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Providing guidance for new reverts, a Pakistani Islamic school has established a multi-purpose camp to teach new Muslims the basic principles of Islam and provide them with legal counseling and financial support.
\u201cThis shelter home will be reserved only for newly-reverted Muslims,\u201d Mufti Mohammad Naeem, the principal of International Binoria University Karachi, one of the biggest and well-equipped religious seminaries in Pakistan, told OnIslam.net.
\u201cThe prime idea behind setting up of this shelter home is to teach them the basic knowledge of Islam so that they could mold their future lives in accordance with that.\u201d
The seminary has established a shelter camp in Karachi for new reverts to teach them the Islamic teachings.
\u201cWe feel that there is a dire need of such shelter homes across the country,\u201d Naeem, who himself reverted to Islam several years ago, said.
\u201cEven those (non-Muslims) who revert to Islam after understanding the teachings of Islam do need a proper guidance, but it is much more essential in case of those non-Muslims, who either revert to Islam for marriage or after getting impressed by individual characters.\u201d
Reversion rate has been on the rise in the last two decades in Pakistan, particularly in southern Sindh province, and northeastern Punjab province.
Minorities make up 5.5 percent of the country\u2019s 180 million population, with Christians accounting for 3 percent and Hindus constituting 2 percent.
A majority of Christians reside in Punjab, while Hindus reside in Sindh province.
Reversion rate is higher among poor and low-caste non-Muslim families in the two provinces.<\/p>\n

Harassed Reverts<\/strong><\/p>\n

In many cases, new Muslims are either disowned by their families or harassed through different means, including lodging of cases with the police.
Reversion of women is often taken very seriously by their respective families.
For instance, the reversion of a Hindu or Christian girl for marrying a Muslim often plunges the couple into legal and other coercive steps.
\u201cThis is the worst time the newly reverted women and their husbands have to face,\u201d Mufti Naeem said.
\u201cThe women are not only mentally and physically harassed but are emotionally blackmailed by their parents and other family members as well.\u201d
Recently, the reversion of two upper-caste Hindu girls to Islam in Pakistan has brought the two religious Muslim and Hindu communities at loggerheads in Sindh province.
Faryal, formerly Rinkal Kumari, and Dr Hafsa, formerly Lata Kumari, reverted to Islam last month at the hand of local Muslim leader and MP Mian Abdul Haq in Mirpur Mathelo, 500km northeast of Karachi.
Soon after embracing Islam, Dr Hafsa married Nadir Baig, while Faryal tied knot with Naveed Shah.
But their parents claim that the two girls were kidnapped and forced to embrace Islam.
The Supreme Court has sent the newly-reverted girls to a women shelter home, giving them a time of three-weeks to re-think whether they want to go with their husbands or parents.
\u201cThey (reverts) have to bear with multiple shocks after reverting to Islam,\u201d Mufti said.
\u201cOn the one hand, they are either subjected to physical and emotional torture or disowned by their families, while on the other hand, they do not have the required support-financial and moral- from the Muslims.\u201d
This, he apprehends, may lead some of them to return to their old religion.
\u201cI have come to know that some of the reverts have returned to their previous religion not only because of the coercive actions but because of a discouraging attitude on the part of area Muslims towards them.\u201d
\u201cWe must understand that the newly-reverted Muslims do not know much about Islam and Shari`ah. They need some time to understand that. They must not be treated harshly in this regard.\u201d
In case of divorce, the newly-reverted girl becomes shelterless as her parents had disowned her at the time she embraced Islam and got married to a Muslim man, Mufti said.
\u201cIf this is the case, the reverted woman must have a place where she could stay till she decides about her future,\u201d he said.
\u201cThat\u2019s all we want to achieve through this shelter home.\u201d

Islam Education
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Some Pakistani leaders opine that the discoursing attitude by local Muslims toward new reverts push them to return to their old religion.
\u201cA large number of Hindus and Christians who are reverting to Islam belong to low-casts and poor class, who before reversion were involved in sanitary work or dancing and singing profession (in weddings or other receptions),\u201d Dr. Khalid Mushtaq, a leader of Al-Khidmat Foundation, the country\u2019s largest Islamic charity, told OnIslam.net.
\u201cBut even after their reversion to Islam, the local Muslim community doesn\u2019t give them the respect and honor, which they deserve for reverting to Islam.\u201d
Hindus have divided themselves into two major castes; the upper caste, which comprises the white-skinned and rich Hindus and lower-caste, which consists of poor and black-skinned Hindus.
Low-caste Hindus make up 92 percent of the total 5 million Hindus in Pakistan, of which a majority dwells in Sindh province.
\u201cOn the one hand, they are expected by religious-minded people to learn about Islam within a day, while on the other hand, the secular-minded Muslims do not allow them to sit next to them because they belong to lower cast and profession,\u201d Mushtaq said.
\u201cThe combination of high expectations and humiliation has forced many to become Murtids,\u201d he said.
Secondly, he observes, the reversion of non-Muslim women just for the sake of marriage works out till the couple is together.
But as soon as they break up, the girl is left in a state of confusion.
\u201cThose Muslim youths who marry the newly-reverted girls must arrange Islamic education for them,\u201d he said.
\u201cThey (husbands) should make them understand that Islam is much more precious treasure than their husbands,\u201d he said, citing the example of Jamaima Khan, the former wife of Pakistan\u2019s cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan, who returned to her old religion after divorce.<\/p>\n

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