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                                                                         Muhammad (Peace and Blessing of Allah be upon him) was  born and brought up as an orphan. He led an unpolluted life under the protection  of his grandfather Abdul Muthalib, as his mother died when he was six years of  old and father two months before his birth. Two years later, grandfather also  died, leaving him in the hands of uncle, Abu Thalib. Even though, the then Arabia was  the hatchery of all malicious practices, he kept himself away from them all as  a divine destiny. Never disturbed anybody, inflicted pain to any living thing  and never told a lie even for as a joke. Up to the age of 40, he was  wholeheartedly acceptable to everybody. They used to call him- Al- Ameen, the  honest! 
                                       
                                            But, the scenario changed utterly with the boon of  Prophethood. He started his mission of preaching monotheism, strictly  criticizing social evils, like drinking, prostitution, pick pocketing,  class-wars, exploitation etc…The Arabs came to listen to a new voice of  liberation, a fresh air of purity, a novel slogan of amity and harmony. Thus,  they formed a new movement well prepared to demolish the cancerous institutions  growing in heart of society. 
                                       
                                            The nightmarish advent of the movement provoked the  pomposities of ‘living idiols’ like abu  Lahab, Abu Jahal, Abu Sufyan, Ut’aba, Shaibath etc. They keenly paid their attention  to the ideals of Muhammad. They were convinced that, what he said was true, but  the advance of an orphan shepherd as leader was beyond the limits of tolerance.  Thus ‘Al-Ameen’ was gradually re-named as a magician, a wandering poet, a  lunatic etc... 
                                       
                                            Prophet’s ideal movement wasn’t confined to holy Makkah.  Within a century it spread all over Sassanian and Byzantine empires (a).  Subsequently lands from Iran and Iraq(b)  to Bukhara(c)  in the east, Syria(d), Palestine(e)  and Egypt in  the west and the entire North Africa(f)  wholeheartedly welcomed Islam. By AD 711 it extended to Iberian   Peninsula (g) across the straits of Gibraltar (h).  With the awakening of Turks (i) and Mugals (j), Islam was accepted by people in  almost all continents in the world. 
                                       
                                            The rapid growth of Islam provoked the Christendom a great  much. As usual, being unable to put up with a new hegemony, they thought of  preventive measures. Various lines of action were suggested from different  centers. Suppressive measures were prominent among them. It culminated in the  crusades, In spite of having the Dictum in New Testament: “They that take the  sword shall perish with the sword” the Christian world unanimously contributed  weapons and militia for crusades. The followers of Christ who preached love and  peace brutally killed thousands of innocents. Christians like jean Germian  insisted on resuming crusades once it was stopped. 
                                        Another tactic was to divide and rule. They successfully  practiced this theory in Muslim Spain. They Planned and executed internal  conflicts among Muslim, thus shattering an Islamic republic. 
                                       
                                            The third one was to forge scandals to blemish prophet and  to insult Islam. Special councils were formed to serve the purpose. An English  philosopher Roger Bacon suggested war as a hopeless medium to defeat Islam so  that he preferred philosophic arguments against Islam. Thus the council of Vienna came  into existence in 1312 which established research centers in European cities. 
                                        W. Montgomery Watt remarks; ‘In deadly fear Christendom  had to bolster confidents by placing the enemy in the most unfavorable light’ (W.  Montgomery Watt, What is Islam, 1968 ppl- 2). Thus to annihilate the enemy  showering the bombs of scandals and libels became the best option. 
                                       
                                            Dr. Maurice Bucaille depicts the Christian attitude: “The  totally erroneous statements made about Islam the west are sometimes the  results of ignorance and sometimes of systematic degeneration. The most serious  of all the untruths told about it are, however, those dealing with facts’ for  which mistaken options are excusable; the presentation of facts running  contrary to the reality is not. It is disturbing to read Balatant untruths-in  eminently respectable works written by authors who a priori are highly qualifie”(Maurice  Bucaille, The Bible, The Qur’an  and  Science Pp 110-1). 
                                       
