Why Islam is my choice — Page 137
137 time. The month came and went. My son was invited over to someone’s house for something called Eid. (Sometimes I wondered why these people didn’t just speak English for crying out loud. ) The person that was hosting this told my son to invite his parents as well. I thought this would be fun and interesting so we accepted. We arrived at the house and were greeted very warmly. We all sat around talking about different things, when the subject changed to religion. There’s an old saying, “It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid, than to open it and remove all doubt. ” Looking back, I should have kept my mouth shut. But the host was very gracious and took me into his study and took down a book from the shelf. It was entitled “Isl ā m, the Summit of Religious Evolution. ” He said he had written it and that he thought I might find it interesting. The next day I picked it up and started reading it. I found it so fascinating that I could not put it down. I was learning things that were completely different from what I was taught growing up. Some preacher told me something and I just accepted it. Isl ā m, I learned later, teaches people to investigate and not just accept things blindly. Anyway, I read that book with the Bible right next to me. Every time there was a reference to the Bible you better believe I was checking it out to make Evan (‘Umar) Wicks