Muhummed is the most successful of all Prophets and religious personalities.

- Encyclopaedia Britannica,
11th Edition.

By a fortune absolutely unique in history, Mohammed is a threefold founder of a nation, of an empire, and of a religion.

- Rev. R. Bosworth-Smith
Mohammed and Mohammedanism 1946.

Head of the State as well as the Church. He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue. If ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammad, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports. He care not for the dressing of power. The simplicity of his private life was in keeping with his public life.

- Rev. R. Bosworth Smith
Mohammed and Mohammedanism, London, p 92.

Muhammad was the soul of kindness, and his influence was felt and never forgotten by those around him.

- Diwan Chand Sharma,
The Prophets of the East, Calcutta 1935, P.122.

Michael H. Hart put Muhummed (PBUH) No. 1 on his list and his own Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (PBUH) No. 3. William Mcneill considers Muhummed (PHUB) as worthy of Honour in his list of the three names of his. James Gavin puts Muhummed (PBUH) before Christ. James Masserman adjudges Muhummed (PBUH) No. 1 and his own Hero Moses (PBUH) a close second.

- Ahmed Deedat,
"Muhummed (PBUH) the Greatest" p. 13-14

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.

- Michael H. Hart
The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History,
New York: Hart Publishing Company Inc. 1978, p 33.

If a man like Muhammed were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would suceed in solving its problems that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness.

- George Bernard Shaw

I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.

- George Bernard Shaw
in "The Genuine Islam"

In the person of the prohphet of Islam the world has seen the rarest phenomenon on earth, walking in flesh and blood.

- Professor K.S. Ramakrishna Rao
"Muhummed - The Prophet of Islam"

I doubt whether any man whose external conditions changed so much ever changed himself less to meet them.

- R.V.C. Bodley
"The Messenger", London 1946, p 9

People like Pasteur and Salk are leaders in the first sense. People like Gandhi and Confucius, on one hand, and Alexander, Caesar and Hitler on the other, are leaders in the second and perhaps the third sense. Jesus and Buddha belong in the third category alone. Perhaps the greatest leader of all times are Mohammed, who combimed all three functions. To a lesser degree, Moses did the same.

- Professer Jules Masserman

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astounding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modem history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws and empires only They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes This man moved not only armies, legislation, empires, peoples and dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then-inhabited world; and more than that he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and souls.... His forbearance in victory, his ambition which was entirely devoted to one idea and in no manner striving for an empire, his endless prayers, his mystic conversations with God, his death and his triumph after death-all these attest not to an imposture but to a firm conviction which gave him the power to restore a dogma. This dogma was twofold: the unity of God and the immateriality of God; the former telling what God is, the latter telling what God is not; the one overthrowing false gods with the sword, the other starting an idea with the words. Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images; the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammad. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?

- Lamartine
Histoire de la Turquie, Pans 1854, Vol. 11, pp. 276-77.

It is not the propagation but the permanency of his religion that deserves our wonder; the same pure and perfect impression which he engraved at Mecca and Madina is preserved, after the revolutions of twelve centuries by the Indian, the African and the Turkish proselytes of the Koran... The Mahometans have uniformly withstood the temptation of reducing the object of their faith and devotion to a level with the senses and imagination of man. I believe in One God and Mahomet is the Apostle of God' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image of the Deity has never been degraded by any visible idol; the honors of the prophet have never transgressed the measure of human virtue; and his living precepts have restrained the gratitude of his disciples within the bounds of reason and religion.

- Edward Gibbon and Simon Ocklay
History of the Saracen Empire, London 1870, p 54.

It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, one of the great messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel whenever I re-read them, a new way of admiration, a new sense of reverence for
that mighty Arabian teacher.

- Annie Besant
The Life and Teachings of Muhammad, Madras 1932, p 4

His readiness to undergo persecution for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement all argue his fundamental integrity To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems than it solves. Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad.

- W Montgomery Watt
Mohammad At Mecca, Oxford, 1953, p 52.

Muhammad, the inspired man who founded Islam, was born about AD. 570 into an Arabian tube that worshipped idols. Orphaned at birth, he was always particularly solicitous of the poor and needy the widow and the orphan, the slave and the downtrodden. At twenty he was already a successful businessman, and soon became director of camel caravans for a wealthy widow. When he reached twenty-five his employer, recognizing his meet, proposed marriage. Even though she was fifteen years older, he married her, and as long as she lived remained a devoted husband. Like almost every major prophet before him, Muhammad fought shy of serving as the transmitter of God's word, sensing his own inadequacy But the angel commanded Read'. So far as we know, Muhammad was unable to read or write, but he began to dictate those inspired words which would soon revolutionize a large segment of the earth: "There is one God." In all things Muhammad was profoundly practical. When his beloved son Ibrahim died, an eclipse occurred, and rumors of God's personal condolence quickly arose. Whereupon Muhammad is said to have announced,' An eclipse is a phenomenon of nature. It is foolish to attribute such things to the death or birth of a human-being." At Muhammads own death an attempt was made to deify him, but the man who was to become his administrative successor killed the hysteria with one of the noblest speeches in religious history: 'If there are any among you who worshipped Muhammad, he is dead. But if it is God you worshipped, He lives for ever'.

- James A. Michene~
"Islam: The Misunderstood Religion,"
Reader's Digest (Amencan ea.) May 1955, pp. 68-70.

Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born in Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race... Mohammed...

- John William Draper, M.D., L.L.D.,
A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, London 1875,
Vol 1, pp. 329-330.

In little more than a year he was actually the spiritual, nominal and temporal ruler of Medina, with his hands on the lever that was to shake the world.

- John Austin, "Muhammad The Prophet of Allah,"
in T.P.'s and Cassel's weekly for 24th September 1927.