WHO WROTE THE QURAN

Let us begin with the greatest social philosopher of Victorian England,Thomas Carlyle.Thomas Carlyle - Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History London1841:…. As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans, I meanto say all the good of him I justly can....When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of thepigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet’s ear, and pass for an angeldictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof! ....A greater number of God’s creatures believe in Mahomet’s word at thishour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was amiserable piece of spiritual legerdemain [trick], this which so manycreatures of the almighty have lived by and died by? ....A poor, hard-toiling, ill-provided man; careless of what vulgar men toil for.Not a bad man, I should say; Something better in him than hunger of anysort, — or these wild Arab men, fighting and jostling three-and-twentyyears at his hand, in close contact with him always, would not revere himso! They were wild men bursting ever and anon into quarrel, into all kindsof fierce sincerity; without right worth and manhood, no man could havecommanded them. They called him prophet you say? Why he stood thereface to face with them; bare, not enshrined in any mystery; visibly cloutinghis own cloak, cobbling his own shoes; fighting, counseling, ordering inthe midst of them: they must have seen what kind of man he was, let himbe called what you like! No emperor with his tiaras was obeyed as this manin a cloak of his own clouting. During three-and-twenty years of roughactual trial, I find something of a veritable Hero necessary for that, ofitself...These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if aspark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder,blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said the Great man was alwaysas lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, andthen they too would flame...The lies [Western slander] which well-meaning zeal has heaped round thisman [Muhammad] are disgraceful to ourselves only. He was a great soul,one of that who cannot but be earnest. He was to kindle the world; theworld’s Maker had ordered so …. A man of truth and fidelity, true in whathe did, in what he spake and thought—this is the only sort of speech worthspeaking.A. S. Tritton - Islam 1951:The picture of the Muslim soldier advancing with a sword in one hand andthe Quran in the other is quite false.De Lacy O’Leary - Islam at the Crossroads London 1923:25