Imam embraces Christianity

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The Spanish radio station ?adena ?ope managed to talk with this young Catholic preacher and learn certain facts from the history of his tremendous trials.

“From age 18, I was an imam and regularly delivered sermons,” begins Joseph. “One Friday I was fervently talking about Isa al-Masih [Jesus the Messiah], saying that He was not Allah. When I finished my speech, someone asked me: “But, after all, who is the Messiah?” On that day I could not find a proper answer; my knowledge in this sphere was extremely poor”.

Again and again Mario returned to the Koran, to the Muslim Holy Tradition (the Sunna), to various commentaries of the exegetes of authority, but could not find the answer. To the contrary, he noticed instead that the only woman’s name mentioned in the Koran, was the Name of the Most Holy Mary; moreover, according to tradition Muhammad died, while Isa was taken to Heaven alive. “Then, after long thought, I decided to leave the dead one and to follow the Living one,” explained the young man.

According to Mario, the choice was not an easy one: “Before making the final decision, I besought the Lord for a long time to give me true guidance… Once, still hesitating, I opened the Koran, and I came across the following ayah (inexact translation): “If you doubt what we granted to you, then ask those who read the Scriptures before you. The Truth from your Lord has come to you; so do not be among those hesitant!” Then I started reading the Bible, and upon its completion I was absolutely convinced of truthfulness of the Christian Scriptures; and at last found my God-Redeemer!”

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