Abraham, Father of the Prophets

About this book

For thousands of years, the earth has hidden in its dust's womb a secret belonging not to gold or ornaments, but to those "higher meanings" that raised man from the depths of matter to the horizons of heaven. In this book, the giant Abbas Mahmoud Al-Aqqad offers us no mere historical narration or traditional biography, but opens a window onto "the manifest opening" that changed the face of the world, inward and outward alike; it is a tracing of the footsteps of Abraham the Friend, not as a passing figure in the records of time, but as a living soul that shaped the conscience of more than a thousand million people today. The book progresses with literary intelligence between the darkness of "unknown history" which diggers' picks probed in Iraq, Palestine, and Egypt, and the radiance of "the message of monotheism" that freed the human mind from the dispersion of battling gods. Al-Aqqad takes us on a wondrous human journey, analyzing how man transformed from a being helpless before nature's wrath into an entity facing the universe with a free conscience, resting on "the scale of divine justice" that leveled between.