An Islamic State militant has reportedly converted to Christianity after dreaming of a ‘man in white’, who he believed was Jesus, it was reported in early June.
The ISIS fighter had killed many Christians before the dream, and had confessed that he ‘actually enjoyed’ killing the Christians.
Given a Bible
ISIS has been known to kill Christians cruelly by firing squads, stonings and beheadings. Most recently, the group released a video of its militants killing Ethiopian Christians in Libya by beheading them.
According to reports, the ISIS militant-turned-Christian was given a Bible by a Christian just before he killed that Christian. The militant then started reading the Bible.
‘Killing my people’
He told a YWAM leader that he had begun having dreams of a man in white who came to him and said ‘You are killing my people.’ ‘And he started to feel really sick and uneasy about what he was doing’, Gina Fadely, director of Youth With A Mission Frontier Missions (YWAM), said. ‘In another dream, Jesus asked him to follow him and he was now asking to become a follower of Christ and to be disciple’, she said.
Significant dreams
Nabeel Qureshi, an apologist and the author of Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity, said that dreams are significant in the Islam religion. ‘In Muslim cultures, generally speaking, people don’t see themselves as being able to commune with God’, Quereshi said. ‘In Islam, for example, people don’t expect to have God talk back to them personally, as the Holy Spirit isn’t living in them. They ask God for guidance through dreams; that’s the one way that Muslims expect to hear from God.’
