Why I Believe in Islam 3

Why should we Believe in Islam?
Believe.
(Believe) : Verb
: To accept or regard (something) as true.
: To accept the truth of what is said by (someone).
: To have (a specified opinion).

I have been asked to state why I believe in Islam. When I put the question to myself
the reply I received was for the same reason for which I believe in anything else, that
is to say, because it is the truth. A more detailed reply would be that in my view the
central doctrine of all religions is the existence of God and man's relationship with
Him, so that the religion that can succeed in establishing a true relationship between
God and man must be true, and the truth of a faith is surely a sufficient reason for
believing in it.
Islam claims that the Creator of this universe is a living God

and that He reveals Himself to His creatures in this age in
the same manner in which He used to reveal Himself in the
ages past. This claim can be tested in two ways. God may
either manifest His signs direct for a seeker after Him, or
the seeker may come to believe in God by studying the life
of a person to whom God has revealed Himself. As by the
Grace of God, I happen to be one of those people to whom
God has on many occasion and in a supernatural way
revealed Himself. I stand in need of no further reason for
believing in truth of Islam than that I have experienced the
truth in my own person.
For the benefit of people who have had no similar
experience, however, I proceed to relate the grounds which,
in addition to my personal experience, have been the cause
of my believing in Islam.
BBA-01. Group Members : Tanveer Hassan , Muhammad Riaz , Sheikh Faizan Uddin, Wali Hassan.
First of all,
I believe in Islam for the reason that it does not compel me to accept all those
matters the sum total of which is called Religion merely on authority, but furnishes
convincing arguments in support of its doctrines. The existence of God and the nature
of His attributes, angels, prayer and its effects, Divine decrees and their sphere,
worship and its need, Divine Law and its benefits, revelation and its importance,
resurrection and the life after death, heaven and hell -- with regard to every one of
these, Islam has given detailed explanations and has established their truth with strong
arguments to the satisfaction of the human mind.
Islam, therefore, furnishes me not only with faith, but also with the certainty of
knowledge which satisfies my intellect and compels it to admit the need of religion.
Secondly,
I believe in Islam as it does not base itself upon the experience of people who
have passed away, but invites everybody to a personal experience of that which it
teaches and guarantees. It claims that every truth can, in some manner or the other, be
put to the test in this world, and it thus satisfies my reason.
Thirdly,
I believe in Islam as it teaches that there can be no conflict between the word of
God and the work of God, and thus resolves the supposed conflict between science
and religion. It does not ask me to ignore the laws of nature and to believe in things
which are contrary to them. On the contrary, it exhorts me to study the laws of nature
and derive benefit from them. It teaches me that, as revelation comes from God and
He also is the Creator of the universe, there can be no conflict between that which He
does and that which He says. It invites me, therefore, in order to understand His
revelation, to study His work, and in order to realize the significance of His work, to
study His word, and thus satisfies my intellectual yearning."
Fourthly,
I believe in Islam as it does not seek to crush my natural desires but guides
them along right channels. It does not, by altogether crushing my desires, reduce me
to a stone; nor does it, by leaving them uncontrolled and unrestrained, reduce me to an
animal, but, like an expert irrigation engineer who harnesses uncontrolled waters and
makes them run into irrigation channels, thereby bringing prosperity to waste areas, it
converts my natural desires by proper control and guidance into high moral qualities."
It does not say to me: God has given you a loving heart but forbids you to select a life
companion, or that He has endowed you with the sense of taste and the capacity to
appreciate good food, but has forbidden you to eat such food. On the contrary, it
teaches me to love in a pure and proper way which would ensure through my progeny
the perpetuation of all my good resolves. It permits me to use good food, but within
proper limits, lest I should eat my fill and my neighbor should go hungry. By thus
converting my natural desires into high moral qualities, it satisfies my humanity.
Fifthly,
I believe in Islam for the reason that it has dealt fairly and lovingly not only
with me but with the whole world. It teaches me not to discharge my duties towards
myself but insists upon my dealing fairly with every other person and thing, and has
furnished me with proper guidance for this purpose.
Rights of Husband and Wife

Similarly, it enjoins the best relationship between husband and wife and requires each
to have due consideration for the need and desires of the other and that they should
behave affectionately towards each other.
This was put beautifully by the Holy Founder of Islam when he said:
" A person who mistreats his wife during the day and loves her at night, acts in
complete contradiction to the beauty of human nature."
Parents rights over their Children

For Instance, It draws attention to the rights of parents and the duties which children
owe to their parents. It admonishes the children to behave obediently and tenderly
toward their parents, and has made the latter heirs to that which the former may leave.
On the other hand, it enjoins love and affection upon the parents for their children and
imposes upon them the duty of bringing up their children well, training them in good
qualities and looking after their health, and has also made them heirs to their parents.
Rights of Women as a Mother, Daughter, Sister and Wife.

