Islam Is The True Religion

WE ARE ONE, THERE IS ONLY 1 GOD <----------------------By Ruth Pumarejo *Worth the read* Islam is the way of life. We have the Torah, The Bible and the Quran. One misconception is that the Bible is not "instant" Scripture and it wasn't all written down around the same time. Instead, the books of the Bible were written over a lengthy period of time by different people inspired by God. All of "the books" were from God. The Quran says that Firm belief that all of them were revealed from God and that God spoke them is a real sense. Some of them were heard from Him from behind a veil, without there being any intermediary from among the angels. Some were conveyed by an angelic Messenger to a human Messenger. Some were written by Allah"s (God in Arabic) own Hand, as He says. THE QURAN was pretty much humanity's final communication with God. It was brought down by the Archangel Gabriel through Prophet Muhammad (may peace and blessings be upon him) in 23 years. The Archangel Gabriel told The Prophet (pbuh) to recite the Holy Qur'an. Even though he was illiterate he still recited it and that is why the Quran is only recited in Arabic. Arabic being the first language also spoken by Adam .They say it is "the language of the angels". When I first read Qur'an I felt as if God was reading it to me in first person in the Heifer ( Surah Al- Baqurah) The chapter of The Cow. I was so inspired because as I read on, I found that the Qur'an was God's way of healing mankind and guiding people to the straight way. The way on those of whom he has bestowed his grace, not of those who have caused him anger, nor of those who have incurred his wrath. Nor of those who have went astray. I also felt confident reading a book that had never been changed by man. Where we have the bible in which has been revised about 10 times and if not, more. It's good to know that God has shown me the way at such an early age. Take my mother for an instance, she spent nearly her entire life in search of God and the true meaning of life. At age 50, my mother met an amazing Arab-Jordanian family here in Boston and she chose to help a great woman we met in the family who was battling an awful stage of cancer. Through their wonderful friendship and journey many times the woman had told my mom that Her and I were going to be such good Muslims one day because of the deed we were doing in helping out the woman. My mom, at the time was confused but enlightened with the family's kindness. Unfortunately after battling cancer for a year, our beautiful Aunty Rehan passed away and on the day she did my mother embraced Islam. It was then that I began studying Islam and the real meaning of this religion of love. I even wanted to know what it was to kneel on the ground and pray 5 times a day, so for 4 months, that's exactly what I did. I was a Christian before but I never had much interest in spending my Sunday mornings on the pews in-fact I always found myself bored. And I never understood why everyone worshiped Jesus so much. Literally. The songs we would sing, the church lessons, I even remember getting a wristband that said "What Would Jesus Do" to encourage us that we should always remember Jesus. I believe he was a great Prophet but nothing ever added up. So like most, I was brainwashed into idolatry. Praising the Divine Trinity: The Father, The Son, The Holy Spirit and even The Virgin Mary. Never having time to worship the creator and sustainer of our universe. Never having time to thank him for everything, to guide me, to show me. Where would God be? I mean I was young, and most kids follow whatever their parents follow making their lives secular and meaningless. At the age of 12 I stopped going to church, by 8th grade I had almost forgotten who God was and by freshmen year I began thinking that life, or at least my life had no purpose. My heart was empty. It wasn't till later on that I learned that life without God in it, no matter how seemingly valuable, is emptiness itself and no life at all. Even though I had never read the bible I decided that if I was going to be a Muslim one day, I needed to read The Qur'an and understand God's message to humanity. At the time I was going through some tough situations at my first year of high school and I was missing school weeks at a time. This is how critical my life got. Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, I continued on my life except now, with God in my heart. On July 25, 2014 I took my Shahada (declaration of faith) at a mosque in downtown Boston. After converting to Islam, life changed for the better. I began to learn about dua's (supplications to God) and really began to pray 5 times a day and the Qur'an says that Allah (God in Arabic) loves those who are steadfast in prayer and piteous/righteous. I looked back on all those times where I didn't have Him in my life and yet I would steel kneel down in tears and ask God the question of why. Why this Why that. It is then when I saw my own mother in tears because she had not been given the job she had gone for an interview. I told my mom that day: "Mummy, don't worry! Allah answers our prayers in 3 ways. He says YES and gives it to you. He says NO and gives you better. Or He says WAIT and gives you the best." I had finally learned that nothing in this life happens without God's very own will. And that sometimes when we don't get what we want, it's because God knows that it wouldn't be best for us. And that when we think everything is going wrong know that Allah does not give us a fight we can't handle. Submission to the good will of God, together with obedience to His beneficial Law, becoming a Muslim, is the best safeguard for man's peace and harmony. So for those of you like me once, Don't worry. Whatever religion you follow, know that there is really only ONE god. And that God is never blind to your tears, never deaf to your prayers, and never silent to your pain. He sees, He hears, and he WILL deliver.