Conversion To Islam
That’s perfectly fine. Regardless of this situation, I think that as a friend your job is to help yourself as well as him be better people together and be seekers of truth. Someone else’s motivation is not something that can be changed just by asking them to do so. I have been out of Pakistan for a long time so I might not be able to fully relate to his situation, but I remember that a lot of Christians and Hindus back in the day would just change their names to Muslim sounding names in order to avail better opportunities. However, this would also have the side effect of them being more welcomed into the society, and learning a lot more about Islam first hand than they otherwise would have. Sometimes the best approach for us is to let things just take their natural course, rather than trying to fix things that are not necessarily broken.