This arti­cle was writ­ten as part of my answer to a Chris­t­ian call­ing him­self AIbrahim”, who raised the issue of Mus­lims con­vert­ing to Chris­tian­i­ty as proof” for the truth of Chris­tian­i­ty as well as deny­ing that Chris­t­ian reverts to Islam were even prac­tic­ing Chris­tians”. Below is the repro­duc­tion of that dia­logue, with some mod­i­fi­ca­tions to suit the topic. 

Tran­script

    (In response to my chal­lenge for him to back his claim of hun­dreds of Mus­lims leav­ing Islam” with facts and figures)

    It is hard to get those fig­ures because all Mus­lim back­ground believ­ers are VERY secu­ri­ty conscious

Or is it because there are no such fig­ures, to begin with ?

Any­way, I’m not try­ing to deny that there are Mus­lims leav­ing Islam. God has giv­en free will to humans and they are free to reject truth or false­hood at their whim and fan­cy. The Qur’an says, There is no com­pul­sion in reli­gion, truth stands clear from error”.Qur’an, 2:256 A per­son who leaves Islam is thus exer­cis­ing that free choice and no one will shoul­der the results of such a choice but him­self. But you should not be accus­ing Islam of things that can be found in your own Bible (in the Old Tes­ta­ment), i.e. the killing of apos­tates.Refer to Deuteron­o­my 13 : 6 – 9, Deuteron­o­my 17:3 – 5 and Leviti­cus 20:27, c.f. Romans 1:20 – 32

    Regard­ing the Chris­tians’ who are becom­ing Mus­lims, most of those who do so have nev­er prac­ticed their faith.

Maybe you’re right, but I’m not a judge of what they did or did not do when they were Chris­tians before they final­ly decid­ed to, alham­dulil­lah, become Mus­lims. Any­way, what I had in mind when I first wrote the para­graph above are Chris­t­ian priests and schol­ars. Or maybe you wish to deny that these peo­ple were prac­tic­ing Christians”?

    They are just nom­i­nal Chris­tians because they were born in the west­ern world.

I’m not deny­ing that there are nom­i­nal Chris­tians who revert to Islam, but these are not the only group of peo­ple accept­ing Islam. On the con­trary, there are many Chris­t­ian schol­ars who accept­ed Islam.

A good exam­ple is the Chris­t­ian Pro­fes­sor Abra­ham Phillips, who was a mis­sion­ary to the Mus­lims in Egypt. He first stud­ied the Qur’an in detail to shake the Mus­lim belief and con­vert them to Chris­tian­i­ty. But after 5 years, he revert­ed to Islam and changed his name to Ibra­heem Khaleel Ahmed and have since writ­ten sev­er­al books on Islam and Chris­tian­i­ty, among them a book titled AL-MUSTASYRIGUN WAI MUBASSYIRUN FIL ALAMIL ARABI WAL ISLAM, which I own.The book I own how­ev­er, is a Bahasa Melayu (Malay) trans­la­tion, enti­tled Siasat Misi Kris­ten dan Orientalis

Why am I telling you this ? To show that there are unbi­ased Chris­tians out there like Abra­ham Philips who, despite their deep Chris­t­ian back­ground, seek the truth and rec­og­nize the truth when they see it. And they are cer­tain­ly not nom­i­nal Chris­tians”, as you like to allege.

    Many con­vert for busi­ness rea­sons or because they want to mar­ry a Muslim.

So do these for­mer Mus­lims”. Most of these Mus­lims who were saved by Christ” nev­er had a deep study of Islam and were sim­ply nom­i­nal Mus­lims. Their Islam­ic knowl­edge and prac­tice is min­i­mal, and/​or come from Mus­lim fam­i­lies where the par­ents them­selves do not care about Islam. It hap­pens. How­ev­er, I have nev­er heard of an imam or an Islam­ic schol­ar con­vert­ing to Chris­tian­i­ty, but there are many cas­es of Chris­t­ian schol­ars and priests revert­ing to Islam.

Con­clud­ing Remarks

In the end, any­one who reverts to Islam from Chris­tian­i­ty deals a big­ger blow for Chris­tian­i­ty, not the Mus­lims” who con­vert to Chris­tian­i­ty. Why ? Because from the two, it is Chris­tian­i­ty which has the eas­i­er, more seduc­tive path to sal­va­tion, i.e. emo­tion­al appeal (believe in the cru­ci­fix­ion and you will be saved!) when com­pared to Islam, which is based on intel­lec­tu­al integri­ty, i.e. empha­sizes both faith and deeds to attain sal­va­tion (and there­fore is much hard­er” than Christianity). 

