To God alone be the glory for making the editing of this book possible.
To My Muslim Brother
My childhood.
Hail brothers and sisters, my name is Moussa Koné. I am the last and the third son of the Koné family. I want to talk to you today about my personal testimony. At the same time, I give you some advice. Brothers and sister, never let yourself be deceived about the salvation of your soul. We can deceive you with a bad check, your wife, your father, your sister can deceive you but on the salvation of your soul. When I was born in 1953, my father, Ibrahim Koné, was already an Imam.
My father, who was very affectionate towards me, led me to read the Koran very early at the age of three. At the age of six, I was enrolled in elementary school, first class. However, only three weeks after I was enrolled, I lost my sight and had an operation. This’ forced to stay at home which suited my father very well because his heart’s desire for me was that I become a serious Quran student and would not prefer to send me to school like my two older brothers . Her own father had 40 children and none of them were sent to school. So, at home, I had no other activity than reading the Quran which I liked greatly.
I must say that the study of the Quran interrupted my basic studies which I only did occasionally at home with my older brothers. At the age of 13, I am a free candidate for the (CEPE). By the age of 14, I could read the Quran so well that I taught other children in my neighborhood. As a result of this, children from different tribal groups came to Islam, even the Baule.
However, one day while reading the Quran with my father, I asked him a question that came to my mind: “If tonight you and I were to die, would we go to Heaven?” He answered me sincerely: “My son, I do not know. And, I cannot know because the Quran does not clearly say if we can enter Heaven.”
I was touched deeply, but my father was sincere with his God, with me, and with himself. He knew that lying would not solve anything because I could search the Quran on my own and find out the truth. The answer bothered me, but did not change my attitude towards studying the holy book of Islam.
And I would like to touch on a passage, since we had the power to use the Quranic verses to do other things.
By the age of 18 I could recite Surah and do a lot of things. I will just mention two experiences I had with the Quran. This is neither to glorify myself nor to glorify Satan, but to show how much I had mastered the Quran.
Initiation as a Muslim Marabout
We left one night in Vredi, at the current location of the SIR (Société Ivoirienne de Raffinerie) in Abidjan, it was around 2 a.m., there was brush and sand, my father, one of his friends called Adama and I sat in the sand. I recited the sura called miracle, Sura Yacin. Ten minutes later, there appeared a strange being a few meters from us. Adama then left us to go talk to this being. And I continued to recite without knowing what was happening, having been ordered to recite because of my ability to recite this Surah Yacine.
This conversation lasted about 20 to 30 minutes after which the being disappeared and Adama came back to join us. My father explained to me that the stranger was a spirit who had come to make a date with us. The next day around 4 p.m., we went to the yard and closed it. There were only the three of us and we had a large male with us. We then began to recite the suras from the Quran.
Really, it was my turn to do it then. While I was reciting the Yacine and the Hayatere korecire, Adama abruptly pronounced the names of Senegal, Burkina-Faso (Haute-Volta at the time), and Togo, and the banknotes of 1000 CFA francs packed in the bags are fallen from the sky. When he said the name Ghana, it was Ghanaian cedi banknotes that fell for us. Since we didn’t need a Ghanaian cedi, we decided to stop.
Besides, the male was full. Where did this money come from? Probably, banks from the countries mentioned. VS’ is why you see that bank tellers often have problems with their bosses and are accused of embezzlement. While we were somewhere manipulating. Suddenly a huge snake appeared on the money in the suitcase. We closed the suitcase and the money should be left for 40 days before it is used. It was my first experience of this kind.
However, the deep knowledge of the Quran gave us another science, another way to use it, and it spawned my second experience. We closed the suitcase and the money should be left for 40 days before it is used. It was my first experience of this kind. However, the deep knowledge of the Quran gave us another science, another way to use it, and it spawned my second experience. We closed the suitcase and the money should be left for 40 days before it is used. It was my first experience of this kind. However, the deep knowledge of the Quran gave us another science, another way to use it, and it spawned my second experience.
Kawatim.
A higher education professor was in love with a white woman, but she was not interested in him. There was no contact between them. However, he came to me to make him a talisman. I asked him for the hair of a white person that he brought back from the Plateau, the Abidjan business district. I did what is known as kawatim. It is a technique of converting a name into numeric digits and arranging them in a square, in a given order. They are then all wrapped in leather or any other object which is ultimately given to the customer.
