A descendant of Muhammad, who was an imam and evangelist for Islam, went from attempting to commit suicide to finding new faith and hope in Jesus Christ.
Thomas Samuel’s life reached a crisis point when the former Imam started to doubt his Islamic faith, leading to deep emotional turmoil and eventually multiple suicide attempts. “I decided to take my own life, and that was a tragedy,” Samuel told CBN News.
However, these attempts were not the end for Samuel. He called out to God, and everything changed.
“I took some pills that narrow the blood vessels, and I thought that I am dying, and I started to talk to God for the first time. I told Him I am dying, so do something…save me,” Samuel explained.
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God answered Samuel’s cry and spared his life. Still, Samuel questioned whether he had simply failed at his attempt or if God had answered his prayer.
“And I woke up like nothing has happened,” Samuel testified. “My question was, is it the dose? Was it not enough, or the prayer worked?” he explained.
Samuel decided to test his question and made another attempt at his life. Samuel confirmed, it was “definitely not the dose, but the prayer.”
That night, Samuel prayed, went to sleep and had a life-altering dream that kick-started his faith in Jesus.
“I saw that I am running in a very long road in my dreams. I saw a very long road – a lot of tree branches full of thorns chasing me. And, at the end of the road, there is a man standing in front of me. I called him and said, ‘please help me,'” Samuel described. “I don’t know who He is, so He extended His hand, put it on my shoulder, and brought me before Him.”
Although Samuel did not know the man, the man knew Samuel. That man was Jesus and He called Samuel to follow Him.
“I found out that this is Jesus. I have no clue why, but it was just recognition in the dream that this is Jesus. And He looked deep in my eyes and He said, ‘It is your time to follow Me,'” Samuel continued.
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