What then brought about the change in my life?

Firstly, like most Muslims, I was taught to recite the Qur’an in Arabic like a parrot with little understanding of what is written in it. This always left me dissatisfied.

Most Muslim clerics will tell you that it is good to do this purely on the basis of reading it in the pure language of Arabic to please God, which I find illogical and has no basis whatsoever. When you study the Qur'an you will find that it has Hebrew and Syriac words and the Qur'an is not in pure Arabic at all, but then again would God not understand English anymore then Punjabi or Arabic?

The fact of the matter is that their thinking is seriously flawed in that you should be able to read the Qur'an in your language of upbringing, and with understanding what you are reading, to gain a better knowledge of your faith. Obviously, if you did this, then you would find the things they don’t want you to know. Things such as what the prophet Muhammad was up to in his lifetime -- namely, marrying his adopted son’s wife after Zaid divorced her for the prophet’s pleasure; marrying a nine year old, Aisha; wife beating, killing infidels, fighting Jihad against the Christians and Jews, just to name a few.

Sura 33.37": And when you said to him to whom Allah had shown favour and to whom you had shown a favour: Keep your wife to yourself and be careful of (your duty to) Allah; and you concealed in your soul what Allah would bring to light, and you feared men, and Allah had a greater right that you should fear Him. But when Zaid had accomplished his want of her, we gave her to you as a wife, so that there should be no difficulty for the believers in respect of the wives of their adopted sons, when they have accomplished their want of them; and Allah's command shall be performed.

What God allows a woman to be divorced to be married to a prophet? To me this implies God does not value marriage and is asking a person to divorce his wife and this is exactly what the above Sura says - that Allah knew that he wanted Muhammad to marry Zainab and that could only have happened after the divorce, thus destroying the sanctity of marriage.

Bukhari vol. 7, #64: "Narrated Aisha that the prophet wrote the marriage contract with her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old, and then she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death)." Muhammad was 49 yrs old when he married Aisha and consummated when he was 52yrs old.

Obviously these things would raise serious questions about a claimed prophet of God!