Within Islam, it is both legitimate and right to ask the question: “Why Islam?” Every tenet of Islam is subject to analysis and contention. No other religion is willing to subject its basic fundamentals of faith to such questioning.
For example, Saint Thomas Aquinas, the most rational of Christian theologians, stopped the use of reason when it came to the basic fundamentals of the Christian faith. He then tried to justify faith. So to ask “Why Christianity?” is an illegitimate question. However, Allah invites the question, “why Islam?”.
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