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Always_Kafir
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17.Reverend Donald Fareed - Iranian Ex-Muslim
Donald Fareed, a former Iranian Shiite Muslim turned evangelical Christian and President of the non-profit organization Persian Ministries International, is partnering with Sattar Deldar, a pro-democracy Muslim television broadcasting executive, to promote democracy and regime change in Iran.
A former Shi’ite Muslim, Reverend Donald Fareed is fulfilling his call to reach Muslims for Christ. An ordained minister and founding pastor of the Bay Area Persian Churches of San Mateo and Santa Clara, he is also the founder and president of Persian Ministries International(PMI).
Through his ministries millions of Muslims have heard the Gospel and thousands received Jesus Christ.
Fareed and the PMI team are determined to continue reaching out to the estimated 100 million Persian-speaking people of the world, the majority of whom live in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and the Southern part of Iraq. Fareed has teamed up with Muslim satellite television stations to broadcast a unique message of not only the gospel, but a message of democracy and religious freedom.
Ex-Muslim Seeks to Transform Iran with Christian Broadcasts
The head of a California-based ministry aimed at reaching Muslims for Christ says the gospel of Jesus Christ is not the only message he takes to millions of people in Iran. The U.S. evangelist, born in Iran, is also preaching the virtues of democracy to people in his native country at every opportunity.
Donald Fareed, a former Muslim himself, came to know Jesus as his Lord and Savior 14 years ago. He went on to become an ordained minister and the founding pastor of the Bay Area Persian Churches of San Mateo and Santa Clara, California.
Fareed also began Persian Ministries International, an evangelistic outreach based in San Jose, through which he works to fulfill his call -- to bring others out of Islam and into the knowledge of God through a relationship with Jesus Christ. Today he uses his weekly satellite television program to carry the gospel back to his homeland.
But the ministry founder notes that many social and political obstacles to evangelism exist in Iran, and Persian Christians face severe persecution. "As soon as people convert," he explains,"[the authorities] catch them and put them in jail. So we need democracy there. We need freedom."
Still, Fareed acknowledges that spiritual change must take precedence over social or political change. "Freedom without Christ is going to bring corruption, of course," he says. "So the first thing is the gospel and the second thing is democracy."
On the other hand, Fareed does make use of his weekly broadcasts to encourage his former countrymen to push for a new government. At the same time, he tries to educate his listeners, because he wants the Iranian people to learn about the positive values, standards, and ethics of Western culture.
"Preaching the gospel is not the only thing," the Christian pastor and evangelist asserts. "Of course we're teaching them about ideal Western values, and we're encouraging them to [pursue] a referendum -- free elections."
Fareed is hopeful that, through Persian Ministries, he can help to effect spiritual transformation among the people of Iran by turning hearts toward Jesus. At the same time, he is praying for and sowing seeds toward a transformation of values that will usher in a freer, more just and democratic Iran in the future.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1307107/posts
His Testimony : http://www.persianministries.org/about/donaldfareed.php
Why I am not a Muslim : http://www.persianministries.org/video/high_why.wmv
His WebSite : http://www.persianministries.org |
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18. Ibrahim Abdullah - former PLO Terrorist
Ibrahim Abdallah Relates his Personal Story
I was born in 1963 in Dearborn Michigan; I was raised as a Muslim which would be regarded in the West as Radical, but in reality was main stream. We were raised to hate the Jews. All our problems we believe stemmed from the Jews.
In 1981 at the age 18 I emigrated to Israel, I became a member of a Fatah, the main radical group associated with the PLO. I committed many heinous crimes against Israel and The Jewish people, such as:
One specific day we spotted a car driven by an Israeli man- we started to throw stones until he and his family crashed into a pole. We saw blood splattered on the window. We then ran away when we heard the police sirens. We had no regard for the lives of the occupants of the car. We celebrated our triumphant act of that day.
In another incident outside of Ramalah, we threw molotov cocktails at a passenger bus that had a mix of both Muslims and Jews on board. We spotted them and then went into action. I did not care. We had a mission to wreak havoc and destruction. It was our goal to cause a fatality. Luckily that day we failed to cause the bus to crash, as the bombs bounced off the roof of the bus.
There was an Israeli taxi that we spotted during a riot, we began our rain of terror, and we threw rocks in frenzy, the stones were so numerous as to be compared to a plague of locusts. We wanted to kill Jews so badly. As the vehicle spun out of control, we cheered as we ran away. From a distance we saw the Israeli jeeps arrive to the scene to secure the area. We praised Allah and hoped that we had killed our first Jews so we could go to heaven. Thank- fully we did not.
