[lalpphilalk]

Leo Tolstoy , the famous Russian novelist had written a book where he expressed
his admiration towards Islam. The book was censored by the Communist rulers. Now the book is available on the net. Please download the book from the following link and spread the truth.



http://www.4shared.com/file/13984586...dden_Book.html

[ljq0AYOV]

Jazakallah khair. I never knew he wrote such a book! I gave it a perusal and am quite impressed. Yet knowing about his personality (i.e., open-minded, investigative-oriented), I am not surprised that such an honest mind could arrive at a more humble view of Islam. Add him to the large list of other rational non-Muslim figures who praised Islam or elements of the Deen.

[clomoll]

I'll be sure to read this soontime. Only one of his works I've read is The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

[Charryith]

Has the publisher/author given permission to distribute this work on the internet?

[angeldimmon]

Leo Tolstoy , the famous Russian novelist had written a book where he expressed
his admiration towards Islam. The book was censored by the Communist rulers. Now the book is available on the net. Please download the book from the following link and spread the truth.



http://www.4shared.com/file/13984586...dden_Book.html

Ajeeb! Doesn't surprise me though. I read "Anna Karenina" (a masterpiece of a novel by the way) and in it one of the characters expresses revulsion at the taking of human life when he finds that Russia has gone to war with the Ottoman Turks. Alhamdulillah the cancer of Communism is gone.

[benderkoz]

Has the publisher/author given permission to distribute this work on the internet?

Assalamu alaikum brother,

Copyright expires after maximum 20 years I think. So there shouldn't be any copyright on this.

[RayFairhurst]

In The Name Of Allah, The Most Beneficent, The Most Merciful !

Assalamualaykum waRah'matullahi waBarakatuh!

Leo Tolstoy , the famous Russian novelist had written a book where he expressed
his admiration towards Islam. The book was censored by the Communist rulers. Now the book is available on the net. Please download the book from the following link and spread the truth.



http://www.4shared.com/file/13984586...dden_Book.html

Jazakallahu Khairan for the winderful shairng..

Fi-Amanillah,

Wassalamualaykum waRah'matullahi waBarakatuh...

[drmarshallusa]

I read his books in high school and always thought he'd make a good muslim from some of the things he wrote.....interesting news

[tipokotap]

Didn't he have lots of praise for Imam Shamyl as well?

[halyshitzob]

Sweet stuff bro! Jazaka Allahu khayran.

[Evsltkzl]

I didn't know that about Tolstoy... Although I have heard that the German writer and philosopher Goethe very much admired Islam in his writings, so much that some Muslims today (such as Shaikh Abdul Qadir Murabit) wonder if he was secretly one of us.

[Catieliecutty]

Can someone re-upload the book?

[lalpphilalk]

Can someone re-upload the book?

The book is uploaded to the following link.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/46zv9p

I almost forgot this thread. By the way , why do u need this book now ? May I know ?

[Catieliecutty]

The book is uploaded to the following link.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/46zv9p

I almost forgot this thread. By the way , why do u need this book now ? May I know ?

There was a program on BBC about Tolstoy last night. As soon as I heard about it I remembered this thread so googled 'tolstoy islam' and came here to ask for the book

[PhillipHer]

Assalam O Alaikum Brothers.

Can someone re upload the book somewhere or email me directly,

Thanks

Muhammad Zohair Imtiaz
zohairimtiaz at gmail dot com

[MormefWrarebe]

bump

[AndreasLV]

Asalaamu Alaikum,

Interesting...

“Please regard me as a Mohammedan…”

The great Russian writer and thinker who contributed a lot to the Russian literature and history is more famous as a writer, his philosophical views and works that reflect his ideas of God, soul, knowledge, love, the meaning of life, etc. are much less known.

The continuing quest for the meaning of life, the moral ideal, the covert general regularities of existence as well as his spiritual and social criticism run through all his creative work. Since the 1870-ies he pays more and more attention to the subjects of death, sin, penance, and moral revival.

His extraordinary way of thinking was in most cases incomprehensible to the Russian society of those days.

He was excommunicated and committed to anathema, his friends and acquaintances turned away from him. In 1910, at the age of 81, Lev Tolstoy left home and died on the way to the station “Astapovo”.

Why was the end of his life so sad and where was he going after leaving home? Perhaps, some of his letters will throw light upon it.

Here is what he wrote about the Church:

“The world was doing what it wished to do and was letting the Church keep pace with it providing as good explanations of the meaning of life as it could possibly think of. The world was setting its own mode of life which was entirely different form the teaching of Christ, and the Church was inventing allegories which would suggest that people who violated the law of Christ lived in keeping with it. As a result, the world started living the life which was worse than that of pagans, and the Church came to approve of it. Moreover, it claimed that such life was what the teaching of Christ consists in”.

Yasnaya Polyana, March, 1909

The Russian woman who married the Muslim E. Vekilov, wrote to Tolstoy that her sons wanted to convert to Islam, and asked for his advice. This is what the writer answered her:

“As far as the preference of Mohammedanism to Orthodoxy is concerned…, I can fully sympathize with such conversion. To say this might be strange for me who values the Christian ideals and the teaching of Christ in their pure sense more that anything else, I do not doubt that Islam in its outer form stands higher than the Orthodox Church. Therefore, if a person is given only two choices: to adhere to the Orthodox Church or Islam, any sensible person will not hesitate about his choice, and anyone will prefer Islam with its acceptance of one tenet, single God and His Prophet instead such complex and incomprehensible things in theology as the Trinity, redemption, sacraments, the saints and their images, and complicated services…”

Yasnaya Polyana, March, 15th, 1909

We can adduce another letter of his which explains his world outlook which formed as a result of his long painful search for the truth.

“I would be very glad if you were of the same faith with me. Just try to understand what my life is. Any success in life- wealth, honour, glory- I don’t have these. My friends, even my family are turning away from me.

Some- liberals and aesthetes- consider me to be mad or weak- minded like Gogol; others- revolutionaries and radicals- consider me to be a mystic and a man who talks too much; the officials consider me to be a malicious revolutionary; the Orthodox consider me to be a devil.

I confess that it is hard for me… And therefore, please, regard me as a kind Mohammedan, and all will be fine”.

Yasnaya Polyana, April, 188

[lalpphilalk]

Assalam O Alaikum Brothers.

Can someone re upload the book somewhere or email me directly,

Thanks

Muhammad Zohair Imtiaz
zohairimtiaz at gmail dot com

Have you got the book already ? I will request someone to upload the book to a blog permanently.

[PhillipHer]

Have you got the book already ? I will request someone to upload the book to a blog permanently.

No Brother, i have not found the book yet, i'll be really thankful if you can ask someone to upload the book somewhere.

[GohJHM9k]

for the thread.