Muhammad the Greatest

by Ahmad Deedat

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MOST CERTAINLY, YOU HAVE
IN THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH ¹
AN EXCELLENT PATTERN (OF BEHAVIOUR)

Holy Quran 33:21

JESUS (PBUH) No. 3!

Hart placing the Prophet of Islam as No. 1, has naturally
pleased the Muslims.  But his choice has shocked the
Non-Muslims, more specially the Jews and the Christians,
who consider this as an affront.  What?  Jesus (pbuh) No. 3 and
Moses (pbuh) No. 40! This is for them very difficult to stomach,
but what says Hart?  Let us hear his arguments -

SINCE THERE ARE ROUGHLY TWICE² AS MANY
CHRISTIANS IN THE WORLD, IT MAY INITIALLY
SEEM STRANGE THAT MUHAMMAD HAS BEEN
RANKED HIGHER THAN JESUS. THERE ARE TWO
PRINCIPAL REASONS FOR THAT DECISION.

FIRST, MUHAMMAD PLAYED A FAR MORE
IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF
ISLAM THAN JESUS DID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF
CHRISTIANITY.
ALTHOUGH JESUS WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
MAIN ETHICAL AND MORAL PRECEPTS OF
CHRISTIANITY (INSOFAR AS THESE DIFFERED FROM
JUDAISM), ST.  PAUL WAS THE MAIN DEVELOPER
OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY, ITS PRINCIPAL

 1. Allah:  A proper noun for God Almighty in the Semitic languages: i.e. in the languages
of Moses , Jesus and Muhammad (Peace be on them all). For more details obtain
"What Is His name?" from the I.P.C.I.
 2.  The latest estimate is that there are one thousand million Muslims in the world and
one thousand two hundred million Christians.

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