One day the Israeli Army secured Ramalah and they arrested me and others connected with my group. I was recruited by extreme radicals. While in confinement at the military prison outside Ramalah we were trained how to infiltrate Lebanon and build bombs. I learned how to hand glide and be a lookout. I was trained ready to conquer or die as a Shaheed (martyr). I was eager and zealous to continue tormenting the Israeli military and innocent Jews. Upon my conditional release I was not given the opportunity to carry out my mission. The government gave me 48 hours to gather my belongings and say goodbye to my family. I could never return to Israel.
1989 to 1990 I started studying the Quran to become a more devout Muslim, as a result many questions arose in my mind based on inconsistencies in the teachings versus the Quran and I then began to study the Bible. Now I believe that the Bible is the only true book. I became a Christian, today I feel guilty about my actions, I want to confess and ask forgiveness from Israel and the Jewish People. The Jewish people are the most forgiving and peaceful people in the world. I thank the Israeli authorities for releasing me ( I did not deserve to be released) and come back to America. Today, I care about the Jewish people, and all of Gods children. Now I have another mission. It is to reach the Muslims and to prevent such incidents against mankind. I want to speak out to the world and tell the truth concerning Israel and the Jewish people.
http://www.shoebat.com/abdallah.php
Ibrahim Abdullah on the Laurie Roth show
http://www.shoebat.com/media/roth_hour1jun3.mp3
http://www.shoebat.com/media/roth_hour2jun3.mp3
http://www.shoebat.com/media/roth_hour3jun3.mp3
3 former Islamic Terrorits(Ibrahim Abdullah, Walid Shoebad, Zachariah Anani - Now Christians) talk about Mindset of Terrorists and Terrorism.
Video : http://tinyurl.com/dl2dm |
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19. Bilquis Sheikh - former wife of a Minister of the Interior, in Pakistan
Does God still speak to people today? This true story answers that question with a resounding yes.
Bilquis Sheikh was a high-born Muslim, former wife of a Minister of the Interior, in Pakistan. Searching in the Koran, she found references to the prophet Jesus. So she turned to the pages of the Christian Bible to see if they could shed more light on this mysterious figure. At the same time a series of strange dreams launched her on a quest that would bring her to crisis point. Was Islam still the right way for her, or could God be known more personally? Her decision would change her life for ever.
God gave her dreams and visions about John the Baptist, about himself as God the Father, Jesus the son and the Holy Spirit. He led her to read the Bible.
Her family came to know of her new beliefs and confronted her. She was so convinced of her new found truth, however, that they plotted to kill her. They even tried to burn her house. Her family boycotted her, and the servants, who were Muslims, left her, calling her a traitor and an infidel. She received many threats from her family and outsiders. An Army General of Pakistan visited, asking her why did you do it?? She replied she has been called to witness Jesus Christ and she will obey Him, no matter what comes her way. She finally escaped to the US and wrote a book about her experiences. (http://net-burst.net/hot/muslim.htm)
To Know more about Bilquis Sheikh : http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Bilquis+Sheikh&btnG=Google+Search
The Miraculous Story of a Prominent Muslim Woman's Encounter With God,
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0800790715/102-3772548-9704906?v=glance&n=283155
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"The strange prickly feeling grew inside me as I walked slowly along the graveled paths of my garden," she wrote in a book that has just been re-released. "I stopped my walk and looked around. As I leaned over to grasp the tall green stems, something brushed past my head. I straightened in alarm. What was it? A mist-like cloud -- a cold, damp unholy presence -- had floated by. Of course there wasn't anything out there. Was there? As if in answer, I felt a firm, very real and uncanny tap on my right hand."
This experience led to a series of dreams that -- like so many we now hear -- culminated in the conversion of this Muslim woman. Are such dreams more prevalent now -- with the world situation as it is? Or have they always occurred?
We know that dreams can be important. We think of Abraham. We think of Joseph, the father of Jesus.
But they are also crucial in our own time and in the case of Sheikh, whose husband had been a general and Pakistan's minister of interior, they formed an important part of her conversion -- if not the important role. As she explains in this well-written book (which was first published in 1978), she had been brought up in a Muslim faith which believed that although Jesus was born of a Virgin, He was not God's Son. Still, Sheikh felt moved to explore the Christian Bible -- and that's when it all began.
In one dream, recounted Sheikh, "I found myself having supper with a man I knew to be Jesus. He had come to visit me in my home and stayed for two days. He sat across the table from me and in peace and joy we ate dinner together.
