Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity

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Each book seems to have been influenced by its specific purpose and the circumstances of the time it was revealed, with the stories meeting the demands of the day. Examining the similarities and differences in the Christologies presented in the Bible and the Quran can easily garner such biases. If you are a Moslem, you will be stimulated on re-discussing everything that you believe and not believe about Muhammad and Jesus, Quran and Bible. Nabeel was brought up in an Ahmadiyya Muslim American home and was a devoted follower of this religion. Allow me also to say I recommend this for Christians in "the West", that is those of us who live where Christianity is the most common "religion".

At the mosque, no one was allowed to stand in front of you while you worshiped so that you could focus on worshiping God.

Raised by a devout Ahmadi family, Qureshi converted to Christianity from Ahmadiyya Islam as a university student following several years of debate with a Christian friend. The author eventually came to the point where he knew the truth but couldn't embrace it wholeheartedly due to his ingrained beliefs about Islam and his fears about hurting those he loved and possibly being ex-communicated or worse. Raised as a devout Muslim in the United States, Nabeel grew up studying Islamic apologetics with his family and engaging Christians in religious discussions. I will never be an apologist -- can't keep that much of that sort of information in my head and find the right bits to pull out when they're needed -- but I appreciate that gift all the more in seeing it applied.

Yet, there are differences to these two religions such as the founder of the religion and how it came to be, the views of God, and the salvation between both religion. To aid in his ministry to the Jewish people, Jesus was given the ability to perform miracles, which no other prophet in Islam has ever been credited with, all by the permission of Allah rather than of his own power.org states that out of a pole of one hundred most influential religious people, Mohammed was ranked number one, to be the most influential person ever to be born. That God granted Nabeel’s request for three dreams to convince him of the truth of Christianity is a beautiful reminder that God meets us where we are and that He can even use the tools of false religions for His good purposes. The author could have made this book three times more interesting if he gave more detail as to how his relationships with his Muslim friends and family changed. These are the costs Muslims must calculate when considering the gospel: losing the relationships they have built in this life, potentially losing this life itself, and if they are wrong, losing their afterlife in paradise. What struck me most in our conversation was Suleyman’s view of Jesus as he mentioned, “If one does not believe in Jesus, they are not Muslim.