Tor Andrae also throws light on the achievements and versatile and vibrant personality of Prophet Muḥammad (peace be upon him). “ The piety which characterizes the sincere believers of the first generation is certainly derived from the basic religious attitude of the Prophet himself.” One need not be especially well disposed to personal quality of a religious proclamation in order to hear the footsteps of these stern watchmen in the fearful warnings of the Prophet, as well as the drastic expressions of his sorrow and per plenty when no one heeds his preaching”. Allah stations watchmen who walk before and behind His Apostle to make sure that he is faithfully transmitting his message. Nor would we have withheld any of you from him’. ‘But if Muḥammad had fabricated any saying concerning us, we had surely seized him by the right hand, and had cut through the vein of his neck. Prophet Muḥammad regarded his call with the utmost sincerity he felt his heart tremble before the King of the Judgment Day, and he responded to His prophetic commission with fear and trembling.

“ It is hard to believe that a man could have won such absolute confidence, or could have made such an impression upon his surroundings, had he not possessed an overwhelming and convincing faith in his own message. Tor Andrae remarks by referring to the genuineness, realness and gentleness of the Prophet Muḥammad’s inspiration. In their inexperienced fashion the thinkers of this period often evaluated the outstanding wisdom and virtue of ancient lawgivers and founders of religions, and stressed the reasonableness of alien faiths, praising them at the expense of Christianity. In his book ‘ Mohammed, the Man and His Faith ’, he remarked that the concept of the period of Enlightenment permitted a just estimate of Prophet Muḥammad’s (peace be upon him) personality. Tor Andrae (1885-1947) was a Swedish scholar of comparative religion and bishop (1936 onwards).

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