Muhammad Quotes

• The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Men, Slander

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• That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fate, Differences, Generations

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.589, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Islamic, Men, Humanity

  Interview (April 1935), as quoted in "The Genuine Islam", Vol. 1, January 1936.

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• I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One.

  Rumi

  Dust, Long, Path

  "Rumi and Self-Discovery" by Ibrahim Gamard, Islamica Magazine Issue 15, Summer 2005.

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• Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Army, Men

  "Campagnes d'Egypte et Syrie", Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, (p. 275), translated by John Tolan in "European Accounts of Muhammad's Life", 1998.

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• In any case, [y]ou can't teach a monkey to speak and you can't teach an Arab to be democratic. You're dealing with a culture of thieves and robbers. Muhammad, their prophet, was a robber and a killer and a liar. The Arab destroys everything he touches.

  Moshe Feiglin

  Liars, Thieves, Culture

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• If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known.

  Karen Armstrong

  Views, Historical, Important

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• Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one regarded by any section of the human race as Perfect Man has ever been imitated so minutely.The conduct of the founder of Christianity has not governed the ordinary life of his followers. Moreover, no founder of a religion has left on so solitary an eminence as the Muslim apostle.

  David George Hogarth

  Memories, Men, Race

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• Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Secret, Doe, Messengers

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• Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end.

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Legacy, Movement

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• We are free to burn the Qur’an or any other book, and to criticize Muhammad or any other human being. Let no one forget it.

  Sam Harris

  Book, Forget, Criticize

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• When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

  Tony Campolo

  Evil, Islam, Ashamed

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• If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Mean, Greatness, Men

  "Histoire de la Turquie", Volume 1, (p. 277), 1854.

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• Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Men, People

  "Précis des guerres de César, écrit à Sainte-Hélène sous la dictée de l'empereur" edited by Comte Marchand, (p. 237), 1836.

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• Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.

  Abu Dawood

  Wisdom, Religious, Peace

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• The Koran is a not 'a product of Muhammad or even of Arabia,' but a collection of earlier Judeo-Christian liturgical materials stitched together to meet the needs of a later age...A few scholars go even further, doubting even the existence of Muhammad.

  Daniel Pipes

  Christian, Doubt, Together

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• Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.

  Deepak Chopra

  Betrayal, Adventure, Self

  "Understanding Deepak Chopra’s Vision Of Muhammad". Interview with Nicole Neroulias, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2010.

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• It is not difficult to destroy Islam. Islam is the pumped up ego of a megalomaniac psychopath. Muhammad was a narcissist madman. Just as a huge balloon can be deflated by a small needle, all it takes to make Islam explode is to ridicule its loony inventor and its brainless followers.

  Ali Sina

  Ego, Islam, Followers

  Source: myislam.dk

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• I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach.

  Deepak Chopra

  Jesus, Exalted

  "Understanding Deepak Chopra’s Vision Of Muhammad". Interview with Nicole Neroulias, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2010.

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• People need to learn how to respond to each other's hatreds with love - which is what Jesus taught us, which is what Buddha came here to teach us, which is what Muhammad taught us, which is what all of the great spiritual masters who have ever walked among us who live at those highest energies taught us - responding to force with more force will just create more problems.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Jesus, Taught Us

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• His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all argue his fundamental integrity. To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems than it solves. Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad.

  William Montgomery Watt

  Integrity, Character, Greatness

  "Mohammad at Mecca". Book by William Montgomery Watt, p. 52, 1953.

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• The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Do not turn away a poor man...even if all you can give is half a date. If you love the poor and bring them near you...God will bring you near Him on the Day of Resurrection."

  Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi

  Positive, Men, Giving

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• The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing."

  Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi

  Positive, Mistake, Leader

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• If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Eye, Mean, Army

  "Histoire de la Turquie", Volume 1, (p. 277), 1854.

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• There are two things that are hard to hit and see. That's a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Two, Ghost

  Twitter post from May 04, 2011

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