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My name is Sophia... I am a child of a Muslim father and a Christian mother. My
parents were divorced when I was 2 yrs old and I was taken to Iraq just one day before the custody hearing. My father returned w/o me and left me with his
sisters where I would be taken care of. and while he was here he was trying to
keep
his citizenship as well as trying to keep me... (there is a lot more to this but
I will leave it here...)
I wanted to give you some background so you knew where I was coming from. I was
eventually returned and raised by my mother with my father only having supervised visitation rights and then towards the end of grade school and
beginning of JR high he was able to take me places and he built up that trust
again with my mom's family.
After High school I finally started wanting a relationship with my father... I
was quite distant with him throughout the years... until the point I came to
know Christ... and realized that the least I could do is forgive my father for
hurting my mother's family... because of what Christ did for me... so for the last 10 yrs we have
slowly been rebuilding our relationship...
Now to get to the point here... my father still thought of me as a Muslim
regardless of what I SAID I believed... his friends still think of me as being
Muslim... and mind you I was raised by my mother 98 percent of my life... yes my
father tried to teach me bit by bit of Islam... and I knew little by
little...but 98 percent was American typical Christian raising... and he STILL
thought of me as Muslim..
My father was trying to get me to marry my Muslim cousin for several reasons...
but one was so I would continue to be Muslim w/my children etc... He has a true hatred for Christianity... because he believes it has taken me away from him...
(he cant grasp the concept that this is the mere reason I even accepted him back into my life for any period of time)..
Now that I am engaged to an EX Muslim man... my father Hates Him (my fiancé)
and hates Christianity even more...
So anyway, (sorry for the rabbit trails)... children will always be Muslim in a
Muslim's eyes in a mixed religion relationship... so Please I beg of you...
think more about the rest of your life and how it will affect your children...
how it will affect your parents... how it will affect those whom you love...
other than him... and then even think about it from his perspective... he
doesn't realize now what he will be thinking later... my father didn't...
you did not ask for my advice or opinion... so if you do not want it... take it
with a grain of salt... but if you do want it... take everything to heart... and
pray continually and ask Christ to show you truth and a way of escape from the
relationship... with that peace of what you are doing is right...
I say this in love for your future children.
Sophia
Prove all things, hold fast to that which is good.
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