Re: conservative hubby
There’s a difference between saying “I’m not practicing” and “I don’t believe”…because there are people who don’t practice but they believe islam is the truth. Maybe settling abroad took priority over faith. You are right in saying that patience and kindness is more likely to bring her to Islam than force. But at the same time, her own reasonings are not mature, Mirch. She refuses to meet her husband halfway for things that even non-Muslim spouses will compromise with their partners for. I wonder why some parents in the West think that only a bahu or damaad from Pakistan can help reform their wayward child? Do they not think from the angle that is easier to practice Islam in a country that is majority Muslim? And therefore perhaps a guy or girl that lives the West…who despite the temptations and conflicting macro-culture of the West…still managed to adhere to Islam might serve as stronger inspiration for their wayward son/daughter? I dunno. Or maybe it’s wrong to wonder these things only Allah can both open and guide one’s heart to Islam…and maybe marriages (including this one) are among the things predestined.