Caesar and Pope in One

Hi friends, hope you are aware of the speciality of this month. Yea, we are in the holy month ramzan. I would like to write something related to Islam in the honor of this month. Let it be about the great man, Prophet Muhammed, peace be upon him.

I think you puzzled reading the heading, these are not the words of tiger; but of the famous british writer Bosworth Smith. Who wrote:

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 Mohammed, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports.

Since I am writing this blog from France, it will not be worth if we ignore the words of LaMartin, the famous French historian and writer. Let’s translate his words about Prophet Muhammed in his famous book (in French) “Histoire de la Turquie”. He wonders:

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 modern history with Muhammed? 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, legislations, empires, peoples and dynasties, but millions of men in 1/3 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 two-fold, 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 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 Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?”

Hope this post will help you to think about learning more about this great man, who came as the mercy/blessing to all the worlds. Wish you a very happy ramzan.