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BENEFITS OF BECOMING A MUSLIM
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem:
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by Ahmad H. Sakr, Ph.D.
This article is designed for those who wish to become Muslim; as to what would
be their benefits after accepting Islam. It should be stated here that we are
not trying to entice people to become Muslim, nor are we trying to convert
them into the fold of Islam. Any person who wishes to become a Muslim should
recognize that he or she will get all these benefits and much more. However,
he or she should realize that they have to earn them by practicing the
teachings of Islam. Implementing the practice of Islamic teachings is as
important as believing.
Benefits
The following items are some of the benefits to be earned and enjoyed by those
who wish to become Muslim:
1. As far as the Creator (whose proper name is Allah) is concerned, you will
be able to identify Him and get to know Him, His role and your relationship to
His names, you will be able to communicate with Him any time, 24 hours a day,
throughout the whole year. As a result of this category, you will be able to
know your origin, your roots and the wisdom as to why you are on this planet.
You will be able to have good answers to the questions why, how, when, where,
what and other philisophical questions.
2. As a result of the first benefit, your loyalty, allegiance, and obedience
will be to the Creator himself. You will transcend yourself from all types of
allegiance for this world. This means that if there is a conflict of interest
between your boss, your job, your government, your system or any worldly
relationship with the Creator, you will undoubtedly put your trust in Allah,
the Creator of the universe. You will follow Him before you follow anyone
else.
3. As a result of the second benefit, you will be able to acquire peace,
harmony, tranquillity and happiness within yourself, with your family, with
people of the world, with the environment and with the universe. One has to
remember that the source of peace is Allah, and one of his beautiful names is
that He is The Peace.
4. As an endorsement to the third benefit, you will get rid of the extra
electrostatic charges from your brain and the central nervous system by
performing the daily Salah. Through Salah, you are to prostrate by putting
your forehead to the floor; and as such are grounding yourself, and you are
discharging these extra charges into the ground. As a result of this act, you
will get rid of many of the neurological diseases from your body.
5. As a result of the fourth benefit, you will acquire a pleasant personality.
You will be friendly and amicable. You would not need to drink alcohol, to use
drugs or to get involved in vulgarity or immorality.
6. Through the experience of fasting in Islam, you will be able to have
self-control, self-restraint, self-discipline, self-education,
self-evaluation, and self-obedience to Allah the Creator. You undoubtedly will
be able to improve health, personality, character, and behavior.
7. As a result of the sixth benefit, you will be able to control your lusts,
selfishness, desires, greed, ego, and conceitedness.
8. Another side reaction of the sixth and seventh benefits is that you will be
generous and hospitable; you will try to purify yourself and your mistakes by
sharing your happiness and your wealth with those who are less fortunate than
you. Your rewards will manifold, compounded daily until the Day of Judgement.
9. By performing pilgrimage to Makkah, you will transcend yourself from being
nationalistic, sectarian, or denominational into being universal. You will be
part and an essential constituent of the rainbow of Islam. You will be also
part of the brotherhood of Islam with those who already submitted themselves
to the Creator. At the same time, you will get rid of any inferiority or
superiority complexes. You will also find yourself in synchrony and harmony
with all the prophets and messengers of Allah since the creation of Adam and
Eve until the last final messenger to mankind, prophet Muhammad (pbuh). While
in makkah, you will be able to visit the places of revelation of the Qu`ran as
well as the places visited by prophet Abraham and members of his family such
as Hagar and Ishmael. You will visit the place where the first astronauts,
Adam and Eve landed on earth.
10. In becoming a Muslim, you will do your best to stop all types of
exploitations in all their forms: economic, biological, mental, spiritual,
psychological, political, etc.. You will also work to liberate people and give
them freedom of worship, freedom of speech, and freedom of expresssion. You
will be a leader and help lead people to peace, tranquillity and happiness.
11. In accepting Islam, you will help to reduce all types of social ills in
the society: juvenile delinquency, child abuse, domestic abuse, incest,
homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, premarital relationships, extramarital
relationships, and other vices.
12. As a result of the eleventh benefit, you will reduce and eliminate
venereal diseases, AIDS, and other diseases of similar nature in the society.
13. Finally, when you die, you will die at peace. You will have a happy life
in the grave and later, eternal happiness. Angels at the time of death will
comfort you. They will also show you your place in paradise. On the Day of
Judgment, you will be able to see and meet all the prophets and messengers of
God to mankind including Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad. You will
be able to see and meet any and all of your friends and relatives. You will
live an eternal life of bliss in paradise.
Reflections:
The benefits mentioned above and many more cannot be purchased with money
anywhere in the world. No one is to sell them to you or to advertise them on
TV. You have to take the initiative yourself and try to acquire them by
accepting Islam first and then by practicing its teachings. You should be
honest with yourself, sincere, and truthful to the Creator. You should try
wholeheartedly to practice what you believe, regardless of whether someone
else is good or not While seeking happiness is a must, it should not be
measured with other people's standards or with material gains. Happiness is
from its potential to its kinetic forms. People around you should feel your
happiness as well as benefit from you.
Are you ready to accept this challenge today? Remember, tomorrow may not come,
and it will be too late.
