khalil journey from terrorism to christianity Part 01

Khalil started memorizing the Qur'an at a very early age and developed what he called a love for the word of God. As he grew older, he started reading books on Islam and the interpretation of the Qur'an. By sorting out Muslims from non-Muslims according to the Qur'an's teaching, he ended up considering his own parents infidels. Little things such as a woman not wearing a veil would make her a non-Muslim according to the way he understood the Qur'an. If a man didn't grow a beard he would be considered a non-Muslim. He considered the Christians his worst enemies and started getting involved in attacks against Christians and churches. The Islamic Group, dedicated to the overthrow of the secular government of Egypt and the installation of a strict Muslim government, recruited him into their ranks, appointing him as a local leader. His group became involved in kidnapping a famous moderate Muslim writer who had dared to criticize the Islamic Group.

Eventually, the authorities arrested Khalil and most of the group's members. He spent two years in prison, undergoing torture, and upon his release left Egypt for Yemen in company with other radical Muslims. From this base of operations, they continued in their plans for an armed insurrection in Egypt.

Their plans, however, were discovered by local authorities, many of them were re-arrested, and the military option was all but abandoned. Back in Egypt they had to downplay all of their activities. Upon reading an article in the Cairo newspaper about Christians arrested in Egypt for proselytizing, Khalil and his group decided that it was "past time" to do something for the sake of Islam. Given their small numbers, however, they decided their battle would be an intellectual one, researching and writing a book proving that Mohammed is the True Prophet of God, and that the Bible of the Christians and Jews is a corrupted text. Khalil was chosen by his Emir, the leader of the Islamic Group, to do the research and write the book. He objected strenuously at first, but eventually took on the job, which he described as the "most distasteful thing" he had ever done.

When he had completed reading the Bible and cross-referencing what he had read with numerous Islamic books, Khalil was astonished to discover that the Bible was neither inaccurate nor corrupted. Instead, he was astonished at the Bible's teachings on forgiveness and unconditional love, as reflected in the life and words of Jesus. He was particularly stunned to read how Jesus had warned his followers about persecution and how, two thousand years later, that persecution was taking place exactly as Jesus had said it would. His reading of the Bible helped him understand why Christians in Egypt never retaliated against the Muslims, and why it was always easy for them to forgive and forget. As much as he hated reading the Bible, he fell in love with its message and teachings.

Nonetheless, he had a job to do, and he continued with dogged determination, electing to prove that Jesus is not God and was never crucified. Studying the Qur'an for this purpose, he put together all of God's qualities and attributes as the Qur'an talks about them, and then searched the Qur'an for Jesus' attributes. According to the Qur'an, God is the creator, the healer, the provider, the only one who can raise the dead to life, the only one that performs miracles, the only one who judges perfectly, and the like. To his shock, Khalil discovered that these are the same attributes the Qur'an assigns to Jesus (Isa), proving to Khalil that Jesus and God were, indeed, one.

Growing doubts now made Khalil's life miserable. He had always loved Islam and had always believed that the only way to God was through Mohammed. But if Jesus and God were one, then who is Mohammed and what is the way to heaven?

One day, the Emir came to visit Khalil in his house and discovered all the research that Khalil had documented (the deity of Jesus, the Qur'an not being the word of God, etc.). He couldn't believe what he read. He told Khalil that he would kill him if he shared his heretical ideas with any Muslim and that he was now considered an infidel.

Khalil, however, could not turn from the conviction that Christianity was the right way. Wanting to learn more, he decided to join a church. Since he was notorious as a zealous Muslim, no one believed him. Everyone refused to meet with him, even pastors. He was disappointed and thought maybe he was wrong after all; maybe the Christian faith wasn't the way to heaven. However, a voice inside him told him not to look to people.

One day as he was trying to make a phone call at a café, his attaché was stolen. The bag contained all of his research papers, his Bible and his identity card. He was terrified because everything he had written would be considered blasphemous, and the bag also contained his ID card. He rushed home, troubled and tormented. In his room he started repenting for all that he had done and thought that God was punishing him for daring to think that Mohammed was not sent from God and that the Qur'an was not the word of God. He repented, washed himself, and pulled his rug out to pray, but he couldn't bend his knees nor open his mouth to say one word of the Qur'an. He sat down and said, "God you know that I love you, and I know that you want me on the right path. God, I can't resist anymore. All that I did, I did trying to please you. Please pull me out of this darkness."

That night, Khalil slept in a way he hadn't slept for years. In a dream, he saw a man, who came to him and told him that he was the one for whom Khalil had been searching. Khalil didn't know who the man was. The man told him to look in the Book (the Bible). Khalil said the Book and all his papers were lost, to which the man replied, "The book never gets lost. Get up and open your closet and you will find it. The rest of your papers will be returned to you by the end of the week."

