u r welcome here.pls go through the bhagwad gita and other files.it wl give u a gud idea abt hinduism.the basic idea is tat hinduism isnt a religion but a culture.remember tat a person cant b a hindu unless he/she is born as a hindu.

ok thanx! :)

ab ke ham bichhare to shaayad kabhii Khvaabon main milain .jis tarah suukhe hue phuul kitaabon main milain .dhondh ujare hue logon main vafaa ke motiiye Khazaane tujhe mumkin hai Kharaabon main milain tuu Khudaa hai na meraa ishq farishton jaisaa donon insaan hain to kyon itane hijaabon main milain .Gam-e-duniyaa bhii Gam-e-yaar main shaamil kar lo nashaa barataa hai sharabain jo sharaabon main milain aaj ham daar pe khainche gaye jin baaton par kyaa ajab kal wo zamaane ko nisaabon main milain ab na wo main hon na tu hai na wo maazii hai Faraaz'jaise do shaKhs tamannaa ke saraabon main milain

u mean it isnt possible to convert to hinduism?@killer

possible by marriage.thre isnt any as such rules or baptism ritual.tis is becoz whn the religion started and the holy books came into existance there wernt any other religion.thus it wasnt taken as a religion bt more of a way of life.

mashAllah Aman bhai!
So, u mean we cn b a v.gud muslim or christian being a Hindu? @killerme

wat i meant is tat if a girl followin any religion marries a hindu guy ,she is automaticaly entitled to b accepted into hinduism provided she wishes to follow her husband's religion.but a guy of othr religion marryin a hindu gal isnt entitled to tat privilage.there is no other credible way to b a hindu.ofcourse hinduism is a religion whr belief is more important than followin rules thus any one can be a practising hindu.u may hav heard abt julia roberts.it is the birth tats vry imp.u must b born a hindu.otherwise if u talk of sincerity and followin the rules i cn vouch tat the russians who practise hinduism are far more dedicated than most indians.

omg ... really?

if a muslim became hindu at same time, does that person have to worship the *gods in hinduism*? Like example..
can a muslim still worship Allah & pray 5 times to Allah daily... and at same time believe in hinduism & the culture of it?

supreme god in hinduism is Vishnu.he is the creator.so a hindu has to accept this.