                                            Likewise, the polemic writers are also cocksure of the  fact that, Prophet Muhammad is God’s messenger, and the Holy Qur’an is divinely  invoked. Still, the prejudices, and the elitism do not allow them to acknowledge  the truth. Sometimes, it is revealed from the words of those writers. S.W.  Koelle was of the opinion that ‘the religion of Christ presents the stand and  by which all other religions have to be Judged’ (E. Royster Pike, Muhammad-  Prophet and religion of Islam, 1968. P. 54). 
                                       
                                            In the medieval era, they came to the conclusion that to  forge any lie in order to tarnish image of Muhammad was persuasive, Daniel  denotes:…. ‘The most probable explanation of what happened must be that  Christians though that whatever tended to harm the enemies of truth was likely  itself to be true.’ (Daniel, Islam and the west, P.8). ‘Guibert of Nogent,  justified the character assassination of Prophet. ‘It is safe to speak evil of  the one whose malignity exceeds whatever ill can be spoken of’(R. W. Southern,  Western Views of Islam in the Middle Age, 1962, P. 31) 
                                       
                                            The obnoxious state of mind was widespread among the  writers, Southern continues! In variety of forms,….This rule inspired a great  deal of writing in the first half of the twelfth century’ (Ibid, Pp. 31- 2).  
                                       
                                            The opinionated writers were so blind against Islam and  Prophet that they didn’t take realities, truths, scriptures or natural law into  fidelity. Bauben writes: ‘The main arguments against Muhammad and Islam in  medieval times were based on the Christian scripture and therefore nothing  outside the scripture would be true. Whatever the Qur’an said differently from  the Bible, was regarded as independent entities but as merely reinforcing or  violating Christian ones? The absolute authority of the church and the  scripture was such that reason or natural law was not a valid tool for examining  any material especially that concerning Muhammad’ (Jabal Muhammad Bauben, Image  of Prophet in the west. P.8). 
                                       
                                            Those who cannot play a good role at the warfronts found  pleasure in insulting Islam and blaspheming the prophet thus inducing death in  order to become martyrs! A distinguished movement, named ‘The Spanish Martyrs  movement’ was formed for this purpose. T.W. Arnold describes the Martyrs as ‘a  fanatical party which set itself openly and unprovokedly to insult the religion  of Muslim and blaspheme their Prophet Muhammad with the deliberate intention of  incurring death by such misguided assertion of their Christian biography’ (T.  W. Arnold, The preaching of Islam, 1913, p. 141). 
                                       
                                            The western historians also danced according to the tunes  of Church authorities who propagated their vile propaganda in order to  instigate Christian hatred against Prophet. Robert, Baldric, Guibert of Nogent,  S.W.Koelle, Waltherius, Alexander Due Pont, Sigebart of Gemboux, Ricoldo Da  Mnoute Crose, Sand Pandro did their best to fabricate first-rate lies. Between  1450 and 1460 Islam was ‘defended’ by John of Segovia, Nicholas of Cusa, Jean  Germian and Aeneas Silvius. 
                                        The process of producing slanders is still going on, in  all its splendour. Salman Rushdi, Thasleema Nasrin, Samual Hundington,  Washington Irving, Fukyama are doing their best services against lalam. In  Kerala Anand undergoes hardships as much as possible, to be called an  anti-Islamic theorist. 
                                       
      (a) The  Sassanian Empire is the name used for the fourth Iranian dynasty and the  second Persian   Empire (224 -  651 CE). The Sassanian dynasty was founded by Ardashir I after defeating the  last Arsacid king of kings, Artabanus IV and ended when the last Sassanian the  King of Kings (Shahanshah), Yazdegerd III (632–651), lost a 14-year  struggle to drive out the Arab invaders from his Empire (By Dr. Gianpaolo  Savoia-Vizzini). 
                                       
                                            (a) The Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire was the Roman Empire during the Middle  Ages, centered on the capital of Constantinople, and ruled by Emperors. It was called the Roman Empire,  and also as Romania, by its inhabitants and its neighbors. As the  distinction between "Roman Empire" and "Byzantine Empire"  is purely a modern convention, it is not possible to assign a date of  separation, but an important point is the Emperor Constantine I's transfer in  324 of the capital from Nicomedia (in Anatolia) to Byzantium on the Bosphorus,  which became Constantinople (alternatively "New Rome) (Wikipedia). 
                                       
