He was one of those happy few who have attained
the supreme joy of making one greai truth their very
life-spring. He was messenger of the one God; and
never to his life's end did he forget who he was, or
the message which was the marrow of his being. He
brought his tiding to his people with a grand dighity
sprung from the consciousness of his high office tog
ether ' with a most sweet humility whose roots lay in
the knowledge of his own weakness."2
Major A. G. Leonar refers to the sincerity of the
Prophet and the truth of his message in these words
in his book Islam, Her Moral and Spiritual Value :
"He must at the outset recognise that Mohammed
was no mere spiritual peddlar, no vulgar time-
serving vagrant, but one of the most profoundly sin-
cere and earnest spirits of any age or epoch.
2.Stanley Lane-Poole, The Speeches and Table Talk of the
Prophet Mohammed, Introduction, P.29.