BEING A NEW MUSLIM IN A FAMILY OF NON-MUSLIMS
at www.CONVERTSTOISLAM.com
Your family suggest that you just take the best bits out of all the
religions.
I am always very suprised at the suggestion to just take the 'best bits' out of all the
religions. To start with who is so arrogant that they believe they are sufficiently
qualified to judge all religions and select the 'best bits'. Is the suggestion here that
the way God wanted us to live is not contained within one set of teachings? But we are
somehow able to work out how God wants us to live by a review of all the teachings we
can find? Are we able to get a complete understanding of all the doctrines from Islam to
Hinduism to fire worshipping and then rule between them on each individual issue? Who are
we to assume that we have the capacity to 'work out' the life God wants us to lead? How
indeed would we pick the 'best bits'? Would we select those aspects that we found easy to
do, so that our lives became more fun? Surely any decisions we made would be based on our
upbringing, culture and environment and knowledge to date. The outcome would be that
different individuals would have different opinions on what the 'best bits' even were.
Allah (swt) has already given us a code for life. How could an individual human being
decide his own code for life when only Allah (swt) is All-Knowing?
Mankind is not aware of what the future holds, we cannot even say with certainty what we
will be doing in the next 5 minutes. How then can we compile our own set of teachings that
we will live by until we die?
Just to note finally that this way of thinking can be dangerous. Individuals that pick the
'best bits' from all religions are in effect creating a new set of teachings, a new
religion.
In the Holy Quran (54.22-25):
"And certainly we made the Quran easy for rememberance, but is there
anyone who will mind?
Samood rejected the warning.
So they said: What! a single mortal from among us! Shall we follow him? Most surely we
shall in that case be in sure error and distress:
Has the reminder been made to light upon him from among us? Nay! he is an insolent liar!"
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