How do you know that Islam is the truth?

JazakuLLah, sister Flame.

I have no doubt the book written by Yahya Harun, and many other books by many other people, must have a lot of interesting points which are thought-provoking. However, considering that I have very little time left on this lonely planet, I am going to concentrate on learning the Arabic language so that I can find out for myself, first hand, the indisputable truth that is contained in the Quran.

I am not saying that I am not open to new ideas. After all, my professional work involves watching movies about cats and dogs, then writing reviews about them. Plus doing research on haunted castles and writing articles about them, too. That's besides playing World of Warcraft and working on developing my own private WoW game server. All these I do when I am not out in the field on dakwah missions. I want to be able to answer properly when Allah asks me what I have done with the time I am given by Allah on this lonely planet. Insha Allah.
 
Flame said:
I hope I will get to read more stories like these. :)
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If you are interested in my story, here it is: http://www.protectedpearl.com/apps/blog/show/5567655-american-by-birth-muslim-by-grace-of-god

I can't say at what point in my life that I began believing in God, but I grew up as a Christian and as far as I know I have believed in God since 'getting saved' when I was about 12 years old.

I am a plant breeder and I have a PhD in genetics and molecular biology. I am amazed and intrigued by the intricacies of life on the molecular level. My reasoning dictates that there had to have been a Creator to design and implement this seemingly self-perputuating system of life. I will use a simple analogy. Take 3 red bricks and randomly throw them up in the air a 100 trillion times. How many times will they fall back to the ground with all three stacked perfectly lined up vertically on top of each other? How many times will they fall on top of each other and be broken into pieces? Another question, if you were walking along the beach in the still-wet and packed area where the tide and crashing waves had just receded and you found three individual bricks perfectly stacked vertically, would you not wonder who it was that stacked those bricks without leaving any footprints in the sand when he left? Me? I would just say, "Subhan'Allah, how God works in amazingly mysterious ways!" I say the same thing with my knowledge of science.
 
I always believed in Allah existence but Sub`haan Allah many things happened with me in my life proved for me that He Is there watching me and listening... things that not everyone can believe that they have happened for real...Sub`haan Allah...
 
Interesting question!

Not many people thought of this before. I think I just need to have a bit closer look and I will find that there are so many reasons keep telling me that Islam is the true way to Allah.

1. It doesn't go against the human's mind, it clarifies and simplify big issues to easier matters:
The whole universe has one creator, this creator is the one and only who need to be worshiped.
2. If you need anything you just can go directly to this creator, there is no this complications that other "religions" calls to, like go through mediators or ask human beings to grant your wishes or requests. Or something like: God is too holy to ask him directly to give you what you ask for. Its just a direct relationship between you and Allah without any kind of bridges or whatsoever.

3. Islam goes very smoothly with science, you can't help yourself but say amazingly: "subhanAllah" every time you discovered a new scientific fact in the Quran.

4. Quran is the most powerful book on the face of earth, no books can compete with it whether scriptures books or any other books. There is no author on the face of earth dare to say that his book is perfect and free of error. While Allah said that in the first surah after surah Al-Fatiha:
This is the Scripture whereof there is no doubt, a guidance unto those who ward off (evil)[2:2]

and the verses are so many in the Quran to mention here, not only those verses that support the Quran perfectness, but also those verses that challenged the most eloquent people among Arabs on earth to write only one Aayah like Quran and they couldn't.

Quran is the only books that remained unchanged since Allah revealed it 1400 years ago while you can see in other books something like: "this is the most accurate version of so and so"


Alhumdulilah for the grace of Islam.
 
sorry if this hrats u but i have to ammm i realy felt funy inside me cuse the wrod u have used sorry necessarily it is because you have akst it for ala u have prayed it and akst Allah and sorry i have to crekt u so sorry if it had

and u would not stp beliving in Allah
 
MustafaMc said:
If you are interested in my story, here it is: http://www.protectedpearl.com/apps/blog/show/5567655-american-by-birth-muslim-by-grace-of-god

I can't say at what point in my life that I began believing in God, but I grew up as a Christian and as far as I know I have believed in God since 'getting saved' when I was about 12 years old.

