The Holy prophet Muhammad peace be upon him! This reserved and quiet man who, for 40 years, had given no indication of political interest or activity, suddenly appeared on the world stage as such a great statesman that, without the aid of modern media or telecommunications, he united the scattered inhabitants of a 1.2 million square mile desert—a people who were warlike, ignorant, unruly, uncultured, and plunged in internecine tribal warfare—under one banner, law, religion, culture, civilization,and form of government. Sir William Muir, no friend of Islam, admits: The first peculiarity, then, which attracts our attention is the subdivision of the Arabs into innumerable bodies... each independent of the others: restless and often at war amongst themselves; and even when united by blood or by interest, ever ready on some significant cause to separate and give way to an implacable hostility. Thus at the era of Islam the retrospect of Arabian history exhibits, as in the kaleidoscope, anever-varying state of combination andrepulsion, such as had hitherto rendered abortive any attempt at a general union... The problem had yet to be solved, by what force these tribes could be subdued or drawn to one common center; and it was solved by Muhammad pbuh
Posted on: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 16:09:15 +0000
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