Muhammad the Greatest

by Ahmad Deedat

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     ITS STARTING, IS PRECISELY IN A MINORITY
    OF ONE. IN ONE MAN'S HEAD ALONE,
    THERE IT DWELLS AS YET. ONE MAN ALONE
    OF THE WHOLE WORLD BELIEVES IT; THERE IS
    ONE MAN AGAINST ALL MEN. THAT HE TAKE
    A SWORD, AND TRY TO PROPAGATE WITH
    THAT, WILL DO LITTLE FOR HIM. YOU MUST
    FIRST GET YOUR SWORD! ON THE WHOLE, A
    THING WILL PROPAGATE ITSELF AS IT CAN.
    WE DO NOT FIND, OF THE CHRISTIAN
    RELIGION EITHER, THAT IT ALWAYS DIS-
    DAINED THE SWORD, WHEN ONCE IT HAD
    GOT ONE. CHARLEMAGNE'S CONVERSION OF
    THE SAXONS WAS NOT BY PREACHING."
      Heroes and Hero-Worship. p. 80

        At the age of forty when Muhammad {pbuh} declared
    his mission from heaven, there was no political party, or
    royalty, and certainly no family or tribe to back him up. His
    people - the Arabs, immersed in idol-worship and fetishism
    were not by any means a docile people, they were no easy
    meat. They were a very volatile people. given to internecine
    and fratricidal wars: subject to "all kinds of fierce sin-
    cerities - " {Carlyle}. One man, single-handed, to wean such a
    people required nothing short of a miracle. A miracle did
    happen. God alone could have made Islam and Muhammad
    {pbuh} to triumph through with flimsy, gossamer support.
    God fulfilling His promise:
 

And have We not raised
high the esteem in which
thou O Muhammad are
held?

 Holy Quran 94:4

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