Why Did They Become Muslims

communicate that sacred book to the entire world. The Qur’ân alkerîm
is in full concordance with man’s worldly life, and it contains
rules unsullied with the insertion of exaggerations and
superstitions and which are perfectly logical, so that people with
common sense will find them entirely true and right. Rather than
bringing pressure to bear on the sense of fear inherent in man’s
nature, the tenets of worship in the Qur’ân al-kerîm appeal to love
and respect.
Having lived for long years in a Christian society and under
Christian influence, a Christian needs convincing preliminary
persuation to abandon his religion and become a Muslim.
However, after examining Islam, I did not need any external
persuation. For I had spontaneously believed in the fact that this
religion is a true one. No one compelled me to become a Muslim.
Nor was I under anyone’s influence. Muslims answered most of my
doubts whose solutions I had not found in Christianity, and they
satisfied all my mental expectations. I therefore became a Muslim
by myself and willingly.
I have realized that the pure religion brought by Îsâ ‘alaihissalâm’
and Islam are essentially the same. Yet the pure Nazarene
religion was completely defiled with the superstitions, rites and
credal tenets borrowed from idolatrous cults afterwards and
turned into what has now been called Christianity. It was so
repulsively fraught with the polytheistic accessions that Martin
Luther, for the purpose of purifying his religion, had to reform it
and to establish the Protestant sect, whereby he, let alone repairing
the religion, impaired it all the more badly. As the Queen of
England, Elizabeth I, struggled against the Catholic Spaniards who
posed a threat against her country, the Ottoman Turks carried on
their holy war against the Catholics in Europe. As Protestants and
Muslims, these two empires fought against the idolatrous
Catholics. The one thing that escaped Martin Luther’s attention
was that nine hundred years before him Muhammad ‘alaihissalâm’
had cleansed and purified the defiled Christianity and all
the other religions.
Today’s Christianity is infested with idolatrous elements and
superstitions. For a long period of time Christianity has remained
as a religion where injustice, cruelty and savagery are all but
legalized, and it still maintains this horrendous identity in its
exactitude. I would like you to recollect the unjust verdicts that
the Spanish Christians gave at the tribunals called the Inquisition
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