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Sunday, 23 March 2008

I am Muslim

I am Muslim
If you aren't Muslim and you hear about Islam ,from people aren't also Muslims, things most of them are bad things then you should listen from the other side too .
Firstly that's what you'll need to know:
1:What does our god order us to do& to be?
Our god ordered us to worship God alone, praying for him, giving alms, fasting ,always telling the truth when we are talking , functioning the secretariat to it's owner ,being always with contact with our relatives on the maternal side,good neighborliness and desist from the prohibits'.
and not to do the fornications , perjury , taking the orphans moneys and throwing the chastes.
2:What is the aim of the life with regard to us?
Worshipping our god and making everything in our life for him to make him pleased with us to allow us enter the heaven.
so we make everything in our life for our god even our studying is for our god
3:Who is our prophet Mohammed & what he represents to us?
He's our ideal , our lead , the messenger from our god to us who transmitted us with our god orders and put it in the noble qur'an.
4:How should we treat people from other religions as our god ordered?
there's a part in the qur'an (as there's a part about everything in the qur'an) about how should we treat people in other religions saying :((Allah does not forbid you to deal justly and kindly with those who fought not against you on account of religion and did not drive you out of your homes. Verily, Allah loves those who deal with equity. It is only as regards those who fought against you on account of religion, and have driven you out of your homes, and helped to drive you out, that Allah forbids you to befriend them. And whosoever will befriend them, then such are the unfairs (Zalimon those who disobey Allah). )) Al-mumtahina60:7&8
Secondly listen to some people who was from other religions and came to Islam (some of them are celebrities)       :

there are people who accepted Islam although their
parents had been in other religions and they therefore had been
given their family education in other religions. Among these
people are universally renowned diplomats, statesmen,
scientists, scholars, men of letters, writers, and even men of
religion. These people studied Islam well, admired its
greatness, and became Muslims willingly. In addition to these
people, many other universally known celebrities met the
Islamic religion with deep respect and admiration although they
did not officially become Muslims; they even believed in the fact
that Islam is the true religion and did not hesitate to express this
belief of theirs. Scientists, philosophers, and politicians, admired
by the entire world, first of all believe in the fact that Allahu
ta’ala exists and is One and that He is the Creator of all beings.
In this chapter you will find the statements and observations
belonging to some of these celebrities.


THOMAS MUHAMMAD CLAYTON
(American)
It was almost noon time. Dazed with the sweltering heat of
the day, we were trudging along a dusty road, when, from afar,
a singularly mellifluous voice began to caress our auditory
senses. So rich a voice it was that the entire space seemed to
be sated with it. As we walked past a cluster of trees, a
bewildering scene came into sight. It was such a scene that we
hardly believed what we saw. Mounted on a small, wooden
tower, an elderly Arab in an extremely clean long robe and
wearing a white turban was performing (calling) the azan (or
adhan). As he performed the azan, he was in a trance, almost
completely isolated from the world, and in the presence of his
Creator, Owner. As if hypnotized by this noble sight, we halted,
and then, slowly, sat down on the ground. We did not know
what the sounds and words reaching our ears meant, yet they
somehow moved us and instilled a mood of elation, relief into
our souls. Afterwards, we learned that the sweet words uttered
by the Arab meant, “Allahu ta’ala is the greatest. There is no
god to be worshipped other than Allah ta’la.” All of a sudden,
many people appeared around us. Till hardly a moment before,
however, we had seen no one around us. We did not know
whence these people came, and there was an expression of
great deference and love on their faces. There were people of
all age-groups and classes among them. They were different in
their clothings, in their manners of walking, and in their
appearances. Yet they all had the same expression of
earnestness, great dignity and, at the same time, geniality on
their faces. The number of comers increased incessantly, so
that we felt as if the process of their increasing would never
come to an end. At last the comers assembled. They all took off
their shoes and clogs and stood in rows. To our great
amazement, no segregation of any sort was observed in the
formation of the lines. White people, yellow people, black
people, rich people, poor people, tradesmen, civil servants,
workers stood side by side without any discrimination between
their races or ranks, and performed their worship together.
I admired so many different people’s brotherly coming
together. It is three years now since I saw that sublime scene
for the first time. In the meantime, I began to gather information
about that lofty religion which brought people so closely
together. The information that I collected about Islam brought
me all the closer to this religion. Muslims believed in one Allah
and professed that men were not sinful by birth, which was
quite contrary to the Christian inculcation. They looked on them
only as born slaves of Allah ta’ala, displayed profound
compassion towards them, and wished them to abide by the
right path and thus lead a comfortable, peaceful and happy life.
Whereas in Christianity even an evil thought was deemed as a
sin, Muslims defined sin only as a result of disobeying Allah
ta’la or violating the rights of born slaves, and acknowledged
man free as to his thoughts. According to the Islamic religion,
man was responsible “only for what he has done.”
For the reasons I have cited above, I accepted Islam
willingly. Despite the three years’ time since, I sometimes
dream of the Arab muezzin’s touching and effective voice and
multifarious people’s running from all directions and standing in
lines. It is a doubtless fact that these people, who prostrate
themselves altogether and indiscriminately, are doing so
sincerely to worship Allah ta’ala.
Haqq ta’ala avenges Himself on the slave through the slave,
In the ignorant’s eyes the avenger is the poor slave.
Everything belongs to the Creator, the slave’s a mere tool,
Without the Creator’s command you cannot move a leaf!.

