I had heard people saying that there is no Muslim who can be holy or be like Prophet Muhammed and there is no Christian that can be holy or be like Jesus Christ. When i heard this statement ,i put a thought on it if the statement was truth or not.

As a Christian, i can say the statement is true in the side of Jesus Christ.there is no one like Jesus,Jesus was unique among all men due to these fact

1 He came down from heaven to earth. He knows God physically before he came to the world. no man ever decend from heaven except him.

2. He did not born of sexual intercourse of man and woman. His birth was very unique to birth of every other men.

3. He did not marry because that was not his mission on earth, nor committ fornication.

4. He did not speak or use abusive or dirty words in his life time.

5 He was man of peace and love,he has no enemy but the people who took him as their enemy. He even pray for the people how hate him and crucified him, before he died on the cross.

6 He was full with holy spirit than any other man.

7 He did not value the world and things in it than the word of God.

Please can muslims in the house tell us why prophet Muhammed was unique to all other men?

Ayomivic: I had heard people saying that there is no Muslim who can be holy or be like Prophet Muhammed and there is no Christian that can be holy or be like Jesus Christ. When i heard this statement ,i put a thought on it if the statement was truth or not.

As a Christian, i can say the statement is true in the side of Jesus Christ.there is no one like Jesus,Jesus was unique among all men due to these fact

1 He came down from heaven to earth. He knows God physically before he came to the world. no man ever decend from heaven except him.

2. He did not born of sexual intercourse of man and woman. His birth was very unique to birth of every other men.

3. He did not marry because that was not his mission on earth, nor committ fornication.

4. He did not speak or use abusive or dirty words in his life time.

5 He was man of peace and love,he has no enemy but the people who took him as their enemy. He even pray for the people how hate him and crucified him, before he died on the cross.

6 He was full with holy spirit than any other man.

7 He did not value the world and things in it than the word of God.

Please can muslims in the house tell us why prophet Muhammed was unique to all other men?

Mr Ayomivic,

1 Everyone came down from heaven to earth. Jesus never mentioned that he knew God physically before he came to the world, besides, that contradicts your claim that he is God. He did not descend bro, he came through birth.

2 He was not born from fertilization, I agree and Allah has explained in the Qur'an:
Ch 2:116-117 They say: "Allah hath begotten a son" :Glory be to Him.-Nay, to Him belongs all that is in the heavens and on earth: everything renders worship to Him.
To Him is due the primal origin of the heavens and the earth: When He decreeth a matter, He saith to it: "Be," and it is.

Things like that can never be hard for the creator of the heavens and the earth you know.
Then again, Jesus had a mum but there were people who had neither a father nor a mother. Adam A.S had none, Eve had no mum and dad, Melchizedek of the bible had neither a dad nor a mum.

3. Not getting married is not a sign of being unique. John the Baptist did not get married too.

4. Seriously, he did not use any abusive words? Check the bible well.
For a [certain] woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast [it] unto the dogs.

5. He prayed for the people who hated him you said? Well, not in these verses anyway:
Matthew 23:33 You snakes!(abusive word for his enemies) You brood of vipers!(his enemies). How will you escape being condemned to hell.
Matthew 26:24 But woe (evil) to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.


6. Where is it written that he was filled with the holy spirit more than any other man?

7. Most of the prophets did not cherish things of this world. e.g John the Baptist A.S, Mohammad S.A.W.

On how Mohammad was different, I will just quote what he said in the hadith narration of Jabeer R.A, he said that the prophet said:

"I have been given five things which were not given to any amongst the prophets before me: Allaah made me victorious by awe (by His frightening my enemies) for a distance of one month's journey; the earth has been made for me (and for my followers) a place for praying and a thing to perform Tayammum (dry ablution), therefore my followers can pray wherever the time of a prayer is due. War booty has been made Halaal (lawful) for me (and was not made so for anyone else).Every prophet used to be sent to his nation exclusively but I have been sent to all humankind, and I have been given the right of intercession (on the Day of Resurrection)."

