📘 ❞ Why I Chose Islam ❝ كتاب ــ محمد العمرى اصدار 2005

عن كتاب Why I Chose Islam:
I was born to staunch Catholic Christian parents. Even
from my youngest days, my father sometimes took me
along with him when he went to preach, it was quite ob‐
vious that he wanted me to succeed him in his profes‐
sion. By the time I reached grade twelve, I could preach
the Gospels in my own way. In college, I often met my
Protestant classmates and discussed the differences in
our faiths and the performance of rituals.
By the time I completed the first year in college, I was
sufficiently grounded in the knowledge of the Christian
Faith as held by the Catholic Church. I was given a schol‐
arship from the Church funds and in return for the help I
received, I was required to receive special coaching in
understanding parts of the Holy Book, under the Chief
Priest of the Church who loved to teach me very much
and was very intimately attached to me.
Having appeared in the first group for my intermediate
course I used to sit working at his subjects till late at
night. One night when all were asleep and I was ab‐
sorbed in my studies an idea suddenly struck my mind
to examine the doctrine of the Holy Trinity, the basic
formula of the Christian Faith. The question how god ex‐





ists in three persons, and yet has a single divine nature, a
single will and be of one substance arose in my mind.
My failure to reconcile my belief in the Trinity with the
reasoning of the science of logic, created a mental rest‐
lessness in me. Days passed on and many a time, I
thought of asking my father to help me in solving the
problem which puzzled my mind but I knew that my fa‐
ther would never appreciate the least doubt in the dog‐
matic belief of the Catholic School. However, one day
when I found my father in a happy mood and asked him
to explain the Holy Trinity...he finally said:
“In matters of faith one has to stop reasoning...this
doctrine is beyond the grasp of human reason. One
should believe in the doctrine only by one’s heart and
mind!”
This reply from my father upset me to a great ex‐
tent...all my thinking got centered in the question which
had become a definite problem to puzzle my mind fur‐
ther and I wondered saying: “Is this the foundation upon
which the huge edifice of the Christian faith is built? Is
the basis of my faith only a matter of blind following of
some dictated belief which can never stand reasoning or
the independent scrutiny by the dispassionate and im‐
partial arguments from the clean conscience?”
I became extremely worried and made up my mind to
blindly believe in the Trinity.







: A story of a priest who reverted to Islam, it is based on a True Story.