Muhammad the Greatest

by Ahmad Deedat

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WIDOW; OLD, AND HAD LOST HER LOOKS:
YOU LOVE ME BETTER THAN YOU DID HER?'
'NO, BY ALLAH!' ANSWERED
MAHOMET: 'NO, BY ALLAH! SHE BELIEVED IN
ME WHEN NONE ELSE WOULD BELIEVE.  IN THE
WHOLE WORLD I HAD BUT ONE FRIEND, AND
SHE WAS THAT!... Heros and Hero-Worship, p. 76  

    It would have been easier to repel the temptation of
the devil than to succumb to the ego of a young, loving,
brilliant and beautiful wife like lady Ayesha Siddiqa.  Why
not let her hear the soft soothing balm of flattery-, it will not
harm anyone.  Even the soul of Bibi Khadija, the mother of
the Faithful, would look light-heartedly at the ruse.  There is
no shamming, no innocent "white lies" with Muhammad
(pbuh).  Traits of this kind show us the genuine man, brother
of us all, brought visible through fourteen centuries, - - -
the veritable son of our common mother.

 'AL AMEEN.  THE FAITHFUL'

3a. "A MAN OF TRUTH AND FIDELITY; TRUE IN
WHAT HE DID, IN WHAT HE SPAKE AND
THOUGHT.  THEY NOTED THAT HE ALWAYS
MEANT SOMETHING.  A MAN RATHER TACI-
TURN IN SPEECH; SILENT WHEN THERE WAS
NOTHING TO BE SAID; BUT PERTINENT WISE,
SINCERE, WHEN HE DID SPEAK; ALWAYS
THROWING LIGHT ON THE MATTER.  THIS IS
THE ONLY SORT OF SPEECH WORTH
SPEAKING!" Heros and Hero-Worship, p. 69  

b. "MAHOMET NATURALLY GAVE OFFENCE TO
THE KOREISH, KEEPERS OF THE KAABAH,
SUPERINTENDENTS OF THE IDOLS.  ONE OR
TWO MEN OF INFLUENCE HAD JOINED HIM:
  

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