‘Why are
you Muslim?’ It may sound like an obvious question, but often many of us don’t
have a clear answer to it. I remember being asked this question by my elder
brother when I was fourteen years of age, my initial answer was ‘Well, our
family is Muslim’, his reply to this made me think, he said, ‘If your family
were Hindu or Christian, would you be as well?’. I replied with a strong ‘No,
Islam is the truth’, the discussion that followed made me question the basis of
my life and changed my life for ever. He triggered me to think about how to
prove that Islam is the truth rather than just believing it emotionally or
blindly. In fact Allah (swt) has condemned people for imitating their
forefathers and adopting their belief without clear evidence.
In the
Holy Qur’an, He (swt) says:
“And
verily guess is no substitute for the truth.” [TMQ 53:28]
“They
have no (certain) knowledge. They follow nothing but conjecture. For surely;
they killed him not (‘Isa).” [TMQ 4:157]
