I looked at the faces around me one more time. These were my people, my responsibility, my family in Christ. And I had led them…
I remember my mother teaching me songs about Jesus, but warning me never ever to sing them outside our home. I grew up attending mosque…
I stayed kneeling beside my bed for a long time, letting that peace wash over me, barely able to comprehend what was happening. And then…
He examined me, testing my reflexes and cognitive function. Everything normal. He ordered an EEEG and an MRI. I had to scrape together money for…
I repeated the prayers I knew by heart, the Arabic words flowing automatically from my lips. But something felt wrong. Not physically wrong, exactly. Something…
But in that moment, flying toward Mecca, I was completely blissfully unaware of what was coming. I was just a young Muslim man following his…

My hands still shake when I think about that moment in Mecca. Not from fear anymore, not from confusion, but from overwhelming gratitude that God…
God stopped bullets in a basement in Yemen. And I will never stop telling the world what he did. Because he is worthy. Because his…
Sometimes I still can’t believe I’m alive. I’ll be doing something ordinary. Making breakfast. playing with Dawood, who is now a bright, active six-year-old, helping…
I thought about my father’s words shortly before he died. Don’t let the light go out. I had tried to keep it burning in this…





