I would like to response to A Muslim Woman's letter entitled Muslims shouldn't fall in love with non-believers which is in response to my first letter .

Thank you very much for your concern and advice for my welfare as a Pakistani Muslim planning to marry a Malaysian Christian. I do listen to your advice but I prefer to listen to the voice of reason - clear of ignorance and prejudice. I choose to listen to the voice of Allah - who said in not so many words that marriages are made in heaven.

Furthermore, your advice has come a little too late, for yesterday (Oct 29), I am to wed my Lady Love. We have found a nice little country where we can live our lives free from bigots and religious fanatics. For in this little world we want to create, there is no place for intolerance, compulsion and most of all, ignorance.

So instead of bickering and feeling bitter that you have one less Muslim man to marry (there are other fish out in the sea, you know), it will be better join other well-wishers and wish me all the happiness in the world.

A Muslim Woman said: 'I don't know how the Pakistani Muslim will lead his Islamic way of life with his future non-believer wife. If he is a true and devout Muslim, he will face a lot of difficulties, for example those related to purifying himself, his food, his children's status, his prayers and the rights to his properties later on'.

Do you mean to say that Muslims marrying believers have no such problems? Come on, be real, and do not be so judgmental. If problems could be solved by just marrying a believer, then why is the Muslim world falling apart?

Where there's a will, there is a way. If a man wants to live an Islamic way of life, be a true and devout Muslim, wants to purify himself, etc, do you think there could be anything in the world that would stop him? If there were, then he may not have the faith to begin with in the first place. Think about that.

To A Muslim Woman and the likes of her, go marry a believer all you want, go fall in love with a non-believer and force him to convert for all I care, but this is not the way I choose to deal with another human being, not even a friend, and especially, not someone I deem my life partner.

For I like to ask you, if you could treat with such disdain, prejudice and arrogance another human being, whom you could see, hear and touch, how do you deal with an Almighty, who is invisible, and for whom, you could neither see with your naked eye nor touch with your bare hands?

Anyway, I shall not tarry here too long for I am on my honeymoon.

For those unfortunate enough to cross the path of A Muslim Woman and the likes of her, I have only this to say, may God truly save you.