"Suddenly, the dream changed. Now I was on a mountaintop with another man. He was clothed in a robe and shod with sandals. How was it that I mysteriously knew his name, too? John the Baptist. What a strange name. I found myself telling this John the Baptist about my recent visits with Jesus."
That was the dream -- and it was peculiar -- caused her to question everyone who might know -- because up to that point, Sheikh had not yet come across the name of John the Baptist in her reading of the Bible.
She became a Christian.
Muslims Encountering Yahshua(Jesus Christ) in UnUsual Dreams
http://amightywind.com/fastfood/dreams/040723muslimdreams.htm |
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20. Ak-Beket - former Imam, Kazakhstan
Muslim theologian and imam has converted to a christianity
(Poorly translated in English, Still worth reading)
In 1998 well-known muslim theologian imam Ak-Beket, the kazakh on a nationality, has accepted holy baptizing.
To him there were 46 years by then, has deserved popularity not only in Kazakhstan, but also in all muslim world as author of the book "The New message of Allah to the world". Ahead his the brilliant career waited. But it has not prevented imam to accept the decision, unsafe for his life.
His conversion Ak-Beket explains by own spiritual growth, he has declared, that "I has become stronger in a idea: only through a christianity there can be âîññîåäèíåíèå of the man with the God, whereas an islam - faster culture, than religion. To understand it to him have helped the conversations with the orthodox priests, study of the literature and personal religious experience.
Ak-Beket speaks, that he pursues the purpose to legalize a christianity in Kazakhstan. As he said, he has undergone already to threats on the part of religious and nacionalists figures".
Kazakhstan differ from the other post-Soviet states by low share of aboriginal nation. Even after migration of Russian population in the beginning 1990-th, Kazakhs make up only about 55% of total population, moreover in half of areas they are ethnic-confessional minority.
The Kazakhs have accepted Islam only about two hundred years ago, and the most part of them especial in flat country, concern to it with indifference, vestiges of heathenism are still strong.
Muslim clergy repeatedly outspeak concernment by Christian missioners success. In 1994 the management of Kazakhstan muftiate had distributed the open letter, in which was expressed the concern by renunciation of youth "from the religion of ancestors" and it was offered legislatively "to forbid for the Kazakhs to convert in other religions". Fortunately, this request was not adopted by officials.
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21. Mullah Assad Ullah - Former mullah, Afganistan
Taliban militants target converts to Christianity.
September 9 (Compass) — Five Afghan men who had converted to Christianity have been killed in separate incidents since late June near the borders of eastern Afghanistan.
All five men were stabbed or beaten to death in summary executions by Taliban adherents who accused them of abandoning Islam and then “spreading Christianity” in their communities.
The first stabbing death was reported on July 1 by Reuters news agency, which received a telephone call from a Taliban spokesman identifying himself as Abdul Latif Hakimi.
The caller declared that a group of Taliban fighters had killed Mullah Assad Ullah the previous day in Ghazni province’s remote Awdand region, a known Taliban stronghold and traditional seat of Islamic learning.
“A group of Taliban dragged out Mullah Assad Ullah and slit his throat with a knife because he was propagating Christianity,” Hakimi told Reuters. “We have enough evidence and local accounts to prove that he was involved in the conversion of Muslims to Christianity.”
Hakimi went on to accuse a number of foreign aid agencies of involvement in spreading Christianity among Afghanistan’s overwhelmingly Muslim population.
“We warn them that they face the same destiny as Assad Ullah if they continue to seduce people,” he told Reuters. At least 33 foreign aid workers have been killed by the Taliban in the past 18 months.
According to local sources, Assad Ullah was seized in broad daylight while at the market buying fruit and vegetables for his family. His attackers reportedly dragged his dead body around the market area, shouting warnings that the same fate awaited anyone else who listened to his heretical teachings.
The former mullah had first obtained a copy of the New Testament about five years ago, while still living under the Taliban regime. He had been baptized secretly about two and one-half years ago.
In his mid-40s, Assad Ullah is survived by a widow and four daughters, ages 7 to 14.
The murder of another Afghan convert to Christianity who had gone to visit Assad Ullah’s family was confirmed on August 7. According to a fellow convert, the body of Naveed ul-Rehman was discovered in early August near his abandoned car in Awdand, at the same marketplace where the former mullah had been killed.
Nothing had been stolen from ul-Rehman’s pockets or car, nor was any evidence found to reveal the identity of his attackers.
About 40 years of age, ul-Rehman was a well educated Afghan who had been living in Kabul since his return to Afghanistan. He was married without children.
During the month of July, another three Afghan Christians were stabbed or beaten to death in separate incidents on July 15, July 23 and July 28. Each left behind a wife and several children.
