How do we know if we are all playing make believe?

[MaskedMufti]

Since the punishment for leaving Islam is death, and since we all have a natural fear of death, there is no way of knowing who is truly a Muslim and who is playing make-believe. Most of us would rather live a life of pretend if we no longer believed in Islam. I have a social experiment in mind. I am going to try it on another website later.

 

[Muhammad]

It is not our job to know who is truly a Muslim or not. We leave such matters to Allah سبحانه وتعالى. But if people were simply Muslims out of fear of death, we would not expect to find so many Muslims in secular countries and so many people converting to Islam across the world.