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Ithappenstoall · Oct 28, 2009, 07:57 AM

Hello all,

I have a question regarding intra faith marriages and if anyone has personal experience regarding this matter.

A little bit about my situation: I am with a wonderful Muslim women in a long distance relationship and I am of Christian faith. To make things clear we started dating 10 months ago in the same city and now for 2 months have been in different parts of the world. I want to talk about this because I want to clear everything up before things get even more serious. We have expressed our thoughts of being together and we both want it to work. She tells me she doesn't see herself without me and constantly reminds me of that and I do the same.We already have mentioned things such as raising a family and where to live. On every level she is all that I want: caring, smart, witty, cute... you name it. If faith was not an issue there would be no problem We both have very close cultures. But now that it is, I find it really sad that this would be the reason why things wouldn't happen.

I hope you can help clear my head and make me see that even in this case, there can be light at the end of the tunnel.
Thanks.

ebaines · Oct 28, 2009, 08:07 AM

Are you willing to convert to Islam? If not, is she willing to convert to Christian?

If neither of you are willing to convert, how have you decided to handle the religious upbringing of your children? For their sake it must be absolutely clear that they are to be raised in one religion or the other. They may certainly gain an appreciation of the other parent's religion, but do not try to raise them as "a little bit of both." So - have you and she broached this subject?

Ithappenstoall · Oct 28, 2009, 08:30 AM

Yes we have, right now I am looking and reading both the bible and quran to see and understand but I am getting scared of this change and how my family would react to it.

Zaithe · Nov 19, 2009, 12:15 AM

Well if you study Islam, Islam don't allow women to marry to any other religion and reason is the children so Islam didn't allow this for any Muslim girl. And what about the girl family? Have they allowed this?