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Presented by: (Humaira Sikander)

Roll No: BENF17E124
Main points:
According to Muhammad Asad it was time of
morning prayer
Zayd is still sleeping
He saw morning star
Which Arabs called “Az-Zuhra” (The Shinning one)
Story of “Shining star” ….According to Arabs it was
once a woman
Concept of soul in Islam
Islam regards the soul of man as one aspect of his
“personality” and not as an independent phenomenon
in its own right.
Concept of Man’s spiritual growth and physical urges
to Muslims
Man’s spiritual growth is inextricably bound up with
all the other aspects of his nature.
A concept of foreign to ethics of Islam
Physical urges are an integral part of his nature: not
the result of an “original sin”
Concept of different religions about man’s original
nature
 According to Christian idea “man is born sinful”
According to Hinduism that “he is originally low and
impure and must painfully stagger through a long
chain of incarnations towards the ultimate goal of
perfection”
Koran says: “: Verily, We create man in a perfect
state – a state of purity that may be destroyed only by
subsequent wrong behavior – and thereupon We
reduce him to the lowest of low, with the exception
of those who have faith in God and do good works”.
Journey of Muhammad Asad towards Hail
Preparation for journey towards Hail
No foeign dress is visible here only abayas, kufiyyas
and igals.
Cleanliness was here, houses built of horizontal
layers of packed mud, are in good repair, with
exception of demolished city walls, which bear
witness to the last war between Ibn Saud and house
of Ibn Rashid and of Ibn Saud’s conquest of town in
1921
Description of tribe of “Shammar” and town ‘Hail’
Meeting with Amir-Ibn-Musaad
 Cultural norms and believes of tribes “Shmmar” and

“Beduins” and how they serve “Muhamad Asad” and

his campanions