PS: We don't do comparisons among prophets. All bible quotations are not necessarily believed in Islam, they were used because you believe in them.

Where in your bible did he say he saw God physically before "descending" down to earth?

From the 100, a Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
by Michael H. Hart

NUMBER 1

MUHAMMAD
570-632

My 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.

The majority of the persons in this book had the advantage of being born and raised in centers of civilization, highly cultured or politically pivotal nations. Muhammad, however, was born in the year 570, in the city of Mecca, in southern Arabia, at that time a backward area of the world, far from the centers of trade, art, and learning. Orphaned at age six, he was reared in modest surroundings. Islamic tradition tells us that he was illiterate. His economic position improved when, at age twenty-five, he married a wealthy widow. Nevertheless, as he approached forty, there was little outward indication that he was a remarkable person.

Most Arabs at that time were pagans, who believed in many gods. There were, however, in Mecca, a small number of Jews and Christians; it was from them no doubt that Muhammad first learned of a single, omnipotent God who ruled the entire universe. When he was forty years old, Muhammad became convinced that this one true God (Allah) was speaking to him, and had chosen him to spread the true faith.

For three years, Muhammad preached only to close friends and associates. Then, about 613, he began preaching in public. As he slowly gained converts, the Meccan authorities came to consider him a dangerous nuisance. In 622, fearing for his safety, Muhammad fled to Medina (a city some 200 miles north of Mecca), where he had been offered a position of considerable political power.

This flight, called the Hegira, was the turning point of the Prophet's life. In Mecca, he had had few followers. In Medina, he had many more, and he soon acquired an influence that made him a virtual dictator. During the next few years, while Muhammad s following grew rapidly, a series of battles were fought between Medina and Mecca. This was ended in 630 with Muhammad's triumphant return to Mecca as conqueror. The remaining two and one-half years of his life witnessed the rapid conversion of the Arab tribes to the new religion. When Muhammad died, in 632, he was the effective ruler of all of southern Arabia.

The Bedouin tribesmen of Arabia had a reputation as fierce warriors. But their number was small; and plagued by disunity and internecine warfare, they had been no match for the larger armies of the kingdoms in the settled agricultural areas to the north. However, unified by Muhammad for the first time in history, and inspired by their fervent belief in the one true God, these small Arab armies now embarked upon one of the most astonishing series of conquests in human history. To the northeast of Arabia lay the large Neo-Persian Empire of the Sassanids; to the northwest lay the Byzantine, or Eastern Roman Empire, centered in Constantinople. Numerically, the Arabs were no match for their opponents. On the field of battle, though, the inspired Arabs rapidly conquered all of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine. By 642, Egypt had been wrested from the Byzantine Empire, while the Persian armies had been crushed at the key battles of Qadisiya in 637, and Nehavend in 642.

But even these enormous conquests-which were made under the leadership of Muhammad's close friends and immediate successors, Abu Bakr and 'Umar ibn al-Khattab -did not mark the end of the Arab advance. By 711, the Arab armies had swept completely across North Africa to the Atlantic Ocean There they turned north and, crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, overwhelmed the Visigothic kingdom in Spain.

For a while, it must have seemed that the Moslems would overwhelm all of Christian Europe. However, in 732, at the famous Battle of Tours, a Moslem army, which had advanced into the center of France, was at last defeated by the Franks. Nevertheless, in a scant century of fighting, these Bedouin tribesmen, inspired by the word of the Prophet, had carved out an empire stretching from the borders of India to the Atlantic Ocean-the largest empire that the world had yet seen. And everywhere that the armies conquered, large-scale conversion to the new faith eventually followed.

