Sarajo remained at home, where he was expected to die. After languishing for five months, in December 1993 he gingerly moved from his room to the house of a Christian neighbor, Dominic Chaga, to visit his children. While there, Sarajo spotted a Good News Bible and picked it up.

He found himself reading Matt. 7:7-9 about the rewards that Jesus promises for those who ask, knock and seek.

“As I sat there, I realized that it was Jesus, about whom I had heard so much from my friends, who was speaking. I then spoke out to Jesus. I told him, ‘If you heal me in two days, then I will believe in you and follow you.’”  

Sarajo was healed in two days; he pledged his life to Christ. Returning to high school, he joined Christian students for daily fellowship.

A Father’s Opposition
The news of Sarajo’s conversion reached his father, who sent for him.

“He confronted me on the issue, and when I confirmed that I was now a Christian, he took me to the imam of the Wamba town mosque,” Sarajo said. “While at the mosque, it was already time for the evening prayers – I was asked to join them in the mosque for prayers, but I refused.”

The imam, Malam Hassan Lamu, asked Sarajo whether it was true that he was now a Christian. He answered that he was. Imam Lamu asked him why he suddenly decided to become a Christian, and Sarajo spoke of his encounter with Christ.

“But then the Imam said Satan could give a false revelation just to take me away from Islam,” he said. “I told him if the revelation given to me was from Satan, what about the healing granted me? The imam and almost all the Muslims in Wamba town knew about my sickness, so they were baffled about my being healed suddenly.”

Imam Lamu told him that if God were calling Sarajo out of Islam, then he would remain Christian; if not, then he would return to the Muslim religion. When Sarajo got home, his father told him that because he had renounced Islam he could not live with the family in the same house.