Hareesh says: September 28, 2013 at 5:49 am
To all persons about to undertake interfaith marriage
Dear guys, before opting for such an unifying and cross religious and cross culture venture, please ask answers for the following questions with a sincere heart and serious mind –
1. Are you ready to assign the highest priority to your love ?
2. Are you really interested in your sweetheart with her all baggage including her/his religion ?
3. What is your concept of God ? Is it restricted to the concept mentioned in the religious book of the religion you profess ?
4. If in your love you are no able to rise above religious and cultural considerations, is your love just a physical attraction and nothing else ?
5. When a person thinks of interfaith marriage, all considerations and consequences should be thought of beforehand, have you done so ?
6. If you are so compelled to stick to your religious beliefs , culture and traditions , why are you wasting your time and why don’t you look for a girl in your own religion ?
7. Rabia, a great Muslim mystique mused that she does not pray God for fear of hell or pleasure of heaven, she loves God since God is God. Here Rabia loves God just for the sake of God and not for attaining the paradise or other gifts. Are you interested in reflecting on such type of worship which I think is the only requirement to go for interfaith marriage, Do you fulfill such a requirement ?
8. Since interfaith marriage is a revolutionary idea, are you ready to face severe consequences of doing so, rebelling against the set beliefs and traditions and even going against one ‘s own professed faith ?
9. If you are so timid that you are not eager to alter a bit about yourself, about your belief, about your culture, traditions, thought, it will be better for you to remain in tour shell rather than to embrace touch of humanity magnanimously and usher in a utterly new way of life which will be truly a international way of living, are you inclined to adopt such an sheer modern outlook ?
10. Are you interested in being human only disregarding other man made beliefs, traditions behind ?
11. Lastly, are you comfortable if your partner eats pork, beef or any other prohibited thing in your religion ? If not, interfaith marriage will create a real hurdle in your life ?
Questions are many and admin. has explained everything beautifully to the readers and mine is only an attempt to churn something out of this great phenomenon which has become a part of our life. All seekers of interfaith marriage should ponder over everything minutely before getting into such a great plunge ! -Hareesh
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Being myself in an interfaith relation, we both have faced enough problems and troubles in this world; all this brought only one conclusion to both of us that religion is actually nothing, what the truth is that you should worship the power that helps you to be together. The power that brought you together. All this conversion business is nothing but a result of narrow thinking of a bunch of hypocrites who have nothing much productive to do in their lives instead they live by breaking hearts of people, and sometimes even end up killing them. In the above post only the first question is most relevant. If a person is ready to assign highest priority to his/her love then nothing else matters.
In my case when we both started I was in class 12, she in 10, now I am doing BTech 2nd year, shes in 12(hope her boards go well); we faced a lot, and someday I plan to write a story type novel, as a guide to many interfaith couples out there, till then I am here, on this site guiding people, I wasn’t active but now I would be active. One more thing admin, is there any way that I could receive update of new post on this blog immediately.
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A problem with all these questions is most of these questions are not measurable (0% or 100%? Most time it is somewhere in the middle). If you are in love with an Abrahamic (Muslim, Christian or Jew), one need to ask only one measurable question, are you willing to let go the labeling our child with a BBS (Baptism, Bris/Bar Mitzvah and Shahadah/Sunat)? You will have answers to all that you need to know.