Feelings from the Text:
Admiration: "‘Muhammad’ is the name of the Prophet of Islam. It is one of the most common names in the world today, and simply means ‘the one whom people admire and praise for his morals and good actions.’"
Respect: "During this period (570-609 CE) he came to be known amongst his people as as-saadiq al-ameen (the truthful and trustworthy) because of his honesty and excellent manners."
Conviction: "Then, people of Makkah and of most cities and tribes of the Arabian Peninsula began entering this great religion in hoards, fully convinced that it is the true religion."
Reverence: "These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle. When I closed the second volume of The Prophet’s Biography, I was sorry there was not more for me to read of that great life.” - Mahatma Gandhi
Esteem: "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 levels." - Michael H. Hart
Appreciation: "If the grandeur of the aim, the smallness of the means, the immensity of the results are the three measures of a man’s genius, who would dare humanly compare a great man of modern history with Muhammad?" - Alphonse de Lamartine
Consistency: "Circumstances changed, but the prophet of God did not. In victory or in defeat, in power or in adversity, in affluence or in indigence, he is the same man, disclosed the same character." - Koneru Ramakrishna Rao
Endurance: "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 Medina is preserved, after the revolutions of twelve centuries by the Indian, the African and the Turkish proselytes of the Koran." - Edward Gibbon
