An Invitation to Peace

An Invitation to Peace
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may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?”
“Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born in
Mecca, in Arabia, the man who, of all men, has exercised the greatest
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influence upon the human race... Mohammed.”
This, then, was the man who brought the Message. It was a clear call to
the human conscience brought by one who was both undeniably
sincere and undeniably sane. What that means therefore is that he had
to be undeniably true in what he brought. He was the Messenger of
God sent to humanity with the same call that all messengers before
him had brought.
People who close themselves to the truth, and decide even before
viewing the evidence that they aren’t going to accept it often end up
having to run in circles to try to avoid facing the truth. Dealing with
Muhammad for those not prepared to accept that he was the
Messenger of God is a good example of this:
“On one hand, there exists a large group of people who have
researched the Qur'an for hundreds of years and who claim, ‘One
thing we know for sure - that man, Muhammad thought he was a
prophet. He was crazy!’ They are convinced that Muhammad was
fooled somehow. Then on the other hand, there is a group which
alleges, ‘Because of this evidence, one thing we know for sure is that
that man, Muhammad was a liar!’…
“In fact, many references to Islam usually claim both theories. They
start out by stating that Muhammad was crazy and then end by saying
he was a liar. They never seem to realize that he could not have been
both! For example, if one is deluded and really thinks that he is a
prophet, then he does not sit up late at night planning, ‘How will I fool
the people tomorrow so that they think I am a prophet?’ He truly
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Lamartine, Historie de la Turquie, Paris, 1854, Vol. i, pp. 276-277. Italics mine.
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John W. Draper, A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, London 1875. Italics mine.
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