Why Did They Become Muslims

church more, and at the end he loves himself the best.” On the
other hand, Islam commands us to respect and love Allâhu ta’âlâ,
to obey His commandments only, and at the same time to use our
own reason and logic. Christianity still contains some truth. In
Islam, on the other hand, everything rests on truth. In the Qur’ân
al-kerîm, Allâhu ta’âlâ addresses to all His born slaves, regardless
of their races and colours, as is purported in the hundred and
eighth âyat of Yûnus Sûra, “Say, O mankind! Truth hath come to
you from your Rabb (Allah). He who hath taken the right path
hath done so only for his own good, and he who hath lapsed into
aberration hath inflicted a loss only on himself. I am not your
guardian.” After reading all these facts and fully comprehending
the tenor of the Qur’ân al-kerîm, I saw that Islam contained the
truest answers to my queries, and I willingly became a Muslim.
Islam showed me the right way and heartened me. The only way
of attaining peace and comfort in the world and salvation in the
Hereafter is to embrace Islam.
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Mrs. MAVISH B. JOLLY
(G.B.)
I was born as a Christian in Britain. I was babtized, and I was
raised with an education based on learning what is written in
today’s copies of the Bible. As I was a child, whenever I went to
the church I was deeply impressed by the various lights, the
candles burning on the pulpit, the music, the smells of incense,
and the monks in magnificent attirements. The prayers that I
listened to without understanding their meanings would make me
shiver. I think I was a devoted Christian. In the course of time,
however, as I reached higher levels of education, some questions
began to rise in my mind. I began to find some faults in
Christianity, in which I had held a full belief until that time. As
days went by, I noticed an increase in my doubts. I developed a
gradual apathy towards Christianity. Eventually I ended up in a
state of denial of all religions. That splendid sight of the church,
which had been at one time the center of my infantile admiration,
was now gone, like a phantom. By the time I graduated from the
school, I was an atheist in the full sense of the term. It did not take
me long, however, to realize that believing nothing would hollow
the human soul, leaving a perpetual mood of despair and
weakness. The human being definitely needed some power that
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