admitted the Prophet Muhammad as a man in the world number one beat Jesus and other human beings in the world. If non-Muslims have behaved like that, then the Muslims are in syahadahnya recognize Muhammad as the messenger of God also must admit that Muhammad was the most perfect human being infallible (preserved from the errors). Therefore Muslims must learn siroh / history of the Prophet and following the Sunnah of the Prophet.
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