Muslims and Christians...?

Question

if you are a muslim or christian is it because you were brought up that way by your parents??? if you are a muslim and were born into a christian family do u think u would still be a muslim today or if u are a christian and u were born into a muslim family do u think u would still be a christian today???
i asked myself that question
and i decided that most of us are what are parents are
we dont do any research or anything we just accept it but then i started reading the bible and the quran and honestly i just became a better muslim but i cant help think if it wasnt for my parents being muslims would i still be one

Answer 1

I was born into an Irish/Italian Catholic household.

Today, I am a proud Muslim-American.

Answer 2

It's funny, I was just asking myself this question yesterday. I was a Muslim all my life ( but not a practicing Muslim ). I started to realize that I'm no better than an infidel unless I start to change my ways. I started to follow the laws and commandments of the Quran and I got a better sense of who I am. I thought about what would happen if I was born Christian from a Christian family. I thought about the things the Bible has said and about the things the Quran has said. I knew if I was Christian I would convert sooner or later because the Quran makes so much more sense to me. I then finally brought closure to my thoughts and Allah u Akbar.

Answer 3

I went through this a year again. I was basically a non-practicing Muslim. I didn't pray or read the Qur'an, I was just Muslim for the sake of being Muslim.

It took some time to establish prayer and really find my faith in Allah. The hardest part was seperating Islam from Indian culture. Since I'm a 2nd generation American I always rejected anything "Indian" and sometimes that included Islam.

Insha'allah my faith will grow stronger because I need it in my life. There are many other Muslims who are becoming "secularized" in the West and they need to be careful.

But to be blunt: Only Allah knows what I would be. I don't even want to assume or guess, but I am VERY thankful to be born Muslim!

Answer 4

yea, i think it has a lot to do with what religion you're born into. But a lot people change when they get to that age of questioning everything. My family is Christian, but some of my family in the south are Mormon, strict catholic, and maybe Jewish, but i don't know that side of my family too well. If after reading the Bible and the Quran made you a better Muslim, then that's where your heart is, you would probably be what you are without or with your parents.

Answer 5

I was born into a Shiat Muslim family.
I was raised in a Sunni Muslim country. That means that while the school was teaching the beliefs of Ahl Al-Sunnah, I was being taught by my mom the beliefs of the followers of Ali (alaih salam).
When I was a teenager I went after the Bible, the Torah, and other stuff.
It was hard to find them because I was living in an Islamic country and Torah is banned there.
Anyways I read and asked. I traveled with my parents to Europe and stuff and when in Europe I went to churches and asked questions.
At the end I was happy to be born into a Shiat Muslim family. Not only I learned about other religions and what Islam has in common with them, but also I learned that the one that I follow is absolutely flawless.

Answer 6

I was raised in a Baptist home and very active in the church (choir, Sunday school). It wasn't until I was about to start Officer Candidate School (I was 19 at the time) that I started to re-evaluate my feelings toward God. Sure, I wanted a better relationship, but there were so many questions I had that people had a hard time answering. Some point in my life, don't know when, but I stopped believing in God. Then, a friend of mine gave me some 5% material, which I half-heartedly read (really wasn't feeling their way of thinking) and there was a pamphlet from the Nation of Islam. That hooked me, but I didn't care for the racist attitude the NOI projected. It wasn't until I saw an autopsy (I wanted to see how thick ribs were to determine how much power I might need to break them-green belt in karate). Any how, after an explanation of the pituitary gland, I realized there had to be a God, because man would never create something so small, yet so powerful. After speaking with a Muslim I befriended at work (SC, by this time), I took my shahadah, alhamdullah.

I think Allah (SWT) reveals himself when we're ready for the truth. Allah (SWT) knows best.

Answer 7

Yes, what your parents are will determine what faith you will mostly end up professing. Its the same thing with language.
If my parents were Muslims I would probably be a Muslim, naturally.

It is with my deepest conviction, that there must come a point that we must truly question our beliefs, in order to know truth. Truth by definition is EXclusive, meaning their cannot be any other way. I'am reading the Qu'ran now and have already read the Bible--I have not heard any compelling argument for Islam yet.

Answer 8

Growing up I could not understand some things that I was being taught in Sunday school.

