Why Convert?

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No you are probably right, to compare Allah, SWT, with yourself when explaining the Christian view is not such a good idea, since we Muslims believe that He is One and Unique. Therefore He cannot be compared to anything. At least His creations.

I kindof agree. That's why I didn't call it a comparison. It's merely an analogy to help me understand.


I don't think that such things are bad or wrong. I mean, in Islam you call Allah All-Forgiving, correct? Well, can't a human being be forgiving? Of course, it's nowhere near close to the level of God, nevertheless we can at least understand something about forgiveness from the human examples that we have.


That doesn't bring God down to our level; nor does it elevate us to His.


But just as you said (or maybe it was someone else), there is something in is instinctively that lets us know that there is a God. We are not totally unlike or unsimilar to our Creator.


Allah, to you, is All-Loving, correct? Does that mean, then, that human beings can't love other people or Allah because we cannot compare to Him? No. We understand human love. And we know that God's love far surpasses any love that we could ever for another.

I don't know what things in Islam that you refer to that is not easy to understand or that is unclear. I don't follow you there.

That's a whole separate issue that could be it's own thread. But you know that there are some things that we can understand intellectually about our respective faiths. And some things we take merely based ON faith; can't be proven or it doesn't necessarily make sense to our human minds.

So it can be of interest to raise the question - what is the true religion of Allah, SWT?

I don't believe there is a "religion of Allah". Religion is simply a name/title we use to identify one set of beliefs from another. Like, I don't look at my faith as a "religion". Religion, in my mind, symbolizes a bunch of rules, do's and don'ts, rituals and practices but no <b>relationship</b>.


That's one of the reasons why Jesus didn't commend or praise the Jewish scholars/teachers of His time. They knew all the right rituals, the right way to do this and that.... but they didn't KNOW God.


One will never come to know God intimately and relate to Him just following do's and don'ts each day.