Traffic light encounter

I was walking home from work today. As I passed the swimming complex to get to the traffic light, I saw on the opposite side two ladies - one Caucasian and the other Asian-looking.

As I was waiting for the "green man" to come on, they came and stood beside me since they were also going the same way as me. That was when she started to introduced herself to me. I shall not reveal their nationalities but they were definitely not locals. they were both wearing name tags and "JESUS CHRIST" was in bold and capslock. After her unnecessary introduction, she started to briefly tell me about a certain church that she attends, how long she has been in Singapore and other redundant details. I knew all that was coming. She asked me about my religion. I told her I am Muslim. I thought that the answer would just shut her up. But I thought wrong. Because instead of shutting up, she enlightened me on how there are also Muslims who goes to her church. Fortunately, her friend was going the opposite way so we separated. Alhamdullillah. Allah is great.

Don't get me wrong, people. I have no problem mingling with individuals who are of different race or religion. Staying in a multi-racial society, that is something unavoidable and which I am used to and appreciate greatly. I do have friends who are Christians, Catholic, Buddhist etc. I am able to maintain beautiful friendships with almost all of them. This is merely because we are able to respect one another and not try to impose our beliefs to the other. For me personally, only when a non-Muslim friend of mine asks anything about Islam, I'll try to answer the question as best as I could with the knowledge I possess. I don't go around preaching to my non-Muslims friends about Islam.

I say this a million times but I shall say it again. I don't discrimiate people who are not Muslims or Malay. But I HATE it when people like this do what the 2 ladies as described above did to me. It is downright despicable. How can you force people like that. If you are a true Christian, you will never do what you did. Why I say this is because I believe that no religion would force anyone to embrace it. It should be done willingly and wholeheartedly. I hope none of us would ever have to encounter anything like this ever again. For those of you who are playing with the idea to do something like this, I suggest you think again. You don't like to be forced to do things then don't try to impose your beliefs onto others. We all have minds of our own. Let US make our own decisions.

May ALLAH strengthen our faith, show us to the right path of Islam and keep our faith intact. Insya ALLAH.