I am a proud Muslim. I tried to practice Islam as avid as possible, though sometime or perhaps most of the time I failed. However, is not that the story of most of us? The only different between me and the rest of the other Muslim is that, I have already accepted and live the fact that imperfection is the necessary 'evil' which make me perfect.
There was a point in my life when I was challenged. It was said that I am a Muslim due to hereditary. That I inherited the religion from my parents and so does my parent from my grandparent and so on. I then took a bold effort to leave my religion and embark on a 'sinful' journey to find other religion than the one I am familiar with.
Through the journey, I studied Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and even Zoroaster. I fell in love with Jesus from Nazareth, as his words struck me when he said that The Kingdom of Heaven is within you. Sidharta then taught me his 4 noble truth, and one of it says that the ultimate truth of life is suffering, and I then suffers no more. While Gandhi show me love, that even the lowest and cruellest form of oppression and tyranny can be battle and won with a single act compassion.
The ironic is, at the end of the journey, it made me realise the value of Islam, and hence I fell in love with my own religion that I have left but only to re-discover it once again. Religion just like races are colours. Without Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and the rest of the religion of the world, I would never realise the beauty and the amenity of Islam. I also are able to relate with all the other religion, appreciate it, and also share mine. The rest of the world, regardless of races or religion are my brothers. The polarity of positive and negative are tolerated once when we try to find beauty in others, as 'others' are also from God. We are destine for many things, and when we realise this, we would also understand that religion is not one that could be seek but found. Wallahualam.
There was a point in my life when I was challenged. It was said that I am a Muslim due to hereditary. That I inherited the religion from my parents and so does my parent from my grandparent and so on. I then took a bold effort to leave my religion and embark on a 'sinful' journey to find other religion than the one I am familiar with.
Through the journey, I studied Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and even Zoroaster. I fell in love with Jesus from Nazareth, as his words struck me when he said that The Kingdom of Heaven is within you. Sidharta then taught me his 4 noble truth, and one of it says that the ultimate truth of life is suffering, and I then suffers no more. While Gandhi show me love, that even the lowest and cruellest form of oppression and tyranny can be battle and won with a single act compassion.
The ironic is, at the end of the journey, it made me realise the value of Islam, and hence I fell in love with my own religion that I have left but only to re-discover it once again. Religion just like races are colours. Without Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and the rest of the religion of the world, I would never realise the beauty and the amenity of Islam. I also are able to relate with all the other religion, appreciate it, and also share mine. The rest of the world, regardless of races or religion are my brothers. The polarity of positive and negative are tolerated once when we try to find beauty in others, as 'others' are also from God. We are destine for many things, and when we realise this, we would also understand that religion is not one that could be seek but found. Wallahualam.
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