Why Did They Become Muslims

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MUHAMMAD SULEYMÂN TAKEUCHI
(Japanese)
With the guidance of Allâhu ta’âlâ I became a Muslim.
I decided to become a Muslim for the following reasons:
1) Islam infuses a very powerful spirit of fraternity.
2) Islam prearranges a solution for any sort of difficulty that a
person is likely to encounter throughout his life. It has not
separated religious matters from worldly events. Islam embodies
not only spiritual values, but also social efficacies that would
perfectly harmonize with today’s systems, such as uniting people
together and encouraging them to perform their acts of worship in
lines made up of people from all races and classes, to help the
poor, and to cooperate for the solution of one another’s problems.
3) The Islamic religion trains both the soul and the body. In
short, Islam is an immaculate embodiment of all spiritual and
corporeal matters.
Islam’s fraternity rejects all sorts of discrimination, race, class,
and else. Muslims throughout the world are one another’s
brothers. There are many Muslims on the earth. Islam is the
religion of common-sensed people. All the Muslims living on the
earth, be they Indians, Pakistanis, Arabs, Afghans, Turks,
Japanese, or Chinese, look on one another as brothers. For this
reason, Islam is an international religion. Islam is the only means
that could rectify the present time’s degenerated societies and
correct their mistakes. Because it is a religion bestowed by Allâhu
ta’âlâ, the variety of its Madhhabs makes it a religion to which
people from all races and classes can adapt themselves. The
Islamic religion has played a very important role in the history of
civilization, and has guided many a semi-barbarian nation to
civilization. The Islamic religion aims at a peaceful and tranquil
life for humanity. It has prescribed the rules whereby to attain
happiness and peace. The rule-making policy followed by the
other religions, such as Christianity and Buddhism, is quite the
other way round. The commandments of these two religions are
of a quality to, let alone unite, completely separate people from
one another by infusing into them a feeling of a total isolation
from the world. Most Buddhist temples are situated on the peaks
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