Look, it's so simple: if you change the word Religion into Belief when you ask yourself about it. "Do i want to change my belief". Doesn't that sound quite funny? A belief can change within circumstances, things will happen which will make you maybe believe different things, but it's not something you can just 'change' whenever you 'want to' from 'day to day'. It's not like: "Hmm, i don't like the color of my cellphone, let's buy a new front". A belief is something strongly within you and it cannot be just put there like a chip in a computer. It's soemthing that comes from within, not from without.
If you would change your beliefs only for your love, you're not only unfair to your own 'real religion', you're also unfair against the ones who are really muslim, which means you will not be honest against your gf, and you won't be honest against yourself either.
If she keeps insisting on converting to Muslim, i would definitely reconsider your marriage and the girl. Please don't get me wrong or feel hurt, i don't want to judge your love. But religion should never be in the way of love.
Also, i heard that in conservative turkish families, you don't just marry the girl, but you marry her family, symbolically spoken. Please don't get me wrong again I don't want to label her family either and judge peole whom i don't even know. But i think you should think really carefully about it.
Religion is a part of your life. And so is love. If these two seem 'uncombinable', you will face a lot of problems in your life, as it might start to seem you have to choose between her and your religion/God, or that you feel she is choosing between you and Allah. This is a choice that shouldn't be made, even thinking of it, shouldn't exist. There should be space in both of your lives for religion and love. And if that space of her religion makes it more practical if you stop eating pork, then do so. But don't pretend to believe in a god of which you think for yourself isn't there, or is different in your own religion.
You should not ask us. I'm gonna tell you a huge cliché now, but just look in your heart. I believe it holds most answers of human kind.
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