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Jan 31, 2024 · Mahatma Gandhi's reaction to his son, Harilal's conversion to Islam. Harilal named himself Abdullah Gandhi, and when the news reached his father, Mahatma Gandhi, the latter accepted his decision. The freedom fighter told his son that he had no problem with the fact that his son had converted to Islam because, in his eyes, all religions are the ...
When his eldest son Harilal got himself converted to Islam, Gandhiji was very upset. He felt that Harilal's acceptance to Islam was a matter of convenience, to satisfy his greed
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Dec 29, 2014 · Exactly 78 years ago, the complex issue of ‘conversion’ to another faith presented itself before Mahatma Gandhi. His eldest son, Harilal, 48, had accepted Islam on May 29, 1936 at the Jumma ...
In May 1936, at the age of 48, Harilal publicly converted to Islam and named himself Abdullah Gandhi. [9] Later on he re-converted to Hinduism. [10]
Harilal's apostacy is no loss to Hinduism and his admission to Islam a source of weakness to it if, as I apprehend, he remains the same wreck that he was before. Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.
When he was a little boy he was enslaved and converted to Islam by emperor Alauddin Khilji. Later on he reverted to Hinduism. King of Vijayanagara empire who converted to Islam, then reconverted. Son of Mahatma Gandhi; converted to Islam and later reconverted to Hinduism.
Oct 1, 2017 · One version says that he renounced Hinduism and embraced Islam in a Kerala village. Other sources claim that the conversion took place in Nagpur. Nevertheless, he announced his conversion to Islam on May 29, 1936, in Bombay, and changed his name to Abdullah.
