Non-Muslims' Verdict

If a man like Muhammad were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness.
~George Bernard Shaw~

Muhammad was the soul of kindness, and his influence was felt and never forgotten by those around him.
~Diwan Chand Sharma~

It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, one of the great messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel whenever I re-read them, a new way of admiration, a new of reverence for that mighty Arabian teacher.
~Annie Besant~

Muhammad is the most successful of all Prophets and religious personalities.
~Encyclopedia Britannica~

"I wanted to know the best of one who holds today undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind...I became more than convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet, the scrupulous regard for his pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.
~Mahatma Gandhi~

"How one man single handedly, could weld warring tribes and wandering bedouins into a most powerful and civilized nation in less than two decades".
~Thomas Carlyle~

It was the first religion that preached and practiced democracy; for, in the mosque, when the call for prayer is sounded and worshippers are gathered together, the democracy of Islam is embodied five times a day when the peasant and king kneel side by side and proclaim: "God Alone is Great". "I have been struck over and over again by this indivisible unity of Islam that makes man instinctively a brother".
~Sarojini Naidu~

The league of nations founded by the prophet of Islam put the principle international unity and human brotherhood in such universal foundations as to show candle to other nations". He continues, �the fact is that no nation of the world can show a parallel to what Islam has done towards the realization of the idea of the League of Nations.
~Prof. Hugronje~

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world most influential persons may surprise some readers, and may be questioned by others, but he was the only in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular levels.
~Michael H. Hart~

Head of the State as well as the Church, he was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without the Pope's pretensions, and Caesar without the legions of Caesar� without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a police force, without a fixed revenue. If ever a man had the right to say that he ruled by a right divine, it was Muhammad, for he had all the powers without their supports. He cared not for the dressings of power, but instead the simplicity of his private life was in keeping with his public life.
~Rev. R. Bosworth-Smith~

Philosopher, Orator, Apostle, Legislator, Warrior, Conqueror of ideas, Restorer of rational beliefs, of a cult without images; the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammad. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
~Lamartine, Historie de la Turquie~