Be Like Adam's Son: About the Birth of the Idea of Follow the Example of Adam's son
From Jawdat Said
After the publication of my first book, The Way of Adam's son (in the mid-1960s), I was urged to write a sequel to it. That first book was brought out in a kind of hurry, as I felt at the time that something had to be said, before the uproar around me would submerge any sober talking. When, in 1990 I was invited to lecture in Sharjah, my host, Muhammad Salem al-Qasimee reminded me that my first book was, in my own words, just for proclamation; therefore, I was morally bound to bring out something, "for persuasion this time." Several others kept exhorting, but I somehow kept procrastinating.
And then, when my sister Laila succeeded at last in having me visit them in Canada in 1995, and after a visit to the United States, she put in front of me a sheaf of papers and said, "It is time you started." When I held the pen early next morning I felt I had the same feeling as I had at writing my first book, that a human's problem was in doing mischief, in not having learned the lesson of Adam's son.