Taking a Stand

The Basis of Muslim Belief
By Gary Miller

Taking a Stand

Everyone must be committed to something. You have to put your foot
down some place. It is impossible to be neutral at all times. There
has been a point of reference in the life of any thinking individual.
You have to take a stand somewhere. The question, of course, is to put
your foot down in the right place. Since there is no such thing as a
proof of a proof and so on, in order to find the right place to put
one's foot down, to take a stand, we have to search and find that
place and it is by a method that I hope to illustrate here.

It is a question of finding a point of convergence. You see, we search
for truth in many places and we begin to know that we are succeeding
in finding the truth if all our different paths start to converge;
they start to come together at the same point.

If we are examining a book, looking for evidence of divine origin, and
we are led to Islam, this is one path. If at the same time, we
examining the words of all those who were called prophets and we find
ourselves led to Islam, we have a firmly grounded basis for belief. We
started looking for truth in two different places and found ourselves
going down the path headed for the same destination.

No one ever proves all things. We have to stop at some point being
satisfied with our standards as I have mentioned earlier. The point
is, in order to take a stand and to be sure it is in the right place,
we want to examine all the evidence around us and see where does it
lead us and anticipate this point of convergence; to say it looks like
all things are pointing to this place. We go to that place and then
look at the data around us to see if it fits into place. Does it now
make sense? Are we standing in the right place?

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