In the morning I read this report about this Christian guy eloping with a Muslim girl. They are married now & he didn’t have any problem in converting. However, the family of the guy has to move from Baldia Town, but the Christians in that area are not under any kind of threat. Earlier on the girl’s family was quite mad but now the Muslim community is totally co-operating.
I read some really weird statements. Everything that people cannot digest is derogatory & bad.
Baldia Town Parish Priest Father Khaliq Saleem said that the youth should obey the teachings of their religion & get married in their own religious community. And this is not enough. He further said that when a person gets married to someone of another faith, he might think that he is serving his religion, but such types of cases defame both religions.
It’s shocking to hear men of faith saying such stuff. What kind of myopic views are these? How does he know religions are being defamed? I don’t think these men of faith have met God & have taken His interview. How do they draw such conclusions? I’m so sorry to say but religion has become a source of discrimination. Clerics may belong to any religion, but their views are highly myopic.
When you fall for someone & if it’s really genuine love, do you think about the faith of the person? Things just happen. When you’re weighing everything, then it’s more of a deal than love, which is mostly the case. And when someone changes his/her faith, it means that love has been a more powerful force. Or maybe there had been too much pressure & these young couples opt for this sort of option in which converting is no big deal. I don’t know what is weak or strong faith. I don’t even know what is love. What I see here is that 2 people wanted to be together & they didn’t have any problem, but the world has rotten views about everything.
Harrison who is a physiotherapist in that area also criticized that couple & said that they had followed an unconstructive path that had resulted in difficulties for their families adding that it was a dispute between 2 families & not religious communities.
Only time could tell whether it’s a constructive or unconstructive path but yes people will talk. This couple is alive. Thanks to honour killing, many couples are being murdered. I’m sure this entire marriage thing between 2 different communities must be complicated. In fact I’ve seen that in very modern families, people have issues with Shia & Sunni getting married- forget about marrying Jew, Christian or Hindu.
I once read:
“Loving another person is not separate from loving God. One is a single wave, the other is the ocean.”
Deepak Chopra
And here people are being punished & criticized for falling in love.
