AFFIRMATION OF PROPHETHOOD

Affirmation of Prophethood ~ 278 ~ God. What would be surprising, on the contrary, would be to refuse to accept him as such. In our acceptance of him as a prophet, we find an explanation for his miraculous personality. Conversely, if we do not accept his prophethood, we are left with no answer as to the source of his astonishing qualities, particularly when we know that in the whole of recorded history, he is absolutely unique. Bosworth Smith’s words are at one and the same time a recognition of the reality and a call to mankind to believe in his prophethood. “What more crowning proof of his sincerity is needed? Muhammad to the end of his life claimed for himself that title only with which he had begun, and which the highest philosophy and the truest Christianity will one day, I venture to believe, agree in yielding to him, that of a Prophet, a very Prophet of God.”8 NOTES 1. Man the Unknown, p. 242. 2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 12, p. 179. 3. Man the Unknown, p. 37.