Hajj-e-Akbar Live from Makkah

Hajj-i-Akbar Live Transmission from Makkah

Some of the questions in Road to Mecca by Muhammad Asad

'how has it come about that уоu Muslims have lost your self confidence -that self-сопidеnсе which опсе enabled you to spread your faith, in less than а hundred years, from Arabia westward as far as the Atlantic and eastward deep into China and now surrender yourselves so easily, so weakly, to the thoughts and customs of the West '? Why can't you, whose fогеfathers illumined the world with science and art at а time when Europe lay in deep barbarism and ignorance, summon forth the courage to go back to your own progressive, radiant faith? How is it that Ataturk, that petty masquerader who denies all value to Islam, has become to уои Muslims а symbol of' "Muslim revival" ?'
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Present State of Muslims by Allama Muhammad Asad in Road to Mecca

I HAD NO ILLUSIONS as to the present state of affairs in the Muslim world. Тhе four years I had spent in those countries had shown me that while Islam was still alive, perceptible in the world-view of its adherents and in their silent admission of its ethical premises, they themselves were like people paralyzed, unable to translate their beliefs into fruitful action.

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Difference between Islam and Christianity: Road to Mecca by Muhammad Asad

In time, however, I came to understand where their difficulty lay. I began to perceive that in the eyes of people brought up within the orbit of Christian thought -with its stress оп the 'supernatural' allegedly inherent in every true religious·ехрепепсе -а predominantly rational approach appeared to detract from а religion's spiritual value. This attitude was Ьу по means confined to believing Christians. Because of Europe's long, almost exclusive association with Christianity, even the agnostic European had subconsciously lеагпеd to look upon аll religious experience through the lens of Christian concepts, and would regard it as 'valid' only if it was accompanied Ьу а thrill of numinous awe before things hidden and beyond intellectual comprehension. Islam did not fulfill this requirement: it insisted оп а co-ordination of the physical and spiritual aspects of life оп а perfectly natural plane. In fact, its world-view was so different from the Christians, оп which most of the West's ethical concepts were based, that to accept the validity of the опе inescapably Led to questioning the validity of the other.
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Man's Greed

Man's Greed:
At all times people had known greed: but at no time before this had greed outgrown а mere eagerness to acquire things and because an obsession that blurred the sight of everything else: an irresistible craving to get, to do, to contrive more and more-more today than yesterday, and more tomorrow than today: а demon riding on the necks of men and whipping their hearts forward toward goals that tauntingly glitter in the distance but dissolve into contemptible nothingness as soon as they are reached, always holding out the promise of new goals ahead -goals still more brilliant, more tempting as long as they lie on the horizon and bound to wither into further nothingness as soon as they come within grasp: and that hunger, that insatiable hunger for ever new goals gnawing at man's soul:"Nay, if you but knew it you would see the hell you are in…"
To Ье without greed is to Ье: without fear -and that if man goes beyond fear he goes beyond' danger as well, knowing that whatever happens to him/her is but his/her share in all that is happening... '
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Road to Mecca written by Muhammad Asad