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A Hindu-Brahmin person has reverted to Islam and has accepted Imaan.

Want to know his journey to Islam in brief ? Here is that:
I come from a well-learned highclass Brahmin family of Pune-a very orthodox city. I have studied all the major ancient hindu scriptures in detail such as vedas, upanishads and darshanas which constantly proclaim that there is but one God and none besides, who neither has beginning nor end, nor parents nor children etc. As we study the later scriptures named puranas which came into existence about 1500 BC till 800 AD. These are the ones which are
quite mixed with many myths and idol worship etc.
People might be astonished by knowing that in the ancient scriptures of hindus ( in fact this is a very wrong word, the right word according to the Paninis sanskrit grammer is Aaryas meaning the noble ones, the learned ones, the gentlemen.)there was no idol worship, and God is the ultimate and unique in all and all. he is called Ajanma meaning the one who never takes birth and is never born. well, anyway i studied all these ancient books in my childhood
with my grandfather who then was one of the poonas' well learned sanskrit pandits. By the time of 1990-91 I received the Bible from one of the American missionaries. I then began to study the same. it took about seven years to complete the study of the same. I have a very good comparative and harmonious study of Hindu scriptures with the Bible. but at the same time I found numberless contradictions in the Bible to which the missionaries couldn't
answer properly and satisfactorily. Missionaries had given me an opportunity of sending me to America for the further studies in the Bible but i rejected the same.

Reasons were following :

1. These white missionaries had and have a sense of superiority and they constantly looked down upon me as a sub-ordinate.
2. They thought and always proclaimed that Hinduism is from satan. All the scriptures and all the big people of India were the right hands of satan to which I strongly disagreed. Idol-worship entered just now very recently that
means about two thousand years.
3. They constantly tried to imbibe that India was a very backward and tallentless country and proclaimed the eternal superiority and upperhand of the whites on all other races of the world.
4. They wanted me to come back to Pune after my studies in states and keep my focus of conversion only on the educated and learned Brahmins of the pune city and allied.

Then about a year back I started to study the Holy Quran. What an amazing thing. To which i frightened all the time of my life ( for since the birth I was constantly told strong negative things about muslims and islam)were really
not so. All which I heard and saw till then was only a single profile but now i see the whole picture with its' most magnificent attributes. Indeed, islam is the only well-balanced religion i have ever seen. The religion which respects all the prophets all over the world. What a great thing. This acceptance of the all-over-world-prophets is not found in any religion of the world. particularly Christians are allergic to this acceptance. Islam is the most understanding and laterally thought religion. And I decided to accept the same. But even after that I was having a question mark which sect to belong to, Shia or sunni. Then I studied 'Nahjul Balagha' and observed that shias are more soft, understanding, well-educated, mature just matching to my Brahmin back-ground, and hence I undertook Imaan through maulana Zeeshan Hyder Jawadi sahib in Bombay. Inshallah. Do pray for me. This is one side of my
acceptance. I am still confused how I will be accepted by the Khoja community for I don't know Gujrathi and I am a new entrant. The reaction of my friends, parents, relatives and other concered ones will be very strong. I just am frightened. do pray for me.


 

 

 

 

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