'AL AMEEN. THE FAITHFUL'
a. "A MAN OF TRUTH AND FIDELITY; TRUE IN WHAT HE DID, IN WHAT HE
SPAKE AND THOUGHT.
THEY NOTED THAT HE ALWAYS MEANT
SOMETHING. A MAN RATHER TACITURN IN SPEECH;
SILENT WHEN THERE WAS NOTHING TO
BE SAID; BUT PERTINENT WISE, SINCERE, WHEN HE DID
SPEAK; ALWAYS THROWING LIGHT ON
THE MATTER. THIS IS THE ONLY SORT OF SPEECH WORTH
SPEAKING!" Heros and
Hero-Worship, p. 69
b.
"MAHOMET NATURALLY GAVE OFFENCE TO THE KOREISH, KEEPERS OF THE
KAABAH,
SUPERINTENDENTS OF THE IDOLS.
ONE OR TWO MEN OF INFLUENCE HAD JOINED HIM:
- “THE THING SPREAD SLOWLY, BUT IT WAS SPREADING, NATURALLY HE GAVE OFFENCE TO EVERYBODY."[The Jews hated the Prophet: the Christians hated the Prophet: the mushriks (the Polytheists) hated the Prophet, and the Munafiqeen (the hypocrites) hated the Prophet. It is the nature of Falsehood to hate the Truth. Light dismisses Darkness, but darkness does not take kindly to light. ] Heros and Hero-Worship, p. 77 c.
"NOT
A MEALYMOUTHED MAN! A CANDID FEROCITY, IF THE CASE CALLS FOR IT, IS
IN HIM; HE DOES
NOT MINCE MATRERS! THE WAR OF TABUC IS A THING HE OFTEN SPEAKS OF: HIS
MEN REFUSED,
MANY OF THEM, TO MARCH ON THAT OCCASION; PLEADED THE HEAT OF THE
WEATHER, THE HARVEST, AND SO
FORTH; HE CAN NEVER FORGET THAT. YOUR HARVEST? IT
LASTS FOR A DAY. WHAT WILL
BECOME OF YOUR HARVEST THROUGH ALL ETERNITY? HOT
WEATHER? YES, IT WAS HOT; 'BUT
HELL WILL BE HOTTER!' SOMETIMES A ROUGH SARCASM
TURNS UP: HE SAYS TO THE
UNBELIEVERS, YE SHALL NOT HAVE SHORT WEIGHT!" Heros and
HeroWorship, p.95/6.
Remember,
Thomas Carlyle uttered these words, and many more to a shocked and
bewildered Christian
audience in England, a hundred
and fifty years ago. History did not record for us the lively
arguments and debates
which his lecture must naturally have caused. He kept to his
promise: "I mean to say all the
good of
him (his Hero Prophet) I
justly can'" and he went on in
his talk to I defend Muhammad (pbuh) against the
false charges, slander and
calumnies of his enemies:
To Be Continued....
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