Benefits of Becoming a Muslim

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?

all these are true … thanx 4 postin this nice topic
hope others learn from it

Here's a question someone might want to answer:

Imagine someone converts (reverts to Islam), takes Shahada, then decides one day that they don't want to be a Muslim anymore, then goes back to being a Christian or whatever.  What happens then?

Great thread Moonman. I'm truly thankful for your post.

talknow,

your point is taken, but what about the reverse?

How are they treated?

Shah ruk khan is a famous Indian Actor, and has a Hindu wife, . Some cleric annuled his marraige and technically he is doing Haram(that is what that cleric claimed) If this could happen with such a famous person, imagin a common man.

I have seen people threatend in both communites.

But my question is an extention to what fabs1 asked, what is it said in Quran about this??  Marraige between people of different communities, conversion from Islam to other religions?

btw its very nice about the benefits of becoming a muslim. what about the non-benefits?

is islam the best religion? or you're telling the benefits because you're in islam?

i loved this post, but the fact everyone loves his religion, even sometimes dont show or even dont care. 

so everyone says the benefits of becoming on her/his religion :)

but the fact its that we shouldnt care if we are in Islam, or on christianity or in jewism… we all believe in just one thing. GOD. so we wanting or not, we are all the same, and believers of god ;)

so we should create yes the  benefits of having religion  and not becoming a muslim :)

you're almost telling like others religions doesnt have benefits :P

thanks alot my dear

Men can marry non-Muslim (People of the Book) women (obviously that should be allowed, guys have their needs), but women are not allowed to marry non-Muslim men. 

The main reason in patriarchy. A Muslim man with his non-Muslim wive WILL bring the child up Muslim regardless. 

I wouldn't exactly call it equality, like some people here would describe it,

Is someon going to answer my previous question? Or should I?

hi everyboy

i have an  answer of your question fabs .i have 20 years and all my life i respect all religions (Jewish,Christian) you know why because i' a muslim and  islam let the men married with a women belong to another religion coz it's Illegal to forced the women to let her religions in islam but the islam dos'nt knew how the others religion trait this case so he protect the muslim women from that.from being forced to let her religion so he Denied this marriage

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