Mohammad

Alhumdulilah Allah guides whom he wills and I am grateful to share that I have reverted to Islam. I believe Ive been submitted to God since I was 18 and my relationship with God was the only reason I made it through 5yr struggle with severe mental health problems. Allah has since been progressively revealing himself and his expectations of me since and this journey has lead me to accepting Islam and Muhammed peace be upon him as the last prophet. I spent my entire life rejecting the Quran and Muhammed pbuh due to substantial anti-islamic bias/programming growing up as an American Christian. I was taught that Islam was completely separate from the Bible and have since learned that it is not separate but a continuation with the last preserved revelation of Allah being the Quran. Not only a continuation but a correction as well due to the Bible being a collection of recordings of the message given by God while the Quran is the literal speech of God. The Bible is a text that we have no original copies of and therefore it is impossible to verify the authenticity of it. The dead sea scrolls are the closest old testament fragments that we have and date 1500 yrs after the time of Moses pbuh while the earliest full collection of the new testament is the Codex Sinaiticus which is around 350 years after the time of the Messiah pbuh written by anonymous authors in a different language than what he spoke. I had believed the gospels were the first hand account of the time of the Messiah’s life because that is what I had been told and I have come to learn that there is zero evidence to support this claim. As a believer in the God of the Bible I felt called to look into Islam without approaching it from the pre determined position of it being false. During this journey I did not want to be a muslim. I was comfortable with where I was at and thought that upon investigation that it would prove false so I could continue on where I was. The more I looked into the Quran the more I realized that it was what it claimed to be, the word of God directly revealed to Muhammed pbuh, which has been preserved in the original Arabic in manuscripts as well as an oral chain dating back to the time of the prophet. A 1400 year game of telephone and the only in the world that has the same preserved message, unchanged from then to now with millions of people around the world with the whole Quran memorized. After looking into the life of the prophet Muhammed pbuh after removing my predisposed negative attitude towards him I came to the conclusion that he was a prophet and there is no other logical conclusion one can come to when investigating this matter with sincerity (my perception, everyone is entitled to their own). A man known for his honesty and fairness turned down everything one could desire in this life in order to spread the message of true monotheism which resulted in years of persecution and hardship. Muhammed pbuh acurately prophesied the fall of the two biggest empires of his time naming both of their last kings, prophesied that the bedouin Arabs would be competing to build the tallest buildings, as well as many more prophecies that prove him to be true. After spending a few weeks as a muslim I can with certainty say that it is the greatest thing in my life and that my islam is what I value the most in this world. Words do not exist to express my gratitude to be on the straight path. If you have read this far Id like to invite you to investigate Islam with sincerity. To take time to understand their side of the story and not just go off what you have been programmed to believe from media. Alhumdulilah for everything.