Tuesday, April 28, 2009

How Professor Arthur Alison became a Muslim

Some newspapers related the account of how Professor Arthur Alison, Head of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of the University of London, accepted Islam. He participated in the First Islamic International Conference on Medical Inimitability in the Quran, which was held in Cairo. As one of the speakers of the conference, he presented a paper on spiritual and psychological methods of therapy in light of the Noble Quran. He presented another paper on sleep and death in the light of the Noble Verse:
"It is Allah Who takes away the souls at the time of their death, and those that die not during their sleep. He keeps those (souls) for which He has ordained death and sends the rest for a term appointed." (Quran 39:42)
After presenting his lectures, Professor Alison attended lectures presented by other speakers, which mainly dealt with the many miracles of the Noble Quran, he was impressed with the religion of Islam – which he found to be a religion of knowledge and enlightenment. He began to ask the other attendees many questions about Islam, and he became more and more certain that Islam is the religion of truth and is the final religion revealed to mankind. It didn't take long before he openly announced on television that Islam is the true religion and the religion that is innately accepted by the hearts of men.
Professor Alison took a shower (which one takes before entering the fold of Islam) and then pronounced the testimony of Faith, speaking in the clear and lucid tones of the believer: "None has the right to be worshipped but Allah, and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah."
The Professor said, " If the scholars of the West understood Islam, they would have entered into the fold of Islam as I did. I found that the disparity between Islam and other religions or creeds that I had hitherto studied was great indeed: Islam never contradicts knowledge and the sound mind, so I believe with certainty that it is the religion that is revealed from Allah, the One.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

He should have seen great potential in a massive gain interms of pay, respect and unquestioned form of faith..

Is this supposed to inspire people.

Fazeel said...

Salaam Siru,
Great work your doing here. Masha Allah. Keep it up. Keep em comin. Perhaps u could translate your dhivehi article in dheenee-news to English n post it here...I think it'll be great.