Other Prominent Converts to
Christianity
Ubayd -Allah ibn Jahsh
Brother of Zainab bint Jash ,
the cousin and wife of
Muhammad, and also one of
the Sahaba (companions of
the Prophet). He is the first
known convert from Islam to
Christianity [3 ]
Chamillionaire (Hakeem
Seriki ) - Famous American
rapper , singer , and CEO of
Chamillitary Entertainment
Mosab Hassan Yousef - Son
of Hamas founder and leader
Rajab Ali (now Nozad ) -
Renowned Iranian Muslim
scholar
Emir Kusturica - A
filmmaker , actor and musician
with a string of internationally
acclaimed features
Mehmet Ali Aca - The
assassin, who shot and
wounded Pope John Paul II,
renounced Islam in prison and
announced his intention to
convert to the Catholic faith
upon release [4 ]
Rev . Hamid Pourmand -
Former Iranian army colonel
Sake Dean Mahomed -
According to Paul Vallely , in
his propaganda piece about
20 Islamic Inventions , he was
the Muslim who introduced
shampoo to England . What
Paul fails to include in his
factually devoid article is that
Mahomed was a convert to
Christianity [5 ]
Zachariah Anani - Lebanese
Islamic Ex -Militant
St . Alodia and St . Nunilo -
Christian Saints and child
martyrs , put to death by the
Caliph of Cordoba for apostasy
[6 ]
Magdi Allam Italy ' s most
famous Islamic affairs
journalist, baptized by the
Pope
St . Adolphus Christian
Saint and martyr , put to death
by the Caliph of Cordoba for
apostasy [7 ]
Mohammed Altaf (now Simon
Altaf ) - Pakistani ex -Muslim
from Abrahamic Faith
Ministries
Reverend Donald Fareed -
Iranian Ex -Muslim
Ibrahim Abdullah - Former
PLO Terrorist
Bilquis Sheikh - Former wife
of a Minister of the Interior, in
Pakistan
Salah - Ex -Muslim
Palestinian , now Gospel
Musician
Dr. Abraham Sarker -
Former Muslim , Bangladesh -
Now christian Evengelist ,
Founder of Gospel for
Muslims Ministries.
Pastor Hormoz Shariat Ph. D
- Iranian Ex -Muslim , former
Research Scientist in Artificial
Intelligence, now Tele -
Evangelist , Bringing the Gospel
to Iran
Bishop John Subhan -
Former Sufi Muslim
Abdul Saleeb - Former Sufi
Muslim from Middle East , now
Christian Missionary to
Muslims
Kurdish apostate - Leader ,
writer , and historian finds God
through Bible translation
Gulshan Esther - Pakistan
Ex -Muslim , Smitten with
typhoid - then crippled by
polio as a teenager , Healed
by Lord Jesus Miraculously ,
Became Christian Preacher
Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo
- Former Muslim , now leads
the largest and fastest growing
church in England
Abdullahi Jibril - Former
Muslim extremist now faces
persecution in Nigeria
Dr. Nasir K . Siddiki -
successful Muslim
businessman , now Christian
preacher
Rev . Majed El Shafie
Rev KK Alavi - Son of a
staunch Islamic cleric , the
preacher Muslim extremists
love to hate , one of the
bravest Christians in India
Walid Shoebat - A Former
PLO Islamic Terrorist
Reverend Khalid Soomro -
Pakistani ex -Muslim
Reza F . Safa - Iranian Ex -
Muslim , Now Christian
Evangelist
Rev . Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo -
Pakistani , International
Director of UK -based Barnabas
Fund
Taysir Abu Saada Tass -
Islamic Fatah fighter trained to
kill Jews
Guryel Ali - Gospel Musician
WL Cati - Ex Muslim , now
Evangelist
Nonie Darwish - Freelance
writer and public speaker
Dr. Anis Shorrosh - Famous
Christian debator
Hussain Andaryas - Afghani
Christian activist
Prince Alexander Bekovich -
Cherkassky - Russian officer
of Circassian origin who led
the first Russian military
expedition into Central Asia
Akbar Gbaja -Biamila -
American football player
Kabeer Gbaja -Biamila -
American football player
Tunch Ilkin - Former
American football player
Qadry Ismail - Former
American football player
Raghib Ismail - Former
American football player
Mathieu Krkou - President
of Benin (from Christianity to
Islam , then back to
Christianity )
Carlos Menem - Former
President of Argentina
Sayyida Salme (Emily Ruete )
- Princess of Zanzibar and
Oman
Ghorban Tourani - Former
Iranian Sunni Muslim who
became a Christian minister
George Weah - Liberian
soccer player (from
Christianity to Islam , then
back to Christianity )
Rifqa Bary - 17 year old
American teenager who drew
international attention by her
run away fearing death
Daveed Gartenstein -Ross -
American counter -terrorism
expert and attorney. Former
US head of the Al Haramain
Islamic Foundation , a Wahhabi
charity now considered a
Specially Designated Global
Terrorist Entity for its ties to
Al-Qaeda
Ruba Qewar - (from
Christianity to Islam , then
back to Christianity ) Her
conversion to Islam made her
populour in Muslim TV talk
shows and the Arabic media

Converted to Hinduism
Hassan Palakkode - Muslim
scholar
Aasish Khan - Son of sarod
maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan
Nafisa Ali - Former Miss
India and leading social activist
Nargis Dutt (Fatima Rashid )
- Famous Bollywood actress
Revathi Masoosai - Muslim
born Malaysian convert
Haridas Thakura - Prominent
Vaishnavite saint born in 1450 ,
instrumental in the early
appearance and spread of
Hare Krishna movement. His
Muslim name remains
unknown to this day . [8 ]
Khushboo Sundar (born
Khushboo Khan ) - Tamil
movie actress [9 ]
Annapurna Devi (born
Roshanara Khan ) - Surbahar
(bass sitar ) player and music
teacher in the North Indian
classical tradition [10 ]
Asha Gawli (born Ayesha) -
Wife of Arun Gawli , notorious
gangster (dada) turned
politician from Mumbai, India
[11 ]
Aashish Khan (born Ustad
Aashish Khan Debsharma) -
Indian musician [12 ]
Ifa Sudewi - Chief judge for
the 2002 Bali bombing trials in
Indonesia[13 ]
Harilal Mohandas Gandhi -
He was the son of Mahatma
Gandhi (father of India ) and
converted to Islam . He was in
Islam for a few months,
before reverting back to
Hinduism [14 ]
Bukka I - King of
Vijayanagara empire who
converted to Islam , then
reconverted . The early life of
Bukka as well as his brother
Hakka (also known as Harihara
I ) are relatively unknown and
most accounts of their early
life are based on theories [15 ]
[16 ]
Harihara I - King of
Vijayanagara empire who
converted to Islam , then
reconverted [16 ]
Netaji Palkar - Maratha
noble and commander -in-chief
of the army of Shivaji , 19 June
1676[17 ]
Anwar Shaikh - British
author[18 ]
Zubeida - Hindi film actress ,
on whose life story the film
Zubeidaa was based [19 ]
Nalini Patel (born Nayyara
Mirza ) - Miss India finalist of
1967, was the first Muslim to
parti te in the pageant. She
converted to Hinduism after
marriage . She is settled in the
USA [20 ]
Shanti Devi (born Ashgari ) -
Mother of yesteryear
Bollywood Actress Tabassum .
She was daughter of a Maulvi
but converted to Hinduism
after marriage and even
underwent Hindu religious
education [21 ]
Nadira Babbar (born Nadira
Zaheer) - Wife of actor
turned politician Raj Babbar.
She converted to Hinduism
upon marriage . She was the
daughter of communist leader
Syed Sajjad Zaheer and Urdu
writer Razia Sajjad Zaheer
Sonam (born Bakhtawar
Murad ) - Bollywood actress
and Wife of Bollywood director
Rajiv Rai . She converted to
Hinduism upon marriage . She
is the niece of character actor
Raza Murad and
granddaughter of veteran
character actor Murad . She is
the cousin of actress Sanober
Kabir

