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Nesreen Elathram
Professor Douglas
UWRT 1101-090
December 3 2014

I Believe in Islam
Islam, the last heavenly religion after Christianity and Judaism, is my religion. In
Arabic, the word Islam means peace and it was appeared in Arabic land, now Saudi
Arabia. Basically, Islamic religion is based on mercy, benevolence and full of wisdom
that was created to ensure a respectful, enjoyable and peaceful life for the followers. to
become a Muslim I should believe that there is no God but Allah and I should believe in
all heavenly religions that God created like Christianity and Judaism. Moreover, I should
believe and love Mohammed, the messenger of Islam, Jesus, Moses and all other
prophets. I believe in Islam because it has plans for every stage in human life, it has the
answers and solutions for all of my life`s problem, and it endows me with an inner peace
that I pursue in this short life.
As a Muslim, I should believe in all good manners in the world and help people
and wish the other the same as I wish for myself and not cause any trouble to other
people. For example, Islam teaches us not to harm anybody either because we are all
human, we have the right to live in peace together, and no one has the authority to ruin
someone else`s life. Therefore, our prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, said If
anyone harms (others) God will harm him and if anyone shows hostility to others God
will show hostility to him(1625).

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Islam is a curriculum of life, and was created by God to guide us to the right path
that leads to heaven and paradise. As a believer in Islam all of my beliefs came from it. It
is like a net that covers every aspect of my life. The presence of all of my beliefs is a
result of my religion, so that is why I cannot live without religion. I feel I am lost. I
cannot even imagine how my life would be without religion. Islam shows us how to
control my tongue, my nerves, and my feeling in order to be a good person who deserves
heaven. Our prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, said the strong person is not the
good wrestler rather the strong person is the one who controls himself when he is angry
(p. 73). Islam encourages us to think wisely before doing something we regret by
emphasizing on the idea that the strong person is the one who can forgive not who is
ready to fight. As Muslims, we follow these principles in actions before words in order
to get the reward from God by entering his undescribed Heaven, which we all pursue.
Our creator, God, tests my belief every moment in my life because he watches us.
He is always with me whether I am a pious or a person full of sins. God is the creator
who loves his worshipers more than the love that a mother has for her child. Furthermore,
Islam never forgets anybody in society. It never leaves us, it prepares us for every stage
in our life from our birth to death .As a daughter, it teaches me how to treat my parents
with love when they get old, as a wife it shows me how to build a respectful, successful,
and long-lasting relationship with my husband and as a mother it enlightens me with
guidelines about how to raise my sons and teach them the right values and principles.
In his book The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch , wrote, Too many people go
through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one
tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be

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surprised by how well things can work out (p. 163). In other words, he says that many
people spend most of their time talking about the problem instead of spending it on
looking for solutions. Islam is the solution for my life that I was, am and will be
struggling with it. Moreover, the most beautiful thing about Islam is that Islam is not an
ephemeral religion that will stay for a while then disappear either pragmatically or
theoretically. The numbers of believers are augmenting rapidly because they found the
answers in Islam the same as I found answers for my questions there. And also, although
it appeared nearly thousand and four hundred years ago, it is not stagnant. It works for
every place and every time.
Our prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, said, I came to complete the
manners of people. In other words, he said that all people inherently have good manners
and tend to stand with pure behaviors like honesty, reliability, fairness, equitability and
righteousness, so Islam came to strength and to emphasize on these good behaviors in
order to provide a blessed life for humans. Our great prophet Mohammed, peace be upon
him, also said Smiling in your brother`s face is an act of charity. so is enjoying good
and forbidding evil, giving direction to the lost traveler, aiding the blind and removing
obstacles from the path (293). These are all good manners that I believe in which I all
gain from my believing in this beautiful religion.
However, I became Muslim not only because my parents are Muslims but also
because I thought deeply about Islam whether is it the right religion for me the more I dig
in Islam the more my love increases. Without doubt, the book that has a significant effect
on my belief is the Quran, the religious book of Islam, which is known by its powerful
and strong language that would touch the heart of every reader. Quran is so effective and

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emotional that no one can read it without realizing that it cannot be written by humans it
should have been existed by the creator of the universe. From 2006 to 2010, beside my
study at school, in the mosque I was studying the holy Quran, the religious book of Islam.
It took me four years to memorize the whole book. Most of the people in my region strive
to keep it and push their children too because the reward from God to Quran keepers is
very lofty. However, the most important thing is to practice Islam not to memorize Quran
but the more you are close to Quran the more it will affect your life and make you a pious
believer.
I do not anticipate that my beliefs would change in the future because I already
have profoundly contemplated on them and I thought about if they are the solution for my
life or not and if by these beliefs I will end up in a beautiful heaven or a dark hell. I hope
that my belief in Islam becomes stronger and stronger because I concluded that the more
Islam in my heart the more calm and peaceful my soul become. I want to conclude by
saying that people usually say, what has he found who has lost God? And what has he
lost who has found God? I can acknowledge that the kind of person who needs a map to
follow, who needs previous people to walk their way and who needs a God to worship. I
cannot live randomly without knowing what my rule in this life is. Why I was created if I
do not have a rule.

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Works Cited
Pausch, Randy, and Jeffrey Zaslow. The last lecture. New York: Hyperion, 2008. Print.

"Sahih Bukhari : Book of "Belief"." Sahih Bukhari : Book of "Belief". N.p., n.d. Web. 2
Sept. 2014.
Yahya bin Sharaf Ul-Deen An-Nawawi , "Al-Nawawi's Forty Hadiths." This is a
compilation of 43 sayings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).