Who is the Worlds Most Influential Person in all of history?

Question

According to Michael Hart, it is Muhammad, so if all the negative things you hear about him everday were to be true, than how he IS the most Influential guy? (oh and note: Jesus is 3rd, so dont be snappin)

Answer 1

Very true...

This is quoted from wikipedia,
"What mainly surprised readers was the first person on Hart's list. Hart decided to choose Muhammad over Jesus or Moses despite the fact that Islam was not the largest religion and that it was from a distant part of the world from where he lived. Hart attributes this to the fact that Muhammad was successful in both the religious and political realms. He also writes that Muhammad's role in the development of Islam is far more influential than Jesus's collaboration in the development of Christianity. He attributes the development of Christianity to St. Paul, who played a pivotal role in the development of Christianity."


and note that although a lot of the rankings were later reordered to form another...The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) had kept his first position...

Its time people discover that what caused this was his infallibility...a divine gift...

Answer 2

I concur with Michael Hart. Muhammad (s.a.w) was and still is the most influential person throughout history. Not to mention that 1 out of every 5 people in the world today are Muslim, who follow the legal ways of Muhammad (s.a.w).

Answer 3

Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution such as expressed in The Origin of Species. Karl Marx' Das Kapital and his theory of communism.

Answer 4

Fritz Haber, discoverer of the Haber process, which converts gaseous nitrogen to ammonia, which can then be used to create fertilizers as well as explosives.

And before you say, "How does that influence the world?", think of this: without fertilizers, we would produce maybe half of the food that we currently grow. Without explosives, modern warfare would be drastically different. If we never had the productivity of modern farmers, the world would either have far fewer people, or famines would be much more common. And without modern explosives, wars would probably be much smaller affairs.

Answer 5

According to TIME magazine, it was Isaac Newton, for setting down the basis for all of modern physics. Oh... and inventing calculus.

I'd personally put my money on either Galileo (for inventing the scientific method of inquiry) or Aristotle (for formalizing logic). It's a toss-up.

Answer 6

Muhammad SAW is the most prominent figure all over history

Answer 7

Its True that only Holy Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) is the the most Influential person on this EARTH of this WORLD.

Honest, loyal , a great teacher, a great man. well I don't have words to explain about him just will say only one thing that Thank you Allah you send a Great Prophet to us to showed us the right way. As He(PBUH) is light for all of us.

May Allah (SWT) keep us in his Rahama and showed us the right way (AMEEN)

May Allah (SWT) keep us in his Rahma and showed us the right way (AMEEN)

Answer 8

Influential does not necessarily mean "for the better". So if Muhammad, the negative things are no reason to discount his influence.

I'd say the most influential person is Saul of Tarsus, the true inventor of "Christianity". That also was influence for ill.

Answer 9

Blessed is He who has sent down Al-Furqan (Quran) to His servant (Muhammad), that he may be a Warner to all the worlds -

And We have not sent thee (Muhammad) but as a mercy for all peoples.

Holy Quran

Answer 10

Thomas Alva Edison