Those who are marabouts know it. I converted their names into the numbers and arranged them in a square. I put everything in order, and wrote the name of the Prophet Muhammad on all four sides. I poured some liquid next to the kawatim’s writings on the walaha (a wooden slate used for Quranic writing) and gave it to him in a bottle.
It should rub off the liquid. Three months later, they got married and finally had a child who is now fifteen years old. It was a marriage without the woman’s true consent because she was manipulated by a demonic force that we have used through the Quran. Today this couple has a thousand problems and my friend is unhappy.
The power of the devil has an end while that of God is unlimited. After my conversion, I confessed with tears in front of this man explaining to him that it was the fruit of the devil This was a step for you quoted a little what we were doing with the mastery of the Koran, but it has nothing to do with real Islam. it has been manipulated by a demonic force that we have used throughout the Quran. Today this couple has a thousand problems and my friend is unhappy.
The power of the devil has an end while that of God is unlimited. After my conversion, I confessed with tears in front of this man explaining to him that it was the fruit of the devil This was a step for you quoted a little what we were doing with the mastery of the Koran, but it has nothing to do with real Islam. it has been manipulated by a demonic force that we have used throughout the Quran. Today this couple has a thousand problems and my friend is unhappy. The power of the devil has an end while that of God is unlimited. After my conversion, I confessed with tears in front of this man explaining to him that it was the fruit of the devil This was a step for you quoted a little what we were doing with the mastery of the Koran, but it has nothing to do with real Islam.
A Bible thrown into the Sea.
Despite all the knowledge of Quranic Surah I had, the question I asked my father tormented me: “If you and I should die, will we go to Heaven?” Nevertheless, life continued as before and my father had all the honor and respect due to him. We were all very happy about this. He had everything he wanted except cash. I therefore had to work to help the family. I started working at the Post and Telecommunications Department and later SONITRA and SOTICI in Abidjan.
In 1980, I became a sailor. It was after the discovery of oil in Côte d’Ivoire, on the shores of Grand Bassam. I was among the first Ivorians to work on these oil bases. VS’ were American platforms that drilled in the sea to extract oil. I initially went to work as a replacement for two weeks, but I stayed there for eight years. And it was during these eight years that I had the most extraordinary experiences with the Lord which and which have transformed my life.
In 1984, I was on a very large vessel belonging to the SEDCO Company. The Captain was named Welford, a man from Mississippi. One day this man met me on the deck of the boat and asked me if I was a Muslim. He asked this question because he knew my name. I replied in the affirmative. So he said to me, “Tonight I’m coming to your cabin to chat with you.” And there we already found ourselves in the Gulf of Mexico because the contract in Ivory Coast had ended.
It really surprised me that this man came to see me. I was completely amazed because the Captain of a ship is like a President of the Republic on his ship. He is the most important person. Plus, I was the only black on this ship that was really big and, my room was on the ground floor his was on the fourth floor. Several questions crossed my mind.
Had I done something serious? Why didn’t he order me to go upstairs to see him instead? So, like to announce, I was there at 8 p.m., the Captain arrived. It happened just as I was reading my Quran. He knocked on my bedroom door, and walked in and sat down next to me. He had in his hand a book with “Holy Bible” written on it. The Captain told me that he had come this evening to talk to me about Jesus. Suddenly I was filled with great anger because just the name of Jesus irritated me.
I got up suddenly, took the Bible he had put on my bed, and threw it out the porthole into the sea. I was very glad I threw this Bible into the sea, it got me. relieved and I was very proud. I thought I the had bored and was waiting for his reaction. But when I looked up at him, I saw a huge smile on his face. He was calm and did not lose his patience in any way. I was completely amazed because I could never have accepted someone to behave the way towards me.
Who would dare to throw my Koran into the sea? The Captain said quietly to me, “Calm down, my boy.” I answered him. “You know that I am a Muslim and Muhammad is my prophet. Allah is my God. If you do this again, I will leave the boat and return home to Abidjan.” After this conversation, he stopped talking to me directly about Jesus Christ. He did not get angry or discouraged. From that day on, he loved me very much and became closer to me. He came up to me while I was working in the machine room. He gave me soft drinks as the weather was hot, showed me affection, helped me with my job, and talked to me about his life, which he didn’t mess with. other white people on the boat. I was really touched.