The three men had been accused by their attackers of studying the Bible, praying in the name of Jesus or associating with other known Afghan converts to Christianity.
In the context of a closed, strictly Muslim society, Afghanistan’s new provisional constitution adopted in December 2003 falls short of any guarantee of religious freedom for its citizens. The document declares Islam the religion of the state, with all laws required to conform to the tenets of Islamic law.
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Some Anonymous Converts
22.Indonesian Imam Left Islam, He also led 3000 Moslems to Christ
A well-informed source, who will, for obvious reasons, remain unnamed, reports that an ex-Imam (Islamic spiritual leader) has led 3,000 Moslems to Jesus in a very short period. He came to believe in Christ through appearances and dreams, in which a white man told him to study the Bible. His method is simple: in conversation, he asks others "Have you seen a white man in your dreams recently?" If they have not, he tells them "I was just wondering. Thanks." If they answer positively, he continues by asking whether they are interested in learning who this white man is. And who is not interested in the identity of a mysterious person who appears in their dreams? The ex-Imam then shows them several Bible passages in which a white-clothed man is mentioned, explaining "That is Jesus. He wants to speak with you, because he wants you to follow him." Many Moslems have been prepared for that step by their supernatural encounters, and accept the invitation.
Source: name and address withheld
http://www.jesus.org.uk/dawn/2000/dawn0050.html
23. Mullah finds Jesus in Afghanistan
"In the months since the Taliban regime was overthrown, we've repeatedly heard of people becoming Christians," reports the mission agency Open Doors. "One of these people is Fahmir (name changed), an ex-Mullah. Mullahs are some of the most respected people in Afghan society; they know the whole Koran and many prayers and songs by heart. Fahmir is from a Mullah family, and came to Jesus through contact with a Christian and reading the Bible. 'I used to preach in mosques, now I want to preach the word of God,' he says."
http://www.jesus.org.uk/dawn/2003/dawn01.html#Afghanistan
24.Mullah's supernatural conversion - becomes church planter
Mischa (not his real name) grew up near the Ural mountains among the Tatars and Bashkiris in a completely Islamic culture, attended a Koran school and served as a Mullah for three years. During that time, he already had 'uninterpretable dreams'. One of his friends left the Koran school because he had discovered Christianity, and Mischa also began secretly reading the Bible, but was shocked by rumors of human sacrifice in Christian services. Recently, Saggida, a church planter supported by the Swiss missions agency Kingdom Ministries, visited Mischa's home town, known as a spiritist and occult center, to plant a church. She experienced many difficulties, including the death of her daughter and son-in-law in a car accident. Mischa and many others said "It is Allah's anger". Mischa attended the funeral, determined to spread Islam during the coming anniversary celebrations in the young church. However, during the first sermon, he was overcome by some form of drunkenness and could say nothing. The drunkenness passed in time for the second sermon, but he began to shiver and shake and felt as though he was about to die. During the third sermon, he responded to the call to repent, despite being convinced that he was without sin. While praying, God revealed his sins to him. Mischa confessed his sins and called on Jesus; the strong back pains from which he had been suffering were immediately healed. As he later washed his hands, the tattooed words 'Allah u akhbar' were miraculously washed away. He then returned to his village, where he had a dream in which he was told "You are saved, and through you, your whole family and many of your people will be saved." Following a dream in which her deceased mother and Mischa appeared to her, Mischa's sister visited Mischa, who explained the Gospel to her. She was saved, as were other members of Mischa's family and friends. Mischa is now being trained as a church planter.
Source: Kingdom Ministries, fax (+41) 33 437 0016
http://www.jesus.org.uk/dawn/2000/dawn0001.html
25.Sudan: Moslem Imam converts
An Islamic teacher and priest (Imam) in Sudan told us that he converted to Christianity at the end of 1995. He told us nobody in the community has yet challenged his decision "because they all know me and are well aware that I understand Islam very well; they realise that I must have good reasons for converting." Following his example, other Moslems have also converted, and he has been leading another group of Moslems who want to learn more about Christianity. "The principle is amazing," he said. "Before my conversion, people recognised me as an Islamic Imam, now, after my conversion, I still have the same position, except I am a Christian Imam."
