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[quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous]I feel that the Eastern religions - Hinduism, Buddhism. Shintoism etc  - are more individual focussed and more spiritual.  I feel that Western religions - Christianity, Judaism, Islam - is more society focussed and more ritualistic.

[b]I also feel that if you truly believed in  your God and His/Her omnipotence, then trying to convert people to your faith only means that you think that 1) either your God made mistakes in creating them and you have to fix that mistake or 2) your God is powerless to convert them Himself/Herself and needs minions to do it. [/b]

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Not, in Islam. To the contrary, the Qu'ran is very clear that we can NOT convert people, even the Prophet (s.a.w) couldn't.  We are told  "And say, The truth is from your Lord, so whoever wills , let him believe; and whoever wills . let him disbelieve." (Surat Al-Kahf 18:29) . All Muslims strongly believe that their duties  are limited to the conveyance of the message. They also believe that embracing Islam is due to guidance, which only occurs by the grace of Allah. The Qur'an is very clear on this : "It is true you will not be able to guide everyone whom you love; but Allah guides those whom He will and He knows best those who receive guidance."  The prophet's closest uncle, who he loved dearly never accepted Islam, despite of how much he pleaded and begged and  he was extremely saddened by this and that's when Allah revealed that verse telling him pretty much,  Oh Mohamed (s.aw.), you are just a messenger, your role is to convey the message, nothing more, nothing less.[/quote]

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