Muhammad Asad, writer, adventurer, diplomat, Muslim thinker par excellence, translator of the Quran, and author of one of the most remarkable spiritual autobiographies ever, The Road to Mecca, isn't ...
According to Asad, in order to understand the Qur'anic world, the allegorical and symbolic elements in it must be linked with "a realm which is beyond the reach of human perception" ie "al-ghayb" ...