Now at the end of 4 years, I should go home to take a vacation and spend some time with my family. I said to him, “I am going home to share the little money I have earned with my parents, because they are poor. While for you, you are very rich.” He replied, “I am not rich. Everything belongs to God. He gave it to me for my family and for my needs,” he spoke to me modestly. It touched me again, because I knew he was rich. Actually, he owned an airplane and a helicopter as well as several other properties. He further added, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.” This proverb caught my attention. He had a real impact on me. I didn’t know it was a bible verse.
However, I understood that it was difficult for a rich man to enter Heaven and his riches could take him to hell. I came back to Abidjan with this thought in my head. My father was not there. He was in Bouaké ‚where he was Imam in the industrial zone district. Before going to join him there, I met a Ghanaian friend who had worked on platforms with me.
He was in Bouaké ‚where he was Imam in the industrial zone district. Before going to join him there, I met a Ghanaian friend who had worked on platforms with me. He was in Bouaké ‚where he was Imam in the industrial zone district. Before going to join him there, I met a Ghanaian friend who had worked on platforms with me.
He told me that an American who lives in Cocody wanted to see me. I refused to go because I had spent a lot of my time with the Americans on the boat and I wasn’t particularly excited to meet him. I therefore went to spend nine months of my vacation with my family and often prayed with my father. After my period of leave, I went back to sea and when I returned to Abidjan a year later.
The same Ghanaian was there again and my remaking the same American invitation as if I were there and turning the same pages of a book. We went to find this man who was almost my age, His name was John Weed, and we started a conversation about the Quran that he knew very well. I did not know that day he was a Christian or not. He spoke Arabic wonderfully well since he had been a missionary in Egypt.
This conversation sparked in me the same question that I had asked my father: “Am I saved?” My vacation on land was coming to an end, I returned to sea, on a Danish vessel. In addition to my Quran in French, I bought an English Arabic Quran and some Hadiths (stories that tell of Muhammad’s actions and proverbs). I have personally decided to research the subject of my salvation.
At that time, I had a salary of some 350,000 CFA francs (i.e. $ 700 US) for 28 days of work, and I looked like a serious boy to my father but at the end of the world where I was, I began to lead a life of debauchery at our several ports of call. However, I never missed my prayer times and always respect the correct prayer time. I had a pocket Quran which I always kept with me. But only Islam did not prevent me from leading this life of debauchery.
However, what I carefully avoided were cigarettes and alcohol. As I led this life, the same question continued to torment me. I therefore decided to do some research. I remind you brothers and sisters, someone one may trick you into giving you a bad check, but when it happens about the salvation of your soul, it is important to be very careful that no one cheats on you, because the soul does not come back to the world after death. She will be facing God’s judgment, so there is no possibility of starting your life over from scratch, or going through purgatory. It is therefore vital to make sure now that you are on the path to truth.
My Research about Salvation.
In the evening, I started to do my research in my room after work and after saying my 8 prayers of the day. I did it very quietly. I was alone and struggled to concentrate. I had entrusted this to God. All I had for my research was the Quran. The Quran has 114 suras and 6247 verses.
Regarding my salvation, I took the 100th Sura, verses 6, 7 and 8 which say “Verily, a man is ungrateful to his Lord and he himself is a witness.” This verse declared to me my state of sin now that I was a witness of it, and that God knew it. As I progressed in my search, I realized that I was not saved, but that I was a sinner. I found in the 101st sura the following verses: ” Whoever has done full work in the balance will have paradise as his home. But, whoever does less good works will have a ditch for his home. The ditch is a blazing fire. “
So, I am a sinner and my sins will be numbered and “weighed.” And I asked myself the following question: “If I am already a sinner (according to sura 100), how can I do more good works than bad to go to Heaven?” To continue my research, I read the 102nd sura, verse 6-8: “You will see hell , you will certainly see hell and you will realize your good done on this earth”.
