Muhammad the Greatestby Ahmad Deedatpage 44
not because you saw the signs,1 but NOTHING TO OFFER Muhammad (pbuh) had no bread nor meat to offer, no sugar-plums of
any kind, in this world or the next! The only thing he could offer his bedraggled,
poor shepherd people was trial and tribulations and the strait-jacketing of their lives
here on earth and the good pleasures of God in the Hereafter. The life of the
Prophet was an open book before them. He had shown them as to what he was; the
nobility of his character, his integrity of purpose, his earnestness and fiery enthusiasm
for the truth he had come to preach revealed the hero; and they followed him. Mr.
Stanley Lane Poole's estimate of our hero is so beautiful and yet so truthful that I
cannot resist the temptation of quoting it here: HE WAS AN ENTHUSIAST IN THAT NOBLEST SENSE WHEN ENTHUSIASM BECOMES THE SALT OF THE EARTH, THE ONE THING THAT KEEPS MEN FROM ROTTING WHILST THEY LIVE. ENTHUSIASM IS OFTEN USED DESPITEFULLY, BECAUSE IT IS JOINED TO AN UNWORTHY CAUSE, OR FALLS UPON BARREN GROUND AND BEARS NO FRUIT. SO WAS IT NOT WITH MOHAMMED. HE WAS AN ENTHUSIAST WHEN ENTHUSIASM WAS THE ONE THING NEEDED TO SET THE WORLD AFLAME, AND HIS ENTHUSIASM WAS NOBLE FOR A NOBLE CAUSE.
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