My First Encounter with a Religion

My very first encounter with a religion apart from my own which is Hinduism was during an organized school trip to different shrines. First we visited the Guru Nanak Sikh temple near pangani. I was overwhelmed by the fact that the Gurus of the temple warmly welcomed us. They briefly told us what we would see inside the temple. It sounded very familiar to that of a Hindu temple. We were then kindly instructed to …

…I do that whenever I visit a Hindu temple. To conclude I would say yes indeed I took off my shoes, as I was neutral at the time of the visit, in the sense that I was ready to accept the beliefs and the religious undertakings of the Sikh religion. At the end of that particular trip I notice that this religion contains elements of both the Islamic and the Hindu religions, from my perspective