How could someone like 'Einstein', before turning twenty-five, invigorate the spirit of physics with his theory and create a rift in the depths of that science whose echo resonates to this day? Or how could the Italian 'Enrico Fermi' design a nuclear reactor at the age of twenty-five? They were not dismissed as children needing space to 'joyride' and expend their energy; they saw themselves as nothing less than giants. They willed, and they achieved; they planted, and they reaped. The same is true of the great novelist 'Victor Hugo,' who wrote novels and epics at fifteen, and by his twenties, had won the highest honors of the French Academy. I say with regret that if he were an Arab, the prevailing cultural mediocrity would have asked him, 'Why do you write? What can you possibly change, you little fool!' The great freedom fighter, Abdelkader El Djezairi, challenged the second-largest empire in the world at the age of twenty-five. As for the majority of our youth, they are mesmerized by celebrity figures and football stars, lacking any estimable purpose or praiseworthy accomplishments—a collective coma and a frightening superficiality. Mehmed the Conqueror knocked on the gates of Constantinople before he was twenty, a fortress that had exhausted the greatest of leaders. Similarly, the noble companion Usama ibn Zayd led a massive army through the most difficult of trials before he was twenty. And there are countless other great and noble figures who broke the yoke and dismantled the bridges of tradition.

• Author: Muhib Nasr
• Publisher: Alaan Publishers and Distributors
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1
• Number of Pages: 152
• Dimensions (cm): 14.5 × 21
• Weight (g): 175
• ISBN: 978-9923-13-053-7