{Quick Reflections 3} Which Kind of Muslim are You?!

if you have time plz check http://www.islamhelpline.com/about.asp. it is about the repentance and guidance of a Bohry to true Islaam.
Bohra are a sect of Shi"aa who constitute more than 1 million Muslims!!

The beauty of the story in the above link is opening our eyes on how someone devout can live a life time amongst false believes inspite of the very evident TRUTH infront of one's eyes if one insists on believing whatever a sect he belongs to tells him without questioning it. We should all question our status quo every once in a while.
We all have to question whatever we come across and search for the truth for ourselves and not just take for granted that a certain group is right and all others are wrong. After all ALLAAH (SWT) says, "wakulluhum aateehe yawm al-qiyamati farda". One will be responsible for himself only and can never say that i followed the so and so sect or group whom i thought were right. Didn't ALLAAH (SWT) give us eyes to see for ourselves, ears to hear and minds to think and contemplate?!!

Personally, as a child, I used to go to church in addition to the mosque, and many of my close friends were Jews and Buddists and even aethiests. My father used to tell me when i was 7 years old, look around and see for yourself, explore, but in the end you will reach the same conclusion i reached after i explored for years and years, two important facts;
1. Islaam is the only true reilgion.
2. True Islaam does not belong to a certain sect or cult. As our Beloved (SAWS) says in the hadeeth what means that Muslims will be divided into 73 groups, all of whom will be in hell except one group. Nowadays and since the division of Muslims, every single group of these claims to be the only one that is truthful and all the others are absolutely wrong. Now if any of these people in each of these groups had true guidance and common sense they would have realized that by saying that they are the only group whom our Prophet said about to be the one going to heaven, they have judged that all other Muslims out side their group or members of the other groups are in hell!! Of course this cannot be true. The explanation of the hadeeth is that only the faithfull people in each of these 73 groups are the ones who are in heaven in shaa ALLAAH.
Another indirect fact that could be deducted from that hadeeth is that that division in itself is meaningless and false based on the fact that faithful members from all groups are the only truthful group.

Last but not least, i would like to remind us all that the day the ayah, "alyawm akmalt lakum deenakum wa'tmamt "laykum ni"maty waradeet lakum al-islaam deena", the day that ayah was revealed there was only one group of Muslims. Any other group or division that was formed after the descent of that ayah is false whatever the reasons its founders gave, and then the nowadays followers say, that they are the only true ones.

We are Muslims .. full stop.