Week: 02 - From Leopold Weiss to Muhammad Asad

Points of Discusion

  • Introduction to author of "Road to Mecca"
  • Leopold Weiss' Conversion

Asad wrote to his father informing him of his conversion but got no answer.

“Some months later my sister wrote, telling me that he considered me dead…Thereupon I sent him another letter, assuring him that my acceptance of Islam did not change anything in my attitude toward him or my love for him; that, on the contrary, Islam enjoined upon me to love and honour my parents above all other people… But this letter also remained unanswered.”

  • From West to East
  • From Jew to Muslim