So there I say to myself, here is another verse that tells me that I see hell. Outside I was like someone looking for an escape, but it was like a shock! The Koran actually told me that I would certainly see Hell. Already he declared me guilty of sin in the 100th sura and in the 101st sura he told me that my sins will be numbered, and while I was looking for an exit he told me that I could not escape. However, I needed a solution because these suras did not offer me consolation.
I continued my research and came to the 107th Sura where it is written, “Woe to those who neglectly founds prayer.” It is true that I prayed regularly. But who knows if since my childhood when I am thirty five years old today, that I might have neglected some prayers?
The Koran was clear. One should not intentionally accumulate prayers by skipping the hours, because the balance of prayer is of great importance. All this did not give me a point of salvation. I was looking at the 11th sura, verse 120: “If the Lord had so willed, He would have made all the nations one people: But they will not cease to debate … and the word and the will of the Lord must be fulfilled , when she said: I will completely fill the
I was filled with anguish. How can we escape this? I was looking for my salvation like a sick person would seek healing, but I could not find an effective remedy with the Quran. But all the same, the next day, I resumed my Koran in the evening. I read the 19th sura, verses 71 and 72: “There will be none of you who will not be rushed there: then those who fear God will be saved and the wicked will remain on their knees”.
So everyone will be thrown into it, thrown into hell even if it’s just for a minute, because if we do good works, we also do bad and we need to be purified to go to heaven. For someone who was doing good works, I was not happy to learn that I would go through Hell again. For the Koran,
If I had to meet thugs from Abidjan in hell who know me, they would say to me, “So Moussa, you who led a life of prayers with your father are you also here with us?” My brothers and sisters, I looked in the 114 suras of the Quran, I could quote you even more. I examined them one by one, and there was no one who could tell me for sure that I would go to Heaven. No verse of the Quran gives us salvation, it is impossible. I was very anxious. I closed the Quran, and went to bed with fear and despair in my heart.
The Bible Truth Confirmed.
After these salvation inquiries, there was another issue that bothered me: whether the Injil (Gospel) and Torahs are true or not? I remembered that several times in Abidjan, Christians had tried to preach the Gospel to me. I always replied that their book had been falsified. This is what every good Muslim believes. However, I wanted to be clear in my own mind about salvation. As usual, after 8 p.m. after saying my prayer, I opened my Quran to sura 2, verse 130.
In other versions it corresponds to verse 135, and it says; “Say: We believe in Allah and in that which was revealed to us, and in that they were not brought down to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the Tribes, and in the book which was given to Moses and to Jesus, and to the book which was given to the prophets from their Lord: we make no distinction between them. And to Him we are Submitted.
“Now I understood: God gave his book to Moses and Jesus. The book of Moses is the Pentateuch, and that of Jesus the Injil, that is to say, the Gospel The Qur’an therefore told me not to differentiate between these books and that theMuslims , should submit themselves to the will of God.
I had never read the book of Moses or Jesus. In the Qur’an, the stories of Moses and Jesus are scattered among the suras. Where was I going to find these books? Was I going to touch the Christian Bible when I threw it into the sea? If I read from the book Jesus and he told me that he was the only way was, what should I believe in that? The Quran’s command was clear: I should not differentiate between all these books and the Quran. I was supposed to have faith in them. But would God ask me to believe in a falsified book? I was now embarrassed. I thought the book was corrupted, but the Quran ordered that I obey it.
I continue my meditation, I have come to the fifth sura in verse 47, which says: ” But how would they ask you to be their judge when they have with them the Pentateuch in which the precepts of Allah are found? And they turned away. ”This verse relates to Muhammad and the Jews. God was telling Muhammad that the Jews cannot take him to be a judge or a judge since they have the Pentateuch.
The lesson I have learned from me. I pulled from it was that if anyone has the Pentateuch, he has the Word of God. This book came from God and therefore contains the Word of God. Therefore, it cannot be corrupted. In the same sura, verse 50 says: “After other prophets, We sent them Jesus, son of Mary, to confirm what was in the Torah before him. And We gave him the Gospel, where there is guide and light, to confirm what
I was deeply touched by the fact that the Quran says that it is God himself who gave the gospel to Jesus, and that the gospel is counsel and light for all people, and that he confirms the book of Moses which is the Torah or the Pentateuch. Verse 51 of sura 5 says: “Let the people of the Gospel judge by what Allah has put there. Those who do not judge by what Allah has put there, they are lost. . ” I therefore understood that the one who leads his life according to the gospel is led by God. So I found in the Quran the confirmation that the Gospel is the Word of God given to Jesus.