as u may find lot of the above changed faith after marriage.tnx

Former Muslims (Disputed )
Barack Hussein Obama -
Current President of the USA .
Although President Obama
(who is a Christian ) has stated
that he was never a Muslim ,
there is evidence that suggests
otherwise . [25 ] This issue has
also been discussed within the
Muslim world

Kolkata
(UNI ):
For
Ustad
Aashish
Khan
tracing
his
roots
and
recognising
it has made him adopt the
ancestral title Debsharma.
From now he will be known as
Ustad Aashish K Debsharma.
Talking to the reporters during
his sojourn to the city, he
said , This is an attempt to
recoginse the roots or going
back to the roots . Present
generation of our country are
more Westerners than the
Westerners themselves . This is
my personal choice of using
the title Debsharma . Asked if
he had taken the permission
of his father , the great sarod
maestro Ali Akbar Khan , he
said , It is not a question of
getting his permission . He
never had any objection . Our
family is liberal. We always
worshipped Devi Saraswati
and Goddess Kali . This is
nothing new. I am not
removing Khan from my title
altogether . It will remain my
middle name. But I am
adopting my ancestral title to
recognise our original
identity , Aashis said .
On whether the title Khan was
a problem in the west
nowadays , I must say that
there is a global movement
and there are lot of problems
if our skin colour is brown . We
are always prospective
terrorists . But my decison is
not for that reason . For me its
going back to the roots . He
also added there was no need
of reconversion , as we are
Hindus and had to take the
title Sadhu Khan under
unfavourable cir tances so
there was no formal
conversion to Islam and I dont
need to convert again .
Historian Satyabrata Rai
Chowdhury , a successor of the
erstwhile Royal Family of
Shibpur , Comillah ,
Bangladesh , has been
personally intimate with the
family of one of the greatest
musical geniuses India has
ever produced , the late
Padmabibhusan Baba
Alauddin Khan . He was
founder of the Senia Maihar
Gharana of Indian classical
Music .
He does know , like may other
eminent people of the
intelligentsia of Bengal , that
Baba Alauddin Khan , born in
1871 , traced his lineage from
a very high caste Hindu
Brahmin family , and was a
devotee of Maa Kali (the
Goddess of power ), Maa
Saraswati (the Goddess of
Learning ), spiritual leader Sri
Ramakrishna and Maa
Sharada , Mr Chowdhury said .
Baba Alauddin Khan 's
successors are also no
exception when it comes to
their religious practice, so
much so that his son Ali Akbar
Khan ' s Calcutta residence at
Ranikuthi is named as Maa
Sharada Bhawan .
Baba Alauddin Khan ' s father ,
who was commonly known as
Sadhu Khan , was originally
Sadananda Debsharma. We all
know that Debsharma, which
means the almighty lord or
Bhagawan himself , is a very
distinguished honorary title
rather than a mere surname ,
and it is very fondly used by
high caste Hindu Brahmins .
Sadananda Debsharma , a
master in the art of fighting
with sticks and the chief guard
of the great grandfather of
speaker Maharaja Nabakis
Roy Chowdhury , killed an
opponent in a clash between
the southern Royals and the
Royals of the middle of
Shibpur , and escaped to
Mager Mulluk , the place
where the Portuguese pirates
lived in the border of India
and the then Burma , and it
was there that in order to
hoodwink the British Police he
changed his name to Sadhu
Khan .
He was later brought back by
Maharaja Nabakis and
was established at his native
place of Bajainna Adi at
Shibpur , but that is a different
story altogether . However ,
then onwards they were
recognised as Khans , and
therefore , believed to be
muslims .
Neverthless , form the present
writer and also from the
diaries of Maharaja
Nabakis Roy Chowdhuri
and Baba Alauddin Khan , it is
clear that his family was never
converted into Islam .
Unfortunately , ignorant gossip-
lovers left no stone unturned
to spread all sorts of stories
regarding their conversion into
Islam .
However , the present writer
and historical evidences keep
no room for conflicting views
in how the sacred thread
bearer Sadananda Debsharma
became Sadhu Khan .
Many are not aware of the
fact that the word Khan
does not necessarily mean
Muslims. It is a Persian word
meaning a wise and learned
man . The surname Khan is
very common among the
Hindus and the Christian as
well .
Ustad Aashish gave his first
public performance at the age
of 13 , with his grandfather , on
the All India Radio National
Program , New Delhi , and in
the same year , performed
with his father and his
grandfather at the Tansen
Music Conference , Calcutta.
Besides his virtuosity as a
traditional sarod maestro ,
Aashish is also a pioneer in the
establishment of world music
genre , as founder of the Indo-
American musical group
Shanti with distinguished
tabla player Ustad Zakir
Hussain in 1969 and 1970 and
later , fusion group , The Third
Eye and composed a Sarod
Concerto in raga form .
With Pandit Ravi Shankar , he
has worked on many musical
products for both film and
stage , including Oscar Winner
Satyajit Ray 's Apur Sangsar ,
Parash Pathar and Sir Richard
Attenborough' s film Gandhi .
He has also worked with
Maurice Jarre on John
Huston ' s film The Man Who
Would be King , David Lean ' s A
Passage to India , and
composed the music for Tapan
Sinha' s films, Joturgriha and
Aadmi Aurat .
In 1989 , Khan was appointed
to the prestigious post of the
Composer and Conductor for
the National Orchestra of All
India Radio , succeeding Pandit
Ravi Shankar .
Aashish has collaborated with
such diverse western
musicians as John Barham,
George Harrison , Ringo Starr ,
Eric Clapton , Charles Lloyd,
John Handy , Alice Coltrane,
Emil Richards , Dallas Smith ,
Don Pope, Jorge Strunz ,
Ardeshir Farah, and the
Philadelphia String Quartet.