" The best of you are those who treat
their wives best."
Again he said:
"A Woman is fragile, like glass, and
men should, therefore, treat a woman
with delicacy and tenderness, as they
would handle an article made of
glass."
Islam has laid special stress upon the
education and training of girls. The
Holy Prophet has said:
"A person who brings his daughter
up well and gives her a good training
and education, thereby earns
paradise."
Islam has made daughters the heirs of their parents along with the sons.
Citizens rights over their Rulers

Again, it has laid down fair rules for the guidance of the rulers and the ruled. It says to
the rulers that the authority vested in them is not their private property but is a trust
and that they should discharge the obligations of that trust to the utmost, like upright
and honest people, and should carry on government in consultation with the people.
It says to the ruled, the power to choose your rulers has been bestowed upon you as a
gift from God and you should, therefore, be careful to invest only such persons with
governing authority as fully deserve it, and after vesting this authority in them, you
should give them your fullest cooperation and should not rebel against them, for if you
do so, you are merely seeking to demolish that which your own hands have built.
Rights of Employees
It has also regulated the rights and duties of the employer and employed. It says to the
employer: You must render to the workman his full due even before his perspiration is
dry on his body and should not look down upon those who work for you, for they are
your brothers whose care has been entrusted to you by God and who are the true
supporters of your prosperity. You should, therefore, not be so foolish to seek destroy
that which constitutes you own support and the basis of your power. It says to the
workman: When you are engaged to execute a piece of work for somebody, you
should discharge your obligation honestly and with due care and diligence.
It says to those who have been endowed with abundance of physical health and
strength that they should not behave oppressively towards the weak, nor treat
contemptuously those who suffer from some physical defect of blemish; for these
ought to excite one's pity rather than one's contempt.
It says to the wealthy People:

You have been charged with the duty of looking after the poor and you must
set aside one fortieth of your substance every year so that it may be employed in the
relief of poverty and distress and for the advancement of those who lack the means of
advancement. It teaches them not to enhance the disabilities of the poor by lending
money to them on interest but to help them with free gifts and free loans, pointing out
that wealth is not given to a man that he may spend his life in luxury and riotous
living, but that he should use it for the advancement the whole humanity and should
thus deserve the best reward here and hereafter.
On the other hand, it also teaches to the poor not to look with envy and longing upon
that which has been given to other people, as these feelings gradually darken the mind
disable a person from developing such good qualities as he himself been endowed
with it, therefore, exhorts the poor to devote their attention towards developing such
talents as God has bestowed upon them, so that they should progress along beneficent
lines. It directs governments to afford facilities for the poorer sections of the
community for such advancement and not to permit all wealth and power to be
concentrated in a few hands.
It reminds those whose ancestors had attained dignity and honor as the result of noble
efforts that it is their duty to maintain that dignity and that honor with their own noble
efforts, and it warns them against looking down upon others who have not been
blessed in the same way, as God has made all mankind equal. It reminds them that
God, who has bestowed these honors upon them, can bestow greater honors upon
others, and that if they misuse the position to which they have been called and
transgress against those who have not been similarly endowed, they will be laying the
foundations of future transgressions against themselves by those who are now
transgressed against. They should, therefore, take no pride in proclaiming their own
greatness, but should take pride in helping others to become great, for true greatness
belongs only to him who tries to raise his fallen brother to greatness.
Islam teaches that no nation should transgress against another nation, nor should one
state transgress against another, but that nations and states should cooperate with each
other for the purpose of advancing the interests of the whole humanity. It forbids some
nations and states and individuals from uniting with each other in order to conspire
against other nations and states or individuals. On the other hand, it teaches that
nations and states and individuals should covenant with each other to restrain each
other from aggression and to cooperate with each other in advancing those that are
backward.
In short, I find that Islam provides conditions of peace and comfort for me and for all
those who may wish to tread path prescribed by it, whoever they may be, whatever
they may be and wherever they may be, in whatever position I place myself, I find
that Islam is equally useful and beneficial for me and mine, for my neighbors, for
people whom I do not know and have not even heard of, for men and for women, for
the aged and for the young, for the employer and the employed, for the rich and for
the poor, for great nations and for small, for internationalists and for the nationalists,
and that it establishes a sure and certain relationship between me and my Maker.
I believe in it and how indeed could I give it up and accept something else in its place.
Prophets.
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
willfully 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
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Rationality requires belief in God

