“...I suddenly felt in myself all the weight of Europe: the weight of deliberate purpose in all our actions. I thought to myself, 'How difficult it is for us to attain to reality... We always try to grab it: but it does not like to be grabbed. Only where it overwhelms man does it surrender itself to him.”
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
“To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.”
“When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.”