17/01/2023
Brother from Rome Italy.....
I converted to Islam last year's summer.
I decided to become religious because I had frightening questions about the afterlife…but the problem was, which religion?
It all started thanks (yeah, thanks!) to the so called “critiques of Islam". They would go on and on saying that the Qur'an is evil, Muhammad was a warmonger etc, etc.
Now, I like to consider myself an intellectually honest person so I visited both anti-islamic and Islamic sites. The Islamic sites used very basic knowledge to completely debunk anti-islamic arguments which left me impressed, to say the least.
(I am 100% Italian btw, but I've never really found Christianity appealing. Islam on the other had a natural fashion.)
I bought and read a translated Qur'an, in which there were useful notes with historical context and studies done on certain statements of the Qur'an.
That's how I got to know more about the purest form of islam and it's scientific, historical and mathematical miracles.
That really left me wondering, how could a man from 1400 years ago know such things?! Things like “it's the female bee that makes honey” and much, much more. (I suggest you to look into these things deeper)
I started looking for errors, and I obviously found countless claims by anti-islamic sites (such as wikiislam)… but they didn't really pe*****te into my heart and most of the times were lacking of solid arguments ( the rest of the times the Arabic words they used as “proof for errors” had many more meanings that changed between translation and translation, so it didn't really make sense either). I looked more into the life of the prophet pbuh (to be sure I looked both into reliable Muslim AND non-muslim sources) and found out many heartwarming things, which the islamophobes would call “propaganda” or “taqqiya”, words of which they don't know the real meaning… especially if said by a non-muslim!
I integrated that knowledge with studies done by respectable figures such as Dying to win by Robert Pape (I suggest you to look into that as well)
I decided then to convert.
Wasn't it for “islamophobia” I would have never been a Muslim today.
And I pray God to let me die as a believing and practicing muslim, inshallah.
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