So why do for­mer Chris­tians take the hard way” instead of the eas­i­er path ? That is a ques­tion you should ask your­self. Maybe the answer is in what J.G. Vos, a Chris­t­ian, said :

There is noth­ing in Islam to lead a man to say, Oh wretched man that I am, who shall deliv­er me from the body of this death”? or I know that in me ; that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing.” A reli­gion with rea­son­ably attain­able objectives…does not give the sin­ner the anguish of a guilty con­science nor the frus­tra­tion of try­ing with­out suc­cess to attain in prac­ti­cal liv­ing the require­ments of an absolute moral stan­dard. In brief, Islam makes a man feel good, while Chris­tian­i­ty nec­es­sar­i­ly first, and often there­after, makes a man feel bad. The reli­gion of the bro­ken heart is Chris­tian­i­ty, not Islam.J. S. Vos, A Chris­t­ian Intro­duc­tion to Reli­gions of the World, pp. 66 – 67

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Post­script

Here is a repro­duc­tion of an e‑mail I received from a Broth­er com­ment­ing on this arti­cle, who decid­ed to keep him­self anony­mous. May God reward him with some­thing bet­ter, insha’Allah.

I read your arti­cle and agree. The strongest Mus­lims I know are all con­verts from Chris­tian­i­ty, and many of them were strong Chris­tians before. I found the Chris­tian’s com­ments inter­est­ing. Was he Evan­gel­i­cal or Pen­te­costal, because when I was still a Chris­t­ian, every­body talked about faith” and being filled with the holy spir­it.” They always said, if don’t have faith you won’t get the holy spir­it.” I always asked how do I get this faith ? I was told that I had to spend time read­ing God’s word and pray­ing for the Holy Spir­it or Jesus to come into my life and then I would feel him.” So I tried it, but got depressed, because the more I read God’s word” the more log­ic was telling me that the Chris­t­ian doc­trines were unsup­port­ed and the only thing that seemed like the Holy Spir­it was telling me that Islam was the truth. 

I am always told by Chris­tians that Chris­tian­i­ty must be true because of two things : the com­plex­i­ties of its doc­trines, like the Trin­i­ty, which I could think of a thou­sand argu­ments against, and its emo­tion­al appeal, the cry­ing God on the Cross feel­ing the pain of man’s sins, which con­fused me, because I thought if man was so inca­pable of doing right, and that if God had to die, why would man still have to accept his death. What I mean is, if Jesus died for all sins, then he sure­ly must have died for the sin of unbe­lief and how is it pos­si­ble for the post-res­ur­rec­tion man to still be born sin­ful. I then con­clud­ed that most of this faith” was built on noth­ing more than emo­tion. Chris­tian­i­ty gains most of its con­verts from the poor and the dis­pos­sessed by using this emo­tion­al appeal, preach­ing a god that is suf­fer­ing with his peo­ple, is whol­ly good but some­how let evil come into the world, man can have guar­an­teed sal­va­tion, and that God has total­ly got rid of the law allow­ing peo­ple to live in the spirit.” 

Ismail Al-Faruqi and Shab­bir Ahk­tar both talk about this and use it as part of their basis for Mus­lim-Chris­t­ian dia­logue. I think this is why Chris­tian­i­ty has failed in many places, because of its almost total­ly sen­ti­men­tal nature. I have seen places where Chris­tian­i­ty failed, like the Amer­i­can ghet­tos where law­less­ness reigns. Islam pro­vides law and struc­ture, and because of this Islam comes in full force and does the most amaz­ing reforms. I final­ly feel that the faith I was lack­ing in Chris­tian­i­ty is in Islam, and its built on some­thing stronger. I’ve read almost every anti-Islam­ic book you could name and it had only made my faith stronger. I am not mar­ried yet but it is a shame that when I do I will have to fend off Chris­tians’ favorite attack : You just became Mus­lim for the women.”


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9 responses to “Some Thoughts on Mus­lims Con­vert­ing to Chris­tian­i­ty and Vice-Versa”

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    shadowofears

    show you some fake con­verts to christianity ?
    there are many evi­dence that most of these so called mus­lim con­verts are fake. They are paid for their lies.

    http://​www​.youtube​.com/​w​a​t​c​h​?​v​=​q​h​j​n​q​r​x​5​Igg

    Anoth­er fake con­vert : (this is actu­al­ly qui­et hilar­i­ous how igno­rant these SO CALLED” con­verts are)
    http://​www​.youtube​.com/​w​a​t​c​h​?​v​=​D​g​m​6​L​_​g​H​srU

    Anoth­er one :
    http://​www​.youtube​.com/​w​a​t​c​h​?​v​=​F​S​T​g​b​P​Y​s​wPg

    Just for fun purpose
    Check this out :

    How ex-mus­lim baby killer Samer found christ !
    http://​uk​.youtube​.com/​w​a​t​c​h​?​v​=​R​I​W​v​D​o​P​y​LQk