What Drives People to Convert to Islam? (part 2 of 2)

The Quran challenges humanity at large to think, reflect and ponder over their affairs on numerous occasions.  This is some of what the Quran states:

·        Thus do We explain the verses (and their signification) in detail for the people who reflect. (Jonah, Quran 10:24)

·        Do they not think deeply about their own selves (being)?  Allah has created not the heavens and the Earth and all that is between them except with truth and for an appointed term.  And indeed many of mankind deny the Meeting with their Lord. (The-Romans, Quran 30:8)

·        He it is Who has appointed for you the night that you may rest therein, and the day to make things visible.  Verily, in this are signs for a people who listen. (Jonah, Quran 10:67)

What Drives People to Convert to Islam? (part 1 of 2)

The nature of religious faith is quite mysterious.  As part of their religious faiths, people believe in a variety of deities.  There are people who have religious faith in the unseen supreme inimitable power, and then there are others who believe in some humans as Gods, or animals (e.g.  monkeys), fire, idols made of stone, and the list goes on.

A lot is associated with having a religious “faith”.  Part of it has to do with beliefs passed on through generations.  People’s identities therefore get tied to it.  Many times, these beliefs and associated feelings are not completely demonstrable by reason or any rational arguments.  There is nothing right or wrong with this, but that’s just how the nature of religious faith has come to be.