I was volunteering as photographer during the event and I had so much fun!
At the event, there're few booths for people to ask question about Islam; regarding Ramadhan, Hajj, useful reference books and Quran Listening booth.
It's good to see interested non-Muslims, who want to learn more about Islam.
At the same time, there're 9 discussion tables led by intelligent speakers, and they're discussing about
important stuff ie Allah, Muhammad the Prophet, Afterlife, Islam and Science, Ethics, Women in Islam etc
During the last 30 mins of the event,
I decided to go to the second table, which we discussed about Muhammad the Prophet.
The speaker preferred to answer our questions as oppose to him explaining.
At this table, there's a curious Jewish girl.
Her question was; why Muhammad is considered as final prophet and does it matter if he's the final prophet or not?
The speaker answered,
if we believe in God, we all believe in the Day of Judgement.
Before the day comes, there'll be the last and final prophet sent by God.
In Islam, we believe Muhammad is the final prophet.
She questioned more,
how do you know you're in the right religion? Because a Christian will say Christianity is the true religion, a Jew will say Judaism is the true religion and a Muslim will say Islam is the true religion.
Oh yeah, she has a point.
If I weren't born Muslim, and I have to search for my own religion
and I will have trouble finding the true religion, right?
This is a tricky question I would say.
It tests one's belief.
She added a really wonderful point.
Her grandfather once told her that,
Jews, Muslims and Christians, we all have equal chances to be
in the heaven. We have to be sincere in seeking for the truth, and one day God will
show us the truth.
The speaker agreed with her.
I agreed with her.
Being born as Muslim,
we acknowledge/accept that Islam is the true religion, it's the path that we take
and we embedded the Islamic practices in our life too.
But an atheist, or someone who believes in God but is still confused on which religion
should he/she associate him/herself into will definitely be clueless.
And the speaker has a good point too!
If we're sincere enough to seek for the truth, God will show us the truth;
but we just do not know when.
The truth will be revealed the seconds before your death,
when you can see things you can't see before, hear things you can't hear before,
that's the moment when you experience the truth yourself.
Your actions, your religious practices that you're doing now are just
mediums for us to be the best version of ourselves, to guard our heart
because in the end, the most important thing is our state of heart.
The bottom line is, to know that we can only do what we can do, in the most sincere way as possible
and only Allah can judge us.
Malays usually have this stereotype that all non-Muslims are bad,
but just because of they are from different religions, that doesn't mean
they're bad, or we're any better than them.
Because one day, they may be better Muslims than us, and
maybe Allah values their efforts and sincerity more
and they might be placed in Jannah Firdaus in the afterlife, we never know.
Even we do not know what will happen in the next millisecond of our life,
so we should stop judging people just because of who they are today.
May Allah guide all of us
and guard our heart and accept our deeds and place us at the same place as
the Prophet and his companions, insyaAllah.
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