Thomas Carlyle’s Hero Prophet, “Muhammad” | Ahmed Deedat
In his series of lectures titled Heroes and Hero Worship, Carlyle chose Muhammad ﷺ as his Hero Prophet.
So Sheikh Deedat quotes Thomas Carlyle giving reason as to why the Arab Nation became so great within a few decades after Muhammad, “To the Arab Nation it was as a birth from darkness into light; Arabia first became alive by means of it. A poor shepherd people, roaming unnoticed in its deserts since the creation of the world: a Hero-Prophet was sent down to them with a word they could believe: see, the unnoticed becomes world-notable, the small has grown world-great; within one century afterwards, Arabia is at Grenada on this hand, at Delhi on that;- glancing in valor and splendor and the light of genius, Arabia shines through long ages over a great section of the world. Belief is great, life-giving. The history of a Nation becomes fruitful, soul-elevating, great, so soon as it believes. These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century,— is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what seemed black unnoticeable sand; but lo, the sand proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Grenada! I said, the Great Man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame. ” Thomas Carlyle, Hero as Prophet, Mahomet: Islam
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