My Mother is a Christian and my Dad is an Atheist. My mother would just tell me the same thing that the Sunday school teacher was saying. My Dad would tell me that I needed to find my own answers and told my Mom that if she was not going to help me by giving me an answer that I could understand instead of telling me the same thing without her to questioning the answer then I was not to go back to Sunday school. He told me that I needed to do my own research and find the truth on my own. This was when I was 10.

At this time I would spend my summers with my grandparents. My Grand father was a Deacon and my Grand Mother was a Sunday school teacher. They would try to guide me but when I would question they too could not give me the answers.

Then when I was 16 I was in a world religion class in high school. There I began to learn about Islam and I could finally have my answers. I was so excited when I went home. But my mother was totally against it. And I was told that none of the garbage was to come into her home. At this time Dad was out of town and did not hear what she was telling me. So I would study in secret.

Less than a year after I graduated from high school I was told that I was to get married or get out of my parents home (by my Mother). I married and my husband was anti anything that was not Christian. So again I studied in secret.

After 5 years of an abusive relationship (with him cheating, hitting and being mentally abusive) I got out. I started college and began to openly study Islam. My Mother tried to set me down and tell me how wrong I am but my Dad has been there beside me still telling me that I needed to find my own way.

I reverted 2 years ago and have never been happier. I learn something new everyday. I am now married to a wonderful Muslim man that treats me with love and respect.

Answer 9

If we look at illiterate people following corrupted versions of our beautiful religions (Islam, Christianity or any other), we really feel like crying at their ignorance & superstition.

But that's how they have been raised & the "religion of our fore-fathers" sentiment is so strong in them that it completely overshadows logic.

All religions in their true & un-corrupted form are monotheistic in nature. In that sense, they can all be considered branches of the one & only true monotheistic religion in the world, i.e. Islam, even though many may actually be older than Islam itself.

If we also consider that all humans are the children of Adam & Eve (may peace be upon them both) who were both Muslims, and also the fact that all humans are born as Muslims and later acquire the religious beliefs of their parents, it would seem that it is incumbent upon every human to do a little research about his/her religion the moment he/she is an adult & answerable in the sight of Almighty God.

One who doesn't do so, even if he/she is a Muslim, but blindly follows his/her parents religion without understanding Islam, the duties & responsibilities of a Muslim & the purpose of our existence on this earth, then such people will also be held answerable by Allah swt along with those people who had no knowledge about Islam at all.

Therefore it is clear that acquiring knowledge about Islam is as important as following the true path i.e. Islam to attain the pleasure of Allah swt in this world & the hereafter.

Answer 10

Yes, mankind has reached such a stage that we have to think logically before accepting a faith. Today we have computers, and other technologies, etc which our parents/ancestors didn't have.
One must compare with open heart and I think now I am better Muslim, (Allah knows better) as virtually all types of technologies have proved that Islam is the only faith which covers all spheres of life and eternity.
Even my father and family are more inclined towards the learning about Islam.
Jazak Allah.

Answer 11

The inquiry you are searching is much more complicated than the profile you have fashioned to deduct your conclusion and to reach to the right choice regarding the truth of life and death and the existence of God. Ever since the dawn of civilization man has deeply searched into every realm in the world of abstract thought and has not ever reached to the findings you have reached in that simplicity which you have postulated in your question. All men of thought and philosophy stumbled and gone astray without reaching to that truth which you yourself claim to have attained to and has become within your possession just from reading the Quran. Perhaps you think those who will answer your question are fools or idiots to either congratulate you on your great deduction and conclusion or to just oppose your findings and give it to your face that you are all wrong, and that the other religion has more truth in it according to their findings.

Do you really think that you have reached to the absolute truth which you claim you have found in the Quran and therefore the remaining human beings who did not reach to that truth are all idiots or perhaps are not as fortunate as you are or may be your father is better than their fathers because they were born having a father that belongs to this religion or that religion unlike your father who belongs to whatever religion. Hence, all those who oppose you therefore are condemned to go to hell. What a splendid and wonderful conclusion you have come to know and has made you a better human being.

I am not fighting you or trying to ridicule you or put you down in your way of belief. No! I am trying to say that to reach to the best conclusion that render mankind justice is to have in your hand a scheme or a way of living that can provide all men and the Human race in its entirety the greatest honor and state of supremacy combined with elevated morals and a very high ethics in their way of living and interacting one another.