Why Did They Become Muslims

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J.W. LOVEGROVE
(G.B.)
I would like to give the following short answer to your
question why I became a Muslim. I shall not attempt to give you
a long lecture on religion and belief. Religion and belief make up
a virtue that emanates from the human soul and which is unlike
anything else. It is identical with the thirst felt by a person left in
a desert. Man definitely needs a belief to rely on as a dependable
guide. First I studied a history of religions. I read with attention
the lives and the teachings of those personages who had invited
people to religion. I realized that the religious essentials that
Prophets ‘alaihim-us-salâm’ had taught in the beginning had been
changed and turned into entirely different forms in the course of
time. What had survived of them was only a few facts. Various
legends had been mixed into the lives of those great, distinguished
people, and their deeds had been transformed into myths and
reached us as a conglomerate of mysterious stories. In contrast
with all these ruins, one true religion, Islam, has preserved its
pristine purity and simplicity from the day it was revealed to the
present time and, without being polluted with any sort of
superstitions or legends, it has survived to our age. The Qur’ân alkerîm
is the same today as it was in the time of Muhammad
‘alaihis-salâm’. Not a word of it has changed. The blessed
utterances of Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ have reached our day in
exactly the same literal form as they were pronounced by him,
without undergoing any alterations.
Allâhu ta’âlâ sent Prophets ‘alaihim-us-salawâtu wa-t-taslîmât’
to humanity whenever He deemed it necessary. They are
complementary to one another. In consideration of the fact that
the teachings of other Prophets ‘alaihim-us-salawâtu wa-ttaslîmât’
have been interpolated and changed into annoying
incongruities, is there another way which one could find more
logical than accepting the Islamic religion, which has remained the
most intact, the purest, and the truest? As a matter of fact, a
simple and useful religion unsullied with illogical superstitions
was what I was questing for. The Islamic religion is that very
religion. The Islamic religion shows one by one all my duties
towards Allâhu ta’âlâ, towards my neighbours, and towards all
humanity. Although this was originally the main objective of all
religions, their tenor has been watered down into unintelligible
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