Why Did They Become Muslims

Today’s Gospels contain not the commandments of Allâhu
ta’âlâ, but the so-called statements of Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’, which
have gone through quite a number of interpolations, and the
episodes telling about his deeds. In Islam, on the other hand, the
commandments of Allâhu ta’âlâ and the utterances of His Prophet
‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ have been classified in
different categories. The commandments of Allâhu ta’âlâ are
written in the Qur’ân al-kerîm, while the statements of Hadrat
Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ appear in a different
series called ‘Hadîth’.
In Islam Allâhu ta’âlâ addresses His born slaves directly.
Christianity lacks this genuineness.
The most critical Christian tenet repugnant to people with
common sense is its dogma of ‘Trinity’. Christians believe not in
one Allah, but in three gods. No Christian man of knowledge has
so far been able to explain this belief in a logical way. Nor would
it be possible for anyone. For this credal tenet is thoroughly
ungrounded and abnormal. Only one great Creator could create
the world. Belief in a tripartite deity is no different from idolatry.
A person of wisdom will believe in one Creator only.
Moreover, Christians impose the belief that men are born sinful,
that they have to expiate their sins, and that a denial of the basic
Christian belief ‘Trinity’ will lead a person to eternal perdition
wherefrom there is no rising again. Then, what other alternative
could be so natural for people who are originally sinful from birth
and who are deprived of rising after death as grabbing their sojourn
in this life as a fleeting opportunity to taste all sorts of enjoyment
and pleasure at all costs including cheating one another and
perpetrating all kinds of atrocity instead of wasting their time
worshipping in vain? It is for this reason that today’s Christians lead
a life quite independent of religious morals and principles, which in
turn gradually drags them down to a totally irreligious way of life.
Entirely emptied of their souls, they are all but machines.
Let us take a look at Japanese religions now: Essentially, there
are two major religions in Japan. One of them is the Mahayana
Buddhism [1] , which is a mixture of original Buddhism and pure
[1] Mahayana Buddhism is practised mostly in China and Tibet today.
The second form of Buddhism, Theravada, is based on the teachings
of Buddha recorded in the Pali Canon. It is practised in Kampuchea,
Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
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