Allah is a distant and cruel god, yet many Iranians are ready to die for him.
Anyone who converts from Islam is an apostate.
Apostasy is punishable by death. - Islamic law
Padina lives in Iran. This is her story.
In the name of god the compassionate the merciful. (Arabic)
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. (Arabic)
The Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. (Arabic)
Owner of the Day of Judgement. (Arabic)
Thee we worship; Thee was ask for help. (Arabic)
As a child, I started to recite the daily prayers.
Before I would go to school, I would memorize the Quran.
I hated Christians.
I became very happy when I heard about Christians being persecuted.
They always told us if we killed a Christian, we had a one-way ticket to Heaven.
I worked very hard to follow every rule of Islam.
If I thought I hadn't washed correctly, I would stop in the middle of my prayer,
wash correctly and start all over again.
This would happen 10 times in one prayer session.
I became very depressed and suicidal.
I felt so distant from Allah,
and my mom was very sick and dying.
I said to my mom, "I am going to kill myself."
If you are going to kill yourself
you have to kill me as well.
I said, I will do this for you,
and we will both die.
My brothers and sisters, I am with you tonight.
The Lord has a special message for you tonight.
If you're hopeless, if you're oppressed,
If you're planning to commit suicide, the Lord says stop.
He has a hope and a future for you.
If you're planning to kill yourself, stop and call me.
She spoke to him for half an hour.
I said, "I'm going to do this.
Nothing is going to stop me tonight.
I saw that my mom was repenting
and doing the prayer of salvation.
I became furious.
Why in the last seconds of your life did you do this?
Now you are going to Hell.
Please Padina!
Please talk to him about Jesus.
Jesus can do nothing! Jesus is nothing!
I will not blaspheme Mohammed
by speaking to this infidel.
Hello
When I talked to her, she was...
cold.
She was fighting and she told me very proudly
I'm going to kill myself and your Jesus cannot do anything for me.
After about an hour of arguing with her
I couldn't change her mind.
I just want to die.
You said it yourself
Allah has done nothing for you.
Give Jesus just one chance.
You can always kill yourself next week.
When he gave me this challenge,
I thought, This is the best way I can serve Allah
this one last time before i commit suicide.
She was thinking ok, I will pray it
And next week, at this time,
Jesus had not done anything for me,
I'll call, live on the air,
and I tell everybody look, I tried Jesus for a week
and nothing has changed and I'm going to kill myself tonight and I will do it on the air.
When I kill myself on this live program, I can say to Allah,
taken my life was for you.
Early the next morning, I was awakened by a sound
I saw my mother walking.
And she was walking perfectly.
I told her we needed to go to the hospital immediately.
The doctors checked the results of the blood work and the MRI.
They said, "This is a miracle",
"There is no MS in her body".
That is not possible.
Something must be wrong.
There is nothing wrong.
This is a miracle.
What Imam did you pray to?
It wasn't an Imam.
It was Jesus.
song: Jesus
When I said those words, Jesus
My heart changed.
I told Jesus, "You are the living God".
You cleansed me and filled me.
"I'll give up my life for you"
Today, Padina and her mother are apostates.
They risk their lives by ministering in Iran's underground church.
Please pray for Christians facing persecution around the world.
song: Until my last breath,
whatever the cost,
I'll serve you, Jesus, Jesus
Jesus, J e s u s,
you hear our prayers, your always near, Jesus.
Please pray.