Why Did They Become Muslims

We Muslims are not people who hold the belief that everything
is a slave in the hands of destiny. Destiny in the Islamic sense does
not mean to sit idly with your mouth opened in the celestial
direction and to expect that Allâhu ta’âlâ will give you everything.
On the contrary, Allâhu ta’âlâ enjoins work in the Qur’ân alkerîm.
Man should do his best and hold fast to all the apparent
causes; only after that will he put his trust in Allâhu ta’âlâ. Not
without working, but while working, should he beg Allâhu ta’âlâ to
help him for success and earning. The Islamic credal tenet which
says that “Good and evil come from Allâhu ta’âlâ” means, “Allâhu
ta’âlâ is the Creator of all.” Islam does not contain a tenet
encouraging people to idle away their time. Destiny means Allâhu
ta’âlâ’s knowing in the eternal past all the events that will take
place and His creating everything when the time in His knowledge
comes.
Islam never accepts a credo based on the belief that human
beings are originally sinful, that they are born with sins, or that
they have to expiate their sins throughout their lives. Islam states
that human beings are the born slaves of Allâhu ta’âlâ, men and
women alike, and that with respect to mental and moral qualities
the two sexes are not very different from each other. Only, because
men are more powerful and stronger by creation, onerous and
tiresome duties such as supporting the family have been given to
them, while women have been blessed with a more comfortable,
more cheerful and happier life.
I do not want to say much on how Islam establishes
brotherhood among all Muslims. For the entire world knows how
Muslims love and help one another. In Islam all people, the rich,
the poor, the nobles, villagers, civil servants, workers, merchants,
are equal in the presence of Allâhu ta’âlâ, and they are brothers.
Throughout my travels in the Muslim countries, I felt as if I had
been in my own home and among my brothers, wherever I went.
A final remark I would like to add is this: Islam invites people
both to work honestly all day long and to carry on his acts of
worship, his duties as a born slave to Allâhu ta’âlâ. Today’s
Christianity, on the other hand, induces into people a life style
consisting in Masses in the name of worship only on Sundays and
a complete oblivion of Allâhu ta’âlâ covered with worldly
occupations and sins throughout the rest of the week.
It was for these reasons that I became a Muslim, and I am
proud of having become a Muslim.
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