Re: I am muslim because....
Peace All
SubhanAllah why are there so many misconceptions ??? Without citing any detailed explanations and references please see this list:
a) People born to given family is not an excuse for a certain following. Just as it may seem unfair to question a sikh for his faith, Muslims who do not follow theirs will be given an even harder time, that they were born on the truth and still did not follow it. Explain what will happen to those people who become Muslim by choice. If those people who were born in to another religion have an excuse what about the others who were born into other religions and chose Islam? They are adequate to dismiss their excuses. It is not true that people born in to a religion are excused from choosing the right path.
b) What about the people who never heard of Islam? Islam teaches that every human has within a sense of Tawhid which is from the Fitra. Even the Christians and Hindus want to say they worship One God.
c) God only let's people go astray when they choose misguidance
d) People talk about their own sense of virtue and it is quite possible to be good without belief in God .... that is only because God put that sense into all of us. If you look at various societies in the world they all develop similar cultures and worship methods. The prostration is a universal sign of devotion and everyone on the planet understands the sajjuud/bow/prostration/teka/paon chuna/ etc ... I blame this on our universal coding of ethics and virtue that Muslims call the Fitra or the natural way.
e) A kafir is only that person who rejects Islam/true faith after receiving it. Those people who have never seen or heard about Islam cannot be called Kafir, but merely mushrik, or otherwise.
f) Every people have been sent their own prophet (AS) according to Islam and each prophet taught Tawhid, it was the people who changed the teachings.
g) The idea of the past law being wiped away and replaced for a new one is basic to acknowledging a new prophet. Jesus (AS) made some changes too. The parts that never change are not how to do certain things, but rather why we do certain things. Worshipping God by such and such manner may change but that fact that we must worship Him does not. When a majority of a people become posioned with faithlessness then Islam is picked up and given to a new nation. Such happened with Jews to Romans to Arabs to Turks and Mughals and so on. Islam is now being pioneered by the people in the West and the East are losing touch. When a people do not live up to their responsibilities then Allah (SWT) takes the honour away from them. Jews who are honest and many more times the Christians too are the sort of people who convert to Islam out of sincerity for it being the valid continuation of the Kingdom of God on Earth - Islam.
h) It is quite plausible that Hinduism and Buddhism may have originated from Islam anyway. Islam being the general name for the Way sanctioned by God rather than the version perfected by Muhammad (SAW).
In short Muslims must see it their responsibility to be good Muslims and teach Islam to facilitate the spreading of Islam. They must realise that they being born Muslim may go heaven, but if they do not do their duties as Muslims then they with the people who failed to learn Islam from them may also go to Hell. It is therefore no excuse to be Muslim or not and no excuse to be non-Muslim or not, both can go to Hell and both can go to heaven. However, as a Muslim I believe Islam is the only way sanctioned by God, but this does not mean that no one other than Muslims can go to heaven.
Remember everything other than Shirk CAN be forgiven, so there may be some Hindus out there who have not been given effective Dawah from Muslims but also never worship idols and worship God alone, they will for sure (with exception known by Allah) have a better end than those Muslims who stole, lied and killed. It does not change the fact that Islam is the true and chosen way.