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Radical Muslim: ‘I Saw Jesus In a Dream … Can You Tell Me How to Receive Jesus? I Will Do Anything You Tell Me’

11/15/2011 Leave a comment

John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

“Every day, Muslims listeners of Christian radio and satellite television broadcasts who are curious about Christianity call in to ICC sponsored representatives to talk about Jesus. Here is a story of a fanatic Muslim coming to Christ that was recently shared by an ICC partner.

‘I will find you. Until the last drop of my blood I will fight to rid the earth of you,’ the caller said.

‘I understand your anger and hostility towards me, because I was once like you,’ the ICC partner responded. ‘I could go to any extent to destroy a Christian who spoke about Jesus the way that I do. However, Jesus Christ touched me and changed me. He placed a special love in my heart for you. My Lord tells me to love your enemies. Pray for your enemies. If they are hungry, feed them. If they are thirsty, give them water. I will be praying for you.’

Days later, the Muslim man again contacted ICC’s partner. ‘I had a very hard time with your response. I prayed to Allah for many days and I was tormented with your words. What kind of love is this? Maybe you did not understand I wanted to kill you. I was very serious about it. First I thought you did not take me seriously. But now I am ashamed. Please tell me if you still care for me. How did you change your religion?’

The ICC partner wrote back saying that Christianity is not a religion but a relationship and went on to share his testimony.

‘I could not accept what you told me about receiving Jesus into my heart,’ the Muslim man replied. ‘You basically told me to change my religion. I could not do that. But, one night I saw Jesus in a dream. This was the first time I had peace. He smiled at me and said, ‘Listen to him.’’

Then the man asked, ‘Can you tell me how to receive Jesus? I will do anything you tell me.’

The ICC partner led him in the sinner’s prayer and he received Jesus as his Savior.

‘This man’s life changed drastically. Now he says he will die for me,’ ICC’s partner said. ‘I told him, ‘Do not die for anyone, just live for Jesus. He died for you.’'” Source – Persecution.org.

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Iranian Expatriate: Islam Was Not For Me

11/15/2011 Leave a comment

By Amil Imani – “Islam is a creed of an ignorant people in a primitive and barbaric age. It is fixated in time and place; it harbors the ambition of taking the world back 14 centuries and ruling it by its dogma of violence, intolerance, injustice and death.

My breach with Islam started as far back as I could discern things. More to the point, I never embraced Islam in the first place, although I was born and raised in a Muslim family.

For one thing, I had a very difficult time following a so-called religion whose founder and followers had butchered my ancestors, raped and sold our women, burned our libraries, and destroyed our magnificent culture. Islam was forced down the throats of Iranians with the sword of Allah. In my heart, I never considered myself a Muslim.

However, I didn’t reveal this until later in life for fear of retribution by radical Muslims.

Sharia law stipulates that any Muslim who turns his back on Islam should be given a chance to revert to the faith. For an unrepentant male apostate, death is the proscribed punishment and life imprisonment for the female apostate.

‘Kill whoever changes his religion.’ __Sahih al-Bukhari 9:84:57

Islam considers an apostate as a person who unilaterally breaks the covenant he has made with the faith. An apostate is condemned as guilty of turning his back on Allah’s immutable eternal religion.

I came to the realization that the root cause of my peoples’ degradation and suffering was Islam. It was a creed imposed on an enlightened, tolerant and free people at the point of the sword by savages hailing from the Arabian Peninsula during the seventh century with promises of booty and women in this world and glorious eternal sensual rewards in the promised paradise of Allah in the next. With each passing day, I rejoice more and more in my good fortune; in my ability to avoid the yoke of Islamic slavery and its blinders that imprisons a billion and half people by walls of superstition, hatred of others, and a celebration of death.” Read moreClick the link to read Mr. Imani’s poignantly reworded version of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’.

Canada: Near Death, Muslim Sees Jesus in Toronto Hospital

09/24/2011 30 comments

Psalm 70:4, “Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; And let those who love Your salvation say continually, ‘Let God be magnified!’”

“… In life, I’d been bold, self confident, a risk taker. But facing death, I was terrified. I had no idea what might await me on the other side. I’d been raised as a Moslem in London , England , and I understood Allah was not a god who heals.

My only hope was in medicine.

I eventually slipped so close to death that the doctors didn’t know I could hear them when they examined me. ‘His immune system has simply shut down,’ one of them said.

