DREAMS ABOUT JESUS - AFRICA (NIGERIA)

This is the story of a young man named Abdullahi from Northern Nigeria. He was raised to a Sunni Muslim family and knew about Islam since a young age. His family was known as an Islamic cleric because Abdullahi’s grandfather was an Islamic missionary who introduced Islam to the whole community where he was born. His mom taught Islam to women and children. He first met a Christian when he was around 11 years old. Abdullahi asked him a lot of questions about Christianity. And he answered many of his questions and they became friends. 

One day, Abdullahi’s mother got a call saying that her son had converted to Christianity when he hadn’t! His mom was very angry and wanted to kill him. Abdullahi was in tears and denying it. His mom had a lengthy discussion with him, and it created a segregation between Abdullahi and Christians. His mom warned him, saying that all Christians where bad people.

Abdullahi finished secondary school and he did horribly bad in his final exam. His father was very upset with him. Abdullahi had to leave home and a friend took him from Northern Nigeria to Benin City in the south, and eventually to Lagos. He tried asking to borrow a phone to call but couldn’t, until a man wearing a cross let him borrow his phone and then gave him money to get food. He questioned to himself if Christians where really bad people, because no Muslim would help him. 

During Ramadan, thieves stole his money. Exhausted from fasting, he started to think there was no God. He went back to Benin City. On his way there, a man preached to him about the Bible. Abdullahi was invited to attend church, and he accepted because he remembered the Christian that helped him in Lagos. At church, the pastor gave him a Bible, and Abdullahi started reading it. Abdullahi went to ask his Imam about Jesus, but what the Imam said, Abdullahi already knew from the Qur’an. 

Abdullahi was confused for several months, until he got a dream. A man with a white garments washed Abdullahi with blood. He initially was afraid because he was taught that blood in a dream was demonic. So Malam, an educated Islamic leader, did a witchcraft ritual with Abdullahi smelling smoke of charcoal and herbs and was told he would be ok. In the evening, he had the SAME dream! He went back to the Islamic leader Malam, and he had to inhale even more smoke. Then Abdullahi had the SAME dream for the third time after that! Nothing helped. Then a Christian said that a pastor could interpret his dream. The pastor turned out to be an elderly man who was an ex-Muslim. The pastor shared the gospel, and asked Abdullahi what he would do now. If Abdullahi accepted Jesus, everyone would reject him. He still decided to follow Jesus, but kept quiet about his conversion.

Half a year down the road, the Islamic teacher Malam met Abdullahi in the evening. He started abusing Abdullahi by touching him like a woman would touch a man. When Abdullahi ran away, he was threatened by the Malam to be killed if he told anyone. He found out this Malam had tried the same to his friend before. Malam’s people came at midnight one night and told Abdullahi to leave immediately. As he started leaving, he was beaten and reported to the police as if he had stolen money. After interrogation, he was let go and Abdullahi found refuge at the church at 2.am. The Malam sent people to look for Abdullahi and found out that he was taking refuge at the church. That day, he told everyone he became a Christian. Everyone found out and he received threats from all his family and friends. For the last several years he’s been running from persecution, and learning about Christianity. Now he is a missionary that preaches the gospel! Listen to Abdullahi’s amazing testimony here.