By Jeremiah Love –
Harun Ibrahim was drunk in Finland when a street preacher invited him to talk about God.
“I’m a Muslim and I studied in a Jewish school (in Israel) and my wife is Christian, so I’m covered,” he declined.
Eventually, Harun accepted the challenge to read the Book of John in the New Testament and fell in love with Jesus. Today, his T.V. ministry to Muslims is responsible for the salvation of an estimated 100,000.
Harun Ibrahim was born to Muslim Arab parents in Israel. He was living on a kibbutz when he met his then-girlfriend. They fell in love and married, and he moved with her to Finland.
One day in the street, he was challenged to read John. He read it seven times in a row.
“I just really loved the person called Jesus,” Harun recalls. “I couldn’t resist. I had to accept him as my redeemer, as my savior.”
Almost immediately, he joined an outreach broadcasting Christian shows in Arab into the Muslim world. The results were not spectacular.
“I was not happy to see that in the whole year, maybe 15 up to 20 people Muslims accepted Christ,” he remembers.
Don’t despise the day of small beginnings.
He changed the format to more directly challenge the tenets of Islam. He was always respectful but also firm. He used a question-answer format and answered with Islamic scriptures, the Qur’an and the hadiths.
People were startled.
“Islam is not the religion of peace,” he says. “It’s something else… In the Qur’an it gives an order to Muslims to kill infidels including Jews and Christians.”
The conversions streamed in, thousands yearly – now for 23 years.
“Most of Muslims do not even understand their religion,” he says. “The majority of Muslims are non-Arabs. The Qur’an is in Arabic. Only 17% of Muslims around the world understand how to read the Quran – among them, not many understand.
“More than 80 to 85% of Muslims don’t know what the Quran is saying,” he adds.
He has written a book, Sharing Jesus, Shaking Islam.
“I love Muslims,” he says. “But I disagree with Islam.”
