What do you think influences the behaviour and decisions of the everyday Muslim most? The radical cleric’s teachings at the local mosque, or something a little more down to earth?
We can help you understand what lies behind the veil, uncover the common beliefs and practices of ordinary Muslims, and give you the understanding needed to begin to reach Muslims for Christ.
Have you ever felt God prompting you to share your faith with a Muslim neighbour, shopkeeper or mum at the school gate? Or perhaps you sense God is calling you further a field to somewhere like Central Asia to work with Muslims? There are some basic principles to learn that can make us be effective in our witness.
Habib and the ‘evil eye’
The child was crying and could not be comforted, he had been ill since his mother had visited relatives on the other side of Walthamstow the day before. Cradling Habib in her arms, Gulshan thought back angrily to yesterday when she had bumped into her old school friend Tahira at the bus stop. She hadn’t seen her since she was 16, but she remained unmarried and she could see from her face that life had been difficult for her. “What a beautiful baby, Gulshan!” she had exclaimed. “Ma’shallah!” - her elder sister had hastily added the omitted ‘May God protect’ but Gulshan already began to feel anxious. After arriving at her aunt’s house, Habib had begun to get irritable and wouldn’t eat anything, and quickly developed a fever. In Gulshan’s mind she knew the reason why – Tahira’s compliment had unwittingly passed on envy from the ‘evil eye’. She began to repeat the Fatiha, the opening verse of the Qur’an, over her baby son….
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