RAISING CHILDREN WHO HATE OTHERS - PART 3

The second common reason I could think of why people hate other people is being born in a different religion, or in a different sect in a religion. 

While we were given no choice in which as to the religion of the parents we were born to, people do have a choice to change their religion after they have grown up, or to stop following religion all together. There are some religions which you can only be born into and cannot convert into, and there are some which actively preach and try to convert people into their own religion.

In terms of Islam, there is a clear verse of the Holy Qur'an which most Muslims have heard about, "There is no compulsion in Faith. (2:256)" It means that it is not allowed to force anyone to become a Muslim. Hazrat Umer (may God be pleased with him) invited a very old non-Muslim woman to Islam. She replied, "I am an old woman who is near death. Why should I leave my religion?" Hazrat Umer did not force her then and recited the verse quoted above. If there are any incidents in history of some Muslims forcing others to convert to Islam, it is their own wrongdoing, and is a direct contravention of the teachings of Qur'an.

If we do believe in the omnipotence of God, then we should also believe that if God wanted He could have created everyone believing in the one and only right religion, which all of us believe is our religion. But He choose not to. It means that people have been given a choice to find their own right path. Our duty is only to gently and softly inform them about what we believe to be true, and then let them make their own choices. Hating them is completely counter-productive to that duty. 

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