http://www.jesus.org.uk/dawn/1996/dawn9620.html
26.Kosovo - Converted Muslim leads Mullah to Christ
"Klaus Pilichshuisen and Werner and Edith Sperling recently visited Germany missionaries Gater and Therese Weber in Pristina, Kosovo," according to a report in the newsletter of German mission agency "Globe Europe". While there, they met Rahman, in whose 'house' - slightly repaired after being ruined in the war, with two occupable rooms for his family of seven - a church meets. Rahman and his family used to be Muslims, and Rahman describes himself as having been "a terrible, criminal person" before the war. While fleeing to Albania, he heard about Jesus Christ, decided to follow him and was baptized. On his return, his parents and siblings were disquieted by the changes in his life, and sent him to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist declared him sane, so his family demanded that he go to a Mullah to become completely normal again. Rahman went to the 82-year-old Mullah, and told him about Jesus, with the result that the old man also gave his life to Jesus. "Rahman now travels as an evangelist in his area, telling the people of God's love through Jesus," the report concludes.
http://www.jesus.org.uk/dawn/2001/dawn39.html#Kosovo[/quote]
27.Imam decides to follow Christ after seeing Jesus film
"I recently saw 2,000 Muslims decide to follow Jesus," says Vermeulen. "We arrived in a Muslim village to show the Jesus film. There was not a single Christian family in the village. Our projection screen was too small, and the largest white wall in the village was that of the mosque. We asked the Imam, who granted us permission to show the Jesus film there. That evening, hundreds saw the film, and the Imam was the first to respond to the call to follow Jesus. So many were set free during the ensuing prayer for deliverance from demonic powers that most of the villagers decided to follow the Imam's example. In 5 days, 2,000 Muslims became Christians, and 5 churches were planted to help the people in their new-found faith."
http://www.jesus.org.uk/dawn/2002/dawn02.html
28. Former Mosque Teacher Launches Christian Radio Ministry
A man who was once in training to be a teacher at a Muslim mosque started an indigenous ministry in North Africa that is being helped by Christian Aid. Watching his former teachers practice sorcery scared him and led to a desire to know the true God. Through the witness of an American woman he came to know Christ and, after many years of growth, started a radio ministry that reaches throughout North Africa. Despite the persecution that comes with becoming a Christian and the serious danger associated with sharing the gospel in North Africa, this brother's ministry is growing, and he is seeing numerous people come to Christ. "We had never before heard of anyone speak of Jesus and love as this man did," one listener wrote. "After listening for three years, his inspired messages helped us to know the Lord Jesus Christ. My wife, children, and, my brother, who was also once a teacher at a Muslim mosque, are now all Christians." (Christian Aid Mission)
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/11037.htm
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29.Salah - Ex-Muslim Palestinian, Now Gospel Musician
In July “Jesus 101” was introduced nationwide and the new G-Soul Sound was born. The olive complexioned street savvy kid from Baltimore, has finally made good and is impacting a new generation with his new brand of gospel music.
In Jesus 101, Salah attempts to capture the emotion of his radical new birth from Islam into Christianity. Born to Palestinian parents, his music exudes the passion it took for him to turn against the traditions of his family and become a follower of Jesus Christ. Salah is no overnight success story. He has paid his dues and can talk about the darker days when he had to balance several jobs to keep his dream alive. He knows the struggle of having to pay the rent and keep food on his children’s table, yet remain faithful to the almost irresistible tug in his soul to reach the masses with his music.
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Salah's Interview about How he came to know the real Jesus,
TGL: Many artists in the gospel music industry don’t have a testimony like yours. You were once Muslim. How did the transition from Islam to Christianity take place?
**Salah: My wife was brought up in a Baptist Church and I was born in the Muslim faith. Both of my parents are Palestinian. Being naive and young at the time my wife and I thought that when our kids were born we would teach them both faiths and they could decide what faith they wanted to follow when they got older.
We figured that this plan would work but all marriages have rough moments and we really “went through.” I gave my life to Jesus six years ago when I was 27. At that time, we were actually in the midst of separating and getting a divorce. My daughter was only 3 and she came to me one Sunday morning and asked me if I would go to church with her and her mother. God was setting me up because he knew that I would not be able to say no to my little girl… I was going through so much. So when my daughter came and asked me to go I said, “Okay, yeah I’ll go.”
My wife hadn’t been attending church for years but on that Sunday she decided to attend this church that met in a high school called Grace Church. So I got dressed and went to church that Sunday and Pastor Derek Grier began to speak and he said “Church, I planned a sermon this Sunday but there is somebody here that needs to hear a different word.” So I was looking around, like who is that somebody? So he started speaking and he started speaking directly at me. Not that he was looking at me but God was speaking directly to me. It was one of those things that were unmistakable. It was like, how could he know these things about my life. It was just too intimate. So I am looking at my wife thinking this ‘is this a set up.’ ‘Did you talk to him about what was going on in my life?” The first week, I just kind of asked it in my mind and thought okay, this is a coincidence. There has got to be some folks in here going through what I am going through. I blew it off and went back the next Sunday. But the next week the same thing happened. He said “Church I planned a sermon this Sunday but there is somebody here that needs to hear a different word.” Again, he began to speak directly to me. This time it was even more personal. At that point I could not turn away and say it was a coincidence. And I asked my wife, “Did you tell this man what is happening in my life?” But I thought there is no way she could have told him these things because there are some things he is saying that she don’t even know about me.
