BOOK HAD YOU BEEN BORN A MUSLIM pdf download

Book Had You Been Born a Muslim – growing Up A Muslim

BOOK HAD YOU BEEN BORN A MUSLIM

It was intended originally for distribution at mosques and Islamic Centers in North America to non-Muslims who are interested in Islam.

Had you been born a Muslim, one of your earliest recollections would be a prayer that begins: “In the name of God, the Mercy giving, the Merciful!” You would remember that you had learned this literally at your mother’s knee.

 You heard your father using it, and he told you it was the beginning chapter of your holy book, the Noble Qur’an.

 It was an inspiring prayer, and it remains with you today, helping in the important moments of your life: You have heard this countless times, five times a day if you lived within earshot of a mosque.

 In the place of worship where your parents took you to pray in public, you saw the Im5m or Islamic leader (who performs the same duties as a Protestant minister in Britain or North America) raise his hands and lift his voice to say: “In the name of God, the Mercy-giving, the Merciful!”

Then you followed him with your lips and heart. Whenever the Imam was not there, or when you were with a group of Muslims who had no such leader, the oldest or most learned man among you led the prayers.

For Islam is democratic, and it forms its leaders from within its own membership. It is a pious faith that breeds men of ability.