Why Did They Become Muslims

of garments, they wore untanned animal hides because they lasted
longer, and therefore they stank awfully.”
“Cleanliness was the very first thing that Muslims taught them.
Muslims washed five times daily, which caused these people to
wash at least once a day. Later on, they took the stinking, tattered,
lice-infested animal hides off their backs, dumped them, and gave
them their own garments, which had been made from textures
woven with coloured threads. They taught them how to cook, and
how to eat. They built houses, mansions and palaces in Spain. They
established schools and hospitals. They instituted universities,
which in the course of time became sources of light illuminating
the entire world. They improved horticulture everywhere. The
country was soon awash with rose and flower gardens. Gaping in
astonishment and admiration, the uncivilized Europeans watched
all these developments, and gradually began to keep pace with the
new civilization.”
Educating so wild a nation; imbuing them with sentiments of
civilization; rescuing them from the depths of darkness, nescience
and superstitions; all these inconceivably tremendous tasks were
accomplished by the Arabs owing only and only to the Islamic
religion. For the Islamic religion is the most genuine religion.
Allâhu ta’âlâ helped them for their success.
The Islamic religion, commanded by Allâhu ta’âlâ and taught
and publicized by Muhammad ‘alâihis-salâm’, and the Qur’ân alkerîm,
which is the Word of Allâhu ta’âlâ, changed the course of
the world’s history and freed it from the fetters of darkness. Had it
not been for the Islamic religion, humanity would not have
attained the present heights of civilization, nor would knowledge
and science be in such advanced levels today. Muhammad ‘alaihissalâm’
states, “Even if knowledge is in China, (go and) acquire it.”
This is the Islamic religion which I accepted willingly.
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THOMAS MUHAMMAD CLAYTON
(American)
It was almost noon time. Dazed with the sweltering heat of the
day, we were trudging along a dusty road, when, from afar, a
singularly mellifluous voice began to caress our auditory senses.
So rich a voice it was that the entire space seemed to be sated
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