OK then, convince me... Why accept Islam
In the following link you can find out a lot about Islam. The material
is generally presented as principles of Islam along with some
explanation. We hope you find many reasons and much evidence to accept
Islam in them.
Islam Is The Only Truly Universal Religion
Islam is the religion taught in its fundamentals by all the prophets.
It is the religion which the first human being was instructed to
follow. It is the religion of Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad
and all other prophets (peace be upon them all) throughout the
existence of human beings.
From the world view of Islam, most of the world's major religions
originated in the pure religion of Islam itself and only through the
teachings being lost, forgotten or wilfully corrupted have these
religions changed. Judaism claims special status for the Jews as the
chosen people - a status which cannot be acquired except through birth
[1] and which makes a Jew superior to any non-Jew (goyim) whatever
their beliefs. Christianity insists that you must believe in various
doctrines which form the foundations of what is distinctively
'Christian' belief in order to be 'saved' (i.e. that Jesus (peace be
upon him) died to atone for the sins of Mankind, that Allah is a
trinity etc.). This doctrine, the (Catholic) church itself admits [2],
didn't develop until several hundred years after Christ and so cannot
possibly have applied to those before Jesus nor to his early
followers. In contrast to this, Islam has at its core, a simple
message which applies to all human beings before Muhammad (pbuh) and
all after his time:
"...And they say: "None shall enter paradise unless he be a Jew or a
Christian." Those are their (vain) desires. Say: "Produce your proof
if you are truthful." Nay whoever submits his whole self to Allah and
is a doer of good, he will get his reward with his Lord; on such shall
be no fear nor shall they grieve."
Qur'an 2:111-112
The word used in this verse for 'submits' is 'aslama'. It is from this
verb that the word 'Islam' comes as 'the submitting'. Islam is a word
that doesn't have any connection with an area or a particular
character from history, it is the one and only truly universal
religion and fittingly it has a truly universal name:
The word "Islam" means voluntary submission to the will of Allah
More to read
http://www.islamic.org.uk/whyislam.htm
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