A change of religion, no matter which one,
should bring a positive change of heart. It should make a person more
compassionate not only toward their new community, but toward humanity as a
whole.
And it should make them far more understanding
and caring toward the community they left behind. Those people may feel that
they have lost a good member of their
faith, yet they still wish you well—because they care, and because you were a
good person (instead of good riddance)then, as you should remain now.
In fact, people from your former community
should be able to see the change in you. They should be able to say with
admiration that your new faith has made you an even better person.
After all, they are your family, your friends,
and members of the same community. They know you well, and you know them. That
shared experience should produce kindness and humility—wishing them the best,
and perhaps quietly hoping that one day they too may find what you have found.
If none of this happens, then the conversion
has changed very little. The problem was never the religion.
Peace, anas
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