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Religious conversion is the adoption of a new religion that differs from the convert's previous religion. Changing from one denomination to another within the same religion (e.g., Christian Baptist to Methodist or Catholic,Muslim Shi'a to Sunni, etc.) is often described as conversion.
People convert to a different religion for various reasons, including: active conversion by free choice due to a change in beliefs,secondary conversion, deathbed conversion, conversion for convenience and marital conversion, and forced conversion.
Conversion or reaffiliation for convenience is an insincere act, sometimes for relatively trivial reasons such as a parent converting to enable a child to be admitted to a good school associated with a religion, or a person adopting a religion more in keeping with the social class he or she aspires to. When people marry one spouse may convert to the religion of the other.
Forced conversion is adoption under duress of a different religion. The convert may secretly retain the previous beliefs and continue, covertly, with the practices of the original religion, while outwardly maintaining the forms of the new religion. Over generations a family forced against their will to convert may wholeheartedly adopt the new religion.
Zakir Abdul Karim Naik (Urdu: ذاکر عبدالکریم نائیک; born 18 October 1965) is an Indian public speaker on the subject of Islam and comparative religion. He is the founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), a non-profit organisation that owns the Peace TV channel based in Dubai, UAE. He is sometimes referred to as a televangelist. Before becoming a public speaker, he trained as a doctor. He has written two booklets on Islam and comparative religion. He is regarded as an exponent of the Salafi ideology; he places a strong emphasis on individual scholarship and the rejection of "blind Taqlid", which has led him to repudiate the relevance of sectarian or Madh'hab designations, all the while reaffirming their importance.
Zakir Abdul Karim Naik was born on 18 October 1965 in Mumbai, India. He attended St. Peter's High School in Mumbai. Later he enrolled at Kishinchand Chellaram College, before studying medicine at Topiwala National Medical College and Nair Hospital and later the University of Mumbai, where he obtained a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS). His wife, Farhat Naik, works for the women's section of the IRF.
shoot me
with the real thing
shoot me, me moth, me motha'
now's the time for you to get right and repent
I've been converted
sit right there and get educated, sit right there
I've been converted
peace, in the valley
I've been converted
peace, in the valley
sit right there and get educated, sit right there
You gotta ask yourself this question:
can a man who has fought in the jungles with I.V. Lenin against the running bell kept the least of pigs
sleepin and huntin so lonely that the rats would search back, be my redeemer? an'gotta say well maybe
yes, and maybe no, but I know that I gotta go somewhere, and that somewhere might as well be church
now's the time for you to get right and repent
I've been converted
fourty days you been tried and tempted
fourty nights you been out in the cold
every phone line conversation's intercepted
you can't reconnect 'cause the frequency is closed
so many winds you been out of direction
so many signs you ain't got nowhere to go, yeah
cadillac has got it's headlights disconnected
you're rollin' your wheels down the wrong side of the road
can you see them now?
can you see them now?
can you see the sisters swinging, yeah?
can you hear them now?
can you hear them now?
now's the time for you to get right and repent
can you hear the brothers singing, yeah?
let's go back to church
let's go back to church
so damn long since we sung this song, let's go back to church
let's go back to church
let's go back to church
any day now, any way, any how, let's go back to church
I've been converted
'cause see,
you drink the wine but it, it tastes like water
and ya broke the bread but it, it turned into stone
the sacrament it lays scattered on the pavement
and the covenants you kept they'd all been stolen under the soul
you can see them now
yeah, you can see them now
you can see the sisters swinging, yeah
I know it now
yeah you can hear them now
yeah you can hear them now
hear the brothers singing yeah
let's go back to church
let's go back to church
its been so damn long since we sung this song
let's go back to church
let's go back to church, yeah
let's go back to church
any day now any way any how, let's go back to church
right back
ive been converted
ive been con
right back
ive been converted
ive been
the Lord knows I
the Lord knows I
the Lord knows I
I've been converted
long time
the lord knows I
take your time
the lord knows I
back to you, oh Lord
the lord knows I
ohhhh
I've been converted
yeah cause I'm talkin' with the street angels on this road
I aint goin away, no way
church is where I'm goin to stay every time i come to church I feel a'low, alive, resuscitated
ain't no fear I chase all them demons away right here in church, yes sir
let's go back to church
let's go back to church
I'm gonna lift up my soul to the sunshine
now, any how
let's go back to church
let's go back to church
let's go back to church
yeah the lights in heaven goin to shine on this
people get ready, there's a train a comin
let's go back to church
let's go back to church
now, any how
say it now