According to David Garrison PhD, author of the article titled Muslims turning to Christ,
a global phenomenon, posted at premierchristianity.com, there were only five movements of Muslims
to Christianity prior to the 20th century.
But in just the first 12 years of the 21st century, we can document 69 movements of Muslims
to faith and baptism in Christ Jesus. Several of these contemporary movements number in
the tens of thousands. He visited 44 movements, each with more than 1,000 Muslim-background
believers in Jesus Christ who had been baptised as a defiant act of their new-found faith.
"With the help of dozens of on-the-ground collaborators, I was able to gather more than 1,000 interviews
with these courageous men and women. The core question, from among a list of things
I asked them, was, ‘What did God use to bring you to faith in Jesus Christ? Tell me
your story.’ One Christmas day, I was in the Horn of Africa seated on the floor with
20 leaders from an ancient Muslim community. I listened in disbelief as they told me of
their discovery that Isa al-Masih (Jesus Christ) was God among us; the only way of salvation.
"C'mon, I said incredulously, ‘how many of you have been baptised?’ I knew that this
act of commitment separated casual fans of Jesus from actual followers. To my amazement,
19 of the 20 leaders raised their hands. One of them laughed and pointed to the lone unraised
hand: ‘He will be baptised next week.’ The next day a sheikh named Hasan told me
his story. ‘An African evangelist gave me an Injil that is, New Testament Bible in the
Arabic language. Because the Injil was in Arabic, God's language, I knew that it must
be true, so I began to read it.’ That night, Hasan had a dream. ‘I saw a tall minaret.
I was disturbed to see a man with an axe chopping the minaret down. When I looked closer,
I saw that the man...was me!’ The shock of the dream awakened the sheikh
in a panic. ‘I had the same dream three times,’ he said. ‘The next day, I found
the evangelist who had given me the Injil. “What does this dream mean?” I demanded.
He looked at me and smiled. “You will win many sheikhs to faith in Jesus Christ.”
Today, sheikh Hasan travels from village to village, speaking to sheikhs, who are leaders
of the Islamic community. ‘So far,’ he told me, ‘I have led 400 sheikhs to faith
in Jesus Christ.’
In another case, one day Nadia’s cousin who had recently become a Christian quietly
gave her a New Testament Bible in the Persian language.
Nadia prayed, ‘Allah, show me your truth.’ As she read it, Nadia said, ‘I felt my heart
open like an old door. Inside I felt very warm and thirsty. It was like drinking cool
water, and I wanted to drink it all. ‘From that time on,’ Nadia recalls, ‘Jesus'
work started in me. It was a strange happiness like nothing I'd ever known.’ Within a week
she would led her husband and three children to faith in Jesus.
What is happening in the Muslim world in our day that is prompting so many to leave Islam
to embrace, at the risk of death, a new life in Jesus Christ?
Many point out how the Muslim world today is churning. Shiites and Sunnis, Arabs and
Persians, extremists and moderates, militants and pacifists, unemployed youth and disenchanted
women all give evidence to a dissatisfaction with the unfulfilled promise of Islam.
Tens of thousands of Muslims are expressing their displeasure by migrating to the West,
others foment movements within their own countries through what has been termed the Arab Spring.
But violence and turmoil are not new to the Muslim world. What is different today?
Other factors God has used to bring about today's Muslim movements were less intuitive,
yet equally prominent in the testimonies of Muslims coming to faith in Christ. These counter
intuitive factors were found within Islam itself.
Muslim converts spoke of their abhorrence of the violence that permeated their communities.
Others contrasted the life of Muhammad with that of Jesus, finding in Jesus one who reflected
an ideal that resonated deep within their heart. Perhaps most surprising in these testimonies
was the role of the Koran itself. Though the Koran possesses an almost magical
power and allure for Muslims, it remains a virtually unintelligible book, shrouded in
eighth century Arabic, a language that few understand.
In 1982, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia began an ambitious project to translate the Koran into
all the languages of the world. The now deceased king would be horrified to learn how Muslims
around the world point to their reading of the Koran in their own language as a key reason
for leaving Islam. Amid, is a Muslim background Christian I met
in South Asia. He said, ‘Once I read the Koran in my own language I realized I was
lost.’ Amid discovered that the Koran had no plan of salvation within it. ‘No titles
of honour for Muhammad in the Koran, but 23 honourable titles that Allah gave to Isa [Jesus].
I saw that Muhammad is dead, but Isa is alive in Heaven with Allah now. Muhammad is not
coming again, but Isa will come again at the last judgement. Only four times does the Koran
speak of Muhammad, and yet 97 times it talks about Isa.
Muhammad is not a saviour, but Isa very name means “saviour.” Muhammad is only a messenger,
but Isa is called Ruhullah, Spirit of Allah.’ These discoveries led Amid, and many other
Muslims, to read the New Testament Bible and discover Jesus for themselves. This unexpected
pathway from Koran to the gospel is occurring throughout the Muslim world.
Nowhere in the entire book of the Quran, Allah said to Muhammad Directly: I am Allah, or where he said to Muhammad: Worship Me.
And nowhere in the entire book of the Quran, Angel Gabriel said to Muhammad: I am Gabriel sent by Allah or, I am the messenger of Allah.
Based on Quran Saba 34:44-45, Al-Qasas 28:46, As-Sajdah 32:2-3 and Hud 11:49, the convergence of these 4 claims come to this conclusion:
Angel Gabriel and Allah did not give the Quran to Muhammad and it was Muhammad who gave the Quran to Allah by imputing his words came out from Allah.
The Torah of Moses in Leviticus Chapter 26 : 1 is crystal clear that whoever prostrates to any image of stone
in the land is an idolater, regardless of the builder.
This law came from Angel Gabriel to Moses could not have differed if He really delivered the Quran to Muhammad.
The problem in the Middle East today is because all Muslims worship a false god Allah and not the true Creator, Yahweh God.
In other words, all Muslims are Kaaba idolaters by virtue of the Torah of Moses.
Prophet Moses and Lord Jesus Christ did not prostrate towards the Kaaba in Mecca since they understood the Law.
May Lord Jesus Messiah continue His mission to evangelize to the Muslim World by His Spirit of Truth
until He comes again in His glory with all His Holy Angels. Amen.