Why Did They Become Muslims

whom He pleaseth, [i.e. the good]: and none can know the forces
of thy Lord, [i.e. the number of the angels that He created to inflict
punishments on the people of Hell,] except He. [These nineteen
angels are the chiefs of the other angels]...” (74–24 to 31)
Number nineteen in this Sûra, which is an answer to those who
are skeptical of the fact that the Qur’ân al-kerîm is the Word of
Allah, was stated in the Torah, too.
In the Islamic religion, sacrosanctity of something requires its
having stated to be so in one of the four basic sources of Islam
called Edilla-i-shar’iyya. The numbers ‘nineteen’ and ‘seven
hundred eighty-six’ have never been stated to be sacrosanct.
Accordingly, these numbers are not sacred. In Bahâîsm, a heresy
that appeared in the name of religion in the late nineteenth
century and which spread over the world in a short time, number
nineteen has been sanctified. Their fasting period is nineteen days
a year. Each Bahâî has to invite nineteen other Bahâîs to his home
every nineteen days. The assembly in charge of their religious
matters consists of nineteen members. They have all but replaced
this number nineteen for the six essential tenets of Islamic belief.
They call themselves Muslims, and they mention the Islamic
names such as Allah and the Qur’ân, yet they have nothing to do
with Islam. They are clandestine enemies of Islam.
Another group of heresy lurking behind the name Muslim are
the votaries of Qâdiyânî, or Ahmadiyya, which was founded by the
British in India in 1298 [1880 C.E.]. These people claim that
Ahmad Qâdiyânî (d. 1326 [1908 C.E.]), the puppet founder of the
heresy, is a prophet, so much so that they even hold him superior
to our Prophet. They belittle Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’, too. All the
Islamic states decided unanimously that Qâdiyânîs were not
Muslims. They wrote this decision in their books and announced it
worldwide. A Qâdiyânî of Pakistan named ’Abd-us-salâm won the
Nobel Prize in Physics. Some people rejoiced at the event, thinking
that it was a Muslim’s success. On the contrary, this success is
identical with the Russians being rewarded for a lunar mission.
Because these disbelievers, consciously or inadvertently, follow
the working principles prescribed in the Qur’ân al-kerîm in their
worldly activities, Allâhu ta’âlâ makes them attain their goals in
the world. Yes, successes achieved by such people are
embarrassing for Muslims, though advantageous for humanity.
Like these disbelievers, Muslims, too, should obey the Qur’ân alkerîm,
work hard, make scientific discoveries useful for humanity,
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