So I began to really start paying attention now. So I went back the 3rd week and the same thing happened. It just kept getting deeper and deeper. I think by the 5th week I was listening and it got to the end of the message and I kind of zoned out because I was just blown away. But when I snapped back into it, Pastor Grier was asking “Is there anyone that does not know Jesus Christ as there Lord and Savior” and I raised my hand because I did not know Jesus. The next thing I know he is talking about “come on down” and I am thinking ‘what is this, the Price is Right?’ So I went down and I said the prayer of salvation and he said that “The angels in heaven had begun rejoicing over my response to the Gospel, and my name was written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.” He added, “You are a different person and not the same one you were when you walked in here.” At the time I didn’t realize what I had done. When I came back to myself [I thought to myself], I just raised my hand to be honest that I didn’t know Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. I don’t believe I really gave my life to Christ that day. But two Sundays later, I prayed again with the Pastor. I confessed it from the bottom of my heart and Jesus Christ came in.
TGL: How should a Christian approach a Muslim if they want to lead them to Christ?
**Salah: I think one of the problems is that the church does not prepare us to go out and to learn about other faiths. You don’t have to know everything about every faith but just enough to know what is going on in people’s hearts. I think the church needs to really prepare folks. I guess one song that epitomizes this is Darwin Hobbs and Shirley Murdoch and they were singing about ‘some pray to a God Muhammad,’ That’s not correct because Muslims don’t pray to Muhammad as if he were a God. Muslims look at Muhammad as if he were a prophet. He simply brought what Muslims consider to be God’s message to the Muslims. If Christians do not understand these things, they are going to end up disrespecting somebody or turning them off. I think the most important thing is for Christians to come in a spirit of love. Not to come at them with an air that I am better than you, because I have Christ and you don’t. I believe that a lot of religions, [share] a lot of [moral] fundamentals. But the missing ingredient in every other religion is Jesus Christ. Muslims believe in Jesus Christ but they just believe He is just a mere prophet.
TGL: So Christians lack understanding?
**Salah: Yeah. If you were witnessing to a Buddhist without having an understanding about what it is that makes them believe what they believe, even though we are sharing in love, it might appear that we are coming in disrespect. Most people that would come to me would just blatantly tell me that I was going to hell because I didn’t believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. And I didn’t want to hear that because in my opinion I was living the best life I could as a Muslim. So I believe we could end up loosing a whole lot of folks, if we don’t realize how we are supposed to really approach them.
TGL: If you had to name one thing, what was it that drew you to Christianity? Was it that there was someone telling you about yourself or was it the presence of love that you never felt before? What was it?
**Salah: The first thing that sparked my attention was the fact that this man knew all my business. There was no way this man could know all my business, unless someone was telling him all my business and the only one who knew all my business was God. Only God knew the things that were coming out of his mouth. The second thing that God did, knowing my love for music, he drew me in through the powerful praise and worship of that church. I love the feeling behind the praise and worship. I ended up becoming a praise and worship leader at Grace.
There is no greater feeling in the world to me. There is not a drug, not an alcoholic beverage, absolutely nothing that can compare to the feeling. But I can only speak for true worshippers who aim to minister in the presence of God. There is nothing in the world that can compare to experiencing His Presence. So when I began to sing the praises and learn more and more about what those words meant, you know God just enlarging Himself inside of me. His presence is so real that when He touches you, you can’t deny it. This is something that I didn’t experience in Islam. All my life I desired to have a close personal relationship with God. I never got it with Islam.
TGL: As a Muslim, you had a pretty strict lifestyle, in terms of making sure you are praying at certain times of the day and they are faithful to it. Coming from something that is so strict [Islam] to something that is more about you and your relationship [Christianity], how did your lifestyle change?
**Salah: It really changed tremendously because now I can pray to God whenever I want to pray to Him. It doesn’t have to be a certain time and I don’t have to face in a certain direction. I didn’t have to say the same prayer every time I pray. It is more intimate where if I want to just talk to God I can get down on my knees and talk to Him. Every time you pray as a Muslim it is the exact same prayer, you have to pray at certain times. It is more ritualistic in my opinion.
