Assalamualaikum to all fellow Muslim readers. Peace be to the rest.
I have been in the Islamic information services since 1990. I have met thousands of good people from the West who came seeking the truth about Islam at our Islamic centre at the Kapitan Keling Mosque in the city of Georgetown, Penang, which is my home state. In Islam, we do not compel anyone to come into the faith. You can lead a horse to the water but you can’t force it to drink ! A classic proverb that explains it all so perfectly.
I used to have the Christian visitors sit with me and my friends in the marbled walkways of the mosque’s inner sections. We used to answer their numerous questions about Islam. What the principles of Islam are and why Islam makes sense. Some of those visitors had actually been on a soul-searching trip to our mosque for which they had been saving up for some time. Word of mouth by those who had benefitted from our information services at IPCI (Malaysia) gets around and these people really meant to come seek the truth for what it is.
Many a time we came across individuals who, after being with us for a couple of days, studying, researching and asking countless questions, eventually come to embrace Islam and Alhamdulillah, some took the Shahadah from me and my friends. Eventually, these new Muslim brothers and sisters from the USA, Britain, Australia, Canada, etc., return home to their countries and passed on the message.
I have had people ask for us by name and they spend time with us in the mosque, learning about their birthright to be Muslims and being smart and intelligent, they end up taking Shahadah with us and in turn, go out to preach the truth about Islam, Allah’s Code of Life for all of mankind.
Today, we see Muslims being propositioned by Christian evangelical groups and missionaries relentlessly with a zeal that astounds us. Day by day, they seek out the weak, the poor, the sick, the destitutes amongst the Muslims of Asia and work their way in. Many of these missionaries work under guise of charities and relief effort workers.
By doing a bit of research, what do I find ? Countless projects by the Christian Global Missionaries out with a purpose…to convert the Muslims to their creed.
Among those which I found are these :
- Caleb Project : Malaysia & Singapore
- John Mark Ministries : Pray for Christians in Malaysia
- Prayer Profile : The Malay of Malaysia
They even have a 30-Day Study of Ramadan and its special meaning to us Muslims. Their missionaries are encouraged to study the facts and figures of Islamic teachings yet use this knowledge to sow seeds of doubts and draw the weak and meek amongst the Muslims to “Believe in Jesus as the Lord Almighty”. Na’uzu billahi min zaalik !
It boggles the mind to see the extent to which these evangelists are going all out to rope in the poor, the feeble and the weak of faith amongst the Muslims. The Muslims of the world need to wake up to this strategy of the kuffar and put their affairs right. Maybe the wandering Jamaat Tablighs of the world who waste their precious time “worrying” about Islam should come to their senses and instead of haranguing the Muslims, go after these missionaries. That would be a sight to see ! A friend of mine by the name of Mirza aptly referred to the Jamaat as “Tablighones”.
The Prophet Muhammad left us a clear and complete message. A way of life enjoined by Allah ta’ala. Now comes this group, innovating a system that is entirely thought up by a Maulana Ilyas and a Maulana Zakariya from Deoband, India, going out on a 3 days, 40 days, 4 months “da’awah walkabout” especially to the IPB countries !
When I come to think about the hadith of Rasulullah SAW about the Ummah dividing themselves into 73 sects and movements whereby 72 of these wayward sects will be in the Hellfire and only the one Ahlul Sunnah Wal Jamaah will be saved, I think of this and the numerous other groups cropping up amongst us, each claiming to be The Chosen Ones.
May Allah SWT guide us all. Ameen.
Hairudin & Yohanis
We Muslims are obliged to call people to the Truth of Islaam.
We have the right to propound the Truth of Islam.
We ought to call what is falsehood as falsehood, and preach the Truth of Islam to everybody.
*For this purpose, our humble website is
http://drupalmalaysia.org/Islam and you are welcome to read it with the sincere intention to learn about Islam, but you are not welcomed to post ‘dumb kafir comments’
We have no problem addressing non Muslims as kuffar or kaffir, just like non-believeing Jews and Christians are despised by Allah SWT in the Quran because of their lying and bantering and deceptions.
