Editor’s Note: Distributing Bibles in Islamic nations is not a trivial task or without danger. Over the past two decades, we have freed hundreds of our smugglers from capture and have buried over a thousand involved in distributing or receiving Bibles.
In America, we are blessed to casually sit in a favorite chair and read the words of God that He has preserved for every generation. But in the Islamic world, possessing a Bible can be a death sentence. They are not offered like tracts on the street corners of free countries. Our people carefully determine the sincerity of the person to whom they witness before offering them a Bible. Once given, that person reads it covertly, carefully concealing it from their family members. They must find hiding places for their Bible in their home or outside under a rock or buried in the ground.
The articles we prepare for you come from our smugglers and are the testimonies of those whom you, by your donations to our Smugglers ministry, have helped them bring to Christ. Here is a recent example.

Greetings to all of you in the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ. I’d like to take this opportunity to express my deepest gratitude to all of you for your prayers and financial support, which has resulted in the Lord expanding our borders and helping us to spread the gospel around our country, delivering the message of God’s salvation to those who live in delusion and confusion. We share with them the Word of God that gives life and a personal relationship with God and fills us with all love, grace, peace, understanding, and divine knowledge of the truth that is in Christ. And contrary to everything they have learned and memorized through their Islamic religious education, the gospel has no confusion or contradictions. Hearing it brings them great joy and peace. Here, I want to give you the testimony of one of our new converts.

There is a 24-year-old convert, a woman who grew up in a very devout Muslim family. Like other girls in our country, she learned how to obey the teachings of the Quran, the rituals, and the traditions of her sect, as dictated by the leaders of the clergy in her sect. The list of rules and regulations she was to obey seemed endless, and of course, she was required to obey all of them without any questions.

She was the youngest of her five siblings, and her mother taught them how to practice their religious rituals. At the age of six, her mother enrolled her in a private Islamic school to learn the religion. During those years, she studied the Quran and the prophets mentioned in the Quran, their lives, what heavenly teachings they taught, and how their lives ended.

In the Quran and study of Islam, people learn about Christ, but they see him only as a human prophet, secondary to Mohammad, not as the Son of God or Savior. So, when she studied about Jesus in the Quran, what caught her attention was the personality of Christ, and she realized that Christ was special from all the other prophets in his birth, his life, his wonderful behavior, his merciful deeds, all the miracles he performed, not to mention his ascension to Heaven, and even in his return at the end of time. (They believe Jesus will return with Mohammad, being subordinate to him, and will arrive in Damascus, not Jerusalem.)

She was very surprised by Christ’s character, and one time, she dared to say to her mother, “As a Muslim, I feel jealous because the character of Christ in the Quran seems more important and desirable than the character of the Prophet Muhammad.” Hearing these words, her mother said to her, “Don’t say this again. Our Prophet Muhammad is the seal of all the prophets, and he is the greatest of them all in the sight of Allah.”

As she grew older and studied the prophet’s biography more deeply, she began to discover problems, contradictions, and stories about the prophet Mohammad that couldn’t be explained or justified. There was one issue in particular that troubled her: it was the story of one of the prophet’s wives, whom he married when she was eight years old, and to this day, she is considered one of the most controversial figures in Islamic history. This is because of her role in writing many of the prophetic Hadiths (teachings) about her relationship with the prophet Muhammad and how the revelations came to him while he was in bed with her. Because of this, she was considered the mother of the believers, and she would speak to the prophet every time he married a new woman, saying to him, “Your Lord is the Lord of your desires and your lust.” She said this because he would claim that Allah had revealed to him that he should marry those many women. She also had a role after the death of Muhammad in killing two caliphs by sowing discord among the Muslim followers and starting the battle that divided the Muslims between the two sects of Sunnis and Shiites.

The more she read Islamic books and studied the prophet’s biography, the more she became alienated and distanced herself from believing in Islam, which started to scare her. Still, at the same time, she felt that she loved Allah, the Creator, but struggled to accept the concept that the prophet Muhammad was the greatest and the best prophet of all Allah’s prophets. After all her study and reading, she could no longer accept Mohammad’s supremacy and began to compare the differences between the teachings of Christ and the teachings of Muhammad. These were dangerous thoughts if discovered, so she was afraid to share what was going on inside her mind with anyone. The main question that would not leave her was this: If all Muslims read what she reads and know what she knows, why do they still believe in Mohammad? She was afraid to face her many questions, so she began to pray to God to guide her and strengthen her faith because she had begun to lose confidence in her religion.

By this time, she had stopped praying according to the Islamic tradition; instead, she prayed, asking God to relieve her worries and guide her to the right path. One night she went to sleep and was very sad because of a dream that had frightened her. In her dream, she saw that her private Islamic school was completely demolished, and in the blink of an eye, a second building appeared in its place, looking like a church, with a huge cross radiating light on it. Then she heard a voice saying, “Don’t be afraid; I am with you.”

The voice startled her, and she woke up terrified by her dream. She was concerned as to the meaning of it. The next morning, she told her mother what she had seen in her dream, and her mother told her, “Don’t be afraid because you saw something about Christianity because it is a good thing.” And with those words, she felt a little relieved. This dream was repeated to her eighteen times that year, but the last time, the message was different; the voice said to her, “I am the light of the world, he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”

That message made her decide to research how she could know Christ and how she could have the light of life. At the same time, she was very afraid of that step because she knew what could happen to her if her family found out. Still, could not forget that voice saying, “Don’t be afraid.”  She waited more than six months trying to read Islamic books about Christ, and each day she read, she had the same dream, with the same voice and the same message. She began to pray to Christ and asked Christ to help her find someone who could help her to know Him. She felt that she was in a helpless position and didn’t know what she needed to do to find Christ.

It was then that the Lord opened the door for her to meet a sister in one of our house churches. When our church member opened the subject of the Lord Jesus Christ, her eyes opened widely in amazement, and she jumped off the chair, embraced our sister, and began to cry, saying, “He has responded to me!” Our sister brought her to my home, and she shared her story with us. Then I opened the Bible and started to present to her who the Lord Jesus Christ is and how the words she heard in her dream were quotes from the Bible that she had never read, seen, or touched. I told her that her search was over and that very day, she could have a personal relationship with him. After I finished my witness, she came to the knowledge of salvation and accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as her personal savior.