Muhammed Asad of Austria recalls his conversion, saying that he is often asked by people of what attracted him to the religion, and he answering that there was no particular reason, rather “Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its pillars were harmoniously conceived to compliment and support each other” (Asad 21). Conversion should be like such, not something one does in order to be saved or to guarantee a first class spot for themselves in the afterlife. The Muslims describe their religion as something they fall in love with, “it is a matter of love; and love is composed- of many things; of our desires and our loneliness, of our high aims and our shortcomings, of our strength and our weaknesses.” (Asad
Muhammed Asad of Austria recalls his conversion, saying that he is often asked by people of what attracted him to the religion, and he answering that there was no particular reason, rather “Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its pillars were harmoniously conceived to compliment and support each other” (Asad 21). Conversion should be like such, not something one does in order to be saved or to guarantee a first class spot for themselves in the afterlife. The Muslims describe their religion as something they fall in love with, “it is a matter of love; and love is composed- of many things; of our desires and our loneliness, of our high aims and our shortcomings, of our strength and our weaknesses.” (Asad