I am now with the praise team at New Birth in Atlanta, with Bishop Eddie Long. I am also in the men’s choir and on the drama ministry in a church that big. It has over 25,000 members. My responsibility as a leader has gotten much larger and I am not saying it is always easy because if I am ever tempted to do something out of line, I can’t because it seems like everybody in the city seems to go to my church.
TGL:: Your style of gospel has been defined as G-Soul – “not your mama’s gospel.” So what do you want everyone to know about your music?
**Salah:: I call it G-Soul because the “G” stands for God. I believe that God wants to do something different through me. I have never been a very traditional person nor am I a religious person. I just love Jesus Christ. I love God’s word and I just want to make sure everyone else gets a chance to love Jesus Christ. I want to be able to get to young people. If you listen to my stuff it is really more R&B and …I mean I really didn’t change anything from what I used to do musically. It is still R&B Hip Hop and the only thing I did was put God lyrics to it. I didn’t want to get put into the gospel box or the contemporary Christian box because I believe once you get put in a box you automatically turn off a demographic that needs to be touched. G Soul is about winning souls for God.
TGL: What is the name of the CD?
**Salah:: The name of the CD is Jesus 101. All the stuff in there is very basic. It is easy for the believer and non-believer to listen to and get into. It has very nice beats that people can start moving to. It is very melodic, the verses and the hooks, you know. Before you know it you are bobbing to it and even humming the melodies and then the next thing you know you are singing to God. It kind of sneaks up on you and smacks you in the head.
TGL: Do you have a website?
**Salah:: I do. It’s www.SalahJam.com. And there are samples of the CD on there and it is available on-line at Tower.com and CDbaby.com. As soon as we finish working out national distribution it will be released commercially. It will be an internationally distributed CD. We are trying to do it as big as we can, because God is so big we can’t do it small.
http://www.bothsidesmag.com/g-soulsound.html |
His WebSite : www.SalahJam.com
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30. Rev. Mawlawi Dr. Imad ud-Din Lahiz - Prolific Islamic Writer, Preacher, Quranic Translator
Padre Imad-ud Din Lahiz wrote his life story in 1866. This English translation of the Urdu publication, Waqicat-i cImadiyya, is based on a text published by the Punjab Religious Book Society, Lahore, in 1957.
Imad ud-Din was a prolific writer. His works reflect the influence of the two chief contenders of that great debate between Muslims and Christians in Agra in 1854, Mawlawi Rahmat Ullah and Padre C.G. Pfander. In addition to Imad ud-Din’s writing about Islam, its history, faith and practices, his translation of the Qur’an into Urdu and his many Bible commentaries, he responded to the works of Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan and Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadiyan. Much within some of his writings offers us his reasons in detail for his conversion to Christ.
The writer became a Christian on April 29, 1866 simply for the sake of attaining salvation.
His Testimony : http://answering-islam.org.uk/Testimonies/mawlawi.html
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31. Khalif Majid Hassan - Former Islamic Preacher, Minister in the Nation of Islam
By 1974 I had started reading the Quran and other Islamic books. These books did not coincide with some of the teachings of Mr. Muhammad. Around this time Elijah Muhammad's son, Wallace D. Muhammad, started teaching the ministers in the Nation of Islam, probably to prepare the members for the death of his father. At the time of his death on February 26, 1975, I was in Chicago. That day Wallace D. Muhammad was declared the leader of the Nation of Islam. He reinterpreted some of the teachings of his father and even admitted some mistakes that his father had made. He claimed that his father was wrong for teaching that White people were devils. In this way, Wallace D. Muhammad began to bring the followers of Elijah Muhammad into the mainstream of Islam. I can remember when Elijah Muhammad was asked by a foreign Muslim, "Mr. Muhammad, what is this strange teaching that you are teaching the people." Elijah Muhammad replied, "I am not here to teach Islam. I am here to save a baby from the fire." Wallace Muhammad taught that his father wanted to wake up the sleeping black giant by sending a shock wave throughout the Black community.
I read the entire Quran and any book about Islam that I could find. Since no Muslim can pray properly in English, I learned to say my prayers in Arabic. I began to travel and study intensively under imams in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Nigeria. I read as many Hadith's about the traditions of Prophet Muhammad as I could. Because of my study, I eventually obtained the position of an imam. I delivered sermons in the mosque, led congregational prayers, and taught Islam on college campuses, in schools, and in communities. I began preaching very strongly against Christianity.
Around 1985, I began discussing Islam with my family. Islam teaches that Allah is one, not three. How could he be one and three at the same time? I read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, but I could not comprehend the concept of three in one.
