On March 10, Aliyu chose Jesus’s salvation after years of reflecting on the Quranic teachings about Christ. He had found a Muslim cleric reading a book in his own language, Fulfulde (Fulani), and he listened to him read the book. The Muslim cleric, Malam Musa, was reading The Coming of Jesus Christ and His Returning: The Book of Luke, Acts, & Revelation, in Fulani.
The portion from the book that convicted him, he said, was a passage from Luke on the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.
“I was heavy in heart when I heard this portion of the Scripture read,” he said. “I knew that this Muslim cleric was interested in what he was reading, but I hid my anxiety over what was happening.
“But then I had to make a decision. I read in the Quran that salvation and heaven is for only those who are lucky. But I have also learned that in Christianity, salvation and heaven is for any person who believes in Jesus Christ.”
A Christian message on tape in Fulani reinforced the need for him to give his life to Christ. He was fully aware that persecution had kept many Muslims from becoming Christians.
“I was aware of this before I made the decision to follow Jesus,” he said. “I am therefore not surprised that they now want to kill me.”
No threats, he said, can stop him from following Christ. “I have decided to become a Christian,” Aliyu said, “because I have discovered the truth of Jesus Christ, which is not found in Islam.”
Miraculous Conversion
While Aliyu is newly converted, Mohammed Sarajo has matured into an evangelizing church planter after becoming a Christian 12 years ago at age 16.
Sarajo, a native of Wamba town in Nasarawa state in central Nigeria , was afflicted with a mysterious illness in July 1993 that produced painful sores all over his body. He was hospitalized without improvement, and his parents took him to Muslim clerics for healing prayers. The clerics wrote Quranic inscriptions on a slate and washed the writings for him to drink, also to no avail.
