
But whatever you do, get started, take it seriously, and pray for our Creator to guide you. Read the Qur’an read books and study this website. 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.” 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.

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? Muslims consider this final revelation to be the Holy Qur’an. Until God sends a final revelation He promises to preserve until the end of time. 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. If impure, it too is due to be replaced, for we cannot imagine a loving God leaving us astray. So we should expect preceding scriptures to be corrupted, and we should expect the final revelation to be pure and unadulterated. Ask yourself: why would God send another revelation if the preceding scriptures were still pure? Only if preceding scriptures were corrupted would God need to send another revelation, to keep mankind on the straight path of His design. Sure, previous religions have been corrupted, and that is why we have a chain of revelation. 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. Why? Because we don’t know what He wants from us.


And we will be lost if left to our own devices. 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 Judaism, Christianity and all the fashionable “-isms”-Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism (and, as my young daughter once added, “tourism”)-do they consider Islam. Almost never do non-Muslims study Islam until they have first exhausted the religions of their exposure. From a Muslim convert to all seekers of truth
