Muslim - Atheist Dialogue: Part - 1

Atheist: "K so if the god exists why it is that peace is not there in this world?"

Muslim: "The entire purpose of this life is a test. This test is to see who will accept the true message of God. The argument that God should make perfect peace and perfect humans who cannot commit sin is against the concept of free will! In fact merely questioning God's existance is proof of God's gift of free will. If we start blaming God for our acts of violence and intolerance, it is not right! Consider the GMAT test. If you do not study and obtain terrible scores, you cannot say “I blame GMAT administrators” they should have passed everyone with perfect scores! If you do this you are neglecting the idea that “you” did not study! Similarly the concept of free will enables us to make our own choices, however every choice has a consequence. You have no one but yourself to blame for your actions and situations. This life is a competition to win the success of the eternal life. As with any competition there are people with different aptitudes, skills and endurance. Some will fail, some will pass, no one should blame God for their problems. Secondly if you are going to blame God, why not try the solution God has given for your success in this life and the next? Why not take up Islam for a few weeks and try to experience the pleasure in the obedience to God? I can assure you, the contentment and spiritual pleasure of prayer in Islam is such that if the Generals of the world knew it, they would fight the Muslims with all their armies for it! I do mean to say that you actually try to understand Islam, not just pay lip service to its message as many do."

More soon. . . inshAllah