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Personal Truth No. 2: Private Interview (dated October 9, 1995), audio and video, with Mrs. Nahed Mahmoud Metwally
(Fibi Abd El Masih Cross)
The 2nd part - Testimony from a former Muslim before returning to Islam.
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… All my life I ask you, and you make me see in a vision. On this day, you must make me see. I Speak to our Lord as if He was sitting before Me, and I'm quarreling with Him. On this day, you must make me see. It should happen on this day, and from your mark, O Lord. If Christianity is the right way, and you really want me to follow you, you make me see a sign, even a small cross. As for the other, any other sign.
I remained awake and talking to our Lord, unable to sleep, nor able to sit or anything else. After that, I felt dizzy and felt like I was going to fall. I looked at the clock and saw it was three in the morning. It's three in the morning, and I'm quarreling with our Lord.
I took the alarm clock and set it on the sixth O'clock, then put it on the bedside table next to me, extended my hand and turned off the light, and put my body in bed, and as soon as I put my head on the pillow, I am sure that I did not sleep. As soon as I put my head on the pillow, as if my soul had left my body, or I had gone away with my body, I did not know.
I found myself in a totally different place, at once, a completely different shift. I found myself standing, wearing a gray dress, gray as exactly the color of silver, a long sleeve and a hood of the same color as the dress, and a wide belt in my middle.
I pulled on the dress and said, "What is this beautiful dress? I have no one like it!" This is evidence that I am awake and aware, as I do not actually have this dress, where did it come from? Where did I wear it? What is this beauty? I was very happy with this dress. I was holding him, my long sleeves, and the one on my head! What is this beautiful belt?! I looked down and found myself barefoot. Is it possible, O our Lord, is it possible for me to be chic like this without wearing something on my feet?!
Then I said to myself: “It is not important, the dress is long, it covers my feets.” I covered them, and my eyes fell on the ground. And I say to myself: "What is this ground?! Is this carpet or silk, what is this?!" The ground has a very strange texture.
I look up, find myself in a palace. I say that it is a palace, but it is not a palace specifically, since there are no words to describe it, a great great palace, wide and large and full of walls like this, as if it were covered with silk. The walls are high, my vision could not reach the end at the height. The ceiling is high, the smell of incense is very beautiful, and a sweet breeze of air runs throughout my body, as if there are birds flying over my head but without me seeing them. What is this beauty, my Lord?!
I started walking in the palace and watching the beauty, and walking here, I walked forward a little, I saw a great, high chair, above, but no one was sitting on it. I left the chair and walked towards the other direction. I saw old men, but although they are very old, their faces are beautiful and graceful, their long white chins reaching half their chests, dressed totally in white, and on their head a white hood, standing in an arc, as if they were In the honor of receiving someone.
I was watching, listening, trying to hear or understand what they were saying, but it became clear to me that they are saying words that I do not understand or know, and I have not heard them all my life. After that, I left them and walked over and rejoiced at the beauty. And Whereas, the place is closed, and I am sure that the place is closed, I found a person who entered the place, entered from where and how did he enter, I do not know?!
As soon as the person entered, I found that all the old men prostrated themselves on their face. I was amazed a lot, then I found that the person who entered is walking, but not walking by steps as we walk on the ground, but rather as if he is carried by clouds, so he walks, walks, and then sat on the chair.
I was against my will, and without thinking, I found myself facing and kneeling before his feet …