{"id":826,"date":"2019-02-21T04:51:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T01:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/21\/from-buddhism-to-islam-why\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T04:51:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T01:51:03","slug":"from-buddhism-to-islam-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/from-buddhism-to-islam-why\/","title":{"rendered":"From Buddhism To Islam: Why??"},"content":{"rendered":"

Learn how and why this\u00a0Chinese Buddhist successful young woman left Buddhism and embraced Islam<\/a>. Here is a part of the story:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sad to say I was not as blessed or fortunate as my co-panelists; to be one of those people who actually search for answers in life. In fact, I think I was the opposite.<\/p>\n

And my fear is that there\u2019re too many people like me outside in this world who feel they are very complete the way they are…life is good, there\u2019s nothing really wrong, so why should I search! So, all the questions about God, no-God, the purpose to life, life after death.<\/p>\n

I was born into a wonderful Chinese Buddhist family. It was not Buddhist in the true sense as I later learned. My mom grew up praying to the idols as because my grandmother told her to and probably my grandmother was taught by her great grandmother to. She didn\u2019t really know why, and when I started asking her, \u2018Mother, what is the purpose of life?\u2019 she wouldn\u2019t be able to answer me because she wouldn\u2019t really know. She was just taught and got used to do it.<\/p>\n

My life was very smooth; doing well at school, getting a good job, buying a good car, buying a nice house, having kids\u2026you are happy. That\u2019s the mantra.<\/p>\n

So, I was gauging my life as being successful, because according to this mantra my life was good. Everything was alright. Nothing in my life was wrong. I am well-educated, earning money, I have my own home, and my own car. My job was in fact very \u00a0interesting. I was travelling, meeting people. Why should I think about \u201cWhy I am here?\u201d \u201cWhat is the purpose of life?\u201d<\/p>\n

I had no emptiness in my life. I frankly, sadly, never looked for something else. I actually never felt I need to look for something. To me religion was something needed for spiritual fulfillment, and it was looked for by people who felt empty inside, who needed answers.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t have any of that, so I thought I was fine.<\/p>\n

When I was in university I decided I since I was born Buddhist I should find more about my religion. So I joined the Buddhism society and I learned about Buddhism and I thought yes, it makes sense. Buddhism is a very practical kind of religion, it teaches you about principles of life, detachment, but there was one thing that was missing though. It didn\u2019t bother me, but it was missing. I didn\u2019t realize it was missing. When I was young from the time my mom would make me kneel before the altar and pray I always believed in God. I didn\u2019t know how but I knew there was a God. I never believed there was no God. And Buddhism didn\u2019t answer that. It didn\u2019t help me know who God was. Buddhism doesn\u2019t deny God but never deals with the Creator.<\/p>\n

Years later Allah destined, alhamdulillah<\/em>, that I would be introduced to a Muslim<\/a> who was a himself a revert. He was running some Islamic classes in English in his center. And I was surprised as I saw a Chinese man teaching Islam in English. I went to the classes and I found Chinese people, Indians. And finally I was shocked to discover what I discovered about Islam. It answered questions that I never thought to ask myself. And when I had the answers to these questions I realized that I couldn\u2019t find the answers anywhere else!<\/p>\n

So, I am a lawyer and I\u2019m trained to think logically, I\u2019m trained to ask a lot of questions and I\u2019m trained to never be satisfied with or accept anything that is illogical or shady.<\/p>\n

Listen to the whole story in the video here…<\/p>\n