If you require more information, you may reach the author through the
Foundation for Islamic knowledge, or you may contact any of the existing
Islamic centers in the United States and Canada.
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>In the Name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.
>
>Assalamualaikum,
>
>E-mail ini daripada pegawai yang bekerja di MUIS. Semoga anda semua
>dan
>keluarga berada dalam selamat dan dilindungi ALLAH. Aminnnnnn.
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>Assalamualaikum!
>Just for your info, City Harvest Church is the one on Tanjong Katong
>Road, next to Lion City Hotel, opposite City Plaza and new coming up at
>Jurong West Extension. Also, beware of the church of the Holy Trinity
>Tampines and Bedok-Tampines Bethesda (near Bedok Police Station). Rumour
>
>says that the priest of the Bethesda is a Malay (Na'uzubillah!), so be
>on
>your guard.
>
>MUIS and Jamiyah have received reports from Muslim parents that their
>teenage children have been discreetly lured into converting to
>Christianity
>by a church called City Harvest Church. This report is first-hand
>information because I am on the team which is investigating and
>counselling
>the teens who have already been affected. This church 'harvests'in
>every
>imaginable way.
>
>One of the cases is of a girl, Mariah, 17 (name changed for privacy) who
>was
>invited to a party by her school teacher. Neither she nor her parents
>were
>told beforehand even though the teacher spoke to the parents personally
>when
>inviting Mariah that it was a gathering set up only so that Christianity
>
>could be preached with the use of slide shows and so on to the attending
>
>Muslim teenagers. City Harvest Church networks
>through school teachers, home tutors, Christian schooling teenagers,
>seemingly harmless brochures and so on. Before Mariah knew it, she was
>attending church. It has been four years, Mariah's conversion has had
>profoundly adverse effects on her family and home environment because
>her
>parents see she is being misled but are helpless. Recently, Mariah's
>mother
>approached MUIS. Mariah has been seeking guidance from us for a few
>months.
>We area group of youths who were picked by a MUIS official. Mariah is
>opening up more and more as she realises what CHC really is about. To
>Muslim kids like Mariah, CHC puts on a front that they regard Jesus as
>prophet and God as God. Kids like Mariah are immediately taken in by
>this
>concept because to them it's like Tawhid gift-wrapped in an exciting,
>cool
>package - Christianity.
>
>New and potential convert kids are also taken in by the warm rush of
>love
>the native church members show - they are showered with presents and a
>group
>to belong to. Naturally, everything a teenager might want, Mariah
>vehemently defends her church's stand on Jesus' prophethood and uses
>this
>as her defence to claim that her church is not teaching her to do
>anything
>wrong. However, on more than one occasion, Mariah has used the
>phrase 'Lord Jesus Christ' - we stopped her and pointed out that the
>phrase
>'Lord Jesus Christ' contradicts her claim that CHC teaches unity of
>God.
>She was speechless for a moment.
>
>The next day, she came up with an answer for us and it was that, "Lord
>is a
>title - a noble man it's not meant to be the same thing as God and Jesus
>IS
>a noble man". As you can see, even Mariah is confused as to what she
>really is being taught in this church. We decided to find out for
>ourselves
>whether the church is unitarian as Mariah has been taught or
>Trinitarian, as
>we suspected. E - mailed CHC twice and left messages on the answering
>machine of their PR executive, Colin but I received no
>reply. I finally got her on the phone recently and after a mumbled
>apology
>for not replying to my very simple query. Colin confirmed that CHC is
>indeed a Trinitarian Church.
>
>Mariah is slowly discovering that she has been misled. She had
>been taught that the Bible is 100% flawless which is something even
>Christian scholars disagree with. Mariah has been overwhelmed and
>blinded
>by all the presents and attention she has been receiving. Your teen is
>JUST as vulnerable... Please look into the kind of company your kids
>keep
>because anyone can be a CHC missionary - your kid's school teacher,
>classmate or tuition teacher - ANYONE. Also, if you teach Islam to your
>
>kids just by instilling fear in them, fear of sin, fear of God's wrath
>and
>so on - instead of encouraging them to fall in love with the beauty of
>Islam - all the more your kids are vulnerable to being taken in by
>Christian missionaries.
>
>It's a two-way thing - PARENTS, YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN HELP YOUR
>TEENS!
>If you are a Singaporean or have a in Singapore, it is crucial that you
>check back on this page regularly for the next few weeks. Mariah
>is not alone - she has opened up to us and is slowly reverting to Islam
>but
>she attests that there are many others like her. Your son, daughter,
>brother or sister could be one of them so. PLEASE, for their sake,
>check
>back for updates. Investigation is on going! If you suspect that your
>child has already fallen into the hands of CHC, please contact Zalman of
>
>MUIS immediately at 359 1123. All details will be kept confidential
>
> (Webmaster : Islam The Modern Religion).
>
>PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ALL YOUR MUSLIM FRIENDS...FORWARDING THIS
>MESSAGE
>JUST TAKES A FEW MINUTES BUT IT COULD MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE, INSYALLAH.
>WE
>MUSLIMS HAVE TO STAND TOGETHER, SO PLEASE PASS THIS
>ON.
>
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