I am a plant breeder and I have a PhD in genetics and molecular biology. I am amazed and intrigued by the intricacies of life on the molecular level. My reasoning dictates that there had to have been a Creator to design and implement this seemingly self-perputuating system of life. I will use a simple analogy. Take 3 red bricks and randomly throw them up in the air a 100 trillion times. How many times will they fall back to the ground with all three stacked perfectly lined up vertically on top of each other? How many times will they fall on top of each other and be broken into pieces? Another question, if you were walking along the beach in the still-wet and packed area where the tide and crashing waves had just receded and you found three individual bricks perfectly stacked vertically, would you not wonder who it was that stacked those bricks without leaving any footprints in the sand when he left? Me? I would just say, "Subhan'Allah, how God works in amazingly mysterious ways!" I say the same thing with my knowledge of science.
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For those who have not done so. I highly rcommend reading Bro Mustafa's reversion story.
 
MustafaMc said:
If you are interested in my story, here it is: http://www.protectedpearl.com/apps/b...y-grace-of-god
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Subhanallah! I read your story. Mashallah! Allow me to highlight the points that touched me the most:

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After a year of being his roommate, I took his Quran home over Christmas break. I used the index to find and read verses about Jesus, Mary, Abraham, Moses, Joseph (peace be upon them all) and other people I knew from the Bible. At first I disbelieved in what I was reading because it disagreed with my Christian beliefs, particularly the parts about Jesus not being the Son of God. As I read more, I reached a pivot point where I saw that what I was reading made more logical sense than my Christian faith and I experienced what can be compared to a ‘Paradigm Shift’, or a change in a fundamental understanding of the world. I have always believed in a Creator for the universe, but my understanding or perception of God changed dramatically and irreversibly during that Christmas break of 1981.
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I chose Mustafa as my new name because it means ‘chosen’, not by my own merit, but by the Grace and Mercy of God.
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Indeed, what a great honor it is that Allah has chosen to guide us to Islam. My head will forever be bowed down low in utter thankfulness for this supreme blessing.

Jazakallah khair brother, for sharing your beautiful story.

MORE PLEASE!!!!!!!!?
 
Is there a place here in this forum where members have shared their stories of how they came to Islam? I'm rather interested in stories of people who were born Muslim but who later on chose Islam as their way of life.
 
Wow I've never heard about the fly one..that's really interesting. Do you think you can pin point the exact hadith? Also if there is a fly in the food, is it mandatory to eat it?! :exhausted
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I was present at an exorcism and saw the effect of the Qur'an recitation upon the posessed person. Also I read a article by non muslim scientists, they were talking about the wing of the fly containing some medicine or something can't remember now, and I remembered the hadith about fully submerging the fly in your food if you find one in it..
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Brother Woodrow and Sister Flame, may Allah (swt) reward you for your kind and heartwarming words.

My story is not something that I boast about because I am ashamed of the many years when I did not practice Islam after accepting it as the Truth. Rather I see it as an example of Allah's (swt) mercy on one who is undeserving. Yes, I was able to see that what the Quran said about God and Jesus was more logical than the Christian faith I had, but that was only because Allah (swt) opened my eyes to be able to see. To Him alone belongs the glory and the praise. Many people have read what I did in December 1981 and yet their hearts remained untouched. I am thankful that Allah (swt) had the mercy to show me the light of Islam.

My story is also an illustration that as long as a person is still alive then there is hope for repentance and return to the fold of Islam. We should not be quick to condemn another person because he is not praying or because he is living a sinful life, because he may yet reform and die a righteous man; whereas, we may yet fall away from Islam in our latter years and die as an unbeliever. May Allah (swt) guide us to live as Muslims and protect us from dying other than as Mu'minoon.
 
MustafaMc said:
We should not be quick to condemn another person because he is not praying or because he is living a sinful life, because he may yet reform and die a righteous man; whereas, we may yet fall away from Islam in our latter years and die as an unbeliever.
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You're right, brother. Not just that, one must not be quick to judge or condemn anyone, even if that person is a disbeliever, for one never knows whether Allah might guide him to Islam.

One must be more concerned about correcting one's own affairs before raising a critical gaze at others. After all, we shall not be held accountable for what others did. We shall be alone with no helpers on the Day of Judgement, our record of own deeds around our necks.
 
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Yes, we should not be too judgmental of others, but rather be merciful to them as truly Allah (swt) has been to all of us. Being born to Muslim parents or being guided to the light of Islam out of the darkness are truly blessings that we often fail to fully appreciate. What comes to mind is the saying I have heard many times, "There but for the grace of God, so go I." I certainly regret the many years that I was not practicing Islam, but I now have the very rare joy to taste of the mercy of Allah (swt) twice in my life - once upon accepting Islam and the second time in being guided back to Islam as Allah (swt) instilled in my heart a desire to repent. Subhan'Allah and Alhamdulillah!

