Waheguru ji ka Khalsa Waheguru ji ki Fateh
Today I'm going to tell you something very sad. My cousin in Windsor (Canada) has converted to Islam. He is from Calcutta, came to uni of windsor to study about 3 years ago...parents are still in Calcutta. I don't know whose influence he came under, but now he believes that Islam is the way to go, and has converted.
I NEED YOUR HELP......especially the sangat in Windsor. We have contacted somebody in Windsor who is going to visit him, and see what's going on.....if he's involved with something else or not. But I need somebody VERY Mith Bolra, somebody who you look at and go 'waheguru i want to be like him/her' and I need that person to go talk to my cousin and educate him about Sikhi. I've heard that there are a lot of Sikhs there.
I don't know what to do.....we couldn't even imagine such a thing. My family and I visited him in Toronto this summer when I came for the samagam. (i'm from nj, btw...so that's why i need your help). He still had his turban and dhari at that time, and we didn't have a clue as to what he was upto...(or we would have stayed). He was surprised at the fact that I came just for a samagam. He doesnt know anything about Sikhi....he doesnt even know wat a samagam is (and that's because he's from Calcutta where a lot of muslims live....he speaks Bengali and hindi, so he was not a typical punjabi sikh....but a sikh is a sikh is a sikh....no matter if he speaks chinese or urdu or watever).
Also if you can't really do anything, please do an Ardaas....it works wonders.
If any
of you has experience with a similar situation....please tell me how I need to approach this. What did you do, and tell me if it worked.
Please help me out...I don't know what to do....but I know I'm not going to accept this....and I'm not going to let some Muslim convert MY cousin to Islam. This is a community's problem, and I'm not ready to accept the fact that Sikhs can't get a person to come back to Sikhi. We are not weak. We are Guru's Khalsa, and Khalsa is not weak.
Waheguru ang sang sahaiii
Waheguru ji ka Khalsa Waheguru ji ki Fateh.