This week we are sharing excerpts from the testimony of “Mohammed,” a former Muslim who decided to commit his life to Christ, even if it meant he would face rejection and persecution in his native Iran. The words are his, unless otherwise noted in italics. Come back to the Persecution Blog throughout the week to read more of Mohammed's amazing testimony. You may want to read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 prior to reading today’s post.
The next day they took us to the judge for my case; he was a religious leader. So this is how they presented my case, or started. They said they had arrested me in a home with another man and two girls and the girls were not covered. So that was the first thing they brought against me was about those women and I said, “The covering should be on our [men’s] eyes, not on the women.” This made him mad. He said, “You are very crafty if you are saying this to me. What have you told others? You are trying to make yourself holy saying our eyes have to be cleaned.”
So I shared my testimony with the judge about how I was a drug addict and how Jesus has saved me. Since I was freed from my drug addiction I told him from that day on every time I see a drug addict, I share the gospel so they can be free from drugs. I told him, “And this works, I am free from drugs and you can ask them they have been freed from drugs too.”
They were trying to connect me to a [house church] network and I explained to them that I got saved through satellite television and I am doing this because I am so thankful to God because he saved me from addiction that is why I am sharing with others; I am not part of a network. So the judge looked at the case and saw that we were not doing political things, we are just using Christ’s name to help addicts, so he saw that this wasn’t a serious thing so he said ok, go.
I felt the Holy Spirit was on me and whatever [the judge] was asking I knew the Holy Spirit was speaking through me. But there was another person who was arrested that came after me. That person was zealous but the Holy Spirit was not speaking through him so he did not have the wisdom but he had just the zeal. He was not wise he started saying boldly we are Christians this is what we do and you cannot stop us, challenging the judge. So we were about to be released but because of what that person did, the judge said to take them to jail and do more interrogation of them.
I have three kids and I am committed to serving my family 100 percent. But when I knew God is calling me to a mission and I give my family to God and I accept this mission. God knows that I have nothing negative in my heart towards this young Christian that caused us trouble. All I knew is that I believed at that moment that God is sending me for a mission. For ten days they interrogated us. Morning until night they would ask us questions. With our eyes covered and they would bring us back with our eyes covered. For ten days from morning until night.
Interviewer: What kinds of things would they ask you during these 10 days of questioning?
As an example they asked me, “Are you a Christian?” and I said, “Well my ID card says I am a Muslim but I have encountered Jesus and he has changed my life.” “What do you think about the Quran? What kind of book is it?” they asked me. This is the first book for Muslims. They asked me who is Mohammad—Mohammad is a prophet for Muslims. They ask us many, many questions but their main purpose is to find anything to connect us to Israel or to America or to prove that we are supported financially from outside, that we are a part of a network; that was their purpose for questioning.
So they were trying to connect us to another network so they could arrest the rest but we were telling them we got things from the internet. When they asked us where did you get this CD, we said internet, where did you get this, we’d say we got it from the internet. We said all these things we have you can find it on the internet.
And we were telling them this faith works, we are free from drug addiction, if you try it in your own house it will work. We told our interrogators, “If you try Jesus tonight, your life will be changed.”
Come back next week as we wrap up Mohammed's amazing testimony.
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Posted by: STAR777 | April 28, 2013 at 10:15 AM
My old life is finished also. Crank is the drug that most enslaved me, though I did others. I also tried and tried and failed to quit. My parents bought me some expensive furniture as a "reward" for staying off drugs. I traded it for more drugs. It took an almost fatal (I was in a Coma for 3 weeks, a rehabilitation center for 3 months and I am permanently disabled...I still do physical therapy, take pain medication...Thank God I live in America. I'd be dead otherwise....) God allowed that accident to spare me, I wanted to be a missionary until I found out what is happening in the 10/40 window -now every dr., waitress, person at the Young Men's Christian Association hears about Christ, including His body and what we can (and should) do about it! Gal. 6:9,10-Heb. 12:28,29-13:3
Posted by: Jacquelynne Titus | April 26, 2013 at 09:39 PM