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1949. I read it. I consulted the Islamic organization called ‘Dâr-ultablîgh-ul-Islâm’ [1] in Cairo, and requested them to give me information about Islam. They sent me a book entitled ‘Islâmo Chies Religio’, which, again, was in the Esperanto language. That book completed my îmân, and I became a Muslim. Islam fully answers all my thoughts, aspirations and wishes that I have had since my childhood. Islam comprehends both freedom and discipline. Islam, while listing our duties towards Allâhu ta’âlâ on the one hand, prescribes the ways of leading a comfortable and peaceful worldly life on the other. Islam recognizes rights not only for the entire humanity, but also for each and every living creature. Islam has brought the most correct solutions to the most critical problems. As a sociologist, I have admired the greatness and the perfection inherent in the Islamic precepts ‘Zakât’ [2] and ‘Hajj’ [3] . [Zakât], which means for a person who has been given a larger share from worldly goods to mete out a certain percentage of his property to the poor, and [Namâz in jamâ’at (congregational prayer) and Hajj], which mean all Muslims’ coming together, worshipping Allâhu ta’âlâ and knowing one another, the rich and the poor, the seniors and the juniors, the old and the young, merchants, artisans and, in short, the rank and file, indicate that Islam attained long ago the elevations that today’s social sciences have not reached so far despite all the painstaking endeavours. Owing to this accomplished character, Islam has shown the most perfect medium way between capitalism and communism and provided the conveniences coveted by all people. Islam is a tremendous religion which brings together all the people in the world regardless of their race, nation, social status, colour and language, which gives them equal rights, which balances their economical discrepancies by means of a well-calculated social-aid system, and which provides a material and spiritual discipline by infusing the fear of Allah. Even the Islamic polygamy, Islam’s most criticized aspect, bears some biological considerations and is a principle more honest than the hypocritical monogamy of the Catholics, who never live with one woman. [1] Please see the fifty-eighth paragraph in The Religion Reformers in Islam, for the Tablîgh-i-jamâ’at. [2] Endless Bliss, fifth fascicle, first chapter. [3] Endless Bliss, fifth fascicle, seventh chapter. – 116 –
In conclusion, I pay hamd-u-thenâ to Allâhu ta’âlâ, who has guided me to the right path and blessed me with the path that will lead me to His approval. 40 MU’MÎN ABD-UR-RAZZAQ SELLIAH (Sri Lankan) Formerly, I was an arch enemy of Islam. For, all the members of my family and all my friends were telling me that Islam was an absurd and concocted religion that would lead man to Hell, and they were even preventing me from talking with Muslims. As soon as I saw a Muslim I would turn and walk away, and I would curse them behind their back. In those days, if I had dreamt of myself examining that religion closely, admiring it, and finally embracing Islam, I would not have interpreted it optimistically. Why did I become a Muslim? I shall give a short answer to this question. The greatest Islamic virtue that attracted me towards it was that Islam is an extremely pure, very logical, and easily intelligible religion which contains very profound pieces of advice and divine wisdom. As soon as I began to examine the Islamic religion, it impressed me very strongly and I felt that I was going to accept it. I received a Christian education. I thought that there was not another religious book more valuable than the Bible, which had been handed to me. Yet, when I began reading the Qur’ân alkerîm, I saw with amazement that that book was far an away superior to the Bible in my hand, and that it taught me so many beautiful facts that the Bible had not taught me. There were many preposterous legends and grotesque credal tenets in the Christian religion. The Qur’ân al-kerîm rejected all such things and taught men facts that they would understand and accept. I gradually took a dislike to the Bible, and held fast to the Qur’ân al-kerîm with both hands. Whatsoever I read in it, I understood it, liked it, and admired it. So Islam was the true religion. When I realized this fact, I decided to accept Islam, thus attaining îmân and the religion of peace and love. What I like best in Islam, and what attracted me to it most strongly, is the fact that Muslims look on one another as brothers. Without any discrimination with respect to colour, race, vocation, – 117 –
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WHY DID THEY BECOME MUSLIMS INTRODU
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people who accepted Islam although
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completely occupied my mind. We hum
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espirator and covered it with cold
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thinks well, he will, let alone bei
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From his conference: “As you read
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Christianity lacks democratic spiri
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accomplishes. A religion, (i.e. Isl
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within the corporeal areas, but als
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Algeria, in Morocco, and in the oth
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of garments, they wore untanned ani
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defined sin only as a result of dis
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today’s so-called Christians are
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turn made me realize that they had
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8 Dr. ’UMAR ROLF FREIHERR VON EHR
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9 THOMAS IRVING (Canadian) To tell
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Q.A. Jairazby H.W. Lovlegrove. I wo
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In some Christian rites, such as Ba
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must have been sharing identical, o
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means submission to Allâhu ta’â
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words were. Like my son, I, too, be
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salâm’ had begun to preach the p
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We Muslims are not people who hold
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people that I met during the journe
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18 Prof. Baron HÂRÛN MUSTAFÂ LEO
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Our Prophet Muhammad ‘alaihis-sal
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and leg were entirely out of servic
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Our childhood was spent in a settin
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his emotional predilections, unders
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Mu’jiza [1] (miracle) is a supern
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miracles created by Allâhu ta’â
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world, and the Islamic religion is
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Muslims do not know foreign languag
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(the Catholic Printhouse), which wa
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the ancient civilization, and thus
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I believe in that Prophets are inno
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Efendi, [1] contains the following
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word in the Qur’ân al-kerîm, th
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See what even Lamartin has to say:
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wattaslîmât’, who are merely hu
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sharing this theory.” A period of
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changes into nitric acid, which in
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allegations, the initial five âyat
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Prophets inferior to the final Prop
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and lead the entire world by person
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conducted in the United States to c
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forgiving. If a sinful person repen
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Love is not only words, O Hilmi! [1
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were seen; and those which are infe
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3- In some Holy Wars, at times of s
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hunter has ensnared me,” whimpere
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not have enough water. The Messenge
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in the second and third groups. [Du
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will lead a beautiful life and then
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He named it ‘Abdullah’ and gave
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came near him, white with hunger. H
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had made one more step they would c
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way to Arabia with a view to becomi
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in Medina. She was haunted by a jin
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disease called anthrax, which cause
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four Khalîfas, (i.e. Abû Bakr,
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a beast of Paradise called Buraq, h
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ta’âlâ not to let my Umma reach
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58- Isrâfîl ‘alaihis-salâm’,
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salâm’ in their graves. The ques
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garments of Paradise. He shall ride
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RASÛLULLAH’S ‘sall-Allâhu ’
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and help them.” If there was a fu
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touched the ground. Stupefied, Rugh
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that would sustain his nine wives a
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of these acts is to begin from the
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ATTENTION: Islamic scholars ‘rahi
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answers. Some parts of our books, (
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ooks that any unprejudiced and cult
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Some people go to the shore, and sa
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een the case with Jews, but, on the
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chapter of Deuteronomy in the Old T
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contains a comparison of the Bible
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It is written in a book that was wr
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put all its inhabitants to the swor
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Lebanon, famous for its valuable tr
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down the ornaments on the walls. Th
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Delhi. They raided houses and shops
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Holy Book of Allâhu ta’âlâ, wh
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therefore be sinful. Do not impose
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Christians and Jews, and even repai
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eautiful ethical principles have pr
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do with Islam. Rites of this sort w
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Spain in 1222 [1807 C.E.]. Some tim
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forfeit the industry and the trade
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first experience with figures was i
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Shûrâ Sûra of the Qur’ân al-k
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