All the same, I continue my research, and verse 72 of the same 5th sura says to me: “Say: O people of the Book, you do not stand on anything, as long as you do not conform to the Torah and the Gospel and to that which is given to you from your Lord. ” This clearly states that a person who calls himself a Christian must be grounded in his book which is the Gospel, or otherwise nothing is solid. You can check this for yourself. It is all written in the Quran. I am not creating anything. The 3rd sura tells me this in the 109th verse: “But they are not all the same.
There is a righteous community among the People of the Book who in the hours of the night recites the verses of Allah while bowing down.” I said to myself: “Before the arrival of Muhammad and Islam, the Word of God already existed with the Christians. Why would God send another contradictory Word, because the Quran and the Bible are completely opposite? “How can God who is Holy and righteous do this?
I started to worry and have doubts , and questions continued to flood my mind, and for good reason: The Bible I rejected was confirmed through the Quran. Nonetheless, I was not discouraged. I looked at the 10th Sura, verse 94: “And if you are in doubt as to what We have made known to you, then question those who read the Book revealed before you. The truth has indeed come to you from your Lord: therefore do not be of those who doubt. ” because the Quran and the Bible are completely opposite? “How can God who is holy and righteous do this? I started to worry and have doubts, and the questions continued to flood my mind, and for good reason: The Bible I rejected was confirmed through the Quran.
Nevertheless, I was not discouraged. I looked at the 10th sura, verse 94: “And if you are in doubt about what We are ‘have made known, then ask those who read the revealed Book before you. The truth has indeed come to you from your Lord: therefore do not be of those who doubt. ” because the Quran and the Bible are completely opposite? “How can God who is holy and righteous do this? I started to worry and have doubts, and the questions continued to flood my mind, and for good reason: The Bible I rejected was confirmed through the Quran. Nevertheless, I was not discouraged. I looked at the 10th sura, verse 94: “And if you are in doubt about what We are ‘have made known, then ask those who read the revealed Book before you. The truth has indeed come to you from your Lord: therefore do not be of those who doubt.
This verse was addressed directly to Muhammad the founder of Islam. I liked Muhammad a lot but he did not understand this verse which told him: “Muhammad, if you are in doubt, ask those who received the Holy Scriptures before you.” He was asked to consult those who read the Gospel and the Pentateuch, namely Christians and Jews, because they have received revelations from God. Now, I ask myself, if during these moments of doubt, I, Moussa, could go and ask those who received the Holy Scriptures before me. I then had to comply without any doubt with this specific verse which is a commandment of the Quran.
I asked myself: Suppose I close the Quran to go and question “those who received the Holy Scriptures before me,” as the Quran commands me and on the way I meet a Muslim brother who wants to persuade me to go back, what should I do? Should I obey the man or the Quran? I should obey the Quran. The Qur’an, however, tells me to ask those who “received the Holy Scriptures before me.” How could God tell a prophet to go and consult a book said to be corrupt?
But the Quran has eight verses which attest that the word of God cannot be changed. Whoever gave the Pentateuch to Moses, as well as the Gospel to Jesus, and God watches over his Word. Therefore It cannot be twisted. No verse in the Quran states that the Bible has been tampered with. However, there is a part of the Quran which says that the Jews twisted the Word of God through their tongue. When Muhammad referred to them, they were asking them to tell him the things that were in the Pentateuch and they did not unroll the whole parchment and said to him: “Rahina, you will hear but you will not understand”
In other words, the Qur’an nowhere says that the Holy Scriptures that came before it were falsified but that the man in the street who says that. Please open your eyes this is for you. Do nothing in a man’s word, even if he is an Imam or a marabout. Rather, consult the book, the Holy Scriptures, the Word of God, it is important to know where you are.
