WHAT DO HINDU SCHOLAR SAY ABOUT ISLAM?
Recently, we have seen
false accusations made
against Islam and Muslims
in India and Kashmir. I
would like to suggest
everyone ignore these
hate mongrels who will
go to any length to cause
dissention and animosity
between Muslims and
Non-Muslims. Let's look at
what some well respected
Indians had to say about
Islam, Muslim, and their
prophet Muhammad
(Peace be upon him):
Mr. Mahatma Gandhi:
"Someone has said that
Europeans in South Africa
dread the advent Islam --
Islam that civilized Spain,
Islam that took the torch
light to Morocco and
preached to the world the
Gospel of brotherhood.
The Europeans of South
Africa dread the Advent of
Islam. They may claim
equality with the white
races. They may well
dread it, if brotherhood is
a sin. If it is equality of
colored races then their
dread is well founded."
And in "Young India", he
wrote:
"I wanted to know the
best of one who holds
today's undisputed sway
over the hearts of millions
of mankind....I became
more than convinced that
it was not the sword that
won a place for Islam in
those days in the scheme
of life. It was the rigid
simplicity, the utter self-
effacement of the Prophet,
the scrupulous regard for
his pledges, his intense
devotion to this friends
and followers, his
intrepidity, his
fearlessness, his absolute
trust in God and in his
own mission. These and
not the sword carried
everything before them
and surmounted every
obstacle. When I closed
the 2nd volume (of the
Prophet's biography), I
was sorry there was not
more for me to read of the
great life."
Miss. Sarojini Naidu,
Poetess, on Ideals of
Islam:
"It was the first religion
that preached and
practiced democracy; for
in the mosque, when the
minaret is sounded and
the worshipers are
gathered together, the
democracy of Islam is
embodied five times a day
when the peasant and the
king kneel side by side
and proclaim, God alone is
great." The great poetess
of India continues, "I have
been struck over and over
again by this indivisible
unity of Islam that makes
a man instinctively a
brother. When you meet
an Egyptian, an Algerian
and Indian and a Turk in
London, it matters not
that Egypt is the
motherland of one and
India is the motherland of
another."
Prof. Ramakrishna Rao,
in "Muhammad the
Prophet of Islam":
"The personality of
Muhammad, it is most
difficult to get into the
whole truth of it. Only a
glimpse of it I can catch.
What a dramatic
succession of picturesque
scenes! There is
Muhammad, the Prophet.
There is Muhammad, the
Warrior; Muhammad, the
Businessman; Muhammad,
the Statesman;
Muhammad, the Orator;
Muhammad, the Reformer;
Muhammad, the Refuge of
Orphans; Muhammad, the
Protector of Slaves;
Muhammad, the
Emancipator of Women;
Muhammad, the Judge;
Muhammad, the Saint. All
in all these magnificent
roles, in all these
departments of human
activities, he is alike a
hero." ... Muhammad is the
"Perfect model for human
life."
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Recently, we have seen
false accusations made
against Islam and Muslims
in India and Kashmir. I
would like to suggest
everyone ignore these
hate mongrels who will
go to any length to cause
dissention and animosity
between Muslims and
Non-Muslims. Let's look at
what some well respected
Indians had to say about
Islam, Muslim, and their
prophet Muhammad
(Peace be upon him):
Mr. Mahatma Gandhi:
"Someone has said that
Europeans in South Africa
dread the advent Islam --
Islam that civilized Spain,
Islam that took the torch
light to Morocco and
preached to the world the
Gospel of brotherhood.
The Europeans of South
Africa dread the Advent of
Islam. They may claim
equality with the white
races. They may well
dread it, if brotherhood is
a sin. If it is equality of
colored races then their
dread is well founded."
And in "Young India", he
wrote:
"I wanted to know the
best of one who holds
today's undisputed sway
over the hearts of millions
of mankind....I became
more than convinced that
it was not the sword that
won a place for Islam in
those days in the scheme
of life. It was the rigid
simplicity, the utter self-
effacement of the Prophet,
the scrupulous regard for
his pledges, his intense
devotion to this friends
and followers, his
intrepidity, his
fearlessness, his absolute
trust in God and in his
own mission. These and
not the sword carried
everything before them
and surmounted every
obstacle. When I closed
the 2nd volume (of the
Prophet's biography), I
was sorry there was not
more for me to read of the
great life."
Miss. Sarojini Naidu,
Poetess, on Ideals of
Islam:
"It was the first religion
that preached and
practiced democracy; for
in the mosque, when the
minaret is sounded and
the worshipers are
gathered together, the
democracy of Islam is
embodied five times a day
when the peasant and the
king kneel side by side
and proclaim, God alone is
great." The great poetess
of India continues, "I have
been struck over and over
again by this indivisible
unity of Islam that makes
a man instinctively a
brother. When you meet
an Egyptian, an Algerian
and Indian and a Turk in
London, it matters not
that Egypt is the
motherland of one and
India is the motherland of
another."
Prof. Ramakrishna Rao,
in "Muhammad the
Prophet of Islam":
"The personality of
Muhammad, it is most
difficult to get into the
whole truth of it. Only a
glimpse of it I can catch.
What a dramatic
succession of picturesque
scenes! There is
Muhammad, the Prophet.
There is Muhammad, the
Warrior; Muhammad, the
Businessman; Muhammad,
the Statesman;
Muhammad, the Orator;
Muhammad, the Reformer;
Muhammad, the Refuge of
Orphans; Muhammad, the
Protector of Slaves;
Muhammad, the
Emancipator of Women;
Muhammad, the Judge;
Muhammad, the Saint. All
in all these magnificent
roles, in all these
departments of human
activities, he is alike a
hero." ... Muhammad is the
"Perfect model for human
life."
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