“Histoire de la Turquie” -Alphonse Marie Louis De Prat de Lamarttine

Famous Non-Muslims about our Beloved Holy Prophet Muhammad

 [Peace be Upon him]

“Histoire de la Turquie” -Alphonse Marie Louis De Prat de Lamarttine

Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de
Lamartine, chevalier de Pratz  21 October 1790 – 28 February 1869], was a
French writer, poet and politician who was instrumental in the foundation of
the Second Republic.

In his book “Histoire de la
Turquie” [1854], Alphonse de Lamartine writes:

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 Muhammad? 

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, legislation, empires, peoples and dynasties, but
millions of men in one-third 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 the words. Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior,
conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational beliefs, of a cult without images; the
founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is
Muhammad. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, 

We
may well ask, is there any man greater than he.