Why Did They Become Muslims

would provide him refuge. Consequently, I began to study other
religions.
I began with Buddhism. I minutely examined the essentials
which they called ‘Eight Paths’. These eight essentials contained
deep philosophy and beautiful pieces of advice. Yet there was not
a certain right way that they showed, nor did they provide the
information that would help you choose the right way.
This time I began to examine Magianism. While running away
from trinity, I encountered a religion of many deities.
Furthermore, that religion was too full with myths and
superstitions to be accepted as a religion.
Then I began to study Judaism. It was not an entirely new
religion for me, for the former section of the Bible, the Old
Testament, was at the same time a part of the Judaic book Torah.
Judaism could not satisfy me, either. Yes, Jews believed in one
God, which I approved entirely. But it was all that; they denied all
the other religious facts, and the Judaic religion, let alone being a
guide, had been turned into a cult of various complicated forms of
worship and rites.
One of my friends recommended that I practise spiritualism.
“Taking messages from the spirits of the dead will stand for a
religion,” he said. That would not satisfy me at all. For it took me
only a short while to realize that spiritualism consisted in a manner
of self-hypnotism and could therefore by no means be nutritive to
the human soul.
The Second World War had ended, and I was working in an
office. Yet my soul was still yearning for a religion. One day I saw
an ad in a newspaper. It announced a “Conference on the divinity
of Jesus (Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’),” and added that people from other
religions would be admitted. The conference revived my deeplyrooted
interest. For in that conference they were going to discuss
Îsâ’s ‘alaihis-salâm’ being the son of God. I attended the
conference, and met a Muslim there. The answers that that
Muslim gave to my questions were so beautiful and so logical that
I decided to study Islam, which had never occurred to me before.
I began to read the Qur’ân al-kerîm, the Holy Book of Muslims.
To my astonishment, the rules stated in this book were by far
superior to the statements made by most of the well-known
statesmen of the twentieth century, which aroused strong feelings
of admiration and adulation in me. These statements were quite
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