نيجيريا: رؤيا تقود قسا إلى اعتناق الإسلام

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أكد "أديكونيل أفولابي" الذي أشهر إسلامه وسُمِّي "أبا بكر" - أن إسلامه وتحويل كنيسته إلى مسجد جاء في أعقاب رؤيا رآها في منامه، وهي أن روَّاد كنيسته كانوا يغطون رؤوسهم ويغسلون أيديهم وأقدامهم فيما يُشبه وضوء صلاة المسلمين، وأن رجلاً يرتدي البياض أرشده إلى ضلال النصرانية المعاصرة، وأرشده إلى كون الإسلام الطريق الحقيقي إلى الجنة.

وأشار إلى أنه كان يستعد لعيد الكنيسة التي يخدمها منذ خمس سنوات، وممارسته للعمل الكنسي منذ 25 عامًا حين عرضت له هذه الرؤيا التي تبِعها باعتناق الإسلام، وقد قابلته ردود أفعال مختلفة بين أتباعه وأقاربه وأصدقائه، فزوجته طالبته بالطلاق أولاً لكونها نصرانية، ثم تراجعت عن الأمر، أما أبناؤه فيدعمون حقَّه في حرية الاختيار، خاصةً وأنه قد أكد إيمانه بالإسلام وعدم رغبته في الموت نصرانيًّا.

وأشار "أبو بكر" إلى أنه عُيِّن إمامًا للمسجد، ويدرس الإسلام بتوسُّع حاليًّا، وأن المسجد أصبح يجد إقبالاً كبيرًا من المسلمين؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Nigerian Pastor Embraces Islam

Changing his popular church to a mosque, a Nigerian pastor has embraced Islam and took Shahadah, attributing his reversion to a divine encounter he had with a strange man in white in his dreams.

“I was preparing for the anniversary when I started hav¬ing dreams that eventually led to my conversion,” former pastor Adekunle Afolabi was quoted by Naij.com on August 3.

“At first in the dreams, I noticed my members were sitting on the floor in the church and some of them were covering their heads. I also saw that people were washing their hands and feet before entering the church just like it is done in Islam.”

The 45 years old pastor is the founder and leader of Apata Adu¬ra Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Ekute, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.

According to an earlier interview with the Sun newspaper, he has been practicing Christianity for 25 years and opened his church five years ago.

Now known as Alfa Abubakar Afolabi, a strange man in white in his dreams showed him certain flaws in Christianity and convinced him that indeed Islam is the only religion that leads to heaven as he was preparing for his church anniversary.

As 150 members abandoned his church, the decision to revert to Islam was met by different reactions from his family and friends.

“They have always known me to be truthful with whatever I’m doing and they respect me for that and also respect my decision, so there hasn’t been any cause for alarm,” he said.

“The only person who at a time opposed it was my wife be¬cause she was a Christian when I married her.”

“She said she would quit the marriage and I said it is okay and that I don’t want to die a Christian but would rather die a Muslim. “