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.”
On the other hand, Diwan Chand Sharma, a Hindu scholar wrote [in his book “The Prophets of the East,” Calcutta 1935, p. 122.],
“Muhammad was the soul of kindness, and his influence was felt and never forgotten by those around him.”
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Thomas Carlyle (1795 –1881) was a Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era. He called economics “the dismal science”, wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, and became a controversial social commentator.
On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History also accorded a key function to heroes and great men in history. Carlyle centered history on the biography of a few central individuals.
Thomas Carlyle, in his book (Heroes and Heroworship), was too amazed to say: “how one man single-handedly, could weld warring tribes and wandering Bedouins into a most powerful and civilized nation in less than two decades.”
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