Why Convert?

[umm Zachariah]

Hi Ronniv93,


''I know that everyone everywhere in the world can know that there is a God; no person has an excuse to not acknowledge this. That's the bare minimum. Creation itself testifies to that.''


Yes to you that is obivious, to me that is obvious. But it is not obvious to everyone. There ARE people that don't believe in the Creations as being from Him (astarghfirullah). They believe that the creation and everything in it is only by pure chance. But if I leave that for now, since neither of us is interested in that explanation.


The Qur'an 7:172 tells us that Allah, SWT, made all human beings swear to His Unique Divinity when He created Adam, AS. This OATH is therefore PRINTED on the human soul even before it enters the mother's fetus. So when a child is born, it has with it a natural belief in God. This natural belief is called in Arabic the "fitrah". If a child were left alone, it would grow up aware of Almighty God in His Unity, but all children are affected by the pressures of their environment. The Prophet Muhammad, SAWS reported that Allah, SWT said: "I created My servants in the right religion, but the devils made them go astray." (Reported in Sahih Muslim.) The Messenger of Allah, SWT, also said: "Each child is born in a state of fitrah, but his parents make him a Jew or a Christian." (Reported in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim).


Therefore a Muslim submits to the Will of Allah, SWT: "It is not fitting for a Believer, man or woman, when a matter has been decided by God and His Messenger to have any option about their decision: if anyone disobeys God and His Messenger he is indeed on a clearly wrong Path." The Qur'an 33:36.


''So set your purpose for religion as a man upright (hanifan) by nature (fitrah) - the nature (fitrah) framed by God, in which He created mankind. There is no altering (the Laws of ) the creation of God." The Qur'an 30:30.


In this verse, Allah, SWT also identifies the fitrah with the way of the hanifa, which means the way of Pure Monotheism as practiced by Abraham, AS. The religion of Abraham and all of the prophets, peace be upon them all, was one of the true fitrah, in which they worshipped Almight God alone without intermediaries or an incarnated "Savior".


Ronniv93, about intermediaries and another savior (astarghfirullah) than Allah, SWT - I don't say that YOU believe that, since I don't know that you do, but it is though a very common belief included in Christianity.


Sorry for adding to your 'homework' - but surely you are here to learn aren't you?


Regards