R. Bosworth Smith, a renowned British writer and author, writes about the sublime status of the Noble Prophet Muhammad:
“It was Muhammad, who was head of the State as well as of the Church, he was Caesar and Pope in one: but he was a Pope without the Pope’s pretensions, and Caesar without the legions of Caesar. Without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without the palace, without a fixed revenue, if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by a right Divine, it was Muhammad, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports.”1
He further writes:
“By a fortune absolutely unique in history, Mohammed is a threefold founder of a nation, of an empire, and of a religion. Illiterate himself, scarcely able to read or write, he was yet the author* of a book which is a poem, a code of laws, a Book of Common Prayer, and a Bible in one, and is reverenced to this day by a sixth of the whole human race as a miracle of purity of style, of wisdom, and of truth. It was the one miracle claimed by Mohammed — his ‘standing miracle’ he called it; and a miracle indeed it is.”2
**Muhammad is not the author of Qur’an, rather it is a revelation from Allah on His Greatest and Final Messenger Muhammad through Angel Jibrael.
- Islamic History
- Life of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
- Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