Khalil woke up from the dream and opened his closet. His very own copy of the Bible was inside the closet on a shelf. Knowing that he had seen Jesus, he hurried to his mother's room, awoke her, and begged her forgiveness for his years of harshness and ill treatment of the family. His search for reconciliation didn't end with his family either. As the sun rose that same morning, Khalil took to the streets, greeting friends and strangers alike. He sought out the Christian owners of businesses whom he had robbed, or mistreated, and begged their forgiveness too.

Over the ensuing months, Khalil grew in his new faith, gradually winning the confidence and trust of local Christians and finding fellowship at a church. He was baptized and continues to brave physical attacks and threats against his life, because he feels that no price is too great to pay for the One who gave everything for him.

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[farasfarasfaras]

upper egypt always has always had a history of secterian violence from muslim vs muslim christian vs christian christian vs muslim its not a religious matter its just the nature of that part of the country but if you want to make it religiuos then count christian crusaders french and english victims from invations on your list

[cristianKnight]

frinsh or english armies had came just to learn us something but most of us stupid

and don't have a way to think so they must punshed well

then about violence in upper egypt not a normal dueto kidnapping and forced to be a moslms and killing innocent coptics with a cold blood

and the same in the other governorats as alex. and cairo

[shaq12008]

cristianKnight (2 weeks ago) Show Hide Marked as spam (Reply) (Spam)

u rn't wellcome to put this stupid coment

u lair

Get a fucking life you loser !

[cristianKnight]

u'll lose it sooner castration of bitch

[farasfarasfaras]

no im from egypt and christians live here in peace they are teachers doctors what are you talking about we all respect each other show me one propaganda peice against christians from egypt

[cristianKnight]

koshah events killed 2500 innocent christian in upper egypt

alex. events killed 10 christians inside church

beside kidnapping and raping christian girls then forsed them to be moslims

u need more ??????

[crewsader100]

and you sultan should know lirs sinnce as a muslim you follo the father of lies

[chaomadedo]

God Loves the Muslims so much so even He sent His son for them and us all. We need to treat our brethren the Muslims with Love and compassion just like the way Christ did for us as when we were yet sinners. We thank u CristianKnight in uploading this clip for all of us to see. U r a servant of God. may the Lord continue blessing u as u keep doing this for His childdren. Muslims we love u so much and Jesus loves u more!

[MiSSPinkBlackLeopard]

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[MiSSPinkBlackLeopard]

Jesus ♥'s

[MiSSPinkBlackLeopard]

 JeSus Is The Way

[makemelaughwhydontu]

This story is a fake

[makemelaughwhydontu]

Jesus peace unto Him would not contradict the Quran. Its all one an the same, not including the error of Trinity and Christ dying for man`s sins, or the son of God business, which all stems from Paganism. A Holy Spirit did supported Christ, but the 3-in-1 is Horus Semiramis and Nimrod. The sacrifice was a Pagan tradition of transfering one`s sins onto an innocent animal an then sacrificing it, God needs not human sacrifice like a Heathen God, see Abraham pbuh for details. He is outside creation

[makemelaughwhydontu]

Chill out everyone and keep it simple Christ is Muslim, peace unto Him. He will rule the Christians by their own book, the ORIGINAL Bible, and Shiloh/Mahdi Alaihisallam, will Rule the Jews by their own Original Torah, and the misconceptions of the Islamic world will be cleared and the teachings of the Quran will be understood properly. Abraham pbuh chose the name Muslim for `Those who submit their will to God`, ONE GOD remember, so whats all the drama. All Prophets believe in Allah.

[MuminahG]

@cristianKnight no real muslim would want your dirty najasa christian harlots keep them for yourself.

[MuminahG]

@cristianKnight no such thing as ''forcing'' some one to be a muslim! in islam there is no compulsion in religion, if you dont believe in the religion of islam, you can NEVER be a muslim. Even to have the slightest doubt about Islam will take you outside islam. We dont want fake muslims in our umma. No one can ever ever be accepted as a muslim until they believe with full conviction that islam is the truth, NO SUCH THING AS 'FORCED CONVERSION' get that right. You are very ignorant,

[MuminahG]

the bible does not make any sense and this video is absolutely pathetic, you must think some muslims were born yesterday, only a ignoramus who does not know Qur'an and sunna and who does not understand at tai'fah al mansura would fall for this.

[MuminahG]

such fakery with the actors and fake beards, the real mujadeen fight for peace and are not always full of rage... this is nothing but propaganda. It really made me laugh. One more pathetic attempt from the infidels to create scaremongering among ppl.