Now let us read with attention to what they said:
NAPOLEON (BONAPARTE):
Napoléon I (1769-1821 [1237 A.H.]), who went into history
as a military genius and statesman, when he entered Egypt in
1212 [C.E. 1798], admired Islam’s greatness and genuineness,
and even considered whether he should become a Muslim. The
following excerpt was paraphrased from Cherfils’s book
(Bonapart et Islam):
“Napoléon said:
The existence and unity of Allah ta’ala, which Musa ‘alaihissalam’,
had announced to his own people and Isa ‘alaihissalam’
to his own ummat, was announced by Muhammad
‘alaihis-salam’ to the entire world. Arabia had become totally a
country of idolaters. Six centuries after Isa ‘alaihis-salam’,
Muhammad ‘alaihis-salam’ initiated the Arabs into an
awareness of Allah ta’ala, whose existence prophets previous
to him, such as Ibrahim (Abraham), Isma’il, Musa (Moses) and
Isa (Jesus) ‘alaihim-us-salam’, had announced. Peace in the
east had been disturbed by the Aryans, [i.e. Christians who
followed Arius], who had somehow developed a degree of
friendship with the Arabs, and by heretics, who had defiled the
true religion of Isa ‘alaihis-salam’ and were striving to spread in
the name of religion a totally unintelligible credo which is based
on trinity, i.e. God, Son of God, and the Holy Ghost.
Muhammad ‘alaihis-salam’ guided the Arabs to the right way,
taught them that Allah ta’ala is one, that He does not have a
father or a son, and that worshipping several gods is an absurd
custom which is the continuation of idolatry.”
At another place in his book he quotes Napoléon as having
said, “I hope that in the near future I will have the chance to
gather together the wise and cultured people of the world and
establish a government that I will operate [in accordance with
the principles written in Qur’ân al-kerim.]”.

MAHATMA GANDHI (Mohandas Karam-chand):
Gandhi (1285 [C.E. 1869]-1367 [C.E. 1948]) descends from
a West Indian Christian family. His father was the chief
ecclesiastic of the city of Porbtandar, and he was very rich.
Gandhi was born in the city of Porbtandar. He went to Britain for
his high school education. After completing his education he
went back to India. In 1893 he was sent to South Africa by an
Indian firm. Upon seeing the heavy conditions under which the
Indians working there were and the utterly inhumane treatment
they were being subjected to, he decided to put up a struggle
for the betterment of their political rights. He dedicated himself
to the Indian people. As he was conducting a vigorous
campaign against the South African government for the
protection of the Indians’ rights, he was arrested and
imprisoned. Yet he was too undaunted to give up struggle. He
stayed in Africa till 1914. Then, quitting his perfectly lucrative
job there, he returned to India to carry on his struggle. He
waged a struggle in cooperation with the Indian Muslims
Unity, which Muslims had established in 1906 for the liberation
of India. All his personal property and his father’s property he
spent for the promotion of this cause.
When he heard that the British were going to launch a
second operation of violence and cruelty similar to the one they
had perpetrated in the state of Punjab in 1274 [A.D. 1858], he
cooperated with the Muslims, induced his friends to withdraw
from the civil service, and waged a silent protest and a passive
resistance. By wrapping a white piece of cloth around his naked
body and contenting himself with the milk of a goat which he
continuously kept with him, he carried over his passive
resistance. The first reaction on the part of the British was to
laugh at him. It did not take them long, however, to see with
astonishment and dismay that this man, who believed his own
ideals with all his heart and who was ready to sacrifice all his
existence with alacrity for the sake of his country, was with the
entire India in tow and resounding with his speechless struggle.
Imprisoning him proved to no avail. Gandhi’s efforts resulted in
India’s attaining its independence. The Hindus gave him the
name ‘Mahatma’, which lexically means ‘blessed’.
Gandhi studied the Islamic religion and Qur’an al-kerim with
meticulous attention and finally found himself a sincere admirer
of Islam. The following is his observation concerning this
subject:
“Muslims have never indulged themselves in bigotry even in
times of greatest grandeur and victory. Islam enjoins an
admiration for the Creator of the World and His works. As the
West was in a dreadful darkness, the dazzling star of Islam
shining in the East brought light, peace and relief to the
suffering world. The Islamic religion is not a mendacious
religion. When the Hindus study this religion with due respect,
they, too, will feel the same sympathy as I do for Islam. I have
read the books telling about the lifestyle of the Prophet of Islam
and of those who were close to him. These books generated
profound interest in me, so much so that when I finished
reading them I regretted there being no more of them. I have
arrived at the conclusion that Islam’s spreading rapidly was not
by the sword. On the contrary, it was primarily owing to its
simplicity, logicality, its Prophet’s great modesty, his trueness to
his promises and his unlimited faithfulness towards every
Muslim that many people willingly accepted Islam.
“Islam has abrogated monastic life. In Islam there is no one
to intervene between Allahu ta’ala and His born slave. Islam is a
religion that commands social justice from the outset. There is
not an institution between the Creator and the created. Anyone
who reads Qur’an al-kerim, [i.e. its explanations and books
written by Islamic scholars], will learn the commandments of
Allahu ta’ala and will obey Him. There is no obstruction between
Allahu ta’ala and him in this respect. Whereas many ineluctable
changes were made in Christianity on account of its
shortcomings, Islam has not undergone any alterations, and it
preserves its pristine purity. Christianity lacks democratic spirit.
The need to equip that religion with a democratic aspect has
necessitated an increase in the Christians’ national zeal and the
concomitant reforms.”

