المقدمة ٣_a .. كتاب المائة الأوائل

As the required attention is given to the personalities who influenced previous generations and their influence has remained until now.

7 - Not paying attention to the expected impact in the future because we are unable to predict it, except here what is expected to have an impact for the long term, such as the impact of electricity, which is expected to last for more than 500 years, so this is a lesson. Frady and Maxwell.

B - In determining the place of the person and his order in the list:

1- The influence of the studied personality on the historical movement that he contributed to.

2 - Note that the important matters, discoveries or inventions did not reach us completely from one person, but rather they reached us gradually, and here the importance was given to the first discoverer or inventor and pioneer.

3- Caring for people only and their individual personal influence, excluding the work of groups and organizations.

4- Sometimes the person responsible for a well-known movement is placed in a higher position than another person who played a role in a movement more important than the first.

5 - The field in which more than one person participated, such as the field of explosives, firearms, and women's liberation, which may raise problems in priority and importance, as the author neglected them.

6- The participation of two people equally in a work made the author place them in the same rank as the Wright brothers and Marx and Engels, even though he referred to Engels and did not mention him explicitly.

7- Giving special priority to people who influenced history and without whom what happened would not have happened, such as Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, Genghis Khan, and others.


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A must note:

The author, Dr. Michael Hart, set criteria and conditions for sorting according to the names that he extracted from his historical studies of international personalities that influenced human history. It seems - he was surprised that the owner of the first signs was the Messenger, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, and this is what explains to us his many justifications and explanations to the reader about the reasons for choosing our master Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, at the top of the list (the chosen hundred).

Placing Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, at the top of the list does not increase or diminish the status of the greatest Messenger. He, whether we like it or not, is the master of all creation, and he is too high to enter an exam in which he participates with the rest of the scholars and international personalities who influenced history, so he, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, is greater than that.

And that the author, may God bless him and grant him peace, at the head of the chosen hundred, is a detachment (in any case) for which he is to be thanked.