Why Did They Become Muslims

examination and forming an opinion about Islam that I made
contact with Muslims and, seeing that their belief in their own
religion was in conformity with mine, I realized and became happy
that I had entered into a good religion.
The Qur’ân al-kerîm commands that a person should accept
Islam after his heart’s full confirmation, and rejects a conversion
under coercion. Likewise, Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ said to his Apostles,
“And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye
depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony
against them. ...” (Mark: 6-11)
During my former life-time, I had seen many bigoted
Protestants. They would go to Catholic student hostels and try to
force the Catholic students. These unwanted efforts and coercive
attempts would cause various fights, offenses and controversies
and would sow discord among people. The same meaningless
methods Christian missionaries used with Muslims. They ran all
sorts of risks for the purpose of Christianizing Muslims. They
resorted to all sorts of stratagems to trap Muslims.
They promised them money, work, and posts. Those poor
ignoramuses did not know that Islam was the religion where the
commandments of Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ found the best practice and
confirmation. Christianity has been defiled, to the extent that the
real Nazarene religion communicated by Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ has
been lost completely, and the tenets of humanity he preached have
been forgotten. These things exist in Islam today. Then, by
becoming a Muslim, I have also attained the Nazarene religion in
its pristine purity. Principles commanded by Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’,
such as brotherhood, solidarity, good will, generosity and others,
are observed not by Christians, but by Muslims today. Let me give
you an example; The Christian sect of Athanasians insistently
inculcates the tenet that Christianity is based on a belief in three
gods (trinity), that a slightest doubt as to this belief will lead one to
immediate perdition, and that a person who wishes to attain
salvation in this world and the next should definitely hold a belief
in the three gods, i.e. ‘God, the Son of God, and the Holy Ghost’.
Another example: When I became a Muslim, I received a
letter. It said, “By becoming a Muslim you have damned yourself
to perdition. No one can save you. For you deny the divinity of
God.” The poor man thought that I no longer believed in Allâhu
ta’âlâ. According to his belief, the divinity of Allâhu ta’âlâ
depended on trinity. The idiot did not know that when Îsâ ‘alaihis-
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