Why Did They Become Muslims

a widely known family, he possesses the title of baronet, (which
means a candidate baron). He was honoured with becoming a
Muslim in 1923.)
Since reaching the age of puberty, I had been allured by Islam’s
simplicity and crystalline limpidity. I had been born as a Christian
and I had been given a Christian education. Yet I had never
believed in wrong credal tenets, and I had always preferred truth,
right and reason to blind beliefs. I had been aspiring to worship
one Allah sincerely and with a peaceful heart. Yet, both the
Roman Catholic Church and the English Protestant Church had
been short of serving this pure intention of mine. It was for these
reasons that I answered the call of my conscience and accepted
Islam, which satisfied me fully, and only after that did I begin to
feel myself as a true and better born slave of Allâhu ta’âlâ.
Sad to say, various Christians and ignorant people have
misrepresented Islam as a religion of falsities and concoctions that
are intended to induce torpor into humanity. But the fact is that it
is the only true religion in the sight of Allâhu ta’âlâ. Islam is a
perfect religion which brings about unity between the powerful
and the weak as well as between the rich and the poor.
Economically, there are two main classes of people. The first class
contains people whom Allâhu ta’âlâ has blessed with worldly
riches. The second class is made up of those who have to work for
a living. There is yet another class. People in this class live in utter
destitution because they cannot earn enough, because they have
lost their jobs, or because they can no longer work, none of which
cases is their fault. Islam enables all these three classes to come
together in a harmonized society. It commands the rich to help the
poor. It provides a social setting where humiliations and afflictions
are extirpated.
The Islamic religion lays emphasis also on personal abilities,
efforts and skills. According to the Islamic jurisprudence, if a poor
peasant, for instance, cultivates an ownerless piece of land on his
own for a certain length of time, the land becomes his personal
property. The Islamic religion is not destructive, but it is
restorative.
The Islamic religion prohibits gambling and all the other
vicious and deleterious games. The Islamic religion prohibits also
all sorts of intoxicants. Indeed, the majority of afflictions people
suffer in the world are caused by gambling or alcohol.
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