Convertion an Intellectual Transformation
Conversion: An Intellectual Transformation
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to the light; He will guide them to a straight
path. (5:15-16)
Those who enter the fold of Islam after being
influenced by their study of the Qur’an, have been
thus described in the Qur’an:
Is then he who knows that what has been
revealed to you by your Lord is the truth, like
him who is blind? Truly, none will take heed
but the wise. (13:19)
According to this verse, the real conversion is one,
which has taken place when the convert is aware
that he has entered the phase of gnosis and has left
behind the phase of ignorance. That is why a
tradition of the Prophet speaks of the period prior
to Islam as a period of ignorance.
Similarly, the difference between a believer and a
non-believer has been alluded to in the Qur’an in
the context of life after death: ‘Can the dead man
whom We have raised to life and given a light with
which he may be guided among men, be compared
to him who blunders about in a darkness from
which he will never emerge?’ (6:123)
