Ali Hasnain
By Samuel Smith
Christian Post
Part 1 of this two-part series can be read by clicking here.
After declaring that Jesus saved his life when he was stabbed and left to bleed to death by a Wahabi radical, it didn't take long for a teenage Ali Hasnain, a Sayed (descendant of Muhammad) and author of The Cost: My Life On a Terrorist Hit List, to realize that he was a wanted man in Pakistan.
Although all Ali did was encourage his classmates to pray to Jesus, that is all it took for Ali to become the target of radical Muslims, who eventually issued a fatwa (Islamic ruling) calling for his death.
After word spread in Lahore that Ali was beaten and stabbed for telling his classmates that the right way to seek forgiveness is to pray to Jesus Christ, his own family was upset and surprised. They encouraged Ali to come forward and announce to the public that he was only joking in hopes that it would prevent radical Muslims from trying to kill Ali or another member of his family.
However, Ali could not renounce Jesus like his family suggested.
"I couldn't do it because I knew what was happening. I knew that Jesus Christ saved me and I just couldn't deny it," Ali told The Christian Post in an interview. "I explained to my mom, 'Look, the doctor said I was dead but Jesus Christ, he saved me. I had a dream of him and he gave me this life.'"
Refusing to renounce his faith, it didn't take long for Sunni Wahabi extremists in the town to go after Ali and his family.
Ali remembers the last night he stayed with his family in their home in Lahore. He recalls a mob of radicals marching down to his house in the middle of the night and demanding that his family turn him over.
As the mob was outside demanding Ali, his stepfather grabbed him, led him out the backdoor and drove him to a friend's house in Multan. After driving about five hours to Multan, the friend graciously let Ali stay at his house for a few weeks, not really knowing that Ali was on the run from Wahhabi extremists in Lahore.
Read the rest of Ali's story
Christian Post
Part 1 of this two-part series can be read by clicking here.
After declaring that Jesus saved his life when he was stabbed and left to bleed to death by a Wahabi radical, it didn't take long for a teenage Ali Hasnain, a Sayed (descendant of Muhammad) and author of The Cost: My Life On a Terrorist Hit List, to realize that he was a wanted man in Pakistan.
Although all Ali did was encourage his classmates to pray to Jesus, that is all it took for Ali to become the target of radical Muslims, who eventually issued a fatwa (Islamic ruling) calling for his death.
After word spread in Lahore that Ali was beaten and stabbed for telling his classmates that the right way to seek forgiveness is to pray to Jesus Christ, his own family was upset and surprised. They encouraged Ali to come forward and announce to the public that he was only joking in hopes that it would prevent radical Muslims from trying to kill Ali or another member of his family.
However, Ali could not renounce Jesus like his family suggested.
"I couldn't do it because I knew what was happening. I knew that Jesus Christ saved me and I just couldn't deny it," Ali told The Christian Post in an interview. "I explained to my mom, 'Look, the doctor said I was dead but Jesus Christ, he saved me. I had a dream of him and he gave me this life.'"
Refusing to renounce his faith, it didn't take long for Sunni Wahabi extremists in the town to go after Ali and his family.
Ali remembers the last night he stayed with his family in their home in Lahore. He recalls a mob of radicals marching down to his house in the middle of the night and demanding that his family turn him over.
As the mob was outside demanding Ali, his stepfather grabbed him, led him out the backdoor and drove him to a friend's house in Multan. After driving about five hours to Multan, the friend graciously let Ali stay at his house for a few weeks, not really knowing that Ali was on the run from Wahhabi extremists in Lahore.
Read the rest of Ali's story
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