ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY
“Pure-hearted and beloved in his circle, he was, it
is said, of sweet and gentle disposition. His bereave-
ments having made him sensitive to human suffering
in every from, he was always ready to help others,
especially the poor and the weak. His sense of hon-
our, duty and fidelity won him as he grew older the
high and enviable title of ‘The True.’ ‘The Upright,’
‘The Trustworthy One’. Yet despite his concern for
others he remained removed from them in outlook
and ways, isolated in the midst of an effetic and
chaotic society. As he grew from child hood to
youth and from youth to manhood the lawless strife
of his contemporaries, the repeated outbursts of
pointless quarrels among the tribes frequenting the
Meccan fairs, and the general immorality and cyni-
cism of the day combined to produce in the prophet-
to-be a sustained reaction of horror and disgust. Sii-
lently, brooding, his thoughts turned inward. “1".
- Huston Smith, The Religions of Man, Mentor Books, P.203