It is a common perception in the (post?) Christian world that 'faith' or 'belief' is
irrational; that a matter of faith is one for which there is little or no evidence. To the
Muslim this seems quite absurd. In Islam people who disbelieve in Allah and in the
prophet-hood of Muhammad can only do so out of ignorance or out of willful denial
of what is evident to them as clear as seeing:
Say thou: "This is my way: I do invite unto Allah on evidence clear as the seeing with
one's eyes, I and whoever follows me: Glory to Allah! and never will I join gods with
Allah!"
Qur'an Surah 12 Verse 108
For the Muslim, belief in Allah forms a foundational requirement of rationality and
belief in Muhammad as the prophet of Allah follows from applying the rational mind
to the evidence of his mission.
There are many ways in which we may describe rational thinking. From the world
view of Islam there is good thinking and bad thinking and 'rational' thinking is nothing
more than morally good thinking. Someone who strives to do that which is right in the
way he thinks, who is sincere and avoids self deception, someone who seeks the truth,
avoids biases and prejudice in his opinions, who seeks knowledge from all available
sources, someone who reflects on what he sees and always looks for explanations and
doesn't accept that things are as they are simply without any reason, someone who
tries to avoid any contradictions in his understandings, such a person is rational and
such a person is one who seeks to think, learn and decide in a morally good way.
If someone tries to do what is morally right they are already acknowledging that there
is a moral good to achieve. Such moral value only exists if existence as a whole
achieves something morally good, i.e. if existence has a purpose.
If you think that existence as a whole has no purpose and achieves nothing, then it
follows that whatever you do in life achieves exactly nothing as well - your life would
contribute no value to existence.
There is no moral good in doing what your own desires find good or what your family
or nation finds good. The only way what you do achieves a moral good is if it
achieves something towards the purpose of existence. Every good that can be
achieved is either instrumental to the purpose of existence and therefore a true moral
good or it is false good and worth nothing.
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The core of all value and purpose to existence is commonly known by the name Allah
or God. He is the ultimate purpose to existence and the achievement of what is
morally good equates to getting closer to Him. Allah is more than we can ever fully
understand but in order to have morally good thinking it is essential to believe in
Allah in some sense whatever name we use for Him.
It is also essential to reject as having any hold over us anything or anyone who asserts
that a good can be achieved without it being instrumental to the purpose to existence.
i.e. without it being for the sake of Allah.
A person who has amoral thinking or immoral thinking acknowledges that there is no
inherent value to the way they think and will see no problem in changing the criteria
by which they decide to accept or reject conclusions. Whatever definition of
rationality could be used there is, for such people, no reason why they should accept it.
If being rational by some definition leads to conclusions they don't like then they can
just change the definition. In extreme cases there can never be enough evidence and
strong arguments for them to accept a statement as true, they just continually move the
criteria of what constitutes for them convincing evidence and argument.
Being rational means being a moral thinker.
Being a moral thinker means believing in Allah.
Only the irrational disbelieve.
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Islam Is The Natural Religion

Islam is known not only as a rational and moral way of life prescribed for all of
mankind, it is known by the term 'Din-Ul-Fitra' or 'the natural religion'. Islam is the
religion designed by the Creator of mankind for the benefit of mankind and therefore
fits human nature perfectly. Being Muslim is living in harmony with your human
nature.
Natural desires are considered as coming from Allah and put into people for good
reason. They don't need to be repressed but rather simply cancelled into the right ways
of being fulfilled. So, for example, in Islam getting married is considered 'half of the
religion' and each act of making love between a husband and his wife is an act of
worship.
When a person is born he/she is purely natural, free of sin and Muslim. Humans, we
are told in the Qur'an, are made in the best of forms and start life with a huge plus. It
is only in later life that their environments may lead them to take beliefs or adopt
practices that contradict Islam.
Because of our nature, deep down we all need to find our purpose in life; we all know
we have moral responsibilities and we all know that, if anything ought to be, then
Allah must exist.
This being part of human nature, no one can claim that their disbelief was the result of
ignorance alone. Disbelief is always, at some level, a conscious and sinful act.
On the day of judgment the conscience of the disbeliever will be his or her own
damning evidence.
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There is no God except Allah and

