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By Editorial Staff<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n
\"Prophet<\/a>
Muhammad was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular levels. (Michael H. Hart)<\/p><\/div>\n
Throughout history there have been those who made greatest achievements, whose record is full of wonderful inventions, numerous victories, scientific theories, international influences, etc.<\/p>\n
Those figures may not be many though leaving massively influential works.<\/p>\n
In his list of the most influential persons in History, Michael H. Hart places the Prophet Muhammad<\/a> on the top of his list saying,<\/p>\n
\u201cMy choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world’s most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular levels. Of humble origins, Muhammad founded and promulgated one of the world’s great religions, and became an immensely effective political leader. Today, thirteen centuries after his death, his influence is still powerful and pervasive.\u201d[1]<\/a> Asserting the leadership of Muhammad by all means, R. Bosworth Smith wrote in his noted book Mohammed and Mohammedanism<\/em> describing Prophet Muhammad<\/a>, \u201cHe was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope’s pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports. He cared not for the dressings of power. The simplicity of his private life was in keeping with his public life.”[2]<\/a><\/p>\n
For Muslims, Prophet Muhammad<\/a> is the ever best one. They\u00a0believe that there no other person or creature excels Muhammad by any means whatsoever. He takes preference upon all Prophets, such as Nuh (Noah), Ibrahim (Abraham), Musa (Moses<\/a>), Isa (Jesus<\/a>) and angels<\/a>. He is the best of the best. He is ranking next to God (Allah<\/a>), in terms of love, veneration, esteem and obedience.<\/p>\n
This is a unanimously agreed upon creedal fact in Islam, as proved in a hadith reported by\u00a0Abu Sa`id that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, \u201cI am the master of the children of Adam on the Day of Judgment, and I am not boasting. The Banner of Praise will be in my hand, and I am not boasting. There will not be a Prophet on that day, neither Adam nor anyone other than him, except that he will be under my banner. And I am the first one for whom the earth will be opened for, and I am not bragging.” (At-Tirmidhi<\/a>)<\/p>\n
Glorifying him is, in fact, an Islamic religious duty and part and parcel of the Islamic creed. The Quran<\/a> orders Muslims to hold the Prophet Muhammad in the highest esteem as God<\/a> says,<\/p>\n
Indeed, We have sent you as a witness and a bringer of good tidings and a warner. That you [people] may believe in Allah and His Messenger, and honor him and respect the Prophet, and exalt Allah morning and afternoon.<\/strong> (Al-Fath<\/a> 48:9-10)<\/p>\n
In another verse, the Quran<\/a> considers those who venerate the Prophet (peace be upon him) and follow his orders are the most successful ones. God<\/a> says,<\/p>\n
Those who follow the Messenger, the unlettered prophet, whom they find written in what they have of the Torah and the Gospel, who enjoins upon them what is right and forbids them what is wrong and makes lawful for them the good things and prohibits for them the evil and relieves them of their burden and the shackles which were upon them. So they who have believed in him, honored him, supported him and followed the light which was sent down with him – it is those who will be the successful.<\/strong> (Al-Araf<\/a> 7:157)<\/p>\n
In numerous Qur\u2019anic verses<\/a>, Muslims are ordered to always stick to respect of the Prophet, his statements and affairs and not to exceed the limits while dealing with him.<\/p>\n
The following are some of the features of this reverence to Prophet Muhammad as indicated in the Quan:<\/p>\n