How could he have carried it on for over ten years at Mecca with little success and countless sorrow, if he had not very deep conviction of the truth of his mission? How could he have dared to preach, inspite of the insults of his countrymen, if he, a man of simple nature, had not been continuously urged on by inner force? Nor do these people stop to ask themselves how could it be that Muhammad could have threatened liars and hypocrites with the eternal fire in the words of the Quran if he had himself been a liar. They forget that Muhammad before he began his mission was highly esteemed by his own countrymen for integrity of conscience and purity of life. “Blinded by hate, the most powerful enemies of Islam have sought to smear the Prophet of God with calumnious charges. Replying to the charges hurled by some Western writers, Prof. While previously man had suffered from the injustices of social differences, Islam proclaimed equality among human being.Įach Muslim was distinguished from other Muslim not by reason of birth or any other factor not connected with his personality, but only by fear of God, his good deeds, his moral and intellectual qualities.” While previously men had obligations of one free man towards other free men. Man became the servant of God alone and towards the other men he had only the obligation of one free man towards other free men.
Priests, false guardians of mysteries, workers of salvation, all those who pretended to be mediators between God and man and consequently believed they had authority over other people’s will fell from their pedestals. “The spirit was liberated from prejudice, man’s will was set free from the ties which had kept it bound to the will of other men or other so-called hidden powers. Referring to the achievements of Prophet Muhammad as a Prophet she says: A Caselli, she has tried to dispel the various accusations and charges levelled against the Holy Prophet by some dishonest and biased writers of the Western world. In her book ‘ An Interpretation of Islam’, translated from Italian by Dr. Laura Veccia Vaglieri, is perhaps the greatest among all the Western admirers of Prophet Muhammad. Veccia Vaglieri served as professor at the Naples Eastern University and was the author of books on the historical and institutional analysis of the Arab and Muslim world. A pioneer of Arabic and Islamic studies in Italy.
Laura Veccia Vaglieri (1893 – 1989) was an Italian orientalist.
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