Talking about miracles nowadays is very different from before. When education and technology "advances", human beings' self esteem and even arrogance pop up with an even greater pace than our accumulation of knowledge. However, one thing remains unchanged: our academic and technological advances cannot quench our desire to search for God and the ultimate purposes of our existence. The following is a touching and genuine story of Mohammed who grew up in a Fulani tribe in Nigeria. He started rearing cattle when he was six years old. He did this for almost 10 years until his father decided to send him to an Arabic school to study the Qur’an (Koran).
Then, he had a nightmare one night. He saw people suffering in his dream and he was beaten by a group of vicious men. He was locked inside a very hot room by them. It was so hot that his flesh began to peel off his body. He woke up as he began screaming and trying to kick the door open. The next night, he had another dream. He came to the same location as in the first and was beaten and taken to the same room again. Suddenly, a man dressed in white appeared and the room became cold and the people who were beating him disappeared! The man stretched his hand out and held Mohammed’s hand, saying, “My son, what are you doing here? Do you want me to take you home?” Within a second Mohammed was back home, and the man dressed in white said to him, "I love you, my son.”
Two weeks later, Mohammed had a third dream. He was in the bush and was in danger. Also, a man dressed in black was urging him to jump over a bottomless pit while a lion was roaring at him. The man in white from his previous dream appeared suddenly, and the threatening man and lion disappeared! Mohammed was brought safely back home another time. For the next six nights, Mohammed had similar dreams.
On the seventh night however, Mohammed had a different dream so that he was sitting under a tree reading books that he couldn’t understand. The man in white came to him and asked Mohammed if he wanted help. This man is Jesus who took a book and said, “This book comes from the Lord and it has the message of God inside of it. In this book, I will show you verses which will help you.” Jesus read scriptures to Mohammed, including John 14:6, which says, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” He explained this to Mohammed and told him that He was the way and the Savior of the world. Jesus also told him that he would face many trials after becoming a Christian. Jesus subsequently asked him if he wanted to accept His Salvation. Mohammed said yes and Jesus disappeared.
The story continued and Mohammed was led to Christ ultimately. He then told his parents that he had become a Christian. Nevertheless, Mohammed’s father forced him to drink poison after the hope to keep him as a Muslim vanished. Mohammed prayed to Jesus for help and swallowed the poison. The next morning, to his father’s dismay, Mohammed was still alive. Later, his family tried to kill him by shooting him with a poisoned arrow. He was saved again by a passing-by hunter who took him to a hospital for treatment.
After all these events, his family tried to persuade him to leave Christianity by offering him one hundred cows and told him he could have three wives if he were to abandon the Christian faith. Eventually, Mohammed made his choice – but it was to leave his family since he was determined to follow Christ with His promise of eternal life which his father could never offer.
Praise the Lord, his father a few years later while on his deathbed, asked Mohammed for forgiveness and said he was ready to receive Jesus as his Savior, too. Mohammed led his father in the sinner’s prayer and three hours later, his father passed away.
If you wish to look at the personal testimony of Mohammed through a video clip, please go to More Than Dreams.
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