1. People practice many religions that are created by men but not necessarily means the true religions that is acknowledged by the Creator- Allah.
2. It takes a long time for some one who practices a certain religion to enable him to check or confirm the religion that he practices is a true or accepted by Allah (Thye creator)
3. The Muslims believe Islam is the only religion that created by Allah The Creator of this Universe. Being The Creator, Allah knows best what should be the prictice of His servants - the mankind should believe and practice it.
4. The religion of mankind created by men or the people should be differentiated from the religion from God The creator, Allah. The religion Islam is spread by the Prophets (The messenger of God) right from the time of Adam (the first man created) in this world passng through thousands of years until the the existence of Muhammad, the last prophet send by Allah to convey and bring the messej of Islam to the people during the time when people were not following anymore the teaching of Islam originallay taught by the Prophet, Adam and later prophets.
5. The basis of Islam as a religion is the faith and worship in one God, Allah (The creator) and to follow the teaching of Muhammad , the prophet/messenger of God (Allah) , so that the people can live in this world peacefully and live happily in the haerafter world after death.
6. Perhaps other religions do not answer the big questions of life, such as “Who made us?” and “Why are we here?” Perhaps other religions do not reconcile the injustices of life with a fair and just Creator. Perhaps we find hypocrisy in the clergy, untenable tenets of faith in the canon, or corruption in the scripture. Whatever the reason, we perceive shortcomings in the religions of our exposure, and look elsewhere. And the ultimate “elsewhere” is Islam.
7. To understand another religion can be very difficult job. People is not easy to be infleunced by change. Sometime they cannot trust their thinking mind and dont accept logic and reality anymore. As a result they make fool of themselves and just need someone to explain to simpele fact , such as they have lost sense of judgement and cheated by oneself just because he cannot see the point of emphysis. The problem that arise by the time non-Muslims examine Islam, other religions have typically heightened their skepticism: If every “God-given” scripture we have ever seen is corrupt, how can the Islamic scripture be different? If charlatans have manipulated religions to suit their desires, how can we imagine the same not to have happened with Islam?
The short answer is this: There is a God. He is fair and just, and He wants us to achieve the reward of paradise. However, God has placed us in this worldly life as a test, to weed out the worthy from the unworthy. And we will be lost if left to our own devices. Why? Because we don’t know what He wants from us.
We can’t navigate the twists and turns of this life without His guidance, and hence, He has given us guidance in the form of revelation.
Sure, previous religions have been corrupted, and that is one of the reasons why we have a chain of revelation. Ask yourself: wouldn’t God send another revelation if the preceding scriptures were impure? If preceding scriptures were corrupted, humans would need another revelation, to keep upon the straight path of His design.
So we should expect preceding scriptures to be corrupted, and we should expect the final revelation to be pure and unadulterated,for we cannot imagine a loving God leaving us astray. What we can imagine is God giving us a scripture, and men corrupting it; God giving us another scripture, and men corrupting it again … and again, and again. Until God sends a final revelation He promises to preserve until the end of time.
Muslims consider this final revelation to be the Holy Quran. You consider it … worth looking into. So let us return to the title of this article: Why Islam? Why should we believe that Islam is the religion of truth, the religion that possesses the pure and final revelation?
“Oh, just trust me.”
Now, how many times have you heard that line? A famous comedian used to joke that people of different cities cuss one another out in different ways. In Chicago, they cuss a person out this way, in Los Angeles they cuss a person out that way, but in New York they just say, “Trust me.”
So don’t trust me—trust our Creator. Read the Quran, read books and study good websites. But whatever you do, get started, take it seriously, and pray for our Creator to guide you.
Your life may not depend on it, but your soul most definitely does.
Learn more about Allah (The God, The Creator) and Muhammad ( The Prophet , His Meseenger) relating to the religion of Islam.
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