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A Brother asked the
following:
"Is there any truth
on the news that BILL GATES reverted to Islam? This new was quickly
spreading in arabic. Can someone verify its
authencity?"
________________________________________________ Assalaamu `Alaykum wa
Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuhu
Dear Brother Ali,
I have attached below the
information you requested vis-à-vis Bill Gates' conversion to Islam.
The story of
Bill Gates' conversion is a concocted lie. And Allaah knows
best.
Lies about Islam,
the Holy Qur'aan will be perpetrated by those whose desire is to
undermine our religion today, tomorrow, until the Day of Judgement and that
matters not to us as long as we hold tight to Allaah Ta'aala's Rope. Our
Almighty has promised to preserve His Book, His Deen: "We have,
without doubt, sent down the Message (the Qur'aan); and We will assuredly guard
it (from corruption)."
(al-Hijr
15:9)
What matters
is that many of our well-meaning brothers and sisters in Islam got so carried
away with the "good" news and started congratulating Bill Gates and
forwarding his unsubstantiated "conversion" around before
verifying it's authencity.
Please read
Imaam Muslim's advice on: "Verification" at http://www.sunnahonline.com/ilm/istiqaamah/nov1996_d.htm
Wasallaam,
Your
sister,
K a r i m
a
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Saturday, April 16, 2005The Muezzin Did Not Call Mr. GatesThe Bill-Gates-Converts-to-Islam hoax has been put to bed. Commenter "Hoax" at the Museum of Hoaxes (typos and scare quotes in the original) says:
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Has Bill Gates Converted To
Islam?
I got an email asking me if it's true that Bill
Gates has converted to Islam. Seems like an odd question, but doing a google
search uncovers that this rumor has been going around. Over at the Ultimate Bill Gates site you can
find lots of people asking if the rumor is true (scroll down to the comments
section), and the Gates of Vienna
site reports getting lots of search-engine traffic from people searching for the
phrase 'Bill Gates converts to Islam'. I think I've found the source of the
rumor. Over at Iraqitek.com, someone posted
a screenshot of an arabic-language website that supposedly has a story about
Bill Gates' Islamic conversion. I don't know any Arabic, so I can't tell what
the screenshot says, but assuming that the text in the screenshot does describe
Gates' new-found beliefs, it must be the source of the rumor. However, I have no
idea where the screenshot itself came from. Oh, and to answer the original
question: No, Bill Gates has not converted to Islam.
 Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | Total Comments:
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Category: Religion ==================================================================================
Posted by Arabian on Wed Apr
13, 2005 at 05:15 AM
This hoax has been doing the rounds of Islamic
forums for a month.
I'll try to translate the Arabic page you posted (I'm bored:- )) --------------------------------------------------- Anwar Tunis No 213, Thusday 10 February 2005 --------------------------------------------------- At the center of shock and condemnation in the centers of American Science THE EMPEROR OF WORLD COMPUTING AND SOFTWARE BILL GATES..CONVERTS TO ISLAM al-Habib Sadiq al-Zeen- Washington "I have gained everything..money..leadership..science but all my life I have been looking for something that's missing..this is the peace of mind I have found in Islam" This is how Bill Gates started his speak in a party in his honour organized by the American society for the homeless and the dispossessed RYACH in New York on the 5th of this month. And this is how the emperor of computer building Bill Gates suprised those present with news that shocked them and stunned them all. And the American journal Christian Science Monitor, which broke the story, mentioned that with this speech Bill Gates put a stop to the speculation concerning his frequent repeated visits to American Muslims such as the American Muslim Louis Farhan. The journal also asks: "Will Bill gates aim his future software to aid Islam?" The mentioned journal also notes that Gates explained to its journalist that the attacks of 11 September 2001 were a turning point in his life, which made him turn his attention to the study of Islam and understanding Islamic thinkers which in turn convinced him that Islam was the religion he has been searching for. Moreover, several scientific communities in the united states condemned the speech of Gates and the Eisenhower center for software development in Chicago issued a statement in which the petitioners state that scientific progress in recent times was nothing but the result of the separation of religion from science, hoping that this new direction of Gates does not affect the future production of software. But will we as Muslims benefit from the conversion of an important identity such as Bill gates? We hope so.. ==================================================================================
Ali Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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