TESTIMONY
Abraham Sarker: Jesus and the Muslim
By Debbie Harper
The 700 Club
CBN.com
– Dr. Abraham Sarker was born in Bangladesh into a devout Muslim family. He was required to keep all the tenets of Islam. Abraham worked hard to earn favor with Allah. As a teen, Abraham trained to become a leader in the Islamic faith, giving prayer calls five times a day in the morning, at noon, in the afternoon, right after sunset, and before they go to bed at night, from the minaret.
“One day, suddenly, I had a dream. My dream was that I died. I faced God; and God put me into a lake of fire," Abraham said. "All around me is nothing but fire. I felt the pain and I started screaming. Suddenly, when I woke up, I could not talk."
When he had the same dream a third time, he went to his mosque, prayed, and cried out to God all night.
"At that point, I felt so sad in my heart that I sat on my prayer rug and I closed my eyes and I raised my hands, and I said, 'God why didn’t you speak to me? I spend all night and asking you only one question. I want to know the meaning of my dream.'"
Suddenly, Abraham says that oil began to miraculously fall all over him.
"And there was such a sweet fragrance, the whole mosque was filled with the fragrance," Abraham remembered. "My heart was filled with peace, overwhelming peace. I have never, never experienced anything like it."
Not long after that, Abraham said God revealed himself to him in yet another supernatural way.
"I was coming from the mosque and going to my home and suddenly I heard an audible voice. This voice said, 'Go and get a Bible.' Now as a Muslim, I would never touch a Bible. As a Muslim I would never read a Bible. I was told the Bible is corrupted. I was looking for a Bible for four years. For four years I was looking. I never saw a Christian. I never saw a church. I just could not find a Bible."
Then Abraham was sent to the United States to spread Islam. Finally, it was at a student ministries center that he found a Bible in his own native Bengali language.
"As soon as I saw the language and the Bible, then I grabbed it and I sat on the floor and I started reading the Bible," Abraham said. "I saw Jesus did many miracles and Mohamed never really did a miracle. One day I came to this passage, it’s in Mark 12:29, 'Here oh Israel, the Lord our God is one.' Now that was a message to me. You see, as a Muslim, I was passionate about one God, but I was told that Christians worship three Gods. But Jesus said there’s only one God. Here I see that when Jesus died, God took him to heaven, but when Mohammed died he was still in the grave in Medina, Saudi Arabia. I saw Jesus as much greater than Mohamed the prophet that I was following. And I was so confused and I said if this is so, why should I follow Mohammed instead of Jesus? If you look at any other prophets, none of them made such a claim - that I am the way, I am the truth, the only way to go to God is through me. No other way. I said, 'God, I have never questioned my faith. I took the Bible and the Koran, and I said, ‘God, please lead me in the right direction. Which way do you want me to go? Should I go through Mohamed or Jesus?'"
Then Abraham met a man named Peter who became a spiritual mentor.
"He gave me an example, that when Jesus was on the cross, there was a thief, and that thief did not pray five times a day, he didn’t have any chance. And then suddenly he told Jesus, 'Jesus, remember me when you come to your kingdom,' and then He said, with His amazing grace, 'Today, today, you’ll be in paradise with me.' It touched my heart. It grabbed my heart; I wanted that, I wanted the assurance of my salvation. I gave my life to Jesus that day; it was April 14, 1992.”
His own father sent this document disowning him. The other Muslim missionaries beat Abraham up and threatened to kill him for becoming a Christian. Still, he stayed true to his newfound faith in Christ.
"There is that promise, Jesus paid it all," Abraham declared.
Today, Abraham and his wife Amie pray for the Muslim people.
"When I think about them, I think about my God, Jesus Christ - he loves them. He died for me, and he died for every Muslim in America and around the world," Abraham said.
Together, Abraham and his wife founded a ministry that reaches out to Muslims. They’ve seen many Muslims turn to Christ, including Abraham’s own brothers, and the father who once disowned him.
"He was on the foot of the Cross, so we knelt down and I led my father to the Lord," Abraham said. "When I pray, I pray in the name of Jesus, and I know he’s right there with me. I feel his presence and I know he’s here with me, and that joy and peace and presence of God, I have never felt that before in my life."
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