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THE HERO AS PROPHET MAHOMET' AND ISLAM

THE HERO AS PROPHET
BY Thomas Caryle

From Pagan times through the Jewish and Christian religions
we advance to the last of the monotheistic religions to a veyr
different aspect of religion among a vary different peoples:
Mohometanisn among the Arabs. What a great change and
progress is indicated here, in the universal condition and
thoughts of men.

In the history of the world it has been a great error to consider
the emergence of the great man or hero as a God. Our hero
Mohomet is not regarded as a God among his fellow men but
one who was truly God-inspired as a great Prophet. This great
hero came to us from the hand of nature and was the most
precious gift that heaven could send us. Of all the people God
chose Mahomet, that most eminent Prophet to send down his
message to us. I feel free to speak of him as I esteem him as a
truly great one. I mean to say all the good of him that in my
heart I feel, to get at his secret. Let us tyr to understand what
he meant with the world, and what the world means to us.

Firstly I wish to castigate those in my own culture and in other
cultures who disparage the Prophet and the Koran and dismiss
his religion as falsehood and quackery. The lies that intolerant

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