                                            (b) Iran: officially  the Islamic Republic of Iran is a country in Western Asia. The name Iran has been in use natively since the antiquity and came into international use from  1935, before which the country was known internationally as Persia. Both  "Persia" and "Iran" are  used interchangeably in cultural context; however, Iran is the  name used officially in political context. The name Iran is a cognate of Aryan, and means "Land of the Aryans" 
                                       
                                            (b) Iraq: officially the Republic of Iraq is a  country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros  mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of  the Arabian Desert.  
                                        Iraq is  bordered by Jordan to the west, Syria to the  northwest, Turkey to the north, Iran to the  east, and Kuwait and Saudi    Arabia to the south. Iraq has a  narrow section of coastline measuring 58 km (35 miles) on the northern Persian   Gulf. The capital city, Baghdad is in the  center-east of the country. 
                                      Two major  rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, run through the centre of Iraq, flowing  from northwest to southeast. These provide Iraq with  agriculturally capable land and contrast with the steppe and desert landscape  that covers most of Western Asia. 
                                       
                                            (c) Bukhara : is the  capital of the Bukhara Province  of  Uzbekistan. The nation's fifth-largest city, it has a population of 237,900  (1999 census estimate). The region around Bukhara has been  inhabited for at least five millennia and the city itself has existed for half  that time. Located on the Silk Road, the city  has long been a center of trade, scholarship, culture, and religion. The  historic center of Bukhara, which  contains numerous mosques and Madrasas, has been listed by UNESCO as one of the  World Heritage Sites. 
                                       
                                            (d) Syria: officially the Syrian Arab Republic is a  country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the  Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the  north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the  south, and Israel to the  southwest. 
                                       
      (e) Palestine is a  conventional name used, among others, to describe a geographic region between  the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and  various adjoining lands. 
                                       
      (f) North  Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African  continent, linked by the Sahara to  Sub-Saharan Africa. Geopolitically, the UN definition of Northern Africa  includes the following seven countries or territories; Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, and  Western Sahara 
                                       
      (g) The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is  located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes modern-day states Portugal, Spain, Andorra and  Gibraltar and a very small area of France. It is  the westernmost of the three major southern European peninsulas—the Iberian,  Italian, and Balkan peninsulas. It is bordered on the southeast and east by the  Mediterranean Sea and on the north, west and southwest by the Atlantic   Ocean. The Pyrenees form the northeast edge of the peninsula,  separating it from the rest of Europe. In the  south, it approaches the northern coast of Africa. It is  the second-largest peninsula in Europe, with an area of 582,860 square  kilometers (225,040 sq mi). 
                                       
                                          (h) Gibraltar is a  self-governing British overseas territory located on the southern end of the  Iberian Peninsula and Europe at the entrance of the Mediterranean overlooking  the Strait of Gibraltar. The  territory covers 6.843 square kilometers (2.642 sq mi) and  shares a land border with Spain to the  north. Gibraltar has historically been an important base for the British Armed  Forces and is the site of a Royal Navy base. 
                                       
      (i) Turkey, known  officially as the Republic of Turkey is a  Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Western Asia  and Thrace (Rumelia) in the  Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey is  bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the  northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the  northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave  of (Nakhchivan) and Iran to the  east; and Iraq and Syria to the  southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to  the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and the Black Sea is to the  north. 
                                       
      (j) Mughals : Muslim dynasty that ruled most of  northern India from the early 16th to the mid-18th  century. The Mughal dynasty was notable for about two centuries of effective  rule over much of India, for the ability of its rulers, who  through seven generations maintained a record of unusual talent, and for its  administrative organization. A further distinction was the attempt of the  Mughals, who were Muslims, to integrate Hindus and Muslims into a united Indian  state. The dynasty was founded by a Chagatai Turkic prince named Babur (reigned 1526–30), who was descended from the Turkic (Britannica  Online Encyclopedia). 
                                        
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