Real Choice

Man lives in a society. The people of every society, willingly or unwillingly, directly or indirectly, share many things with each other. They eat the food grown in the same soil, drink the water from the same spring, breathe the air of the same atmosphere.

From this angle of vision, it is highly describe that one should try to know all religions of the world, in the proper spirit to become a good believer.

Unfortunately, all the religions with the exception of Islam were changed according to the opinion and thoughts of the writers who wrote and scripted them. They omitted and tremed a lot of their teachings and on the other hand, they added some of their own thoughts and beliefs.

When Islam appeared, Arabia was a desert, a nothing. Out of nothing, of a desert a new world was fashioned, a new life, a new culture, a new civilization, a new state which extended from Morocco to Indies and influenced the thought and life of the three continents: Asia, Africa and Europe.

Pointing out the misrepresentation of Islam. One must look at everything with critical eyes in order to reach what he searches and seeks for.

The theory of Islam and sword for instance, this charge of ignorance and bigotry is refused by Qur’an, by the history of Muslim’s conquerors and by their public and legal toleration of Christian worship and others. Moreover, the greatest success of Muhammed’s life was affected by sheer moral force without the stroke of a sword.

The main problem of Islam is that some Muslims do not understand the rules of Islam correctly some others do not want to make these rules their daily attitude and behavior for some personal benefits. Not mention the people who fight Islam or mispresent it for some reasons.

There is a factor which man must put into his consideration. It is the anguage in which the three main religions were written in. Islam was written in the Arabic language before more than fourteen centuries. The Arabic language remained till now as it was. But the English language was changed. For instance, Shakespeare’s books which were written – — before only about 400 years, after 1000 years of Islam – are very different from the English which we use now and we can not understand the English which they were written in.

Man must choose his own religion according to real criterion of right and wrong, without any pressures of any kind. His choice must be free and fair. It must come from his own conveiction.

Written by: Salem Mraheel Quraisha.

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