The falsehood should not prevail, should not be promoted, taught, propagated — Trinity is falsehood.
We Muslims dont subscribe to your reasoning here.
Muslim brothers and sisters ! Allah SWT has commanded :
The only ad Deen for Him is Islaam
Whoever seek other than Islaam as his religion or ad deen, all his efforts will be wasted, and in Akhirah he will be among the losers.
‘I (Allah) have completed this Religion (Islaam)..’
‘Jews and Christians will not stop harassing you until you follow their straying path
(Not necessarily becoming a Judaic or Christian, but maybe a hretic, apostate, secularist, or just doesnt care about Islam, but Christians will love to pull you into their folds so that you become their slaves to the white Christian-European-Anglo-Saxon world domination)
We Muslims dont have to reason with you Christians on why Muslims should not be preached Christianity (read Trinity doctrine) — becuase Christianity is a hoax !
Who invented Trinity ? Jesus certainly did not ! He did not call his message Christianity ! Or Trinity ! He taught TAWHEED — The Oneness of God to the Children of Israel.
So many lies, deceptions, hoaxes, and contradicitions — so why do Christians want to convert Muslims — to join you in hellfire ?
We also agree that Jesus was not dead (and Muslims belive he was not crucified, it was Iscariot the betrayer who was crucified) and we agree that Jesus will return to the earth.
And listen to this Christians ! Jesus will follow the religion of Islaam as brought by Muhammad, and Jesus (Peace be upon him) will join the Muslims and pray behind the Imaam and slay the pigs and destroy the Cross, and kill the Anti-Christ.
And who are the armies of Anti Christ (Dajjal) — it will be the secularists, apostates, heretics, Jews and Christians who have been against Islaam !
We therefore CALL YOU CHRISTIANS to Islam — that there is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is His Messenger, and we also tell you that Jesus was a Great Prophet, and Mary his mother was a pure woman and we revere them.
*We can invite you to Islam with beautiful preaching and share the Truth of Islam with you but we will not force you to become a Muslim without your wholehearted commitment to submit your soul to Allah, God Most Supreme, Most High!*
Brother lingswaran,
Let me tell it to you straight. As a Muslim, we believe that There is No Other God but Allah.
All other deities or faiths is false. As such, we who are true Muslims, will not allow our ill-informed brethren to stray away from the faith once they have come to attest that There is No God but Allah !
Period. One does not acknowledge Almighty God, Allahu Akbar and then apostate from Him !
It is a different story altogether for non Muslims like yourself. You have the birthright to be a Muslim but not one Muslim worth his name will force you to be one !
We can invite you to Islam with beautiful preaching and share the Truth of Islam with you but we will not force you to become a Muslim without your wholehearted commitment to submit your soul to Allah, God Most Supreme, Most High !
That is the parable I quoted about ‘leading the horse to the water’ but not being able to force the horse to drink’.
It has to drink on its own.
Exchanging info like this doesn’t really do justice to sharing about Islam brother. One of these days, if you feel like having a no strings attached discussion about all these over a cup of coffee, let me know.
I’ll be happy to oblige. Drinks on me. :) Call me at 016 – 3969881.
In the meantime, have a pleasant day.
Mankind seems hellbent on doing as they please especially those who aren’t submitting to Almighty Allah, God Most Supreme, Most High.
Brother Collin,
I appreciate your thoughts and viewpoints that true Catholics won’t proselytize to the Muslims. I do know that there will always be amongst the Muslims, those who are ignorant about Islam, don’t study their religion, do not practice it, just pay lip service to the faith and then they will go around faultfinding the very religion they are born into.
It’s human nature isn’t it. Talk as if they know all there is to Islam yet do not walk the talk and don’t know heck what they are talking about in the first place.
There are millions of such folks all over the world.
Callers to Islam like me and others around the world aren’t exactly a 100% perfect in our lifes but as among those who strive to adhere and carry out the Commandments of Almighty Allah as best as we possibly can, we won’t shy away from facing our ‘know it all’s’ no matter in what form or shape they come !
