Muhammad the Greatest

by Ahmad Deedat

page 38

    It was Rudyard Kipling who said, "East is East and
    West Is West, never the twain shall meet!" He was
    wrong! In the defence of Muhammad {pbuh}, all, who are
    not blinded by prejudice will converge.
 
    THREE OTHER STANDARDS
 
        Fourteen years after Thomas Carlyle had delivered his
    lecture on his Hero Prophet, a Frenchman by the name of
    Lamartine wrote the history of the Turks. Incidentally, the
    Turks being Muslims, Lamartine touched on some aspects of
    Islam and its founder. Like our Jules Wasserman (see page
    10) of current times, who had conceived three objective
    standards for discovering greatness of leadership; Lamartine
    had over 2 century ago thought of three other objective
    standards for conferring GREATNESS. We must give credit to
    the Westemer for this type of insight. Lamartine opines:
 
  9. IF GREATNESS OF PURPOSE, SMALLNESS OF
    MEANS AND ASTOUNDING RESULTS¹  ARE
    THE THREE CRITERIA OF HUMAN GENIUS, WHO
    COULD DARE TO COMPARE ANY GREAT MAN
    IN MODERN HISTORY WITH MUHUMMED?
    {Lamartine ends his lengthy segment of literary
    masterpiece with the words): . . . PHILO-
    SOPHER, ORATOR, APOSTLE, LEGISLATOR, WAR-
    RIOR, CONQUEROR OF IDEAS, RESTORER OF
    RATIONAL BELIEFS, OF A CULT WITHOUT
    IMAGES: THE FOUNDER OF TWENTY TERRES-
    TRIAL EMPIRES AND OF ONE SPIRITUAL EMPIRE,
    THAT IS MUHUMMED. AS REGARDS ALL
    STANDARDS BY WHICH HUMAN GREATNESS
    MAY BE MEASURED, WE MAY WELL ASK, IS
    THERE ANY MAN GREATER THEN HE?
      Lamartine, "Historie de la Turquie," Paris 1854

 
 1. The full quotation from Lamartine's book will be found in appendix''B" page 61.

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