Humble Servant

After I converted to Christianity, my Muslim family asked me, “What would it take for you to come back to Islam?” Let me explain: The truth is, it’s not about debating Jesus or the Trinity. This isn’t about Christianity at all, it’s about the foundation of the Islamic house and the foundation of the faith. So here are 4 things I would need to see if I were to ever go back to Islam: 1. Show me that the Kaaba was actually built by Abraham and Ishmael, using pre-Quran sources, archaeology, Jewish texts. Right now, you have to rewrite the Torah to make it fit. 2. Show me Muhammad was an Ishmaelite. You can’t inherit a covenant if you’re not in the bloodline. 3. Show me clear prophetic continuity from the Old Testament to Muhammad. Not vague parallels, direct prophecy. If he’s the final messenger, the Bible should point straight to him. 4. Show me eyewitness accounts of Muhammad’s first revelation. Right now, it’s his wife convincing him after a traumatic cave experience, unlike other prophets who knew they were called. As you can see, none of this is about Jesus actually. This is about Islam’s own claims. Because if the foundation is cracked, arguing about the furniture doesn’t matter. No Kaaba link or Ishmaelite link. No prophetic line or any verified calling. I couldn't even examine the faith seriously with those questions unanswered.

When I was Muslim, Surah 5:32 was my favorite verse to quote. “Whoever kills a soul, it is as if he killed all of mankind.” I put it in every debate. Every conversation about Islam and peace. It felt like the most beautiful verse in the Quran. Then I read it slowly. The verse doesn’t say Allah revealed this to Muhammad. It says: “We decreed upon the CHILDREN OF ISRAEL…” Wait. Decreed where? When? I went looking. Bro, then I found it. Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5. A rabbinic commentary on Cain and Abel, written down around 200 AD like four centuries before the Quran. Rabbis discussed why Genesis says Abel’s “bloods” (plural) cry out and concluded: whoever destroys one soul, it is as if he destroyed an entire world. Insane that it was word for word, with the exact same context. Bro, the same Cain and Abel story it’s attached to in Surah 5. What I thought was the most beautiful verse in the Quran turned out to be a rabbi’s classroom commentary... Literally, that’s when the question changed for me. It went from “isn't this verse beautiful?” to: What the heck is a rabbinic homily doing inside a book that claims to be the eternal, uncreated speech of God?! Because there are only two options. Either Allah quoted the rabbis. Or a man in Arabia heard Jewish teachers and repeated what they said... The crazy part is, the Bible predicted men would do this. “I am against the prophets who steal my words from one another.” ( Jeremiah 23:30) That was the start of my journey toward Christ. I stopped defending the borrowed word of the Quran. I found the Living Word. PRAISE MY KING JESUS CHRIST, I’M FREE!