Muhammad is a messenger of Allah
This is the statement that qualifies someone as a Muslim. If you are convinced of this
at some point then you are a Muslim.
Formally someone becomes a Muslim by saying - in front of witnesses - "I witness
that there is no god except Allah and that Muhammad is a messenger of Allah."
To understand this statement fully some explanation is needed of the word 'god'. A
god is understood to mean anything or anyone who you use to set your values in life;
to determine how you judge a matter as good or bad and how therefore you live your
life. A god is also someone or something that people try to keep happy so that it may
be able to change their lives and make those people happy. Since every human being
by nature forms value judgments everyone has at least one god.
What is your god? Is it your desires? - Is it your work? - Is it fashion? - Is it your
family? - Is it your nation? - Is it your church?
Whatever your gods may be, becoming a Muslim frees you from the service of them
and brings you to the service of Allah and only Allah.
Believing that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah flows from believing in the
Qur'an.
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Is there any blind faith in Islam?

Islam is not a religion of blind faith but is a religion that strongly calls on man to
use his logic, reasoning and intellect. Allah in the Quran stresses the importance for
people to think, to reason and to use their mind and intellect. The word mind or
reasoning is mentioned 49 times in the Quran (in Arabic Taqiloon 24 times,
Yaqiloon 22 times, and Aqal, Naqil and Yaqil one time each). Also Allah refers to
people of understanding 16 times in the Quran (in Arabic Ulu Al-AlBab or Uli AlAlbab). Allah also refers to those of intelligence two times in Chapter 20 by the
Arabic term Uli Al-Nuha. Allah also refers in many chapters in the Quran to the mind
by the Arabic word Al-Fuad. Also in many verses in the Quran, Allah uses the term
heart (in Arabic Al-Qalb) in place of the word Al-Fuad (mind) to mean the same thing.
In one place in Chapter 89 verses 53 & 54, Allah refers to the mind by the Arabic
word Al-Hijr. The Quran also, in tens of verses, strongly calls and emphasizes the
need to contemplate and to give thought
(in Arabic Fikr or Tafakkor). Also in tens of verses, the Quran draws attention to the
importance for man to remember and to recall (in Arabic Tazakkor). The
significance of the two being: to give thought is to increase or acquire new
knowledge, whereas to remember is to recall and remind oneself of relevant
knowledge and events that may have been forgotten, but which are important for
ones faith.
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Allah praises people who use their mind:

Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation
of the night and the day are signs for those of understanding - Who remember
Allah while standing or sitting or [lying] on their sides and give thought to the
creation of the heavens and the earth, [saying], Our Lord, You did not create
this aimlessly; exalted are You [above such a thing]; then protect us from the
punishment of the Fire.
(Quran, 3:190-191)
About the Quran, Allah Says:

[This is] a blessed Book which We have revealed to you, [O Muhammad],
that they (i.e. people) might reflect upon its verses and that those of
understanding would be reminded. (Quran, 38:29)
In the Quran, the words that can be formed from the term know or
knowledge (root 'elm in Arabic) is to be found 865 times. In one verse Allah
says:
Are those who know equal to those who do not know? Only they will
remember [who are] people of understanding. (Quran, 39:9).
Also:
And so those who were given knowledge may know that It (i.e. the
Quran) is the truth from your Lord and [therefore] believe in it, and their hearts
humbly submit to it. And indeed is Allah the Guide of those who have believed to
a straight path. (Quran, 22:54).
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On the other hand, the Quran strongly rejects certain mentalities that are driven
by myths, illusions, absurdities, ignorance, blind imitation of others, assumption
(conjecture), prejudice, whims and desires. In fact, Allah in the Quran confirms
that most people on earth have gone astray because they follow assumption,
conjecture and ignorance. Allah says:
And if you obey most of those upon the earth, they will mislead you from the
way of Allah. They follow not except assumption, and they are not but falsifying
(out of ignorance, conjecture and assumption). (Quran, 6:116)

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Rationality requires belief in God

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Islam Is The Natural Religion

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There is no God except Allah and

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