God

About this book

Have you ever wondered about that pivotal moment when primitive man raised his eyes to the sky, not to search for rain to water his land, but to search for a "meaning" to water his soul? In his book "God," Abbas Mahmoud Al-Aqqad takes us on a wondrous cosmic journey, not mere historical narration, but a tour into the depths of the human psyche as it gropes its way toward the greatest truth. The work begins from that deep abyss where man wandered lost between myths and the worship of natural forces, and how the fear of thunder and lightning turned into prayer, and how ignorance of the universe turned into a "holy hunger" for faith. In his rigorous style blending the philosopher's precision and the writer's emotion, Al-Aqqad surveys how the belief in God ascended through civilizations; from the banks of the Nile in ancient Egypt, to the meditations of India and the magic of Persia, reaching the dawn of the revealed religions. He does not content himself with history, but storms the arenas of philosophy and natural science, proving that "the religious sense" is no illusion or weakness, but the essence of.