Two Different Images of Prophet Muhammad in the East and West: a Critical Study in the Light of Opinions of Orientalists and Muslim Scholars

Islam is a religion of the soul's harmony and heart's intimacy, but most of the people do not know this reality. In the era of Muslim Caliphs, the freedom of non-Muslims, who had enjoyed with a free living status, protection and safety in Muslim states, was not in return for paying the capital tax. The taken tribute from them was not the price of their freedom, but was for the integrity of the Righteous justice between them and Muslims to protect them and their family members were living with Muslims side by side in the society and were not involved in military services to defend a nation believes in Islam. How they can defend a Muslim country and they do not believe in Islam? Jihad does not mean killing some one without any reason and right, but it is to recover the rights of vulnerable people from the harshness of powerful oppressors. Stoning of the adulterer and the adulteress in Islam is not an injustice or affront to human rights after the permission granted in polygamy. Islam is not a religion of men only, as some people think, because of their mental illness. The men and women both are created as being two sides of the one soul.