![]() ![]() ![]() However, God has placed us in this worldly life as a test, to weed out the worthy from the unworthy. He is fair and just, and He wants us to achieve the reward of paradise. The short answer is this: There is a God. The answer can be given in a few lines, but takes books to explain. Hence, it is normally the last religion seekers investigate.Īnother problem is that 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? Despite the fact that Muslims comprise one-fourth to one-fifth of the world’s population, non-Muslim media smears Islam with such horrible slanders that few non-Muslims view the religion in a positive light. Now, Muslims would not like to hear me say that Islam is the “ultimate elsewhere.” But it is. Whatever the reason, we perceive shortcomings in the religions of our exposure, and look elsewhere. Perhaps we find hypocrisy in the clergy, untenable tenets of faith in the canon, or corruption in the scripture. 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. Only after they have grown dissatisfied with the religions familiar to them, meaning J udaism, Christianity and all the fashionable “-isms”-Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism (and, as my friend once added, “tourism”)-do they consider Islam. Almost never do non-Muslims study Islam until they have first exhausted the religions of their exposure. ![]()
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