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The Road To Mecca Muhammad Asad Summary

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The Road to Mecca was written by Muhammad Asad was a very entertaining book about the author’s experienced and observation in Islamic culture throughout his journeys to Middle East countries as a reporter for Frankfurter Zeitung. The book explained a remarkable experienced of the author’s journeys in Arabia, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Egypt, and Afghanistan. Moreover, the author also went to the European countries and he started to realize the beauty of Islam when he observed a lot of corruption in the European culture. In addition, the book also covered his 23 days journey to go to Mecca in the summer 1932. The main reason the author’s wrote this book was to explain to the world on what has brought him into Islam and turned his back …show more content…

The author’s first experienced learning about Islam began in 1922, when he received a letter from his uncle to ask him to stay with him in Jurusalem. Staying with his uncle in the Old City of Jurusalem gave him a new perspectives about Islam. Several times a day he heard a beautiful calls for prayer by Muazzin and when it is not raining the author’s saw many people gathered and prayed together in the open area. He discovered that, the Muslim people are united through prayer as he spent several years in the Middle East as a reporter for Frankfurter Zeitung newspaper. He finally converted to Islam at the age of 26 when he realized the beauty of Islamic teaching that emphasized the oneness of God and covers all aspects of life. In the Islamic teaching, we are encouraged to help each other and to practice good moral values in life. The Muslim people cannot separate the Islamic teaching in their daily life. In addition, Muslim people have Koran as an ultimate guidance in their life and the content of the Koran never change and stable to use in any time. In contrast, in western culture the emphasized more on the development of the individual and separate practical life and …show more content…

Firstly, the readers can learn more about the meaning of Islam. The book not only covers the author’s journey in the Middle East, but it also covers the author’s spiritual journey on how he embraced and converted to Islam. The reader will realized the beautifulness of Islamic teaching and the corruption of western culture. Secondly, the book can give many inspiration and knowledge to the readers as it such a wonderful story on how a man that was born in western culture fall in love to Islam and decided to become Muslim after a few years exposed to Islam religion. The author started to compare the corruption in European culture and the values of brotherhood and unity in Islam during his journey. That is why the author decided to convert to Islam as he realized that there were many corruption and moral instability in European culture. It is a really inspirational book to read because the author insist to convert to Islam even though he knows that his father and other family members will strongly rejected his decision as his family was a Rabbi descendants which was strongly tied to Jewish religion. His spiritual journey and conversion to Islam can give many inspiration especially for the Non-Muslim that want to convert to Islam. Last but not least, the book is very interesting to read as the author’s wrote the book based on his observation and life experienced. He had went an adventurous life as a

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