Seventh droplet

If you would like to know what it is that stimulates that being, it is a sacred power. Consider his accomplishments in that vast peninsula: do you not see in that vast, strange desert those savage peoples, fanatically adherent to their customs and unyielding in their tribalism and hostilities. They were so hard-hearted that they could bury their daughters alive in the soil without remorse or grief. How did that being remove from them in so short of time all such bad morals and equip them with high, laudable virtues? He made them teachers of humanity and masters of civilized peoples. Look again! He did all of that not, as most other rulers have sought to do it, by force of power and terror, but by conquering hearts and minds, and subjugating spirits and egos, becoming the beloved of hearts, the teacher of reasons, educator of selfhood and the ruler of spirits.

Eighth droplet

You know that removing a petty established bad habit like smoking from a small community requires a great effort and a powerful, determined ruler. However, that illustrious being removed many established bad habits from vast communities fanatically adherent to their customs and traditions and unyielding in character. He did so with a small force, little effort and over a very short time. Moreover, in place of their bad habits, he ingrained in them praiseworthy virtues and exalted merits. Look, for example, at 'Umar, may God be pleased with him, before and after his conversion to Islam. [You see him among the leading personages among his people in the time of pre-Islamic ignorance] with only a seed of virtue in his character, he became, following his conversion, like a "tall, excellent tree" [of most laudable merits]. Almost all of the accomplishments of that illustrious being, the Prophet, are extraordinary. Whoever blinds himself to that Age of Happiness, we call him to look into that peninsula in its present civilized state. He may test himself to see what he can achieve there. Let them take a hundred of their philosophers [psychologists and sociologists] and go to the Arabian Peninsula. I wonder whether they will be able to accomplish in a hundred years a hundredth of what that noble being accomplished in a single year.