LAMARTINE (Alphonso Marie Louis de):
One of France’s universally known poets and statesmen,
Lamartine (1204 [C.E. 1790]-1285 [C.E. 1869]) made officia
journeys through Europe and America, which gave him the
opportunity to have been to Turkey, in the time of Sultan Abd-ulmajid
Khan. He was admitted in an utterly friendly manner by
the Padishah (Ottoman Emperor), and was also presented with
a farm within the state of Adın, (which is in the western part of
Turkey). See what he says about Muhammad ‘alaihis-salam’ in
his book History de Torque (History of Turkey):
“Was Muhammad ‘sall-Allahu ta’ala aloha wa salaam’ a false
prophet? We cannot think so after studying his works and
history. For false prophet means hypocrisy. As falsehood
does not have the power of trueness, likewise hypocrisy does
not have convincing capacity.
“In mechanics the range of something thrown depends on
the power of the thrust. By the same token, the power of a
certain source of spiritual inspiration is assessed with the work it
accomplishes. A religion, (i.e. Islam), which has carried so
heavy a burden, which has spread to such distances, and which
has maintained its full power for such a long time, cannot be a
lie. It has to be genuine and convincing. Muhammad’s ‘alaihissalam’
life; his efforts; his courage in attacking and destroying
the superstitions and idols in his country; his bravery and valor
in standing against the fury of a fire-worshipping nation; his
thirteen year endurance to the various attacks, insults and
persecutions inflicted on him in Mekka, among his own citizens;
his migration to Medina; his incessant encouragements,
preaches and admonitions; the holy wars he fought against
overwhelmingly superior enemy forces; his spirit for victory; the
superhuman confidence he felt at times of greatest afflictions;
the patience and trust he displayed even in victory; the
determination he showed in convincing others; his endless
devotion in worships; his sacred communings with Allahu ta’ala;
his death, and the continuation of his fame, honor and
victories after his death; all these factual events (and many
others untold) indicate that he was by no means a liar, but, on
the contrary, an owner of great belief ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ alaihi wa
sallam’.
“It was this belief and this trust in his Creator that made him
put forward a two-staged credo: The first stage consisted of the
belief that ‘there is one eternal being, who is Allah;’ and the
second stage inculcated that ‘idols are not gods.’ In the first
stage he informed the Arabs about the existence of Allâhu
ta’âlâ, who is one and whom they had not known until that time;
and in the second stage he shook from their hands the idols
which they had looked on as gods until that time. In short, at a
single stroke with the sword he broke the false gods and idols
and replaced them with the belief in ‘One Allah’.
“This is Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’, the philosopher, the
orator, the Prophet, the law-giver, the warrior, the enchanter of
human thoughts, the maker of new principles of belief, the great
man who established twenty gigantic world empires and one
great Islamic empire and civilization ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ alaihi wa
sallam’.
“Let all the criteria used by humanity for the judgement and
evaluation of greatness be applied. Will anyone be found
superior to him? Impossible.” ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ alaihi wa
sallam’.
I wish to free myself from fancies and whims;
My eccentric nafs[1] will not leave me alone.
I wish to free what is good from the bad;
My eccentric nafs will not leave me alone.
I wish to discipline my essence;
I wish to know what’s good for me, ’n what’s bad;
I wish to come to my senses;
My eccentric nafs will not leave me alone.