Why Did They Become Muslims

What I like best about Islam is the nature of its prayers. In
Christianity prayers are said in order to ask for worldly blessings
such as wealth, position and honour from Allâhu ta’âlâ through Îsâ
‘alaihis-salâm’. Muslims, in contrast, express their gratitude to
Allâhu ta’âlâ and they know that as long as they abide by their
religion and obey the commandments of Allâhu ta’âlâ, Allâhu
ta’âlâ will give them whatever they need without them asking for
it.
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MUHAMMAD AS’AD LEOPOLD WEISS
(Austrian)
(Weiss was born in 1318 [A.D. 1900] in the Lvov city of
Austria [in Poland today], visited Arabic countries as a newspaper
correspondent when he was twenty-two years old, admired and
professed the Islamic religion, then visited all the Islamic
countries, including India and Afghanistan, and published his
impressions in ‘Frankfurter Zeitung’, one of the greatest
newspapers worldover. Weiss worked as the publication director
for Frankfurter Zeitung for some time, then, after Pakistan’s
winning its struggle for liberation, he went to Pakistan with a view
to cooperating with that country’s government in the
establishment of a system of a religious education, and later he
was sent to the United States Center to represent Pakistan. He
has two books, one entitled ‘Islam at Cross-Roads’, and the other
‘The Way Leading to Mecca’. Recently he has rendered the
Qur’ân al-kerîm into English. His attempt to write a tafsîr
(translation of Qur’ân al-kerîm) without the indispensably
required background in the basic Islamic sciences indicates that
he is not in the Madh-hab of Ahl as-sunna and that, consequently,
his tafsîrs and other (religious) writings may be harmful.
Wahhâbîs and other groups outside (the right way guided by the
four) Madh-habs present this ignorant heretic as an Islamic
scholar.)
The newspapers for which I worked as a correspondent and
writer sent me to Asia and Africa in the capacity of ‘special
correspondent’ in 1922. In the beginning, my relations with the
Muslims were no more than ordinary relations between two
parties of foreigners. However, my long stay in the Islamic
countries enabled me to know the Muslims more closely, which in
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