I am a new Muslim woman from Richmond, VA. I had never even met Muslims before last year, and had no idea that there was an Islamic center in my own city. However, at that time, I was very interested in Islam, but I could find nothing to read. I read encyclopedias and any books I could get my hands on, but they were all written by non-Muslims. read more »
Rabbi of Makhachkala (Russia) synagogue embraced Islam
Jews for Islam
Every person has a different way of coming to the Truth. For Moisha Krivitsky this way led through a faculty of law, a synagogue and a prison. The lawyer-to-be becomes a Rabbi, then he converts into Islam and finds himself in prison. Today Musa (this is the name he has adopted when he became a Muslim) lives in a small mosque in Al-Burikent, a mountain area of Makhachkala, and works as a watchman in the Central Juma mosque. read more »
Karla’s conversion to Islam
“How could you, an educated American woman convert to Islam - a religion that oppresses women?” - Blonde-haired blue-eyed, former Christian, Karla, explains how her theological dissatisfaction with the doctrine of Jesus as God and her discovery of the rights given to women in Islam led her to become a Muslim. read more »
How do Muslims view the nature of man, the purpose of life and the Hereafter?
In the Holy Qur’aan, God teaches human beings that they were created in order to worship Him, and that the basis of all true worship is God-consciousness. read more »
Islam was spread by the sword
Many non-Muslims, when they think about Islaam, picture religious fanatics on camels with a sword in one hand and a Qur.aan in the other. read more »
Muslims worship a different God
First of all, there is only One God who created the Universe and all of mankind. read more »
Muhammad wrote the Quran
In addressing this misconception, it is interesting to note that no other religious scripture claims to be the direct word of Almighty God in total and as clear and as often as the Holy Qur.aan. read more »
Islam is a religion for Arabs only
The fastest way to prove that this is completely false is to state the fact that only about 15% to 20% of the Muslims in the world are Arabs. read more »
Muslims worship Muhammad
According to Islaamic belief, the Prophet Muhammad was the last Messenger of God.
He, like all of God’s prophets and messengers - such as Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus — was only a human being. read more »
Who Is Allah?
Some of the biggest misconceptions that many non-Muslims have about Islam have to do with the word “Allah”. For various reasons, many people have come to believe that Muslims worship a different God than Christians and Jews. This is totally false, since “Allah” is simply the Arabic word for “God” - and there is only One God. Let there be no doubt - Muslims worship the God of Noah, Abraham, Moses, David and Jesus - peace be upon them all. read more »
The Light at the End of the Tunnel
Many of the things people go through prepare them for life and mold the choices they make in the future. Islam, now the fastest growing religion in the US (at approx. 500,000 new converts a year), relays this very well. All of the converts (or more appropriately: reverts) to Islam have some significant or collection of insignificant events or people that shaped their concept of Islam. This concept, for them, became action. read more »
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 »
Are you afraid to become a muslim?
The Personal thoughts of Kian Yit of Malaysia
I have done a research about why Islam is not acceptable to some people and I found out that it’s because they fear: read more »
How To Become A Muslim
All praise be to Allah, the Lord of the universe. May peace and blessings of Allah be upon Mohammad, His last messenger.
The purpose of this hand-out is to correct a false idea spread among those willing to adopt Islam as their faith. Some people have a wrong notion that entering into the Islamic fold requires an announcement from the concerned person in the presence of high ranking scholars or shaikhs or reporting this act to courts of justice or other authorities. read more »
Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf started life as Mark Hanson in Walla Walla, Washington, USA. The son of two US academics of a Catholic and Greek Orthodox background, he seemed destined not for Islamic scholarship, but for Greek Orthodox priesthood until a near-death experience in a car accident, and reading the Quran, diverted his attentions towards Islam. read more »
