English author Thomas Carlyle in his 'Heroes and Hero Worship', was simply amazed:

How one man single handedly, could weld warring tribes and wandering Bedouins into a most powerful and civilized nation in less than two decades.

And Diwan Chand Sharma wrote in The Prophets of the East:

Muhammad was the soul of kindness, and his influence was felt and never forgotten by those around him
[D.C. Sharma, The Prophets of the East, Calcutta, 1935, pp. 12]


Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, was nothing more or less than a human being, but he was a man with a noble mission, which was to unite humanity on the worship of ONE and ONLY ONE GOD and to teach them the way to honest and upright living based on the commands of God. He always described himself as, 'A Servant and Messenger of God' and so indeed every action of his proclaimed to be.


Speaking on the aspect of equality before God in Islam, the famous poetess of India, Sarojini Naidu says:

It was the first religion that preached and practiced democracy; for, in the mosque, when the call for prayer is sounded and worshippers are gathered together, the democracy of Islam is embodied five times a day when the peasant and king kneel side by side and proclaim: 'God Alone is Great'... I have been struck over and over again by this indivisible unity of Islam that makes man instinctively a brother.
[S. Naidu, Ideals of Islam, vide Speeches & Writings, Madras, 1918, p. 169]