One of the Best "non-Muslim" quotes about Islam
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by Edward Gibbon author of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", its an incredible set of books and Edward is a Deist who wrote the collection of books in the 1700s, he seems to insult Muhammad at times in his chapter long biography of him and the beginning of Arab expansion, an incredible quote you would not expect in the 1700s
"The creed of Mohammad is free from suspicion or ambiguity and the Koran is a glorious testimony to the unity of God. The prophet of Mecca rejected the worship of idols and men, of stars and plants, on the rational principle that whatever rises must set, that whatever is born must die, that whatever is corruptible must decay and perish. In the Author of the universe, his rational-enthusiasm confessed and adorned an infinite and eternal being without form or place, without issue or similtude, present to our most secret thoughts, existing by the necessity of his own nature, and deriving from Himself all moral and intellectual perfection. These sublime truths, thus announced in the language of the prophet, are firmly held by his disciples, and defined with metaphysical precision by the interpreters of the Koran. A philosophic theist might suscribe the popular creed of the Mohammedans a creed too sublime, perhaps, for our present faculties. What object remains for the fancy, or even the understanding, when we have abstracted from the unknown all ideas of time and space, of motion and matter, of sensation and reflection? The first principle of reason and revolution was confirmed by the voice of Mohammed his proselytes, from India to Morocco, are distinguished by the name of Unitarians, and the danger of idolatry has been prevented by the interdiction of images."
in my opinion its an incredible quote coming from any "non muslim" in the 1700s