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Benefits of Becoming a Muslim

moonman

moonman

United Kingdom

 

Benefits of Becoming a 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 philosophical 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, tranquility 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 Judgment.

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 Quran 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 expression. You will be a leader and help lead people to peace, tranquility 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?


By: Ahmad H. Sakr, Ph.D
Source: www.islamdoor.com

06:34 PM Aug 22 2008 |

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moonman

moonman

United Kingdom

dear Vandien,,,, i'm not here to convince u or even impress you,,, but i'm here to give an experiment that may be experimented by me and the benefits i can feel them with my life,,,, i was away from the truth but something opened my eyes to see  this truth of Islam which has changed my life completly …. I'm today,,, trying to express what i feel … what makes me happy and relax,,,, not to make u Muslim,,,, you smarter than to be impressed immedietly but up to u to think first and look for the truth,,,,

Sorry,,, but every mankind is willfree to decide and find the right way,,,,

07:19 PM Aug 22 2008 |

moonman

moonman

United Kingdom

In fact,, i have found that Islam is really a religion which encompasses the aspects of this worldly life and the life of hereafter,,, for this life,,, every thing can be touched and seen which in this case that will lead us to true understanding of hereafter,,,, Islam is really a religion has provided the justice and all the rights for mankind,,, and from my experince,,, i really have getten alot of benefits either they economically or even socially …. With the great aspects and meanings of Islam i became more able and flexiable for the social relationships and become closer to my family and relatives…. Now,,, I'm so pleased for the life that i live… Islam commanded me to respect other people with different cultures and tradions and commanded me to help and support the needy people…. commanded me to take care of my parents and respect them …. taught me to be honest with my self first then other… I just wanted to convey this beatuiful life of mine to any one have not tasted the happines, comfort and peace of mind,,, Just seek for the truth and believe me you don not have a blindfold and no one can impress you… the choice is yours…

06:31 AM Aug 23 2008 |

osesame

osesame

Egypt

ooohh moonman, i hope others who don't know or try to deform the photo of islam know what u know…they will be at rest with themselfs and others…

may Allah guide u & us to the right way

salam

11:30 AM Aug 23 2008 |

dafni.yeshim

Turkey

firstly,moonman thank you a lot to show everybody the benefits oF Islam s in a short language ..I dont wanna convince everybody here in different religion but as I see,ı think you learnt Islam after a long time..but ıt is good to see the real sooner or later..

with my regards 

11:39 AM Aug 23 2008 |

osesame

osesame

Egypt

where r u moonman, i want to ask u something….

06:48 AM Aug 27 2008 |

pink angel

pink angel

Saudi Arabia

thank you  very very very much

 

i  have really affected with what have you  wrote

i think you have very excellent way to write so every one can understand the simple i dea about islam i think you will be reward insallah  for what are you doing

 

this is so great thing , if i tried to do this i do not think that i am going to be so organize and arrange in delivering this ideas.  i really feel all these things that you have spoken about  because i am muslim and proud to be

 

so thank you for putting these words  which not  only helping those non muslim to know about islam but also the muslims to thank Alalh each and every second for being muslim

 

thank Allah thank Allah

07:35 AM Aug 27 2008 |

osesame

osesame

Egypt

nalee, i think he was christian someday and know what u wrote so he choose islam…i wish he recieve ur post to show us the difference….and i think if u know the reality of islam ,i think u'll change ur current view…that's not oppression, firstly and lastly, it is up to u…
by the way, i believe in the heaven religions only ..others r not relgions they r thought and there r great difference between them…that's dosen't prevent me to read them and take what is good in it no….but not take them as a religion  ok
salam

08:30 AM Aug 27 2008 |

moonman

moonman

United Kingdom

First of all… I would like to read\ch my thanks to those who have shared thier concepts or comments…. In the most beatuiful way i really have believed that the time when i was strayed and jumbled between what is i called now blindness and darkness, i really had felt sometimes to a desire of death because i found my self sourronded by alot of conflicts such as in a christinity, who have i worship and supplicate to who?? i just found my self between the desire to change and looking for the truth,,,

I will later complete

08:42 AM Aug 27 2008 |

catsarepretty

Canada

 These all sound like great benefits to have from your religion :).  However, I would like to add one thing…

The benefit of trusting and following Isa al-Masih (Jesus the Messiah) of the Injil (New Testament) is that you will receive complete forgiveness out of grace when you are unable to perfectly fulfill the requirements of Islam. :)

05:20 PM Aug 27 2008 |

osesame

osesame

Egypt

cats,
Islam has ordered us to believe in Jesus and all prophets and messengers whom Allah sent …but believing in him only will give the complete forgivness!!!!!!.....no, believing in the Creator of them all, believing in the Creator of the universe…and following of what He orders that will give us forgivness…Jesus is a human like me , u ,Mohamed , Moses and all people in nature ..the only difference he is a messenger that Allah peresrve him from commiting sins and also all the prophets…
i hope i cleared my words Cats, thanks for share
salam 

02:37 PM Aug 29 2008 |