📘 ❞ Was Muhammad pbuh Merciful ❝ كتاب ــ محمد حسام الدين الخطيب اصدار 2011

عن كتاب Was Muhammad pbuh Merciful:

A Note on the Translation
Of all the damned dwellers of Dante's
Inferno
, a particularly unfortunate group
comes in for a lot of stick. Its maimed members keep going forward, back and sideways
at one and the same time thereby tearing themselves ap
art.
Bilingual people, I have often thought, are no less an unhappy lot. Condemned to
lead a liminal life, ceaselessly shuttling between one
orde ordinum
/culture/language
and another, we have often inflicted upon ourselves the same sado
-masochist
sufferi
ngs of Dante's damned.
Above all else perhaps we are pained and outraged that each culture is busy
erecting its own segregation walls, impervious to all the revolutions underway in
technology, information and telecommunication. Fortress Europe today is far more
Eurocentric and
xenophobic than it was fifty years ago. And the gloating, globalized,
globalizing
United States leaves the rest of the world speechless, increasingly looking
back in anger at
the
happy
days of American isolationism. At least we were
spared the
self
-righteous rhetoric of ever burgeoning hordes of neolibs, neocons and crusading
Zionized
Christians. Indeed, with the level of western brutality to other cultures
reaching an all-
time high, many of us in Iraq, in Palestine, in Afghanistan, in Somalia,
would like to be slaughtered in silence, thank you very much. We ache for the good old
days
when we were massacred with barely the crack of a knuckle
- the civilized English
way!
Faced with rampant Islamophobia and systematic Arab bashing, whi
ch have come
to replace anti-
Semitism in most western capitals, the Arab and Islamic world is also
cultivating its own claustrophobia. Every now and then we let out the odd defensive
backlash, born of a chronic siege mentality. Fiery speeches and sweeping mass
demonstrations flash on world TV screens every time a certain nonentity says
something somewhere against what we hold dear. The same ominously angry, hairy,
sub-






The author said in his introduction, The study itself falls into four parts: Chapter One: An Introduction, Chapter Two: Aspects of Mercy for Human Beings in the Character of the Prophet Muhammad pbuh Before the Divine Call, Chapter Three: Introducing the Prophet Muhammad pbuh , Chapter Four: Aspects of Mercy for Human Beings in the Character of the Prophet Muhammad pbuh After the Divine Call.