Why Did They Become Muslims

al-kerîm, is the final prophet.
5) It is doubtless that a person who enters the Islamic religion
will automatically have separated himself from his former religion.
Yet this separation is not so big as it may be anticipated. The tenets
of belief are the same in all the heavenly religions. Qur’ân al-kerîm
acknowledges the heavenly religions before itself. Yet it rectifies
the wrong beliefs inserted into these religions afterwards, exposes
the religion of Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ in its essential form, and declares
that Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ is the final prophet and that no
prophet will come after him. In other words, Islam is the true and
perfect form of other religions. Various clashes of interests and
contrasting ambitions have made men inimical towards one
another. And this animosity, in its turn, has been exploited by
other people, who have tried to change religions into rival camps
and thus to build their worldly advantages on religions, which, in
actual fact, are essentially paths guiding to knowing Allâhu ta’âlâ.
In fact, it takes a little alertness to see that the Islamic religion
acknowledges the other heavenly religions and that it purifies
them of the human interpolations that they had been subjected to
in the course of time. To accept Islam, therefore, means to render
a spiritual and material service which is needed by all people, men
and women alike.
6) In no other religion has the concept of brotherhood among
people been stated so expressly as it has been in Islam. All
Muslims, regardless of their race, nation, colour and language, are
brothers of one another. Whatever their political views are, they
are brothers of one another. No other religion possesses this
beauty.
7) Islam is a religion which gives women great rights. The
Islamic religion has allotted women the most proper place.
Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ stated, “Paradise is beneath a mothers’
feet.”
The Islamic religion respected the works of art made by people
of other religions, and did not demolish them like barbars. As they
were building mosques like Fâtih and Sultân Ahmad (Blue
Mosque) in Istanbul, they did not feel averse to modelling some of
their architecture after that of Saint Sophia. Throughout history,
Muslims have displayed greatest justice and mercy towards people
of other religions.
For reasons such as these, I chose Islam for my faith.
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