A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Shaykh Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( r.a. ) wrote, in Noten und Abhandlungen zum Weststlichen Dvan , “He is a prophet, and not a poet; and therefore, his Qur’an is to be seen as Divine Law, and not as a book of a human being, made for education or entertainment.”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Shaykh Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( r.a. ) said, “A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Shaykh Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( r.a. ) wrote the famous song in praise of the Prophet Muhammad ( s.a.w. ), Mohamets Gesang .   The meaning of the Prophet’s ( s.a.w. ) reality is put into the metaphor of the stream, starting from the smallest beginning and growing to be an immense spiritual power, expanding, unfolding, and gloriously ending in the ocean, the symbol for divinity.   He described the Prophet ( s.a.w. ) as a spiritual flood, the faydhah , in carrying humanity with him like the stream does with small brooks and eventually turns into a river racing to the sea.   You can hear it sung here: Mohamets Gesang .   “See the rock-born stream! Like the gleam Of a star so bright. Kindly spirits, High above the clouds, Nourished him while youthful, In the copse between the cliffs. Young and fresh. From the clouds he danceth Down upon the marble rocks; Then tow’rd heaven, Leaps exulting. Through the ...