I was born muslim however growing up my mum wasn’t religious and I never kept religion in my life as I got older. I’ve always felt it was a part of me due to being surrounded by it as a child and I always felt protective over it as I saw the beauty of Islam. When I was 11 we moved away from my family so I wasn’t around anyone who was muslim which added to me not classing myself as a muslim. Even as a child i never understood anything about Islam or being muslim.
Now i’m 26 I’m wanting to learn more about my religion and really understand what it is to be muslim. I’m classing myself more as a revert due to the way I have been living, fortunately i’m close to my cousins who are practicing muslims and they are guiding me on what books to read and to different places for reverts to learn more. This is where my question is, I am in a relationship and I got into the relationship prior to my feelings now. He comes from a Christian family and we have had deep discussions about how we both want to learn more about our faith and he has even said how he would like to learn more about Islam but he’s a point where he doesn’t know much about Christianity so would want to learn more about Christianity first. We have spoken about marriage and discussed how we would progress with our different religions and I know for muslim women you cannot marry a Christian man. As I am only just learning myself I do not want to pressure him and want him to do it as part of his own journey so he can fall in love with the religion for himself not because I have told him to. So i’m just wondering would it be wrong of me to support him in learning about his own faith and understanding it so then he could progress to learning about islam? I would really love any advice not just on this but anything to do more with learning about Islam.
Now i’m 26 I’m wanting to learn more about my religion and really understand what it is to be muslim. I’m classing myself more as a revert due to the way I have been living, fortunately i’m close to my cousins who are practicing muslims and they are guiding me on what books to read and to different places for reverts to learn more. This is where my question is, I am in a relationship and I got into the relationship prior to my feelings now. He comes from a Christian family and we have had deep discussions about how we both want to learn more about our faith and he has even said how he would like to learn more about Islam but he’s a point where he doesn’t know much about Christianity so would want to learn more about Christianity first. We have spoken about marriage and discussed how we would progress with our different religions and I know for muslim women you cannot marry a Christian man. As I am only just learning myself I do not want to pressure him and want him to do it as part of his own journey so he can fall in love with the religion for himself not because I have told him to. So i’m just wondering would it be wrong of me to support him in learning about his own faith and understanding it so then he could progress to learning about islam? I would really love any advice not just on this but anything to do more with learning about Islam.
