“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.”
The story follows an elderly woman's journey as she reevaluates her life and beliefs, culminating in a transformative pilgrimage to Mecca. more
Muhammad Asad, born on July 2, 1900, in India, and passed away on February 23, 1992. He was an Indian-born British journalist, writer, and translator, renowned for his research and translations on Islam. more
“Those who seize the day become seriously rich.”
“It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.”
“Creation occurs when ideas and individuals collide and collude.”