Why Did They Become Muslims

TODAY’S COPIES of THE TORAH and THE BIBLE
Today’s world contains three major religions holding a belief
in the existence of Allâhu ta’âlâ: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
The international statistics obtained in 1979 indicated nine
hundred million (900,000,000) Christians, six hundred million
(600,000,000) Muslims, and fifteen million (15,000,000) Jews
living on the earth. The remaining population [more than two
billion], consisted of Buddhists, Hindus, Brahmins and the like,
whose religious credos do not recognize the concept of Allah,
idolators, fire-worshippers, people worshipping the sun and
atheists. According to some recent American publications, the
Muslim population was nine hundred, not six hundred, million. In
fact, according to a statistical study published in 1980 by CESI
[Centro Editoriale Studi Islamici], in Rome, there were 865.3
million Muslims on the earth, 592.3 million in Asia, 245.5 million
in Africa, 21 million in Europe, 6 million in America and Canada,
and 0.5 million in Australia. According to a book entitled Islam
and published in English in 1984 by the Islamic center called ‘The
Muslim Educational Trust’, there are one billion and fifty-seven
million (1,057,000,000) Muslims living on the earth today. The
book also gives the numbers of Muslims living in the forty-six
different Muslim countries as well as those in the other countries
of the world. The statistics show that these numbers are on the
increase. The number of countries with more than fifty per cent
Muslim population is fifty-seven as of today. It is a deplorable fact
that today, when we are on the threshold of the twenty-first
century, there are still people worshipping idols. On the other
hand, some of the votaries of the three major religions professing
belief in the existence of Allâhu ta’âlâ have lost their belief
entirely. For there are no longer any true murshîds (guides) to
lead them. It is impossible for those ignorant men of religion who
lack the necessary religious and scientific knowledge to imbue
love for Islam into a young generation who are educated with
scientific teachings. Leading them to salvation requires openminded
guides equipped with a powerful religious background
reinforced with most up-to-date scientific knowledge. Our aim in
this chapter is to launch an objective quest for the true religion of
Allah, to carry on a scientific research to determine which one of
the two great holy books, i.e. the Torah and the Bible versus the
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