Im currently rereading Muhammad Asads The Road to Makkah (after 25 years of having first read it!). Truly a fascinating work - how an educated European from a line of Rabbis eventually became a Muslim, fought with Omer al-Mukhtar, befriended Ibn Saud, studied under Muhammad Iqbal, and eventually represented Pakistan at the United Nations. He writes, after admiring a Bedouin in Jerusalem and fancifully imagining that he could have fought with Prophet David himself: And then I remembered with a start: this man was an Arab, while those other figures of the Bible were Hebrews!! But my astonishment was only of a moments duration, for all at once I knew, with that clarity which sometimes bursts within us like lightening and lights up the world for the length of a heartbeat, that David and Davids time, like Abraham and Abrahams time, were closer to their Arabian roots than to the Jew of today, who claims to be their descendent... wa shahida shahidun min ahliha
Posted on: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 20:39:15 +0000
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