What they say about Islam

 Let's know what famous people said about Islam

Lady Evelyn Cobbold, daughter of seventh Earl of Dunmore (ca1930):

  “The more I read (about Islam) and the more I studied, the more convinced I became that Islam was the most practical religion , and the one most calculated to solve the world’s many perplexing problems, and bring humanity peace and happiness.”

 Maurice Bucaille, The Bible, the Quran and Science, 1978, p.  125: . . .

“The above observation makes the hypothesis advanced by those who see Muhammad as the author of the Quran untenable.  How could a man, from being illiterate, become the most important author, in terms of literary merits, in the whole of Arabic literature?  How could he then pronounce truths of a scientific nature that no other human being could possibly have developed at that time, and all this without once making the slightest error in his pronouncement on the subject?”

George Bernard Shaw in “The Genuine Islam”:

“I have studied him ( The Prophet Muhammad SAW) — the wonderful man — and in my opinion he must be called the saviour of humanity.”



Carly Fiorina, ex-CEO of Hewlett-Packard:

“And perhaps we can learn a lesson from his example: it was leadership based on meritocracy, not inheritance. It was leadership that harnessed the full capabilities of a very diverse population-that included Christianity, Islamic, and Jewish traditions. This kind of enlightened leadership – leadership that nurtured culture, sustainability, diversity and courage – led to 800 years of invention and prosperity.”

Goethe, quoted in T.P.  Hughes’ Dictionary of Islam, p.  526:

“However often we turn to it [the Quran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence...Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible – ever and anon truly sublime – Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.”

Dr William Draper said, in History of the intellectual Development of Europe:

“During the period of the Caliphs the learned men of the Christians and the Jews were not only held in great esteem but were appointed to posts of great responsibility , and were promoted to the high-ranking job in the government … He (Caliph Haroon Rasheed) never considered to which country a learned person belonged nor his Faith and belief, but only his excellence in the field of learning.”


Sir Thomas Arnold , The Call to Islam:

“We have never heard about any attempt to compel non-Muslim parties to adopt Islam or about any organised persecution aiming at exterminating Christianity. If the Caliphs had chosen one of these plans, they would have wiped out Christianity as easily as what happened to Islam during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella in Spain; by the same method which Louis XIV followed to make Protestantism a creed whose followers were to be sentenced to death; or with the same ease of keeping the Jews away from Britain for a period of 350 years.”


A. J. Toynbee, CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL, New York, 1948, p. 205:
 
“The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.”


R. L. Mellema, Holland, Anthropologist, Writer and scholar :

“Despite the growth of antagonism, Moslem (Muslim) rulers seldom made their Christian subjects suffer for the Crusades. When the Saracens finally resumed the full control of Palestine the Christians were given their former status as dhimmis. The Coptic Church, too had little cause for complaint under Saladin’s (Salahuddin) strong government , and during the time of the earlier Mameluke sultans who succeeded him the Copts experienced more enlightened justice than they had hitherto known. The only effect of the Crusaders upon Egyptian Christians was to keep them for a while from pilgrimage to Jerusalem, for as long as the Frank were in charge heretics were forbidden access to the shrines. Not until the Moslem victories could they enjoy their rights as Christians.”


Malcolm X’s (al-Hajj, Malik al-Shabazz) letter to his assistants in Harlem during his pilgrimage to Makkah in April of 1964:

“There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blondes to black-skinned Africans. But we were all participating in the same ritual, displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood that my experiences in America had led me to believe never could exist between the white and non-white.
America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, and even eaten with people who in America would have been considered white – but the white attitude was removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. I have never before seen sincere and true brotherhood practiced by all colors together, irrespective of their color.”