‘He’s dying … In a few hours he’ll be dead,’ they said. ‘If by some miracle he lives, he’ll probably be blind in his right eye, deaf in his right ear, paralyzed on his right side and he may be severely brain damaged from the high fever.’

Then they left.

They left me here to die! I felt like a drowning man going down for the third time. Gathering my strength I whispered a prayer. ‘God, if you’re real, don’t let me die!’

During the darkest hour of the night, I woke and saw a man at the foot of my bed. Rays of light emanated from him, allowing me to see his outline. I couldn’t see his face, it was too bright. No one had to tell me, I knew it was Jesus.

The Koran mentions Jesus; Moslems believe He existed, not as the son of God, but as a good man and a prophet. I knew this wasn’t Mohammed. I knew it wasn’t Allah. Jesus was in my room. There was no fear, only peace.

‘Why would You come to a Moslem when everyone else has left me to die?’ I wondered.

Without words, he spoke to me. ‘I Am the God of the Christians. I Am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.’

That’s all He said. He didn’t mention my illness. He didn’t mention my impending death. As suddenly as He appeared, He was gone.

The next morning, the same two doctors arrived to examine me.” Read more.

Accounts Multiply Of Muslims Who Have Encountered Jesus Christ In Unsual Dreams – “For at least ten years reports have proliferated of Muslims converted to Christianity through dreams. A California magazine recently published the results of a survey of over 600 ex-Muslims who now follow Jesus. ‘Although dreams appear to play a minor role in the conversions of Westerners, over a quarter of those interviewed [as former Muslims] emphatically confirmed that dreams and visions played a vital role in their conversion, and helped them in difficult times,’ the survey said. Others have found the percentage higher. Karel Sanders, a missionary in South Africa, reported that among African Muslims, ’42 percent of the new believers come to Christ through visions, dreams, angelic appearances and hearing God’s voice.’ According to Dawn’s Friday Fax, a website that focuses on missionary reports, Arabic-speaking moderators explain supernatural experiences such as dreams, visions and healings through prayer to Jesus.” Read more.

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Islamic Radicals Come to Christ

09/05/2011 Leave a comment

Luke 15:10b, “… there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

John 3:16, 6:40, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life… And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”

“Many of ICC-supported missionaries work in areas targeted by radical Islamists.  We recently received a very encouraging report from one of these missionaries! He told us that four members of an Islamic radical group came to Christ.  The Islamic radical group is known for killing of Christians in the country. Our missionary told us, “[The Muslim converts] are genuine children of God who have fully repented of their past sins.” Source.

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Former Member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard: Why I Renounce Islam and Choose Christ

09/04/2011 Leave a comment

By Reza Kahlili – “The radical mullahs who rule Iran want me dead, first for betraying my country as a member of the Revolutionary Guards who spied for the CIA, and now for renouncing the religion that allows them to cling to their tyranny.

Modern-day Iran has been dominated by Islam since the Muslim conquest of Persia in the seventh century. When I was born, during the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, there was freedom of religion, but, like the vast majority of people, I was raised a Muslim. Though many Iranians did not practice the religion, they were respectful of its belief, and it was through my grandmother that I learned about Islam and how I could find my way to God in becoming a pure human being.

Islam has been passed from one generation to another, each believing that it represented a God who loved and promoted respect, justice and enlightenment. I grew up believing in a loving God, always relying on Him to help me choose the right path in life. When the Islamic Revolution took place in 1979, sending the shah into exile, I returned home from the United States, where I had just finished my education. I wanted to help my country progress, hopeful that there would be full democracy. I believed that Ayatollah Khomeini would be true to his promise of freedom for all.

A childhood friend talked me into joining the Revolutionary Guards because of the knowledge and expertise in computers I had learned in the United States. But only months later I was shocked to witness the most heinous crimes taking place under the banner of Islam.

The mullahs forced Iranians to adhere to a strict Islamic dress code and subjected them to amputation as the punishment for stealing, lashing for drinking, stoning for adultery. Boys and girls seeking the freedoms promised to them were rounded up and taken to Evin prison. Many were raped, tortured and executed, among them my best friend and his siblings. Teenage girls were raped prior to execution because in Islam a virgin can go to heaven, and the ‘men of God’ wanted to deny them that reward. Others were slowly lowered in tanks of acid so they would die painfully.” Read more.

