I am not writing it to discourage Brother Limon, or others. I, even, don’t have any interest to show off. But, frankly to say, I will like share some facts related to it.

I red the book, “The 100” of “Michael H Hart” in 1996. This is a good book of knowledge that contains the life stories, and activities of different noble people of this world. But if a “Muslim” gives the example of this book (The 100) to glorify “Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)”, it will not be a good way. Because:

1) Michael H Hart is a born christian. So it is verily true that, if he would be a purely Christian minded person, he would never keep the name of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) in the first position, however respect he has or had for the Prophet.

2) Michael H Hart compared these 100 people in the view of “Worldly Success”. Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) didn’t work for this world, but he worked for the Way of Allah.

3) Michael H Hart named this book as “A Ranking of The Most Influential Persons is History”. That means, this book is about the “Most Influential People in History”. He compared 100 people from history, therefore, he compared Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) with other 99 people of this world. Now question is:

> How Michael Hart can compare Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) with people like:
> Isaac Newton (Scientist) : Was Prophet Muhammad a Scientist?
> Buddha (Creator of Buddism) : How we can compare Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), the prophet of Allah, with a creator of another religion?
> Lenin (
> Adolf hitler (A German President) : How can we compare Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) with a worldly warrior?
> 6. St. Paul (Disciple of Jesus) : Is it right to compare Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) with a disciple of another Prophet? And, point to be noted that, St. Paul was not a direct disciple of Jesus.

And many more like this…

We can’t compare Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and his activities with the worldly people who were atheist, worrior, writer, poet, creator of other religion etc…

If it would be a comparison of the religious people, even that would be something of any kind. Michael H Hart compared prophets with the people of this world, who even were not Muslim.

Prophet Muhammad received honor in this world and also in hereafter. So, we never can compare him with the people of this world.

4) Michael H Hart has classified Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), Jesus Christ, Moses – three prophets in his view. We have no right to compare or classify prophets of Allah.

5) Allah gave the highest honor to Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) in this world and also in hereafter, Quran is the proof of that. There is no necessary of any other book to glorify Prophet Muhammad, where Allah and Quran has glorified Prophet Muhammad.

(There maybe some spelling mistake, cause I wrote it so faster)

Nirjhor Anjum