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What Muhammad has done in two decades?

In the West, all sorts of maligns were invented against the Prophet Muhammad. On the other hand, the views of some famous non-Muslims authors and scholars regarding Prophet Muhammad may give some but not all the truth about the Prophet Muhammad. 

Most of the people do not realize that the Prophet Muhammad is the last link of the chain of Prophets sent in different lands and times since the very beginning of the human life on this planet.

It is said that, man is the enemy of what he ignores. This might explain why the western media are almost always attacking the Prophet Muhammad, the Quran, Islam and Muslims.

What Muhammad has done in 23 years?

During this short period of 23 years of his Prophethood, Muhammad has changed the complete Arabian Peninsula

• From paganism and idolatry to worship of One God,
• From tribal quarrels and wars to national solidarity and cohesion,
• From drunkenness and debauchery to sobriety and faithfulness,
• From lawlessness and disorder to closely controlled living,
• From utter ruin to the highest standards of moral superiority,
• From killing their girls to the love and honoring of their girls, etc.

Who has done all of these in 23 years?

His Name is MUHAMMAD.

Has anyone in Human history done all of these transformations in 23 years?

That is why; the West has still to go a step forward to discover the correct reality about the Prophet Muhammad and the fact that he is the true and the last Prophet sent by the Lord God for the whole humanity.

This article presents what Sir GEORGE BERNARD SHAW said about the Prophet Muhammad

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Who is George Bernard Shaw?

Sir George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish, born in Dublin.  Shaw was a talent, distinguished, honored and creative author. He is the first person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar. Shaw wanted to refuse his Nobel Prize outright because he had no desire for public honors, but accepted it at his wife's behest: she considered it a tribute to Ireland.

What George Bernard Shaw said about Muhammad?

"I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him - the wonderful man and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the Saviour of Humanity. I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today."

What George Bernard Shaw said about Islam?

"If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam."

Source: Sir George Bernard Shaw in 'The Genuine Islam,' Vol. 1, No. 8, 1936.

About the Author

Safaa Abdel-Aziz

Co-Chief Editor, October Weekly magazine, Cairo, Egypt.

Member of the Egyptian Society of Save Children.

Member of the Egyptian Society of Tourism

Are Druids (Druidism?) cosidered Germanic Pagans?

I would like to know how closely the Druids of ancient France and England are related to Germanic Paganism, specifically from the central European area.

The druids were the priestly class of the ancient Celts - not only in the British Isles, but also the Celtic/Gallic peoples in Gaul (France), Switzerland, Trace (part of what is now Greece), and Galatia (part of what is now Turkey). The term "Druid" was first used by ancient Greek writers and appears to have been derived from a word the Celts themselves used and which in turn derives from ancient Proto-Indo-European words meaning "steadfast" and "knowledge."

The Germanic peoples migrated into Europe from the Steppes during what is called the "Völkerwanderung" or Migration Period which lasted from approximately A.D. 300-700. The Volkerwarderung is part of what helped push the Celts out of much Europe and into Brittany and the British Isles, isolating the Celts who were left in Galatia.

Not a lot is known about Germanic paganism since many of the tribes converted to Christianity soon after entering Europe. The Goths learned of Christianity from Roman soliders they met along the Germanic frontier; the Burgundians became Arians (a form of Christianity) somewhere in the east as they traveled before they eventually settled on what is now the border between France and Germany. The Franks appear to have become Chrisitans very quickly. The Saxons held onto paganism the longest and many of them only became Christian after the (continental) Saxon territory was conquered by Charlemagne (a Frank).

The Saxons had a sacred tree called "Irminsul" that was similar to "Yggdrasil", the World Tree, in Norse tradition. This suggests that Germanic paganism was more closely related to Norse paganism than to Druidism.

Diana L. Paxson, in the "Background and References" section at the end of her novel _The Wolf and the Raven_ suggests that all of the Indo-European peoples migrating out of the east (including both Celtic and Germanic tribes, as well as others) at one time shared a common Earth-based religion, remnants of which can be seen in both Celtic and Gemanic traditions, but that the Germanic traditions were overlayed with Norse traditions - including a strong emphasis on Wodan/Odin.

However, a number of Old Norse scholars studying the origin of the Norse pantheon point out that Odin was a relative late-comer to the stories. One theory is that Wodan was originally a legendary High King, but contact with the Romans and knowledge of the Roman pantheon led to his elevation to chief God, so as to mimic the place of Jupiter/Zeus in the Greco-Roman system.

There was an awful lot of religious mixing and sharing of ideas during the Migration Period.

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