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The Road To Mecca

Book by Muhammad Asad · 3 quotes · Islam, Ifs, Made

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“Kad sam upoznao islam i prihvatio ga kao svoj životni put, mislio sam da je svim mojim pitanjima i traženjima došao kraj. Samo postepeno, vrlo postepeno, postojao sam svjestan da to nije kraj, jer prihvatiti životni put koji nas obavezuje bilo je, barem za mene, nerazdvojno vezano sa željom da slijedim taj put s ljudima istog mišljenja - ne samo da ga slijedim u osobnom smislu nego i da radim za njegovo društveno življenje u zajednici koju izaberem. Za mene, islam je bio put, a ne kraj”

“I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans were: it has only become more tolerant. Mind you, not toward Islam—only toward certain other Eastern cultures, which offer some sort of spiritual attraction to the spirit-hungry West and are, at the same time, too distant from the Western world-view to constitute any real challenge to its values.”