L. N. Tolstoy, the famous Russian writer, has read the “The Sayings of Muhammad (PBUH)” of Abdullah al-Suhraverdi printed in India in 1908. He has compiled a treatise from his readings and published it in the “Posrednik” Russian printing house. Russian people, specially the Russian intelligentsia loved Tolstoy as a person with a celestial power and knew that news about his conversion into Islam would have caused the powerful trend into Islam in Russian society. Therefore, the Russian secret agencies like KGB have tried to conceal the treatise, to make people to forget it and hindered its publishing. Tolstoy acquainted the Russian readers with the sayings of the prophet Muhammad. He gave a lot of importance to the topics such as ‘poverty’ and ‘equality’, intended to give a good lesson to the Russian people and those who betrayed the Russian people. Tolstoy has emphasized on Islam as an only religion of the true justice and equality, the true brotherhood and devotion, even the only religion of love and respect to humanity
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Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