My twin sister was attending a school called Christ for the Nations in Texas. We often wrote to each other. She wrote her views on Jesus Christ as the Son of God. I wrote about Jesus Christ as a prophet from my Islamic perspective.
Once I wrote telling my sister that Jesus could not have died on the cross, otherwise it would have been like committing suicide, since one man cannot die for everybody's sins. She phoned and told me, "Regardless of what you say or believe, Jesus died for your sins and he loves you. Someday you are going to accept Christ and become a Christian." I responded, "Not in a million years!" We continued to write and call each other. I also had conversations with my other two sisters and mother about Islam versus Christianity.
One day, my sister and I were talking on the phone when she said, "I have been praying for you and I challenge you to pray and ask God to prove to you that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that he died on the cross for your sins." I accepted the challenge, because I love challenges and because I was confident in Islam. I decided that if God would prove to me that Christ died for my sins, then I would become a Christian. If not, I would teach and promote Islam like never before. I prayed that prayer often. I did not realize until later that hundreds of people were praying for my conversion.
For Full Testimony : http://answering-islam.org.uk/Testimonies/hassan.html
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32. Jeremiah Fard Muhammad - Muslim minister, now Christian evangelist
The life of Dr. Jeremiah Cummings is so much like the life of the apostle Paul in that he too opposed Christianity as a Minister and Student under Minster Louis Farrakhan of the nation of Islam for nine and a half years.
But in 1997 Minister Jeremiah Fard Muhammad came to know Christ as his Savior in a mighty way. After thirteen months of intense study and forty-three days of fasting and prayer, God filled Jeremiah Fard Muhammad with the Holy Ghost. God called Jeremiah Cummings to be an Evangelist to the world and a teacher that will reach the 1.2 billion Muslims whom the Bible calls the seed of Ishmael.
After reading in the book of Psalms 18:3 which says, "I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised," Jeremiah changed his name from Muhammad to Cummings because the name "Muhammad" also means "one who is worthy to be praised." Evangelist Cummings realized that only God is worthy to be Praised, so he became known as Evangelist Jeremiah Cummings, an Ambassador for Christ.
Prior to Islam in the 1970’s Jeremiah Cummings was the first tenor for the world renown group Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes and recorded on three gold and two platinum albums including "If You Don't Know Me by Now" and "Wakeup Everybody".
"THE BOOK OF THE DECADE"
BY DR. JEREMIAH CUMMINGS.
Reveals the Bible and the Koran scriptures and openly reveals Jesus as the Messiah from the Koran. Over 100,000 Muslims have converted to Christ, and counting.
http://www.wicctv.org/
His Books,
http://www.wicctv.org/home/index.cfm?page=resources
Testimony : http://www.wicctv.org/home/index.cfm?page=testimony
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I went to an Arabic church a few weeks ago in California. It was nice to sing in Arabic to the true God (not to the Allah deity). It was also nice to see so many ex-Muslims in attendance. _________________ The "Allah Letters" revealed at last...
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Goku

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Matthew 21:11 And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.
Luke: 4:41 And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.
Mark 8:29 And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.
8:30 And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.
John 8:40
But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God.
John 14:28
My Father is greater than I.
Colossians 3:1
Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
Poor confused Jesus of the Bible, didnt know whether he was God or messenger. _________________ Allow the president to invade a neighbouring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure, Abraham Lincoln. |
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Goku

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Cruelty in the Bible
Revealation:
2:22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great to be forgotten, except they repent of their deeds.
2:23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
2:27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
6:8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11:6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
11:7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
2:20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Mark
4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:
4:12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
Matthew
3:10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
5:29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
5:30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
8:32 And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.
18:8 Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
18:9 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
8:12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
John 12:40
He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. _________________ Allow the president to invade a neighbouring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure, Abraham Lincoln. |
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Matthew 21:11 And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.
Luke: 4:41 And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.
Mark 8:29 And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.
8:30 And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.
John 8:40
But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God.
John 14:28
My Father is greater than I.
Colossians 3:1
Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
Poor confused Jesus of the Bible, didnt know whether he was God or messenger. |
You're confusing the word "Christ" for "God". Jesus did not have to be "God" to be the Christ Messiah.
Come to think of it, you don't have to be "God" to be of Divine nature. Angels for instance....
Christ became "God" in Pauline theology thanks to a couple verses added to the New Testament in the 14th Century.
None of the passages you quoted show any confusion and you killed your own point there. Try again. _________________ "You have made us (i.e. women) dogs!" Aisha to Mohammed |
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Goku

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Thats the point. Christ is NOT God. _________________ Allow the president to invade a neighbouring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure, Abraham Lincoln. |
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