Why Did They Become Muslims

Jews: “And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down
from his brethren, and turned in to a certain A-dul’lam-ite, whose
name was Hi’rah.” “And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain
Canaanite, whose name was Shu’ah; and he took her, and went in
unto her.” “And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his
name Er.” (Gen: 38-1, 2, 3)
Now, please put your hand on your heart, and answer the
following questions: What does a religious book teach? A
religious book teaches people what they should do and what they
should not do. It gives them ideas about this world and the next.
It rebukes them for bad behaviour and praises them for good
behaviour. It teaches them their duties towards Allâhu ta’âlâ and
the behaviour they should observe with one another. It
formulates a lifelong policy that should be pursued for a peaceful
and happy worldly life. In short, a religious book is a BOOK of
MORALS.
Which one of these virtues exists in the passage that you have
just read? It is an obscene story of fornication. Anywhere in the
world, this passage would be banned on account of its
pornographic implications. This book, which Christians and Jews
hold sacred, contains quite a number of other similar immoral
passages. For instance, as we have cited earlier, it is written in the
thirtieth and later verses of the nineteenth chapter of Genesis of
the Old Testament that Lût’s (Lot) ‘alaihis-salâm’ own two
daughters made him drunk with wine and committed sexual
intercourse with him and had sons. Likewise, it is written in the
eleventh chapter of II Samuel of the Old Testament that Dâwud
(David) ‘alaihis-salâm’ watched Bath’-she-ba, the wife of U-ri’ah,
one of his commanders, in the nude as she was taking a bath,
succumbed to her attraction, went into a sexual relation with her,
and sent her husband to “the forefront of the hottest battle,” lest
he should come back. (II Sam: 11-2 to 17) In today’s European
museums there are paintings illustrating David’s watching
Bathsheba in the nude and dispatching Uriah to death. In
European languages, ‘Uriah’s letter’ means ‘death sentence’ or
‘bad news’, and thus Europeans derive stories of this sort from
their books which they call ‘Holy’. What do these books teach
their readers? Men who are tempted to commit fornication with
their brothers’ wives, fathers-in-law who make their daughters-inlaw
pregnant, fathers who commit incest with their daughters, men
who seduce their inferiors’ wives and who send them to death.
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