I was already in my sixth month on the boat and should summarize my research. I didn’t go out to the nightclub anymore. I had lost the weight. I had dropped from 80 kg to 60 kg. I was concerned about my salvation, however the book that I loved so much from childhood did not reassure me. No verse has told me that I can enter Heaven. The person who knows the Quran knows what I am talking about. I wanted to check if the Bible was corrupt but there was nothing to do, the Bible is the truth confirmed by the Quran. The Quran tells me eight times that the Word of God cannot be changed. So I even found the confirmation of the Pentateuch and the Gospel in the Quran.
Jesus Christ, the Holy Crucified and Risen. A. The Sacred. As I continued my research, I knew that the one who was the subject of controversy and struggle was Jesus. Christians say he is the Son of God while Muslims say that God cannot begot a child and that is not possible. Did he take a wife to have a child. “It is blasphemy,” they say. Because of this controversy, I decided to continue my research on the person of Jesus. I took the 19th sura where his birth is announced.
It is written in verses 16 and 17:
“Mention, in the Book (The Story of Mary), Mary, when she withdrew from her family to a place towards the East. She put a veil between her and them. We sent her Our Spirit, who presented himself to her. she in the form of a perfect man. She said: ‘I take refuge against you in the Most Gracious. If you are pious, [come not near to me]. He said:’ I am in fact a Messenger of your Lord to give you a sacred son “. Commentators on the Qur’an agree that “sacred” is “without sin.” In the 114 suras, I found out that five different titles greater than the others were assigned to him.
He is called, the Messiah, and the Son of Mary, because no one knew him to have a human father. Unlike Muhammad who is called the “son of Apostle of God, the Spirit of God and the Word of God. It was said of Him in the 3rd sura in verse 40, one of close proximity to God, honored on this earth and in the Hereafter. In the 114 suras of the Koran, no sin is attributed to him. He came to heal and take care of people. During his short existence, he did nothing but good works.
The Koran (third sura, verse 35) compares him to Adam because he is superior to the other prophets. He is the manifestation of the greatest miracle. In fact, he is taller than Adam because the latter was made of dust. When he died he turned to dust while Jesus is the Spirit of God and the Word of God. When he died he returned to God but not to the dust. It was said of Him in the 3rd sura in verse 40, one of close proximity to God, honored on this earth and in the Hereafter. In the 114 suras of the Koran, no sin is attributed to him. He came to heal and take care of people. During his short existence, he did nothing but good works.
I therefore recognized that Jesus is superior to Adam. In addition, Adam and the other prophets are sinners. Adam’s sin can be found in 36 of the second sura, that of Moses in sura 28, verses 15 and 16, and that of Jonah in sura 37, verse 142.
As for Muhammad, his sins are not mentioned, but it is said of him in surah 40, believing him: “Oh Muhammad, the promises of God are the truth: ask forgiveness of your sins in the morning and in the evening and that you will be granted. ” Also read Suras 47:19 and 48: 1.
I thought to myself, “Muhammad also sinned. So, then, how is it that Jesus never sinned? Why is he above all the other prophets?” I was indignant and jealous for Muhammad, I ended up having a lot of respect and consideration for Jesus. He has lived on this earth for over 30 years, and there is no mention of his sins. My God, who is this man? I gently closed the Quran that day which was an exceptional day, and the next day I continued my research after 8pm when I finished the job. During this period, we spent a week at sea without docking or seeing land. I stared at the sea through the porthole, stretched out, the sky too, and the two seemed to meet on the horizon.
Jesus crucified and risen.
Some Christians have told me that Jesus was crucified and that for this reason their sins were forgiven. I thought it was too good to be true. I therefore wanted to be sure about him. I opened the Koran to the fourth sura entitled: Women, in verse 156: “They say that we have killed Christ, Jesus, son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah … However, they neither have it. killed or crucified; another person like him was killed in his stead! but Allah raised him up alive to Himself.
And Allah is Mighty and Wise. ” It was the happiest day of my life. It was the first time since I started my research in six months that I had found a verse that contradicted Christians, and the Quran really struck me. I went to sleep with the intend to continue my research in the next few days. I had changed. I no longer went to nightclubs although my friends invited me. They wondered why but I avoided telling them because they couldn’t understand what was going on between God and me.
