Muhammad Asad Speaks on Bedouins & The Desert

In this segment from a tape entitled, "A Tribute to Muhammad Asad" released probably ten years ago by the IIS (Islamic Information Service), he discusses why monotheistic religions, specifically Islam, originated from the desert. He also speaks about the richness of Bedouin culture, and the incorrect idea that bedouins are barbarians or uncivilized people.

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[ImanSaad88]

Assalamu alaykum,

Brother can you tell me where from where can i download the whole video with him?

Selam.

[qahtani]

@ImanSaad88

I don't know. I imported this from a VHS tape that I no longer can easily get ahold of.

[Ousias1]

Isn't Muhammad Asad a Shia with Mutazilite sympathies?

[qahtani]

No, he criticized aspects of Shia theology in "Road to Makkah" and probably other works that I can't remember. He was not anything except Muslim and examined each so-called fact independently of what source it came and regardless of the stigma or praise associated with it.

[Ousias1]

Thanks, but could you tell me if Sunni Muslims would say the same thing? In other words, would they say he was an orthodox Muslim? Isn't his translation of the Qur'an banned in Saudi Arabia? Thanks in advance for your response.

[qahtani]

I don't think there is anything about him that takes him out of the fold of Sunni Islam. I don't know about his translation of the Qur'an being banned in KSA; it's possible, but he was also very close friends with the Royal Family. Keep in mind there are a lot of books banned there, or at least disliked by their scholars.

[Yar85]

Muhammed Asad is a jewel of the ummah. I wish he would be still alive. We need these kind of thinkers today more then ever.

[PeaceTrainHati]

Love him! R.I.P

[10sfam]

I have so much respect for this man. His translation of the Quran is amazing, I was just reading it once again. Its sad that his work is banned in some places. May Allah (swt) grant him paradise.

[soubarachiromu]

A remarkable man, a remarkable life. Respect.

Take a look at this interview "God Man relationship" on youtube

[sam7748]

@Ousias1

And Allah is the best and only judge of who is true Muslim

[khalidh8]

@Ousias1 Hi, literal translation of Qur'an is banned by most Sunnis, and this is accepted by many scholars. However, the translation of the meaning of the Qur'an is allowed and accepted, and usually followed in Saudi Arabia, as in other parts of Islamic world. Muhamed Asad is a Sunni convert; he was an Austrian Jew before his conversion. After his conversion, he married a Saudi woman, spend 6 years in Saudi and then moved to Indian Sub-continent.

[delhiwala2008]

thanks for uploading,

[MatrixOfDynamism]

Well for the people of the book that accept Islam, the reward is double.

[glower125]

I LOVE BEDOUINS. AMAZING NOBILITY THAT PUTS THEM HIGHER THAN ANY KING ON THIS PLANET.  I WISH I CAN LIVE THEM.

[IssaAlKitaab]

This man is a huge influence in my studies of Islam and explained it so eloqently, I became a muslim myself. May Allah rest his soul, he was one of the best Islamic Thinkers of our time and he is deeply missed