An ayat also comes to mind 39:53, "Say: O My slaves who have been prodigal to their own hurt! Despair not of the mercy of Allah, Who forgives all sins. Lo! He is the Forgiving, the Merciful."
 
the more I learn about my religion, the more I know firmly that Islam is very true. I never do religion comparison, but when I read what Allah has said, look at the sky, look at the moon, look at the sea, isn't there signs for those who want to think? yes they are, they are signs of the existance of God, of Allah. When I read that Allah said, I did not created all those for nothing; yes they are, everything that He created has its purpose, you can even use **** as fertilizer, when you met an accident, it is actually rezeqi for the hospital staffs.

the more you look around, you will understand that what Allah has said are very true that makes Islam is true. Do Islam created by Muhammad? No, I don't think so. If so, why the teachings are similar to jews (jews didn't eat pork, fish head) and why the ritual is similar to christian (the way the orthodox perform solah is similar to Islam) WHEN he never go to school and he even did not know how to read and write.
 
I believe that part of what led me to seeing the truth in Islam, aside from the will of Allah, is how I approached it. Initially I had no intention of learning about it for the sake of converting, but because I am considering moving to the Middle East in the future. Islam to me was so foreign, that I decided to approach it as a child would - a modern child, which meant I watched a LOT of programs on Youtube that explained Islam very simply! (My personal favorites are the "Stories of the Prophets" series with Sheikh Yusuf Estes.)

As I watched, I realized that it REALLY made sense, much more so than any other religion I had ever encountered. So I studied more, I read the Qur'an, and I just knew in my heart this was the Truth, and it was time to submit to Allah.

All of us, regardless of our age, are still children in a sense. We can accumulate a great deal of knowledge and wisdom, but still the simplest of truths strike home and warm our hearts the most, much as they will with a child. Simple words are sometimes all that is needed - Mr. Rogers, for example, during his life spoke so simply to Western children about the most basic things in life such as trust, sharing, feelings, and friendship, that children knew he told the truth. The Qur'an and the Sunnah are so simple, and speak so much to our hearts, that I know many here would agree that we know they are the Truth in the same way.
 
Greetings and peace be with you all,

Allah (swt) chooses whom he wills, and I perceive the sincere faith of many of you on this forum, which means to me that your path was chosen for you by Allah (swt)

The Same Allah (swt) who gave you your faith; has also given me a deep and profound faith through Christianity. If both of our faiths have come from the same God, and he has chosen different paths for each of us, we seem to have a dilemma.

Somehow we are brothers and sisters together, created by the same God.

In the spirit of searching for a greater interfaith friendship and understanding

Eric
 
Eric H said:
Greetings and peace be with you all,

Allah (swt) chooses whom he wills, and I perceive the sincere faith of many of you on this forum, which means to me that your path was chosen for you by Allah (swt)

The Same Allah (swt) who gave you your faith; has also given me a deep and profound faith through Christianity. If both of our faiths have come from the same God, and he has chosen different paths for each of us, we seem to have a dilemma.

Somehow we are brothers and sisters together, created by the same God.

In the spirit of searching for a greater interfaith friendship and understanding

Eric
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Why do you (and others like you) always seem to imply that Islam and Christianity can both be right simultaneously? Some go so far as to say that they believe in both, and in Muhammad's (pbuh) Prophethood... Can't you see that this just isn't possible? Honestly, I just don't get it... We've told you all this before, and you never seem to understand... Is this just a way for you to just feel safer about your choices? Just assuming that all of them must be right? I suppose it would save you from thinking too hard... But honestly, it doesn't work... Mind telling me how you think a religion/God that denies the trinity or Jesus's divinity, as well as a number of things you do as a Christian (like the eating of pork, the whole not praying thing, the fact that you can't possibly follow his revealed rules, assuming you believe Muhammad is a prophet of God who came with His message...) could just be okay with you being Christian? Your position just doesn't make any sense...


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Greetings and peace be with you Tyrion; I do not mean to offend, but I seem stuck with my thoughts.

God is beyond our understanding.

There are many Christian denominations; but there is only one Jesus.
There are many Muslim sects; but only one Prophet Muhammad pbuh.
There are many religions, but the same God created each and every one of us.

Why does the same God allow so many seemingly conflicting religions to exist? Our religion gives us so much meaning in life, but God is greater than the sum of all the religions of the world put together.

In the spirit of searching for the greatest meaning of One God.

Eric
 

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