Now, not all of these conquests proved permanent. The Persians, though they have remained faithful to the religion of the Prophet, have since regained their independence from the Arabs. And in Spain, more than seven centuries of warfare 5 finally resulted in the Christians reconquering the entire peninsula. However, Mesopotamia and Egypt, the two cradles of ancient civilization, have remained Arab, as has the entire coast of North Africa. The new religion, of course, continued to spread, in the intervening centuries, far beyond the borders of the original Moslem conquests. Currently it has tens of millions of adherents in Africa and Central Asia and even more in Pakistan and northern India, and in Indonesia. In Indonesia, the new faith has been a unifying factor. In the Indian subcontinent, however, the conflict between Moslems and Hindus is still a major obstacle to unity.

How, then, is one to assess the overall impact of Muhammad on human history? Like all religions, Islam exerts an enormous influence upon the lives of its followers. It is for this reason that the founders of the world's great religions all figure prominently in this book . Since there are roughly twice as many Christians as Moslems in the world, it may initially seem strange that Muhammad has been ranked higher than Jesus. There are two principal reasons for that decision. First, Muhammad played a far more important role in the development of Islam than Jesus did in the development of Christianity. Although Jesus was responsible for the main ethical and moral precepts of Christianity (insofar as these differed from Judaism), St. Paul was the main developer of Christian theology, its principal proselytizer, and the author of a large portion of the New Testament.

Muhammad, however, was responsible for both the theology of Islam and its main ethical and moral principles. In addition, he played the key role in proselytizing the new faith, and in establishing the religious practices of Islam. Moreover, he is the author of the Moslem holy scriptures, the Koran, a collection of certain of Muhammad's insights that he believed had been directly revealed to him by Allah. Most of these utterances were copied more or less faithfully during Muhammad's lifetime and were collected together in authoritative form not long after his death. The Koran therefore, closely represents Muhammad's ideas and teachings and to a considerable extent his exact words. No such detailed compilation of the teachings of Christ has survived. Since the Koran is at least as important to Moslems as the Bible is to Christians, the influence of Muhammed through the medium of the Koran has been enormous It is probable that the relative influence of Muhammad on Islam has been larger than the combined influence of Jesus Christ and St. Paul on Christianity. On the purely religious level, then, it seems likely that Muhammad has been as influential in human history as Jesus.

Furthermore, Muhammad (unlike Jesus) was a secular as well as a religious leader. In fact, as the driving force behind the Arab conquests, he may well rank as the most influential political leader of all time.

Of many important historical events, one might say that they were inevitable and would have occurred even without the particular political leader who guided them. For example, the South American colonies would probably have won their independence from Spain even if Simon Bolivar had never lived. But this cannot be said of the Arab conquests. Nothing similar had occurred before Muhammad, and there is no reason to believe that the conquests would have been achieved without him. The only comparable conquests in human history are those of the Mongols in the thirteenth century, which were primarily due to the influence of Genghis Khan. These conquests, however, though more extensive than those of the Arabs, did not prove permanent, and today the only areas occupied by the Mongols are those that they held prior to the time of Genghis Khan.

It is far different with the conquests of the Arabs. From Iraq to Morocco, there extends a whole chain of Arab nations united not merely by their faith in Islam, but also by their Arabic language, history, and culture. The centrality of the Koran in the Moslem religion and the fact that it is written in Arabic have probably prevented the Arab language from breaking up into mutually unintelligible dialects, which might otherwise have occurred in the intervening thirteen centuries. Differences and divisions between these Arab states exist, of course, and they are considerable, but the partial disunity should not blind us to the important elements of unity that have continued to exist. For instance, neither Iran nor Indonesia, both oil-producing states and both Islamic in religion, joined in the oil embargo of the winter of 1973-74. It is no coincidence that all of the Arab states, and only the Arab states, participated in the embargo.

We see, then, that the Arab conquests of the seventh century have continued to play an important role in human history, down to the present day. It is this unparalleled combination of secular and religious influence which I feel entitles Muhammad to be considered the most influential single figure in human history.

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Wallahi I was thinking of posting this as a topic on its own. I believe you should do that still. Jazakumullahu khayran.

And the authur was/is never a muslim? Subhannallah!