Why Did They Become Muslims

answers. Some parts of our books, (which are originally in
Turkish), have been translated into English, French and German,
and spread throughout the world. Another fact we are happy to
see is that other Islamic societies know of our books, like our
books, and allot portions for commentaries of our books in their
publications. We are not boasting about these things. For what we
have been doing is to merely read and study the valuable and
worldly widespread books written by Islamic scholars, classify
them in categories, make comparisons, sift reasonable and logical
facts from them, and publish these facts in such simplicity and
fluency as will be read and understood easily by everybody. The
books we have been publishing contain no additions on our part.
We lay these pieces of information, which cost us considerably
painstaking and onerous labour, before our reader, thus enabling
him to read and learn them with ease. It is up to the reader to draw
conclusions from them. Our duty is to prepare this material. And
we are doing this willingly, without expecting any worldly returns.
We expect the rewads from Allâhu ta’âlâ. Those who read this
chapter of our book will learn that the Islamic religion is the only
access to knowing Allâhu ta’âlâ and becoming close to Him, that
human beings cannot live without a religion, that religion will
correct people’s moral attitudes and can never be exploited for
worldly advantages and political stratagems, that it cannot be a
tool for personal interests and sordid purposes, and that attaining
happiness in this world and the next is dependent solely on
adapting yourself to Islam.
Although Islam is the truest and the most logical religion, very
little effort is being made for its spread. The organizations which
Christians establish in order to publish Christianity are both
numerous and enormous. The book Diyâ-ul-qulûb, published in
1294 [1877 C.E.] and written by Is-haq Efendi of Harput, a
valuable Islamic scholar whose books are one of the main sources
we have utilized in writing this book and to whom we shall refer
later ahead, contains the following information:
“The British Protestant society called Bible House, which was
established in 1219 [1804 C.E.], had the Bible translated into two
hundred and four (204) different languages. By the year 1872, the
number of the books printed by that society was seventy million.
The money spent for the spread of Christianity by the society was
two hundred and five thousand and three hundred and thirteen
(205,313) British gold coins, which is equal to forty-five billion
Turkish liras according to today’s rate of exchanges, [when a
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