Categories: Ex-Apostates
- August 30, 2007
- Why I Became Muslim, Left Islam, and Came Back to Islam
by Abdul-Haqq
At around age 12, I asked myself, “What if I die right now? What will happen to me? Where will I go?” This was the defining moment in my life that caused me to begin my religious search.
So, what happens after death? I read what various religions had to say. The classical Catholic Popes said that there is Heaven for Saintly Catholics and those who did their sentence in Purgatory. There is purgatory for Catholic sinners. There was limbo for babies who were not baptized. Last, the Catholic Popes wrote that there was hell, which was for all people who are not part of the Catholic Church and for those Catholics who were guilty of heresy or major sins. Then, at the 2nd Vatican Council that all changed. Limbo disappeared. Purgatory may or may not exist. Good non-Catholics who were ignorant of the Catholic faith were now allowed access to Heaven. The fact that these beliefs change demonstrate that they are unreliable. Either limbo or purgatory existed or they never existed. If they did not exist, then what happened to all of the souls that were supposedly there?
I read the writings of the Evangelical Christians and Protestants that stated that if one believes in the Trinity, Christ’s Vicarious Blood Atonement, and Christ’s Resurrection, they will automatically go to heaven no matter what bad they did. On the flip side, if one does not believe in the Trinity or the Crucifixion and Resurrection, one is going to hell no matter what good they did. read more »
- June 5, 2005
- M. H. DURRANI
(Former Senior chaplain, St. Mary’s Church, Quetta PAKISTAN)
Forty years ago, at a very young age, I became a Christian under the influence of a Mission school. I spent most of my life under the Church of England as an Anglican Priest. Islam came to me as does the spring comes to the brown earth after a dark winter. And I came to the religion of my forefathers that is ISLAM.
For my return to the fold, the cause is an inspiration through a vision wherein I have had the personal blessing of the Holy Prophet (saw) I praise Allah, for his Holy Prophet and am overjoyed to find the Prophet (saw) who restored to man his dignity and the freedom of action.
A change of heart comes from the Almighty God. In the fact, without His guidance all our learning, all our searching and all our yearning to find the truth may lead us astray.
We need conviction and no argument, how skillful, or eloquent, impassioned, leaned, penetrating; will ever make a man feel satisfied unless he has the proof within his own soul. The only way to have it is to receive it as a gift from God. read more »
- May 3, 2005
- Conversion from Islam - Then Back again
I know a muslim who had not studied the Quran to any great degree and was recently converted by missionaries to Christianity.
I asked him why he believed one book rather than another, the Bible rather than the Quran, and why he converted seeing that Islam already contained all the teachings contained in Christianity and much more besides. He said that he did not know this and since no muslim had told him so, he did not think this was correct. So, I showed him from the Quran that this was indeed so. He seemed surprised also that Jesus was accepted in Islam and about what the Quran said about him.
After a little thought he said in triumph :- “The difference is this:- [If one accepts Christ as the son of God and as one’s saviour then one’s sins are forgiven. This is the only way one can enter heaven. God so loved mankind that He sent his Son to die for us. There is nothing like this in Islam.” read more »
