By Michael Ashcraft –
When his mom gave him money, Hassan didn’t buy what other kids usually get. He bought books about Islamic philosophy. He hoped that by deepening his Muslim faith, he would be more accepted by his stepfather, a radical Muslim.
“We sometimes talked about Christianity in the street when I met evangelists,” Hassan says on a Christ is Enough Ministries video. “I hit them on the head, I said: ‘God has no son, it’s impossible, it’s blasphemy. I was a bit like the apostle Paul, the persecutor of these Christians. I insulted them.’”
Hassan was born in Lebanon. His father was a secret drunk who had several wives and many children. Hassan was beaten and terrorized by this man, as was his mom.
When they got the chance to immigrate from the war-torn country to Canada, Mom hoped that Dad would change his ways. He didn’t. “My father tried to kill my mother by throwing her from the fourth floor,” he states in the video.
“She survived. She clung to the window,” he says. “But there was a lot of abuse.”
Mom instilled Islam into Hassan, taking him to the mosque and teaching prayers and the Koran.
Sometime later, she hooked up with another Muslim man, who was more radical. “It was another level, radical Islam,” he says. “He was a radical Muslim,” Hassan says. “He started to mistreat my siblings and me too. We experienced a lot of emotional damage, a lot of trauma.”
Hassan tried to get on his good side. With money from his mom, he bought books of Islamic philosophy.
It was a significant gesture. Other kids would have spent the money on their entertainment.
It didn’t really work. But Hassan learned a lot about Islam, which he embraced more and more.
As he got older, he got a job working at a restaurant. The owner warned him not to associated with a bearded Salafist Muslim who was even more of an extremist.
One day, the extremist’s brother walked in wanting to talk.
“A few seconds later, surprisingly, (the Salafist) comes out with a knife. And the other man comes out with a chair to protect himself and walks backwards. Then the Salafist brother grabs him and slashes his neck. He stabs him in the neck with the 12-inch knife.”
Hassan, who knew some first aid, tried to stop the hemorrhaging. But the man bled to death.
“It made me ask questions about Islam,” he says.
Later, Hassan had a dream; he was paralyzed in the legs. ‘I felt like I was dead,” he narrates. “I screamed. I pleaded for help. Despair seized me from the inside because I knew that I was going to hell.”
His soul rose out of his body. He looked down onto his body. Then a voice made an announcement.
“The Messiah is coming.”
Terror seized Hassan because in Islam the Messiah comes only to execute the ungodly.
“I knew nothing about Christianity,” he says. He heard footsteps approaching from the hallway.
Light shined into the room. “I felt immeasurable love,” he says.
“Get up and walk,” Jesus said. Hassan didn’t know it was Jesus. He knows that now.
Jesus put his hand on Hassan’s head.
“Son, if you seek peace, you find peace in me,” Jesus told him.
Hassan didn’t understand the dream at first. His Muslim friends warned him it was a test from Allah. He thought God wanted him to become a Jew. He knocked on synagogue doors everywhere, but he was turned away because of political tension.
It wasn’t until 10 years later that Jesus came back to Hassan. A friend invited him to go to her baptism. He didn’t want to go and argued with her about it but relented and went. What he saw in the church opened his eyes.
“I saw his love in the people that I didn’t understand,” he says. “The people hugged me and loved me. There were even some ex-Muslims there.”
The electric shock came to him while he was driving. He saw a vision of the cross.
“I started to cry,” he relates. “For the first time, I felt this love of a father who was not present in my life, this God who loves me. For the first time, I have forgiveness for people and forgiveness for myself.”
At church soon thereafter, the pastor preached Matt. 11:28: Come to me, all you who are lost and weary, and I will give you rest.
“There is someone here who has been abused, who has been in pain, who has been suicidal, who has experienced extremely terrifying things,” the pastor spoke prophetically.
The same electric shock struck. He stood to his feet, moved to the aisle, fell to his knees.
“Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!” he screamed, crying
People came around him, laid hands on him to pray.
He was awash with peace and love.
Today, Pastor Hassan leads the Christ is Enough Ministries Church in Montreal with his wife. He conducts outreaches across the street from mosques on Friday, the day of prayer. He quotes the Koran and the hadiths, exposing the shortcomings of Islam.
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About this writer: Michael Ashcraft pastors a church in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles.
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