Attracted Quote by John Henrik Clarke
“Had Elijah Muhammad tried to introduce an orthodox form of Arab-oriented Islam, I doubt if he would have attracted 500 people, but he introduced a form of Islam that would communicate with the people he had to deal with. He was the king to those who had no king, and he was the messiah to those some people thought unworthy of a messiah.”
![“...the Muslims of recent times had fallen very short indeed of the ideals of their faith, ...nothing could be more erroneous than to measure the potentialities of Muhammad's message by the yardstick of present-day Muslim life and thought - just as he [Shaykh Mustafa al-Maraghi] said, 'it would be…” quote by Muhammad Asad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b55/muhammad-asad-21900_als_the-muslims-of-recent-times-had-fallen-v_2921093.jpg)
![“He's [Jesus] the most fascinating character in history, really - the character who's made more difference to the world than anyone since him. I daresay that Muslims would say Muhammad was that character, but I think Jesus had a sort of 600-year start on him.” quote by Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3be/philip-pullman-525_character_he-s-jesus-the-most-fascinating-characte_938826.jpg)
