1. Professor Dr. Hartwig Hirschfeld of London
University.
1.1 The Qur’an is unapproachable, congenial with
regard to convincing power, eloquence and even
composition. Never have a people been led more rapidly
to a civilization, such as it was in the case of
Muslims through the Qur’an.
1.2 The Qur’an was the foundation head of all
sciences.
2. Dr. Sir Tritton of London University.
2.1 In his book “Belief and Practices”, it is said
that Qur’anic beliefs are based on reason. To command
what is right and forbid what is wrong is an article
of faith of the Qur’an.
3. Dr. Albert Einstein’s (eminent scientist), in his
book “Life and Time”, said:
3.1 The most beautiful emotion that we can experience
is mystical. He who is not moved by his emotion is a
stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in
awe, is as good as dead.
3.2 To know what is not understandable really does
exist, is the highest form of wisdom and the most
radiant beauty, which our dull faculties fail to
comprehend. This knowledge, this feeling is at the
center of true religiousness and in this sense, and in
this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly
religious.
3.3 And anyone who does not believe in (a) A Personal
God, (b) Revelations, (c) Messengers, (d) Angels & (e)
The Day of Judgment is not, and cannot be called a
scientist.
4. Goethe, one of the greatest poets, speaking about
the Qur’an, declared that:
4.1 This book will go on exercising through all the
ages a most potent influence.
4.2 We resign ourselves to God. If this be Islam, then
do we not all live in Islam?
5. Dr. Oswald Seengler in his book “History of
Philosophy” said:
5.1 The role of the Qur’an in human history is of
revolutionary importance as it revolted against
ancient Roman & Greek traditions and it was against
all speculative and all abstract nature of things.
5.2 The Qur’an ephasises that Nature and History are
two sources of knowledge for the study and
understanding of concrete signs and natural phenomena.
6. Professor Arberry of Cambridge University in his
book, “The Qur’an Interpreted”, said:
6.1 The Qur’an was revealed at a time when Greek and
Roman civilizations were plainly dead. The Qur’anic
people created their own sciences and arts.
7. Professor Will Durrant said :
7.1 The Qur’an has abolished the greatest misery from
humanity at large by the abolition of the priesthood.
What a tremendous amounts of misery that this
institution of priesthood can cause in the
administrative and ecclesiastical history of mankind.
7.2 In the “History of Civilization”, he said: “The
false bogey and notions raised and sustained by biased
Western writers against Islam, in preference to
Christianity, are now being exposed by many Western
writers and thinkers who have studied Islam and the
Qur’an in detail.
8. Carnegie Research. Washington Publication No. 376
said:
8.1 From the 8th to 12th century, the European
language was Arabic. From 850 AD to 1250 AD Arabic was
the scientific and progressive language of mankind
because the whole history of science is proof to it.
Muslims were fired by enthusiastic curiosity and
scientific genius. Muslim culture radiated from number
of centers which were spread in Western Europe,
Maghrib and Central Asia. They related to mathematics,
astronomy, chemistry, physics, technology, geography,
medicine and botany. During the years 750 AD to 11oo
AD, Islam produced men like Al Batair – the botanist,
Abdul Latif the physician, Jbir Ibn Hayyan, Al-Kundi,
Al-Khawarizmi, Ibn Sina, Al-Mass’oodi, Al-Ghazali,
Umar Kyayyam and Al-Jarra to mention a few.
9. Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in ‘En-Islam” said:
9.1 I hope the time is not far off when I shall be
able to unite all wise men and educated men of all
countries on the principles of the Qur’an which alone
are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.
9.2 The Qur’anic people were fond of sciences and
literature. In Cairo there were 6000 books on
astronomy alone and more than one hundred thousand on
mathematics, physics, chemistry and medicine.
9.3 But many shameless plagiarists claimed for
themselves the Arabic Works, which they translated
into Latin and named after themselves. Many Muslim
authors’ names were Latinized to hide the original
identification.
9.4 And the Qur’an was studied in many universities of
Europe.
10. Professor Max Mayer of Paris University in French
Research Le Monde Islamique said:
10.1 The scientific, economic, political, social and
literary concepts were given to Europe by the Qur’anic
civilization.
10.2 There were about 1000 main words of Arabic Origin
in the English language and there are many derivatives
from these words.
10.3 If history is to be studied unbiased, linguistic
evidence can be found to show that there are about 100
words of Qur’anic origin in technical usage alone.
11. Professor Arnold J. Toynbee said:
11.1 The extinction of race consciousness is one of
the outstanding achievements of the Qur’an and in the
contemporary world, there is a crying need for the
propagation of this Qur’anic virtue. The Spirit of
Islam may decide the issue with peace and tolerance.
11.2 Western civilization has produced an economic and
political plenum but at the same time it has caused a
social and spiritual void.
12. Michael H. Hart in his book ‘Ranking of 100 Most
Influential Persons in History’ , He has placed
Muhammad on top of the list. He has placed Eesa at
position no. 3 and Gautama Buddha at no. 4. He has
placed Musa at no. 16. His reasoning is :
12.1 I have ranked these 100 great persons in order of
importance.
12.2 A striking example of this is in ranking of
Muhammad higher than Jesus Christ, because of my
belief that Muhammad had a much greater influence on
the formation of the Muslim Religion.
12.3 This unparalleled combination of secular and
religious influence which I feel entitles Muhammad to
be considered the most influential single figure in
human history.
12.4 In ranking the men and women in this book, I have
considered the influence that their accomplishments
may have on future generations and events.
