Islam Our Choice Summary

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The book Islam-Our Choice is a compilation of many stories of dozens of converts from all walks of life. The novel splits people up based upon their jobs, their gender, and then those that just seek for the truth. Each story is unique and shows Islam in a light that unfortunately many people may not see it in. This novel helps to dismiss the untrue assumptions on the religion based on the actions of a small minority. With Islam being the faith of over 1.6 billion people it is unfair to judge it based upon what the media may want us to believe. “There is no religion that is so maligned by the ignorant and the biased as is Islam” (Hamilton 23). This book should perhaps be a required reading for world religions classes. Islam is one of the greatest monotheistic religions with …show more content…
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

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