Muhammad Asad, The famous translator of holy Quran into English was born into a Jewish family Leopold Weiss, was born in Livow, Austria (later Poland) in 1900. He embraced Islam1926.
It is very interesting to read in his own words “how he embraced Islam.”
“Since then I was asked, time and again: “Why did you embrace Islam? What was it that attracted you particularly?” – And I must confess: I don’t know of any satisfactory answer. It was not any particular teaching that attracted me, but the whole wonderful, inexplicably coherent structure of moral teaching and practical life programme.
I could not say, even now, which aspect of it appeals to me more than any other. Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other: nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking, with the result of an absolute balance and solid composure. Probably this feeling that everything in the teachings and postulates of Islam is “in its proper place,” has created the strongest impression on me.
There might have been, along with it, other impressions also which today it is difficult for me to analyze. After all, it was a matter of love; and love is composed of many things; of our desires and our loneliness, of our high aims and our shortcomings, of our strength and our weakness. So it was in my case.
**Islam came over me like a robber who enters a house by night; but, unlike a robber, it entered to remain for good”. **
Re: "Islam came over me like a robber"
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*Originally posted by Ibn Sadique: *
Muhammad Asad, The famous translator of holy Quran into English was born into a Jewish family Leopold Weiss, was born in Livow, Austria (later Poland) in 1900. He embraced Islam1926.
It is very interesting to read in his own words “how he embraced Islam.”
“Since then I was asked, time and again: "Why did you embrace Islam? What was it that attracted you particularly?" -- And I must confess: I don't know of any satisfactory answer. It was not any particular teaching that attracted me, but the whole wonderful, inexplicably coherent structure of moral teaching and practical life programme.
I could not say, even now, which aspect of it appeals to me more than any other. Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other: nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking, with the result of an absolute balance and solid composure. Probably this feeling that everything in the teachings and postulates of Islam is "in its proper place," has created the strongest impression on me.
There might have been, along with it, other impressions also which today it is difficult for me to analyze. After all, it was a matter of love; and love is composed of many things; of our desires and our loneliness, of our high aims and our shortcomings, of our strength and our weakness. So it was in my case.
*Islam came over me like a robber who enters a house by night; but, unlike a robber, it entered to remain for good”. *
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yes.......any one wannna know more about his full story can read his book "the road to makkah".... a beautiful book indeed....
thankls for sharing ibnesadiq....
jazakallah
came in like a robber? that's not very complimentary is it
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*Originally posted by TomSawyer: *
came in like a robber? that's not very complimentary is it
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Please don't worry about it. Muhammad Asad liked to say it that way. He was man of words. So, let it be.
