Islam Rediscovered
24. A Case of Discovery*
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very existence of those Prophets has been seriously
doubted and even totally denied; but nobody, as far
as I am aware, has ever ventured to reduce the
Prophet Muhammad, may peace be upon him,
either into a “Solar myth” or into a “fairy tale” as
some eminent savants of Europe have done with
Buddha and Christ. Oh! What a relief to find, after
all, a truly historical Prophet to believe in!
As for the Quran, it is not a mere heterogeneous
compilation of a wilderness of stories and
chronicles, of Prophetic rhapsodies and of poetical
biographies, produced at widely different periods
and by widely divergent men, and thrown into one
single mould nobody exactly knows when and how;
but it is, on the contrary, one single Book bearing
the indelible impress of one great Soul to whom
God in His mercy has chosen to reveal it. There is
such a marvelous continuity and uniformity
running throughout the whole Book, that no
impartial critic or fair-minded reader can ever
doubt either its sincerity or authenticity. You may
call it tedious or monotonous, if you like, you may
even point out some of its apparent discrepancies,
but you cannot deny its being exactly the same book
