Status Updates From The Road to Makkah

“Whenever the world was dark around me and I could not
see my way out of the dangers and difficulties that beset me, I would sit down
and compose an ode to Jawhara; and when it was finished, the world was
suddenly lighted, and I knew what I had to do.” (Pg 153)

“It was at this moment that I became aware how near their God and their
faith were to these people. Their prayer did not seem to be divorced from their
working day; it was part of it - not meant to help them forget life, but to
remember it better by remembering God.” (Pg 120)

“It is not a mere noble tradition which enables the Arabs to be hospitable [to guests] in so effusive a way: it is their inner freedom. They are so free of distrust of themselves that they can
easily open their lives to another man. They need none of the specious security of the walls which in the West each person builds between himself and his neighbour.” (Pg 108)

I’m just at the beginning and I can already sense this will be one of my best reads