Hinduism does not advocate
conversion and has no ritual
of conversion . When a person
becomes Hindu is ill defined
as Hinduism never saw other
faiths as rivals. Many Hindus
hold that 'to be a Hindu , one
should be born a Hindu ' and
'if born a Hindu, one is a
Hindu forever '; [23 ][24 ][25 ]
however , Indian law approves
anyone declaring to be a
Hindu as Hindu. According to
Hinduism , there is one
universal truth (ignorance of
this truth or Brahman is the
cause of grief and souls are
caught in the eternal cycle of
rebirth until realization), and
there are multiple paths
including as followed by other
religions to reach the
truth . The Sanskrit word for
religion Marga literally
means path . The mere notion
of conversion is an oxymoron
because the Hindu texts Vedas
and Upanishads conceive
whole world as a single family
that deifies the one truth . [26 ]
[27 ]
The earliest account of revival
of faith in Hinduism is from
the 8 th century in the times of
Shankaracharya when Jainism
and Buddhism became
prevalent . There is no
evidence of invasion and mass
conversion in Hinduism . Many
foreign groups including
Gujjars , Ahoms , and Hunas
converted to Hinduism after
generations of
Sanskritization. [28 ]
Sanskritization throughout the
18 th century in Manipur
resulted in Manipuri tribes
identifying themselves as
Hindus . [29 ][30 ]
There is a recent notion of re-
converting people who had
converted from Hinduism .
This re-conversion has always
been as a reaction to the
threat of evangelization,
proselytism, and conversion
activities of other major
religions; many modern
Hindus are opposed to the
idea of conversion from their
religion to (any) other . [31 ]
Reconversion among people
who were formerly Hindus or
whose ancestors were Hindus
has picked up pace with the
growth of Hindu revivalist
movements . [32 ] National
organizations such as Arya
Samaj (India ) and Parisada
Hindu Dharma (Indonesia)
help those wanting to become
Hindus by such reconversions.
American-born Hindu guru ,
Satguru Sivaya
Subramuniyaswami wrote a
book entitled How to Become
a Hindu - A Guide for Seekers
and Born Hindus . In it ,
Subramuniyaswami offers a
systematical approach to ,
what he calls, ethical
conversion to Hinduism ,
testimonials of converts to
Hinduism , definitions of Hindu
authorities on what a Hindu
truly is , etc .

.you are welcome..!hindu relegion is a very oldest one.first of all,you have to read maha bharat&bhagavat gita,then you can believe that nothing is on this world without the lord Vishnu