The next day I opened the Quran in verse 48 of the third sura (or around 55, according to other versions). It says, “Oh Jesus, I will put you to death, I will lift you up to Me, and I will deliver you from unbelievers and those who follow you will be above those who do not believe in you until the day of resurrection. You will come back to me, I will judge your differences. ” This verse knocked me out.
It had the effect of a hammer on me. In fact, two elements of this sura contradict verse 156 of the fourth sura. The Quran states in the fourth sura: “They did not kill him, they did not crucify him,” while in the third sura in verse 48 (or 55), the same Quran says that: “God said to Jesus: I will put you to death, at the resurrection. I was not really ready to accept this!
At that precise moment, the other questions crossed my mind, especially about the fourth sura where the crucifixion is refuted. How can the God of glory, the mighty God, deceive men? How could he claim and make men believe that Jesus Christ was crucified when he was not? It is not typical of God. God in his power and glory, he lifted up Jesus Christ in all sovereignty without the need for anyone. What would God gain from hiding the truth when He Himself is the Truth?
I continued my research and read the 19th Sura until verse 34. Jesus Christ, very little child in his manger, said this: “Peace will be upon me in the day that I am born, in the day that I die, and in the day where I will be resurrected alive. ” We accept the fact that peace remained with him on the day of his birth, on the day of his resurrection, but not on the day he died because we do not want to accept his death. However, there cannot be resurrection without death.
This verse indirectly attests that Jesus Christ was killed and rose from the dead. I was convinced of it. I had understood a lot of things during these six months. In fact, on the boat alone with my Koran, I realized this certainty that:
– In the Koran; there is no salvation!
– That the Koran confirms the veracity of the Bible; – That Jesus Christ is above the other prophets. He is the Messiah, the Apostle of God, the son of Mary, the Spirit of God, the Word of God, one of God’s trusted men, honored here below and in the Hereafter. I was further convinced that He was crucified.
Appearance of a Supernatural Being.
After all these revelations, I didn’t know what to do. I tried to let off steam with the others for seven months already, but it was no longer exciting. I couldn’t eat. I was gloomy because I knew I was not saved. However, one evening I was like, “If these trials I’m going through are from God, then he should prove it to me physically. He should show me what to do, speak to me with an audible voice. Tonight when I came back. in my cabin I spoke to God in Jula, my mother tongue and not in Arabic. I told him this: “My father is Imam.
When I am with him, I lead the prayers. All my uncles are Imams. I am the descendant of an Imam. For this reason, I cannot give up Islam. “I turned off the light, it was 9:30 p.m., so suddenly another light appeared in my cabin. Someone was there. First I was scared but after his presence didn’t scare me anymore but reassured me. The person in question approached me and put his hand on my right shoulder. I remember this episode as if it only happened yesterday.
He spoke to me, saying that everything I needed to know has already been revealed to me and it was up to me to decide to believe or not to believe. After this, everything turned dark again. I took a look in my room (cabin) to see this Being but I couldn’t find it, it was completely gone. Finally I knocked on the door of my neighbor, a Dane. He stepped out, his eyes red with sleep. He was also drunk. I asked him if he was in my room a few seconds earlier. He replied, “Are you crazy? What would I have come to your room to do at this hour?” I apologized and returned to my cabin. Overwhelmed by the vision, I could not sleep the whole night.
The Koran burnt.
The following evening, after supper and prayer, I repeated my request to God. I took the Quran and recited Surah Yassin. I didn’t know you had to challenge God, and when you challenge God, he shows you who he really is. I was reading when I suddenly saw a burning charcoal in the right page of my Quran. Before I could react, another hot coal fell from above. Two coals were burning my Koran. After there were several others. I would sit on my bed with my legs crossed and with my back to the wall. The Koran began to burn. I looked up and there was indeed the ceiling of my cabin and not the sky. So where did these hot coals come from?
I was scared, but not for my safety. I was afraid because the sacred book of Islam, every Muslim’s book, the book I was holding, was on fire. This book which is the guide of a billion people in the world, a book in which approximately 50% of the population of Côte d’Ivoire believe, went up in flames! By the time I was waiting to receive the burn in my hands, everything burned, despite the hard cardboard cover that bound the Quran. Instead of being burnt myself, I received nothing but ash in my hand.