In a way, the challenge provided by Biblethumpers is welcomed by me. There’s only two ways about it.
We either believe totally in Allah or we don’t ! As a bonafide Muslim, I stand form in my faith.
Those who Deny Allah will find out in the hereafter as to whether they or we are right in establishing that ‘There’s no God but Allah and that Muhammad is the (Last) Messenger of Allah, True God Almighty’
May Peace be upon us all. Ameen.
Shalom,
God is Love. Religion comes from God. Religion is between men and God and not men and men. Relationship between GOD ALMIGHTY and MEN. I wonder why did man want to take action against other man in the issue of religion particularly on the decision of choosing a religion. If a religion is really holy and secred, than only GOD Almighty can take any action. Why should man quarrel about the issue of conversion and want to take action according to the law created by man and NOT GOD. Let GOD take action.…. I honour and worship GOD ALMIGHTY but I don’t like to see man fights with other man just because someone is thinking he is holy or claiming to be his religion is right and the other man religion is not right. Does a man claiming to be his religion is right has a locus standy or right to say that he has been given authority by GOD Almigthy to take action against other people. GOD is LOVE so show HIS LOVE to other people and NOT HATRED.…. REPENT PLEASE… Please don’t take RELIGION into your own hand just like people who likes to take law into their own hand.…
My dear friends , i greet you with universal greetings of the Prohpets
Assalamualaikum w,b,r.
Answering to brother lingswaran, i myself a revert from christianity,the main reason i m coming
back to my birthright that is Islam. Do you know that the holy bible have prophecy
about the coming of the last messenger of God the Holy Prophet Muhammad pbuh in 34 places.
please check in the old testament book of Deuteronomy 18:18 and book of Isaiah 29:12 and etc.
yes we have the proverb of not forcing the horse to drink, which horse ? the non muslim cannot be impose or force them but a muslim whose have signed the contract of submission, they bound to the law. This is very fair.…if you a citizen of this country, you are bound to abide the law,but if you choose to reject,then you have to pay the prices…which agreed upon all races..
Brother, when i became muslim , you hindu brothers have make my life miserable and yet you talk about tolerance, Islam indeed very tolerable religion and the proof is you can still practice your religion in this country freely.….in india you dont have the tallest statue of Muruga but in Malaysia you are given, what else you want, if you keep complaining then travel and see.
Brother, if want any books about the truth of Islam please mail us krudin@pc.jaring.my
May God guide us to His Final message of the Holy Quran.
In a nutshell, what you’re saying that it’s alright for muslims to convert christians into islam but when christians do the same, it is seen as an attack to the islamic faith.
You said that you can lead a horse to the river but you can’t make it drink. Then what is the point of you disallowing muslims from converting if you can’t make them believe in the islamic faith. There are so many other good things that islam teaches you to do, among them compassion, love tolerance, helping out others, humility and peace, but you choose to ignore all that at the pretext of defending the islamic faith. If the apostates are wrong, then leave it to God. It is between him and God. Mohamad himself never ordered anyone to be put to the death for apostating.
Further more, this “holier than thou” attitude is the root of all problem as you all seems to want us to understand you, accomodate you and play second fiddle. Then what difference are you from the jews who claimed that they are God’s chosen people ? If everybody think that they are right and the rest is wrong, that the rest are kafirs and therefore full fledge sinners doomed to go to hell, then the world is doomed.
Why can’t people understand that we have more in common than we have differences.To be truly objective one have to be subjective from the ther person’s point of view. Why you all never see from our point of view ?
In all goodwill, while I understand your frustrations of Evangelical Christians coming to “evangelise” on the Muslim community, I, as a Catholic, on behalf on the Catholic community, will assure that there will be no Catholic group whatsoever that will evangelise.
In light of the Lina Joy case, we have heard that there may have been “unscrupulous” Catholics doing the same thing. Let me assure that there are Christians who use unethical tactics which the Catholics will not resort to.