Interfaith Relationship - Article

 

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The research exploring the challenges and problems of love and interfaith relationship. There is no religion in love or friendship or any kind of relationship. Everyone must be considered as a human being not by their cast or their religion. But in our society religion is the most important issue in every relation. Our society does not allow interfaith relations or marriage. For this reason, there are many people who are not happy in our society. There is no freedom of choice. There is some taboo that everyone must marry or love with their own religion. But our society and family never consider them as a human being. Our parents thought that we must maintain our own religion. We are living in digital or modern world but in our mentality, we are not changed. But in any relation religious is not important. Region is a faith and love is also based on faith and trust. This is one of the major issues in our society which should be changed.

 

In our county there is no freedom to choose our life-partner or friend. Specially if they are not in same religion. The society never accepts if a Muslim marries to a Christian or Hindu. People will always judge other religion. If a Christian or a Hindu wants to go on a trip with Muslim friend the parents got angry.

As said earlier religion is an important issue in marriage. “Marriage is legitimate, if it has performed in accordance with the religion and belief of each party”. (Kamruzzaman,M. 2016). In his article he writes about difficulties in interfaith marriage. Sometimes they got punished by the family member. Sometimes they cannot see their own parents or family member just because they married in inter religious community. According to Kamruzzaman,(2016) that marriage is an essential part of human beings but creates various problems regarding with marriage such as caste, race.

                           

Society possesses negative attitude towards interfaith relations. In our country if people get closer or involve to other religious people then the society or family gets angry. The family members never approve the relation between two different customs. they cannot approve because they are afraid of society and they are afraid about what people will say about their family. The culture is different. “Participants were adamantly opposed to engaging in interfaith relationships; the main concern was pleasing their parents.” (Yahya, S. 2016).  There are many people who break their relations or their friendship just because they want to please their parents by getting married with their choice. But they will never be happy with the person whom they do not love. There are so many relations which broke for the mentality of society and to please the parents. According to Yahsa,(2016) for a society, where religion and culture is so important then love or relations, this paper suggests that interfaith relationships may not be readily welcomed in our country.

In Bangladesh, inter-faith marriages are generally frowned upon. It’s also difficult because in theory, Islam doesn’t allow its adherents to convert or denounce his/her religion. Besides these complexities, inter-faith marriages are likely to incite conservatism and social backlash. Even though the younger generations tend to oppose the view on inter-faith marriages or relationship, the number is still not mention-able. According to Brian, D & Dolan, T.(2010) Australian university students disinclined to engage in a cross-cultural or interfaith relationship, depicting a picture where inter-faith relationship is considered somewhat a taboo.

However, there were students who expressed a point of concern that they were fine by interfaith marriage or relationship only if their partners are either too religious nor demanded to convert. Inter-faith relationships or marriage in Bangladesh needs to be polished to keep up with upstream globalization.  

 

 

Citation

Kamruzzaman, M. (2016). Interreligious Marriage in Bangladesh: From Human Rights Perspective; International Journal of Education, Culture and Society. Science PG. 1(2), 44-51.

 

Yahya, S. (2016). Sadly, Not All Love Affairs Are Meant To Be Attitudes Towards Interfaith Relationships in a Conflict Zone. Journal of Intercultural Studies. 37(3), 265-285.

 

Brian, D & Dolan, T.(2010). Interweaving Youth Development, Community Development, and Social Change Through Youth Organizing. Youth & Society. 43(2), 528-548.