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sardarzada11 · #9 Thursday, June 22, 2006

THE THING SPREAD SLOWLY, BUT IT WAS
SPREADING, NATURALLY HE GAVE OFFENCE
TO EVERYBODY."1 Heros and Hero-Wotship, p. 77 c. "NOT A MEALYMOUTHED MAN! A CANDID
FEROCITY, IF THE CASE CALL FOR IT, IS IN
HIM; HE DOES NOT MINCE MATRERS! THE
WAR OF TABUC IS A THING HE OFTEN
SPEAKS OF: HIS MEN REFUSED, MANY OF
THEM, TO MARCH ON THAT OCCASION;
PLEADED THE HEAT OF THE WEATHER, THE
HARVEST, AND SO FORTH; HE CAN NEVER
FORGET THAT. YOUR HARVEST? IT LASTS FOR
A DAY. WHAT WILL BECOME OF YOUR
HARVEST THROUGH ALL ETERNITY? HOT
WEATHER? YES, IT WAS HOT; 'BUT HELL WILL
BE HOTRER!' SOMETIMES A ROUGH SARCASM
TURNS UP: HE SAYS TO THE UNBELIEVERS, YE
SHALL NOT HAVE SHORT WEIGHT!" Heros and Hero-Worship, p. 95/6.
Remember, Thomas Carlyle uttered these words, and
many more to a shocked and bewildered Christian audience
in England, a hundred and fifty years ago. History did not
record for us the lively arguments and debates which his
lecture must naturally have caused. He kept to his promise:
"I mean to say all the good of him (his Hero Prophet)
I justly can'" and he went on in his talk to I defend
Muhammad (pbuh) against the false charges, slander and
calumnies of his enemies:
1. The Jews hated the Prophet: the Christians hated the Prophet: the mushriks (the
Polytheists) hated the Prophet, and the Munafiqeen (the hypocrites) hated the
Prophet. It is the nature of Falsehood to hate the Truth. Light dismisses Darkness, but
darkness does not take kindly to light.

CHARGE OF FALSITY

4a. "A FALSE MAN FOUND A RELIGION? WHY,
A FALSE MAN CANNOT BUILD A BRICK
HOUSE! IF HE DOES NOT KNOW AND
FOLLOW TRULY THE PROPERTIES OF
MORTAR, BURNT CLAY AND WHAT ELSE
HE WORKS IN, IT IS NO HOUSE THAT HE
MAKES, BUT A RUBBISH HEAP. IT WILL
NOT STAND FOR TWELVE CENTURIES,1
TO LODGE A HUNDRED-AND EIGHTY
MILLIONS;2 IT WILL FALL STRAIGHTAWAY
. . . SPECIOSITIES ARE SPECIOUS3 . . . IT
IS LIKE A FORGED BANK NOTE; THEY
GET IT PASSED OUT OF THEIR
WORTHLESS HANDS: OTHERS, NOT
THEY, HAVE TO SMART FOR IT. NATURE
BURSTS-UP IN FIRE-FLAMES, FRENCH
REVOLUTIONS AND SUCH-LIKE,
PROCLAIMING WITH THE TERRIBLE
VERACITY THAT FORGED NOTES ARE
FORGED."
Heros and Hero-Worship ), p. 58
b."IT GOES GREATLY AGAINST THE
IMPOSTER THEORY, THE FACT THAT HE
LIVED IN THIS ENTIRELY
UNEXCEPTIONABLE, ENTIRELY QUIET
AND COMMON PLACE WAY, TILL THE
HEAT OF HIS YEARS WAS DONE. HE
WAS FORTY BEFORE HE TALKED OF ANY
MISSION FROM HEAVEN . . ALL HIS
'AMBITION,' SEEMINGLY, HAD BEEN,
HITHERTO, TO LIVE AN HONEST LIFE; HIS
'FAME,' THE MERE GOOD OPINION OF
NEIGHBOURS THAT KNEW HIM..."
Heros and Hero-Worship, p. 70

1. Now, fourteen centuries.
2. A thousand million today.
3. Specious: Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually false.

c. "AMBITION? WHAT COULD ALL ARABIA DO
FOR THIS MAN; WITH THE CROWN OF GREEK
HERACLIUS, OF PERSIAN CHOSROES, AND ALL
THE CROWNS IN EARTH; - WHAT COULD
THEY ALL DO FOR HIM? IT WAS NOT OF THE
HEAVEN ABOVE AND OF THE HELL BENEATH.
ALL CROWNS AND SOVEREIGNTIES WHAT-
SOEVER, WHERE WOULD THEY IN A FEW
BRIEF YEARS BE? TO BE SHEIK OF MAKKAH
OR ARABIA, AND HAVE A BIT OF GILT
WOOD PUT INTO YOUR HAND, - - -
WILL THAT BE ONES SALVATION? I DECIDEDLY
THINK, NOT, WE WILL LEAVE IT ALTOGETHER,
THIS IMPOSTER HYPOTHESIS, AS NOT CREDIT-
ABLE: NOT VERY TOLERABLE EVEN, WORTHY
CHIEFLY OF DISMISSAL BY US."
Heros and Hero-Worship, p. 72/3

CHARGE OF SINNING

5. "FAULTS? THE GREATEST OF FAULTS, I
SHOULD SAY, IS TO BE CONSCIOUS OF
NONE. READERS OF THE BIBLE ABOVE ALL,
ONE WOULD THINK, MIGHT KNOW BETTER.
WHO IS CALLED THERE 'THE MAN ACCORD-
ING TO GOD'S OWN HEART'? DAVID, THE
HEBREW KING HAD FALLEN INTO SINS
ENOUGH; BLACKEST CRIMES; THERE WAS NO
WANT OF SINS.1 AND THEREUPON THE
UNBELIEVERS SNEER AND ASK, IS THIS YOUR
MAN ACCORDING TO GOD'S HEART? THE
SNEER, I MUST SAY, SEEMS TO ME BUT A

1. This is the Jewish and Christian concept of God's prophets. They charge their prophets
with incest, adultery and even murder. They impure horrendous crimes to them on the
authority of the Holy Bible.

Regards,
Sardarzada