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Summary Of Muhammad Asad

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This book tells us the story of Muhammad Asad, how he fell in love with the Arabs during his journey to the middle-east to Jerusalem, Egypt, Damascus (Syria), Riyadh, Kuwait, Iran, Medina, Libya, Mecca and conversion of his religion towards Islam even though having a strong family background of Jewish rabbinical descendant and have read a lot of scriptures despite during his young age. The book is not written chronologically as he write it based on his memory and some notes he still keep in possession. It came to him to write this book when a friend joke about suggesting him to write the experience he acquired and share with people his thought. Eventually he documented it in a book because he realize the upper hand he have being from the west and embracing the east views. Asad is an Austrian and of Jewish descendant destined to succeed in rabbinical career. His father paid tutor to teach him. At a …show more content…

Shaykh ibn Bulayhid answers that they worship gold so their deity in their pocket. And the Shaykh pointed out Asad who sat next to him since he is a faranjis who embraces Islam. The Bedouin ask why the faranjis are so unmindful of god. Asad answer that it is a long story and cannot be explained in few words. All he can tell is the world of the faranjis has become the world of the Dajjal, glittering and deceptive one. Asad recalled the story during his stay in Berlin with his wife, Elsa. When travelling in the Berlin subway. Asad see well-dressed man, but look unhappy and the others in the subway also look the same. He then asked his wife, a painter who can see expression clearly to look at it and she said it is as he expected. When he returned home, he grabs the Quran and his eyes were strolling at Surah at-Takathur. Finally he found the answer, greed of worldly life and lack of faith will result to the previous

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