By Michael Ashcraft –
Fady was born in Egypt but grew up and lived in Kuwait. He was born a Coptic Christian but got mad at God and to show his frustration with God apparently not answering his prayer became a Muslim.
“I have my certificate, it says I’m number 40. Forty people converted to Islam in the country. I was the first Egyptian to do that,” Fady says on Mohamad Faridi’s YouTube channel. “They were so proud they wanted me to go on TV and they were like oh you want to go live you want to go to TV.”
Fady declined; he didn’t want to become a poster boy for Islam. He was just angered that God didn’t hear his plea to save his grandma’s life, to get his parents to stop fighting, etc.
When he became Muslim, he was given a hero’s welcome by the Kuwaiti, who invited him to their homes and cooked for him.
In one of those homes, he met a Kuwaiti girl, and he got a crush on her. (Most Kuwaiti women use the hijab, which covers the hair but allows you to see the face.) Fady hoped to marry her, and he knew he needed her father’s permission, so he worked hard at his auditory job.
For 10 years, Fady was Muslim, and he mocked the Christians who don’t pray five times a day.
But there were things that bugged him about Islam. Why were women not allowed to pray with men but had to stay behind in the car? Why could a woman not decide for herself whom to marry? Why can’t she show her hair? The list went on.
Fady had health breakdowns. He inherited high cholesterol from his dad and high blood pressure from his mom. From time to time, his heart would speed up to 200+ beats per minute and he wound up in the hospital.
The first time in the hospital, he had an eerie vision.
“I saw darkness. I knew that it was hell in my spirit,” he relates. “I saw this huge huge slithering snake. I can’t explain how big and huge it was. I knew that snake would devour me and wrap around me. I knew that if I died, I would go to this place.”
He survived that brush with death. “I was young and a rebel, so I brushed that vision off,” he says.
But on a subsequent hospital emergency, the vision got darker. This time, he saw his grave dug in the ground. He saw himself being lowered into the grave. When the first shovelful of dirt fell on top of him, he again was enveloped by the overwhelming darkness.
“In that place, there is no hope. I knew in that place that God will not ever listen to you,” Fady says. “I could hear scream of other people and I got even more scared. You’re just stuck in this darkness.”
Fady woke up out of the nightmarish vision. He was sweating profusely. The doctor was startled, to not say panicked. He was administered three separate medicines, but none of them brought his heartbeats back to normal.
“I was so scared,” Fady recalls. In those moments, he remembered the God of his childhood. He recognized that he left Christianity, not because it wasn’t true, but to show God how unhappy he was with God “not” answering his prayers.
In those moments, he cried out to God and repented of turning his back on Jesus.
“Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,” he uttered. “Please forgive me. Give me another chance. I’m going to change.”
Within three seconds, his heartbeat slowed. “It was like a slap on the face,” Fady surmises of his willful walkaway, and the extreme measures God had to go to.
“When I left Christianity. I left Jesus knowing that Jesus is God.” he adds. “I just rebelled against him just like how Satan did. Because he doesn’t care about me, I’m going to go to Satan himself.”
From that moment, Fady came back to Christianity. He had to extricate himself from his Muslim friends. Eventually, he immigrated to the United States.
“Mohammad is in hell right now waiting judgement with everyone else who has done wrong,” Fady says. “We don’t know when we are going to go, so don’t gamble. The door to Heaven is very tight, the road to Heaven is very tight. The path to destruction is wide and easy. It’s time to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior.”
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About this writer: Michael Ashcraft pastors a church in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles.
