Why Did They Become Muslims

children. We should be able to chastise them when necessary. You
know that Britons are fond of sports. Sports is something that is
almost sacred to us. If a person does something disingenuous or
acts in a crooked way in a sports activity, he will be punished
immediately and lose most of his honour. The Islamic religion has
laid exquisite and very beautiful behavioral maxims and ideal lifestyles,
which could be, as it were, compared to our sports rules.
During my research in the Islamic religion, these rules won my
admiration. It was this logic and order that led me to the true
religion of Islam.
Here is the second one of the Ten Commandments: “Thou
shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any
thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or
that is in the water under the earth:” (Old Testament, Exodus: 20-
4) On the other hand, today’s Christian churches are full of
images and icons, and Christians prostrate themselves before
them!
One thing I had always mused with consternation about was
that all those tremendous events, such as the miracles of Îsâ
‘alaihis-salâm’, his crucifixion, [which is a Christian belief], his
resurrection and ascension to heaven after having been intered,
had had very little impact on that time’s Jewish, Roman and other
Palestinian community, and their life-styles had not changed at
all. The Jews had been quite indifferent towards Îsâ ‘alaihissalâm’,
so that it was only centuries later that Christianity began
to spread. Contrariwise, the Islamic religion communicated by
Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ spread far and near in a very short
time, immediately changed the life-styles there, and civilized the
semi-barbarous people. I think the only reason was that the
original Îsawî religion deterioted in a short time and changed into
a perplexing, semi-idolatrous new Christian religion, while Islam,
on the other hand, was a logical religion intelligible to everybody.
Between 1919 and 1923 I was appointed to a naval duty on the
Turkish waters. That mellifluous voice that called daily from the
minarets and said, “There is only one Allâhu ta’âlâ. Muhammad
‘alaihis-salâm’ is His Messenger.” How lovely it sounded to my
ears! Most of the books about the Islamic religion that I had been
reading contained contumelies against Islam. Their discourse
followed the rules of a certain textual stratagem wherein the first
step was to cast aspersions on the last three hundred years’
Turkish Sultans, who were Khalîfas at the same time, the second
step was to associate the acts of atrocity and injustice already
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