Why Did They Become Muslims

called) Ihrâm and prostrate themselves with one accord before
Allâhu ta’âlâ? It is a certain fact that Muslims’ worshipping
together at these blessed places where the great Prophet ‘sall-
Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ announced Islam, struggled
against Islam’s enemies, exerted himself with great determination
and firmness, will attach them to one another with stronger
affections, whereby they will try to find solutions for one
another’s problems, and they will once again take an oath to
cooperate along the way shown by Allâhu ta’âlâ. Another use of
the Hajj is that thereby Muslims all over the world meet one
another, know one another’s problems, and teach their personal
experiences to one another. All Muslims assemble at the place
whereto they turn their faces during their worships at home, and,
all in one mass, one body in the presence of Allâhu ta’âlâ, they
surrender themselves to Him.
Seeing the Hajj once would suffice as an evidence to prove the
greatness of Islam. Here is Islam, and I have been enjoying the
pleasure and satisfaction of having entered this great religion.
The philomel of soul is ever-desirous of the rose;
Don’t you ever presume fighting others is its real cause!
Ceaselessly it hovers round it, like a moth,
Looking for a shelter where they could enjoy some repose.
I now know that the lovely rose has told none of its secret,
It always yearns for the philomel, like a budding rose.
From strangers that nymph has hidden her cheeks;
Unrequited love puts up with the thorn, never gets the rose.
Infatuated, the poor lover paces the road to his beloved;
Craving for the sweetheart, the lover himself dissolves.
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MUHAMMAD JOHN WEBSTER
(G.B.)
I was raised with sheer Christian education in London. In 1930,
being a young student, I encountered some events like other
youngsters, and tried to understand them. One of them was to
establish some relation between the religion and the world, or, in
other words, to think over how I could utilize the religion for the
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