@Muhammad Saad
You keep talking about right or wrong, but this is not about right or wrong. I don't want to change your mind on how you view Islam and what it means to you. I want you to have an open mind and acknowledge that you, and I, are Muslims by birth not by choice.
You have studied other religions and so have I, but neither of us renounced our faith at one point, became religion-free, studied ALL religions in the world to the same depth and then decided that we will become Muslims. This applies to
@Technics 1210 and he think it is an assumption on my part but well if it is as assumption, please let me know when you went through the process I described above. He, you and I clearly didn't.
There is a big difference between becoming religion-less and studying all religions with an open mind and studying comparative religion as a Muslim. If it is the latter, there is no way you can ignore the inherent subconscious bias even if your conscious self is telling you that you are being impartial. There is no way you can be impartial unless and until you shed your belief system from the roots.
I think faith is a beautiful thing. A child who loses his father can seek solace in the belief that he is in a better place rather than believing that he is now a meal for microorganisms. Moreover, a person who is going through a difficult period in life can take comfort in the faith that their prayers will be answered by the Almighty.
However, faith is what it is. It cannot be proven through logic and sense. Your assertion that if anyone studies Islam with an open mind and uses logic, they will accept Islam to be the only true religion. That is not true at all because you cannot prove with logic where Allah SWT came from, you cannot prove the existence of angels and jinns and life after death.
This is 100% blind faith and you believe it because you choose to believe it. Same goes for other religions. They all rely on blind faith at a fundamental level. If you preach Islam to others, you need to sell your faith and not sell Islam by logic because no religion can beat logic. Religion (blind faith) and logic (factual evidence) cannot coexist.
As for as the Prophet PBUH's military and political success is concerned, history is filled with examples of individuals who achieved things that you wouldn't associate with a mortal person, but for you, their success is their genius and Prophet Muhammad's PBUH success is a miracle of Islam. Why? Simply because you choose to believe that it is a miracle of Islam because of your faith as a Muslim.
The human mind believes what it wants to believe and it can come up with its own justifications to support the belief system that is deeply integrated.
As far as science is concerned, The Quran is a not a book of science and the Muslims at the time of the Prophet PBUH did not achieve any scientific growth. Please note that the scientific success of the Golden Age of Islam is credited to the Muʿtazilahs who steered away from the traditional teachings of Islam and had to be eradicated to protect the true teachings of Islam.
We need to accept that religion is all about blind faith. If we start using logic, common sense and science to support our blind, we will only end up questioning our faith because they cannot co-exist.
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