Source: God Reports, October 17, 2024
Rachid was raised in a small village in Morocco. His father was an imam and was training Rachid to follow in his footsteps.
His village was so small that it didn’t have a high school, so Rachid moved to Casablanca with his uncle to study. In his free time, Rachid listened to the radio and stumbled across a Christian broadcast. The revelations were startling, and Rachid was challenged, even offended. But he wrote a letter to the broadcasting facility abroad, and they answered. Eventually, the broadcasters based in Cyprus sent him a Bible, which he began to read.
Not long afterward, his family became suspicious. He wasn’t attending the mosque, wasn’t praying, wasn’t performing the outward rituals of Islam. His cousin shared his concern with [Rachid’s] parents.
His mother was distraught that he might no longer be Muslim. She called together the whole family and they confronted him. Just say the “shahada,” she said. The shahada is the declaration of faith in Islam: “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet.”
“I was hesitating for a few moments,” Rachid recounts. “I said, ‘Mom, I can’t say it.’”
Read the full story or watch him tell his story on YouTube (Call of Love Ministries, evidently the source of the God Reports story). It’s in English and 20 minutes long. We found it reshared by a variety of ministries.