Greetings in
the Name of Jesus Christ, the Messiah and Savior.
I am Rehan Ali, Originally from Pakistan and now residing in
South Africa since 21 years. I came from a Muslim Background family where my
father was a responsible to train Muslim youth to propagate Islam with
non-Muslims.
I memorized Quran at the age of 16 and thereafter got
involved in practical ministry with my father. We went to Moscow, Russia for a
conference and where I was given a task to use Media and share Islam with
Christians. I was only encouraged to reach Christians, not Hindus or Jews or
Atheist and that was surprise for me.
When came back from Moscow, I was widely involved in Media
to propagate Islam with Christians. It was going on very well as many were not
Disciples and therefore I can make them confuse about their faith as well. I
simply asked. Are you saved? Yes was the response. I asked, saved from what? Oh
we are saved from sin. So you do not commit sin anymore, I asked. Yes we still
do then I said, then how you are saved? Basically, I was confusing them between
Justification and Sanctification Salvation.
Then I met Pastor Graham who was looking for a Muslim to
share the gospel and that is how we spent 5 years together discussing online.
His approach was to make me understand that I am a sinner and indeed need a
savior. So, we discussed a lot in 5 years,
here I would like to share 1 conversation.
AN EXAMPLE OF A CONVERSATION TO HELP A MUSLIM UNDERSTAND SALVATION IN CHRIST.
Graham: Imagine if you are standing before Allah
& HE asked. Give me 1 reason to let you enter in Heaven. What would you
say?
Me: I will say, I was a devoted Muslim, went for
pilgrim, help many poor, try to do good deeds and perform prayers etc.
Graham: ok, let us talk about Prayers.
Me: sure.
Graham: What you get when pray 1 time?
Me: Blessings, Barkah.
Graham: how many
Me: We are not told.
Graham: if miss 1 time prayer then?
Me: I think 72 years burning in Hell and 15 other
punishments.
Graham: so, you know the punishments but not the
Rewards.
Me: yes.
Graham: so how many prayers have you missed?
Me: I can’t even remember.
Graham: so even if you missed 100 prayers, it will
be thousand years in hell fire. Can you think you can make it?
Me: this makes me think about my inner being as a
sinful، failure and in competence to achieve Eternal
life by myself.
This approach was making me think
that I need a savior and cannot save myself. So, after 5 years, while in
Pakistan, I accepted Christ.
Then when I shared this with my family, everyone instantly turned
against me, and I got some threats from my cousin, relatives and Muslim
scholars. I left Pakistan and came to South Africa where I went to Africa
school of Mission for a certificate in Missiology and there, I met my wife,
Charlene.
She came from a Missionary background, and we have 13 years
old Daughter, Sarah Eunice. We served in Zambia for 3 years and serving in
South Africa since last 12 years. Our calling is to equip and train the Bride
of Christ on how to share the Gospel with Muslims, Help MBB to grow in God’s
word & plant a Church among them.
I served many years with Andreas Maurer, Gerhard Nel, Brian
Marrian, Kevin Daly and John Gilchrist in South Africa. At the moment I am also
involved in Pakistan where I train leaders in Muslim evangelism and I am also
very much involved on Media ministry where I am sharing the Gospel with
Pakistani Muslims.
I am a founder of a Ministry called “Fazale Rab” here in
South Africa where I conduct public discussion with local Muslims, train the
Churches and organization in Muslim evangelism and help MBB in Discipleship.
As for my family, after 5 years, my family contacted me when
heard that I got married. They wanted to share Islam with my wife and we used
that opportunity to re-establish our relationship with them.
I have a Master in Biblical Education by Extension through
BEE world. They are based in Colorado and used to come to Africa where I joined
the 10 years program. This training really helps me to provide answers to
Muslims objection about our faith from the Bible.
We always have been part of local Church in Zambia,
Johannesburg and now here in Durban. We always try to be part of the
congregation and try to encourage & help them to share the Gospel with
Muslims.
I also served World Outreach and Open Doors as a volunteer
and now I am focusing on Media ministry which is very much needed and Muslims
are much open to listen and share about Islam.
I travel often to Pakistan, meet MBB, disciples them, plant
churches and arrange Baptism. I train local leaders and trying to create a team
who can serve with me online among the Muslims.
In the last 9 years we had 128 Muslims who decided to follow Jesus,
36 were baptized and I personally met 64. God has been so gracious.
Many Blessings
Rehan
The easy-to-use way to do it is to create a post with engaging question such as: Why one should become Muslim? If Allah ask, why should I let you go in heaven, what would you say? How many ways you can hope to get eternal life? Why do you pray 5 time a day? When do we get sinful nature if not at birth? etc.
These are the questions that we use to create posts; Then we boost the post for around 40K people, while generally around 1K respond; 500 like or greet, while 300 go a bit more in discussion.
We had 134 Muslims in last 8 years who accepted Christ; 38 were Baptized and more than 250,000 hear the Gospel.
