“They must have wondered, these kings and rulers (who received the Prophet’s summons to acknowledge the One God and His Prophet) who this unknown person was who dared to command them! From the sending of these messages we can form some idea of the supreme confidence in himself and in his mission which Mohammad must have had. And this confidence and faith he managed to transfer to his people, and with this to inspire and console them; these desert people of no great consequence managed to conquer half the known world. Mohammad died in 632 A.C. He had succeeded in making a nation out of the many warring tribes of Arabia and in firing them with enthusiasm for a cause.”
