A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ   The following is my answer to a Quora question: “ What is faith according to Islam? ”   There are as many definitions of faith as there are people.   Some say that faith is to believe, but to believe without evidence is superstition.   On the other hand, to believe with all evidence manifest is no longer faith, but certainty.   So, true faith lies somewhere in between.   Faith is the child, when his mother throws him in the air, and he laughs because he cannot conceive that he will not be caught.   This is not blind faith.   The child was born of her, carried to term, and yet, after the pain of childbirth, still receives love.   He has been fed, clothed, nurtured.   Faith in God is to understand that whatever we have good within us, is a reflection of the Absolute Attributes of God.   If we are kind, all that kindness of Creation is a drop in the Ocean of God’s Kindness.   If we are...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ   Shaykh ‘Utsman Nuri Tufbas wrote, in “Islam, Spirit & Form”, when Allah ( s.w.t. ) Commands a thing, that thing is bound to happen.   Therefore, we should not fall into the error of thinking about the Omnipotence of Allah ( s.w.t. ) with our weak mind as we have limited power.   Allah’s ( s.w.t. ) Endless Power is exempt from any of the limitation and impotence humans are subject to.   Therefore, there is no being who is not impotent before His Endless Power.   Our power is only as much as He Ordains.   History has witnessed the defeat of many who rose against this Power.   Among them were Nimrod, Croesus, Abu Jahl ‘Amr ibn Hisham al-Makhzumi, and many others.   They left the world empty-handed.   Allah ( s.w.t. ) Took their lives bringing them into derision.   In particular, the death of Nimrod, who claimed to be a divine being, is a striking one, providing a message regarding the Divine P...