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Monday, February 8, 2010 @ 11:52 AM
Religion

Hey...hi everyone! How have all of you been doing so far? Great? Well I hope so. I hope that you are in the right frame of mind today. Really. I need that from you for the next 15 minutes as I am touching on one of the most sensitive and controversial aspect of life; religion.

Define religion. Well dictionary.com says that religion is a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs. There's plenty of where that came from. You can click HERE if you want to read more.

With that being said, how does religion affect our life? Let us look from a point of relationship. I am sure there are plenty of people around the world who fell in love with one another but they come from a different religious background. Yes? No doubt about that. AND if they want to be with one another, one of them need to sacrifice his/her religion and goes into the partner's religion. Just so they could be together with the blessings from at least ONE side of the family. Now...the question is this.

Religion is supposed to bring a family together, but what happens when it breaks a family apart? Or force seperation between lovers? Can we bluntly then sums up everything in one phrase like "it's not meant to be."? It is pretty much a weak phrase if you asked me. But then again, what can we say? We as human are not as strong as we think we are. Yes, compared among the other humans, some of us are emotionally, physically and mentally strong. But generally....we are weak. As humans, we have flaws. We make mistakes. We bleed, we grow old, we die. We ain't immortal. We NEED air, we NEED water to survive. If we need something to even live, shouldn't that something we need be more stronger than us? Therefore, my conclusion? We are weak.

Okay back to religion. How much sacrifice does it makes us endure? For example a muslim lady who wants to marry a christian man. Now you tell me, who should be the one doing the converting? If you asked me, I would say the christian man. Why? Cause Islam is the one religion that is right. Now you throw this question to a christian, he/she would say that christianity is the right one. So it is back to the whole tug of war situation where both religion starts to fight one another, trying to up one another.

IF the christian man embraces Islam, there is without a shadow of a doubt, he will lose almost everything in his life. I can assure you that. Why? Cause I have seen it happen right before my very eyes. He lost his friends, his family, basically everything. From a social kinda guy he became a loner with only his wife as a companion. Now this doesn't only happen when a christian embrace islam. It is also the other way round. Per say a muslim embrace christianity, he/she would lose everything too. So what now? Where do these lovers go? Yeahhh...off the top of my mind, the word seperation drops in. It is one of those sad thing in life.

Let me give you another scenario...what if a couple starts off with the same religion and along the way, one of them decides to convert?

You go think about that. And this couple pretty much have marriage on the horizon. Should they call it off? Of course if you ask them they would say no and simply said they do not mind. BUT that is not how things work out in life. Basically that's the way thing has been and forever they will stay till the end of time. It is either the other stay in the religion, keep the faith and live happily ever after or the other latter follows into conversion and both of them lose family friends and everything around them.

Losing friends is pretty much something which you can replace I guess? Cause you can make new one. But family? Now...there isn't sucha thing as making new mom dad siblings ok. Are we willing to go thru' that loss? Losing a family member is losing part or even I dare say....losing your ownself. Family is like your arms, head, legs, parts of your body. Even in families you have mistakes. Maybe like an abusive parent. But at the end of the day, they are still FAMILY. And these mistakes are represented by scars. You chop of one of the torso...life would never be the same again; you are a handicapped.

But what drives one to the point of conversion? Hmmm...there is a million and one things running across my mind but I chose not to choose one. I would rather generalise. Okay, so let us say a christian converts to a muslim because he/she thinks that Jesus isn't answering his prayers. Then he converts into a muslim and he felt good for awhile. And then things happens. Like his lover left him. Family left him. Friends left him. Would he then turn his back and blame ALLAH S.W.T then? All of a sudden there's this immense loneliness. This can also happen the other way round. Say a muslim converts to christian. Heh. So a christian god can't help u, u go to muslim god. And then to hindu god? To buddhist god? Religion isn't like a clinic where you can see different doctors ya know...

All I can say is this. Everything is in your mind my friends. I am a muslim. I won't say I am a good one. But I was brought up by mom and dad and I have undergone challenges in life which made me question GOD existence. Subahannallah. I have hemiplegia and everytime I pray I asked why am I being brought into this world with this condition. And when I think of that, I think about the more unfortunate people around me. There is more people who have a worse scenario than me but yet still thank GOD for giving life to him. So I took it upon me and change my mind to look things from more than one perspective.

Our parents brought us up on the religion they believe in. And it is up to us and our mind to believe in it. Everyone has their own take....I can accept that. But never use the problems you face as a driving force when you are thinking of conversion. It is all in the mind my friends. All in the mind. If we have the mindset that we can do something about our problem, insyallah you can.

Well that is my take on religious issues. It has been at the back of my head for the last couple of nights. I just thought of penning them down, and let the feelings out. No intended harm to anyone or any religion. Have a blessed day people!

xoxo&xo,
AJ


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