بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Here are some sayings of Prophet Muhammed ﷺ, I found them in Islamweb site:
1- He is not a perfect Muslim who eats his fill and lets his neighbor go hungry.
2 -O 'Aa'ishah, love the poor and let them come to you and Allaah will draw you near to Himself.
3- He ﷺ used to say: "I am a Prophet of Allaah but I do not know what will be my end."
4- He ﷺ used to pray: "O Allaah! I am but a man. If I hurt any one in any manner, then forgive me and do not punish me."
5- To honor an old man is to show glorification to Allaah.
6- Modesty is a part of the teachings of the previous prophets and anyone who lacks it is most likely to do whatever he likes.
7- I am Allaah's servant, I eat like a servant and sit like a servant.
8-I stand in prayer and wish to prolong it. However, I hear the cry of a child and cut the prayer short for the anxiety which the mother is feeling.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
I strongly condemn what happened to the french newspaper but I am also sad and disappointed by publishing cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammed ﷺ. The Prophet (ﷺ) was a great man and if cartoonists had read his biography they wouldn't have depicted those cartoons.I believe in dialogue between different cultures and a world based on respect not insults nor violence.
And for people interested to know about the Prophet (ﷺ), here are some sayings about him by famous thinkers[1], of course they are not enough but it is just a start.
Wolfgang Goethe
He is a prophet and
not a poet and therefore his Koran is to be seen as Divine Law and not
as a book of a human being, made for education or entertainment[2].
D.C.Sharma
Muhammad was the soul of kindness, and his influence was felt and never forgotten by those around him[3].
Lamartin
Philosopher,
orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of
rational dogmas, 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?[4]
Encyclopedia Britannica
A mass of detail
in the early sources shows that he was an honest and upright man who
had gained the respect and loyalty of others who were likewise honest
and upright men[5].
Thomas Carlyle
how one man
single-handedly, could weld warring tribes and wandering Bedouins into a
most powerful and civilized nation in less than two decades[6].
Annie Besant
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 sense of reverence for that mighty Arabian
teacher[7].
References
[1]-The thinkers' sayings are collected by Islamweb site
[2]-Noten und Abhandlungen zum Weststlichen Dvan, WA I, 7, 32
[3]-D.C. Sharma, The Prophets of The East, Calcutta, 1935, pp. 12
[4]-Histoire de la Turquie, Paris 1854, Vol II, pp. 276-77
[5]- Vol. 12
[6]-Islamweb site
[7]-The Life and Teachings of Muhammad, Madras 1932, p. 4
