Benefits of Becoming a
Muslim
1. As far as the Creator
(whose proper name is Allah) is concerned, you will be able to identify Him and
get to know Him, His role and your relationship to His names, you will be able
to communicate with Him any time, 24 hours a day, throughout the whole year. As
a result of this category, you will be able to know your origin, your roots and
the wisdom as to why you are on this planet. You will be able to have good
answers to the questions why, how, when, where, what and other philosophical
questions.
2. As a result of the first benefit, your
loyalty, allegiance, and obedience will be to the Creator himself. You will
transcend yourself from all types of allegiance for this world. This means that
if there is a conflict of interest between your boss, your job, your
government, your system or any worldly relationship with the Creator, you will
undoubtedly put your trust in Allah, the Creator of the universe. You will
follow Him before you follow anyone else.
3. As a result of the second benefit, you will
be able to acquire peace, harmony, tranquility and happiness within yourself,
with your family, with people of the world, with the environment and with the
universe. One has to remember that the source of peace is Allah, and one of his
beautiful names is that He is The Peace.
4. As an endorsement to the third benefit, you
will get rid of the extra electrostatic charges from your brain and the central
nervous system by performing the daily Salah. Through Salah, you are to
prostrate by putting your forehead to the floor; and as such are grounding
yourself, and you are discharging these extra charges into the ground. As a
result of this act, you will get rid of many of the neurological diseases from
your body.
5. As a result of the fourth benefit, you will
acquire a pleasant personality. You will be friendly and amicable. You would
not need to drink alcohol, to use drugs or to get involved in vulgarity or
immorality.
6. Through the experience of fasting in Islam,
you will be able to have self-control, self-restraint, self-discipline,
self-education, self-evaluation, and self-obedience to Allah the Creator. You
undoubtedly will be able to improve health, personality, character, and
behavior.
7. As a result of the sixth benefit, you will be
able to control your lusts, selfishness, desires, greed, ego, and conceitedness.
8. Another side reaction of the sixth and
seventh benefits is that you will be generous and hospitable; you will try to
purify yourself and your mistakes by sharing your happiness and your wealth
with those who are less fortunate than you. Your rewards will manifold,
compounded daily until the Day of Judgment.
9. By performing pilgrimage to Makkah, you will
transcend yourself from being nationalistic, sectarian, or denominational into
being universal. You will be part and an essential constituent of the rainbow
of Islam. You will be also part of the brotherhood of Islam with those who
already submitted themselves to the Creator. At the same time, you will get rid
of any inferiority or superiority complexes. You will also find yourself in synchrony
and harmony with all the prophets and messengers of Allah since the creation of
Adam and Eve until the last final messenger to mankind, prophet Muhammad
(pbuh). While in Makkah, you will be able to visit the places of revelation of
the Quran as well as the places visited by prophet Abraham and members of his
family such as Hagar and Ishmael. You will visit the place where the first
astronauts, Adam and Eve landed on earth.
10. In becoming a Muslim, you will do your best
to stop all types of exploitations in all their forms: economic, biological,
mental, spiritual, psychological, political, etc.. You will also work to
liberate people and give them freedom of worship, freedom of speech, and
freedom of expression. You will be a leader and help lead people to peace,
tranquility and happiness.
11. In accepting Islam, you will help to reduce
all types of social ills in the society: juvenile delinquency, child abuse,
domestic abuse, incest, homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, premarital
relationships, extramarital relationships, and other vices.
12. As a result of the eleventh benefit, you
will reduce and eliminate venereal diseases, AIDS, and other diseases of
similar nature in the society.
13. Finally, when you die, you will die at
peace. You will have a happy life in the grave and later, eternal happiness.
Angels at the time of death will comfort you. They will also show you your
place in paradise. On the Day of Judgment, you will be able to see and meet all
the prophets and messengers of God to mankind including Noah, Abraham, Moses,
Jesus, and Muhammad. You will be able to see and meet any and all of your
friends and relatives. You will live an eternal life of bliss in paradise.
Reflections:
The benefits mentioned above and many more cannot be purchased with money
anywhere in the world. No one is to sell them to you or to advertise them on
TV. You have to take the initiative yourself and try to acquire them by
accepting Islam first and then by practicing its teachings. You should be
honest with yourself, sincere, and truthful to the Creator. You should try
wholeheartedly to practice what you believe, regardless of whether someone else
is good or not While seeking happiness is a must, it should not be measured
with other people's standards or with material gains. Happiness is from its
potential to its kinetic forms. People around you should feel your happiness as
well as benefit from you.
Are you ready to accept this challenge today? Remember, tomorrow may not come,
and it will be too late?