Status Updates From رحلة محمد أسد: الطريق إلى مكة

I’m just at the beginning and I can already sense this will be one of my best reads

“all our (Europe/Europeans) machines and skyscrapers could do nothing to restore the broken wholeness of our souls” (pg 96)

Interesting insights on the perspective (and shortsightedness) of the Zionist project in the 1920s from pages 89-95.

Interesting commentary on Muslim prayer pages 86-87.

“On the cultural side, the outcome was the creation of a human type whose morality appeared to be confined to the question of practical utility alone, and whose highest criterion of right and wrong was material success.” (Pg 70)

“The average European - whether democrat or communist, manual worker or intellectual- seemed to know only one positive faith: the worship of material progress, the belief that there could be no other goal in life than to make that very life continually easier or, as the current expression went, ‘independent of nature’.” (Pg. 70)

Such an unexpected read. And so breathtaking.

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I just got started and annotated so much already, this is so underrated.

Fitzcarraldo should do a re-publishing of this!!!

Those ancient Islamic thinkers whom thou hast mentioned would never have dreamed that after so many centuries their thoughts, insted of being continued and developed, would only be repeated over and over again, as if they were ultimate and infallible truths. If there is to be any change for the better, thinking must be encouraged instead of the present thought imitation...