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The Apostle of Islam 1
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Reign of God upon
the earth.
"
Behind the
quiet and unobtrusive exterior," writes Sir
William Muir, u lay hid a resolve, a strength
and fixedness of will, a sublime determination,
destined to achieve the marvellous
work of bowing towards himself the heart
of all Arabia as the heart of one man."
There is, to the sympathetic
student of his
life, nothing wonderful in the hold which
.
Muhammad took upon his followers. | He
mastered men by the force of his iron will,
and then won them by the force of his
noble and generous nature._J
Many words have been wasted upon the Character
problems of the character of this sixthcentury
Prophet, and it is not intended to
enter upon them here. It must be remembered
that if the vision of Muhammad
was world-wide while his personal life
remained at the limit of his time and his
isolated race, there are not lacking
similar
examples elsewhere of great
leaders whose
private lives we explain by their generation
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