That day, I felt the greatest terror of my life. I have never been so scared. This episode lasted thirty minutes. I was left terrified by what I went through and I did not sleep until the morning. I had four sleepless nights because I resisted sleep, but on the fifth day, I couldn’t resist. I have been overcome by a deep sleep. I woke up late the next day.
During this sleep, I had a dream. In this dream, I saw a tall man who was standing in front of me. He had eyes as clear as the headlights of a car and they dazzled me. He was approaching me. I was scared, scared a lot, but suddenly my fear gave way to courage and I went to meet him. As I was going to touch him, he stopped and I asked him his name.
He refused to tell me who he was. Instead, he began to recite the Islamic creed: “Laila la l’ho: Mahomet lah du rassoula.” So he withdrew and disappeared. I woke up with a start and realized at that precise moment that there was something in me that was stronger than what was in him. In the morning, I felt much better and relaxed at my work. I felt like there was a change in my life. I had more strength and my nights became normal.
But now it was necessary to draw a conclusion from all this, I found that there is no salvation in the Quran and that the Pentateuch and the Gospel are books of God. I also realized that Jesus is a Prophet above all prophets, that he is without sin unlike other prophets, and that he was crucified. I had asked God to give me some physical proof. There was this physical vision, the burning of the Koran and then and this person symbol of Islam who fled in my dream.
My engagement.
I had spent eight months on the boat and was reaching the end of my contract. I landed definitively, I returned to Abidjan and found in Cocody (Abidjan) the missionary who had contacted me through my Ghanaian colleague previously. Without giving him a detailed report, I told him that I will accept Jesus Christ now. We prayed together. This prayer was so sincere that for the first time I knew I had really spoken to God. I confessed my sins. I was full of joy. It was wonderful. This is the day I accepted it.
I walked out of his house and headed for the Cocody Post Office. There, I suddenly and unconsciously stopped because of my deep concentration on Jesus near a newspaper kiosk that belongs to a Senegalese. I closed my eyes and, like in a movie, I saw all the sins pass before my eyes, sins committed in nightclubs, my indecent sins, the sin of invoking money bills, and so on. right now. I was there for only about 2 minutes as many of my sins paraded before my eyes.
I opened my eyes and around me there was a gathering. The old Senegalese who had followed everything from the beginning asked me what was going on. I just replied, “It’s Jesus,” and I continued on my way. He didn’t understand a thing, he said to those who were there, “Sure, he’s crazy.” I knew that Jesus Christ had entered my life and that it was he who had forgiven me and given thisindescribable joy .
To My Muslim Brother.
I hope I have helped you to discover the source of this indescribable joy through this brief testimony. You have seen my determination to follow the Quran despite the contradictions I detected in it. You have fully realized that I was attached to the religion of my fathers. However, I thank God for giving me the strength to say yes to the truth proclaimed by the Bible.
Muslim friend, what are you going to do? Will you follow the “uncertainties” of the Qur’an or will you go alongside the one who is the truth, Jesus Christ who now assures you of salvation and of course, in the Hereafter? Even though you’ve been deceived in all religions and by the different ways, but don’t accept it when it’s about the salvation of your soul.
Do not trust the simple words of an Imam or a marabout but take the Quran and scrutinize it, study it. If you are called Abdoulaye, Moussa, Maimouna, Fatou, Bakary or any other name, don’t say, “Because my father is a Muslim, I am also a Muslim.” Ask yourself if you are saved? If you die today, will you go to Heaven? This is the question you must answer.
You will certainly find in your Quranic research that you can be saved through your good works, but think about it for a moment: are you sure that you are doing enough of the good deeds to earn a place in Heaven? When you do good deeds, you also do bad deeds that God sees. This is why the Quran cannot assure you of salvation. You will only find “uncertainties” in the Quran when the Bible you reject is confirmed by the Quran. He is the only path above all other paths.
Don’t trust your wealth or your social rank. Don’t look around you. Look at your own life. The important thing is that your sins be forgiven, and the only way it takes is Jesus Christ. He forgives your sins, even what you have committed from your youth. Doesn’t the Quran say that those who follow Jesus are above those who do not believe in him? My Muslim friend, what are you going to do? “Come! Follow me!” said Jesus. Will you do it?
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