Re: 'You must not question the teachings of the Church; you must have faith.'

CORRECT KA DIYAN...!

"jane abraham" <arah1958@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1167022315.645806.176390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
You must not question the teachings of the Church; you must have
faith.'
Mrs Cecilia Mahmuda Cannoly (Australia)

First and foremost I would say it was because fundamentally I had
always been a Muslim without being aware of it. Very early in my life,
in had lost faith in Christianity for many reasons, the major one being
that whenever I questioned any Christian, whether it was a person
belonging to the so-called Holy Orders or a layman, regarding any point
that puzzled me in regard to the Church teachings. I invariably
received the monotonous answer: 'You must not question the teachings
of the Church; you must have faith.' I did not have the courage in
those days to say: 'I cannot have faith in something that I do not
understand,' and, from my experience, neither do most of the people
who call themselves Christians.

What I did do was to leave the Church (Roman Catholic) and its teaching
and to place to place my faith in the one true God in Whom is was much
easier to believe, than in the three gods of the Church. By contrast
with the mysteries and miracles of the Christian teaching, life took a
new and wider meaning, no longer cramped with dogma and ritual.
Everywhere I looked I could see God's work. And although, in common
with greater minds than my own, I could not understand the miracles
that happened before my eyes, I could stand and marvel at the wonder of
it all - the trees, flowers, birds and animals. Even a newborn baby
became a beautiful miracle, not the same thing that the Church had
taught me to believe at all. I remembered how, when a child, I gazed at
newborn babies and thought, "It's all covered in black sin." I no
longer believed in ugliness; everything became beautiful.

Then one day my daughter brought home a book about Islaam. We became
so interested in it that we followed it up with many other books on
Islaam. We soon realized that this was really what we believed. During
the time I had believed in Christianity, I had been led to believe that
Islaam was only something a joke about. Thus, all that I then read, was
a revelation to me. After a while, I looked up some Muslims and
questioned them on some of the points that were not quite clear to me.
Here again there was yet another revelation. My questions were all
answered promptly and concisely, so different from the frustration I
had experienced when questioning Christianity. After much reading and
studying of the religion of Islaam both my daughter and myself decided
to become Muslims, taking names of Rashida and Mahmuda respectively.



If I were asked what impressed me most in the religion of Islaam, I
would probably say the prayers, because prayers in Christianity are
used wholly in begging God (through Jesus Christ) to grant worldly
favours, whereas in Islaam they are used to give praise and thanks to
Al-Mighty Allaah for all His blessings since He knows what is necessary
for our welfare and grants us what we need without our asking for it.

posted by Tanzim Akhtar @ 12:58 AM



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