God Arises
Affirmation of Prophethood
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God. What would be surprising, on the contrary,
would be to refuse to accept him as such. In our
acceptance of him as a prophet, we find an
explanation for his miraculous personality.
Conversely, if we do not accept his prophethood,
we are left with no answer as to the source of his
astonishing qualities, particularly when we know
that in the whole of recorded history, he is
absolutely unique. Bosworth Smith’s words are at
one and the same time a recognition of the reality
and a call to mankind to believe in his prophethood.
“What more crowning proof of his sincerity is
needed? Muhammad to the end of his life claimed
for himself that title only with which he had begun,
and which the highest philosophy and the truest
Christianity will one day, I venture to believe, agree
in yielding to him, that of a Prophet, a very Prophet
of God.”
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NOTES
1.
Man the Unknown
, p. 242.
2.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
, Vol. 12, p. 179.
3.
Man the Unknown
, p. 37.