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Islamic Apologist Farhan Qureshi Renounces Islam

05/12/2011 Leave a comment

By Farhan Qureshi – “As a Muslim apologist I remember debating at numerous types of venues including Mosques, Churches, Universities, Convention Halls and Libraries. Having engaged with notable Christian apologists such as Dr. James White, Dr. Tony Costa and Professor David Wood I learned that the purpose of apologetics was not confrontation rather to come to an understanding of truth even if it meant evolving one’s own perspective, writes erstwhile Dawwah debater Farhan Qureshi.After years of having been involved in think tanks, advocacy groups, da’wah (invitation or propagation) initiatives and academic apologetics as a Muslim, I have I decided to evolve my perspective of reality and existence as knowledge has reached me and renounce my faith in Islam. This was a thought out decision that took months of prayer, consideration, evaluation and knowledge-seeking on my part. Every bit as it has been a search for meaning and truth is has been a grieving process for me to realize that what I have been attached to all of these years is in fact not the ultimate reality behind our existence. Nevertheless it is simultaneously liberation and continued enlightenment that brings about serenity and peace of mind for me as well.

After years of having been involved in think tanks, advocacy groups, da’wah (invitation or propagation) initiatives and academic apologetics as a Muslim, I have I decided to evolve my perspective of reality and existence as knowledge has reached me and renounce my faith in Islam. This was a thought out decision that took months of prayer, consideration, evaluation and knowledge-seeking on my part. Every bit as it has been a search for meaning and truth is has been a grieving process for me to realize that what I have been attached to all of these years is in fact not the ultimate reality behind our existence. Nevertheless it is simultaneously liberation and continued enlightenment that brings about serenity and peace of mind for me as well.

In the coming months I plan to contribute articles to FFI which explore the behavior and psyche of the different types of Muslims out there: the western Muslim, the mystic (Sufi), the purist (Salafi), and the politically driven (Hizb/Ikhwan) are among the many colors of the Ummah, each having its own set of advocates with unique behaviors and mentality. I have spent time and energy studying and experiencing the different denominations and sub-cultures within the Ummah. Having experienced their spirituality and religiosity first hand, having studied with their scholars and preachers, and having read books, articles and arguments from them, I believe that I have a grasp of where they stand psychologically and I plan to explore this more in-depth in the near future as I publish articles.

I realized that 1400 years worth of consistent Islamiyya theology is not what I believed was the ultimate truth, rather I realized that it was a primitive attempt at understanding and implementing social, spiritual, religious and ethical standards. These seventh century standards might give slight insight into how humanity, and in this case, Arab civilization was evolving and progressing from its previous ‘jahiliyya’ or ignorance, and yet effectively became stagnant with its own set of conservative traditionalism that would not allow Arab civilization to move forward. The only attempts at progression were the rationalist Mu’tazilites of the eight century which gave rise to what many observe as the Golden Age of Islam. Yet these rationalists were viewed as heretics and apostates themselves and would become extinct by the thirteenth century. Instead dogmatic traditionalism or Sunnah would thrive in the Muslim world and the European Renaissance with its progressive attitude would pick up where the all but extinct Middle Eastern rationalists left off.

Perhaps the most important realization I have come to is that I would receive the death penalty underShariah law for simply coming to these conclusions or realizations. This disturbs me to the core and demonstrates how the Ummah uses fear tactics under its Shariah system in order to preserve and strengthen their theological and political agenda. What I am grateful for however is the opportunity to witness the evolution of humanity where we no longer are restricted by primitive forms of theology and law and yet we continue to strive for integrity, honesty, humility, character development, and moral stability. There is a promising future for our species and not a dark one as theologians are attempting to brainwash their adherents with.

As a Muslim apologist I remember debating at numerous types of venues including Mosques, Churches, Universities, Convention Halls and Libraries. Having engaged with notable Christian apologists such as Dr. James White, Dr. Tony Costa and Professor David Wood I learned that the purpose of apologetics was not confrontation rather to come to an understanding of truth even if it meant evolving one’s own perspective. The idea of receiving an apparent truth is to embrace it, not fight it. The moment we try to fight an apparent truth or reality we begin to dwell in hypocrisy: understanding that something is apparently true and yet denying it for selfish reasons or attachment to preconceived notions. I want to thank Ali Sina for giving me the platform to explore Islam and to expose its primitive nature as incompatible with contemporary reality unless and until Muslims choose to reform it.”  Source – FaithFreedom.org.

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