12.5 Since the Qur’an is as important to the Muslims
as the Bible is to the Christians, the influence of
Muhammad through the medium of the Qur’an has been
enormous. It is probable that the relative influence
of Muhammad on Islam has been larger than the combined
influence of Jesus Christ and St. Paul on
Christianity.
13. George Bernard Shaw in his book, “Whither Islam”
said:
13.1 No other religion has had such a record of
success in uniting, in giving equality status, of
opportunity and endeavors to so many and so varied
races of mankind as Islam did.
13.2 I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad
that it would be acceptable tomorrow as it is
beginning to be acceptable to the Europe today.
Medieval Ecclesiastics, either through ignorance or
bigotry, painted Muhammadanism (Islam) in the darkest
colours. They were, in fact, trained to hate the man
and his religion. To them, he was anti Christ. I have
studied him, the wonderful man, and in my opinion, far
from being anti Christ, he must be called the Savior
of Humanity. I believe that if a man like him were to
assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would
succeed in solving the problems in a way that would
bring its much needed peace and happiness. Europe is
beginning to be enamoured by the creed of Muhammad. In
the next century it may go still further in solving
its problems, and it is in this sense that you must
understand my prediction.
14. Professor Bosworth said:
14.1 Call him the greatest of the reformers, because
he brought a revolutionary change, the equal of which
was never in effect either before him or after him. He
is the most successful of all Prophets and religious
personalities.
15. Professor Gibbon, a world historian said:
15.1 The greatest success of Muhammad’s life was
through sheer moral force without a first stroke of a
sword. This is confirmed by the Qur’an and by the
history of Muslim conquerors and by their public and
legal toleration of Christian worship.
16. Professor Nassignon said:
16.1 Islam maintains the balance between the
exaggerated opposites. It has in view always the
building of character, which is the basis of
civilization.
16.2 Orphanages had sprung up for the first time, it
is said, under the teaching of Prophet Muhammad, the
Prophet of Islam. The world owes its orphanages to
this Prophet who himself was born an orphan.
17. The Encyclopedia Britannica says:
17.1 Muhammad is the most successful of all Prophets
and religious personalities.
18. Sarojini Naidu said:
18.1 It was the first religion that preached and
practiced democracy. For, in the mosque, when the call
to prayer is sounded at the minaret and the
worshippers are gathered together, the democracy of
Islam is embodied five times a day when the peasant
and the King kneel side to side and proclaim – “Allah
Alone is Great.”
19. Mahatma Ghandi said:
19.1 It was Islam that civilized Spain, it was Islam
that took the torch of light to Morocco and preached
to the world the doctrine of brotherhood and therefore
Europeans of South Africa dread the advent of Islam as
the Blacks may claim equality with the white races.
20. Professor Hurgronje said:
20.1 The league of nations founded by the Prophet of
Islam put the principle of International Unity and
human brotherhood on such universal foundations as to
show a candle to other nations.
21. Professor K.S. Ramakrishna of Mysore said:
21.1 Islam came as the depender of the weaker sex and
entitled women to a share in the inheritance of their
parents. It gave women, 14 centuries ago, the right to
own property. Yet it was 12 centuries later, in 1881
that England, supposedly the ‘cradle of democracy’,
adopted this institution of Islam and an Act of
Parliament was passed called: “The Married Women’s
Act” that gave them the right to inheritance.
22. Laura Veccia Varlieri in the book, “Apologie de
L’Islamisme” said:
22.1 The proof of the divinity of the Qur’an is that
it has been preserved intact throughout the ages since
the time of revelation till the present day – read and
re-read by the Muslim world. This book does not rouse
in the faithful any weariness. It rather, through
repetition, is more loved everyday. It give rise to a
profound feeling of awe and respect in one who reads
it or listens to it.
23. Dr. Tarachand, a distinguished scholar and
historian of India said:
23.1 For a thousand years this civilization (i.e. the
Muslim) was the central light whose rays illuminated
the world. It was the mother of European culture, for
men reared in this Islamic civilization were the
masters in the middle ages at whose feet the
Spaniards, the French, the English, the Italians and
the Germans sat down to learn philosophy, sciences,
mathematics, astrology, chemistry, physics, medicines
and industrial techniques. Their teachers names are
household words. (Address at Osmania University,
Hyderabad, Deccan 1964. P.23).
24. Maurice Bucaille, a French scientist, in his book,
“The Bible, the Qur’an and Science” said:
24.1 The Qur’an most definitely did not contain a
single proposition at variance with the most firmly
established modern knowledge – it is a consideration
which implies that God could not express an erroneous
idea. Facts always assert their existence in the end,
in spite of the resistance put up by those who are
inconvenienced, anooyed or shocked by their discovery.
25. A.M.L. Stoddard said:
25.1 The rise of Islam is perhaps the most amazing
event in human history. Springing from a land and a
people who were previously negligible, Islam spread
within the century over half the earth, shattering
great empires, overthrowing long-established
religions, remolding the souls of races and building
up a whole new world – the world of Islam.
26. James A. Michener said:
26.1 The Qur’an is probably the most often read book
in the world, surely the most often memorized and
possibly the most influential in the daily life of the
people who believe in it. It is neither poetry nor
ordinary prose, yet it possesses the ability to arouse
its hearers to ecstasies.
27. Annie Besant, in her book “Life and Teachings of
Muhammad” said:
27.1 It is impossible for anyone who studies the life
and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, to feel
anything else but reverence for that mighty Arabian
Teacher.