By Daniel Corado –
Nadalla Alrajo grew up in a strict Muslim family; his father is a sheik. As a three-year-old, he went to the mosque to learn about his religion. At age six, he asked if Jesus was God because he heard about his resurrection and ascension to Heaven. (The Koran affirms Jesus’s resurrection but holds him to be only a prophet, not the Son of God)
His father did not react kindly to his quest to know about Jesus. “I was asking, is he God? And the answer was to just slap me the first time,” Nadalla says on a Huntley video. “The second time I was asking, they were beating me. Then my family decided to send me to Islamic school.”
By the age of 13, he was engaging in bad behavior. “Sometimes I cannot sleep because I was scared if I’m going to die I will go to hell,” he says. “Because I know I’m doing bad works.”
He became depressed with his life, not knowing whether the Christian God was real or the god of Islam. Despondent, he began to consider suicide. It wasn’t until he prayed from his heart for the first time that he heard an answer from God.
It was after midnight. “A man (came) in my bedroom with a big light, (a) strong light, he’s saying, Nadalla, I’m the way and the truth and the life. He took my hand for 15 seconds. After he left me, heavy tons of heavy weights from my shoulders were gone.”
Nadalla came across a Christian Arab online who encouraged him to read the Bible. He started in Matthew, then Mark, Luke and finally John, where stumbled upon John 14:6: I am the way and the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but by me.
It was the same words the man in his room told him!
Nadalla accepted Jesus into his heart and was born again. He began to look for a church, but most churches refused him because his father was a well-known sheik. They feared persecution for receiving a sheik’s son into their assembly. Finally, he found a church where the pastor welcomed him with open arms, and he began to attend and grow in his faith.
Eventually his family found out. His father tried to kill him 22 times. Nadalla says he bears the scars of some of those attacks.
Nadalla evangelized his older brother and he also accepted Jesus as his personal Savior and Lord. When ISIS came to town, Nadalla’s father asked his brother to join the jihad. He refused, saying he followed Jesus and lived in forgiveness, not in war and revenge. “He said the bible tells us to love our enemy,” Nadalla recounts.
“What Bible?” the father asked.
“The Holy Bible,” the older brother replied.
Their father pulled out a handgun and shot Nadalla’s older brother at point blank range, killing him.
“He just took the handgun and sent him home,” Nadalla laments.
After much tribulation, Nadalla found a place where he would find peace, Canada. He got married there and founded two churches.
Ever since he moved to Canada, he has focused on spreading the gospel, starting an online ministry to spread the Good News worldwide. Right now, he is getting about 3 million visitors every month and plans to keep spreading the truth.
To learn more about a personal relationship with Jesus, click here.
About this writer: Daniel Corado studies at the Lighthouse Christian Academy near West Los Angeles.
