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I Dared to Call Him Father: The Miraculous Story of a Muslim Woman's Encounter with God
written by Bilquis, Sheikh, Richard H., Schneider
Studio : Chosen
by Chosen
Publisher : Chosen
Released : 2003-04-01
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780800793241
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 25 reviews)
List Price : $12.99
Our Price : $7.46
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I Dared to Call Him Father is the fascinating true story of Bilquis Sheikh, a prominent Muslim woman. Her unusual journey to a personal relationship with God turned her world upside down-and put her life in danger. Originally published in 1978, the book has sold 300,000 copies and is a classic in Muslim evangelism. The 25th anniversary edition includes an afterword by a missionary friend of Bilquis who plays a prominent role in the story and an appendix on how the East enriches the West. |
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Never the same after reading it |
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by Brenda Cobb Murphy, author of The Wild Romancer: Uncovering the Romance Jesus Longs to Lavish on You. While Bilquis's book is an awesome story on her conversion, two things impacted me the most: how Jesus supernaturally pursued her, and how He moved supernaturally in her life. It was a lesson I've never forgotten, that Jesus wants that relationship with me also, enough to pursue me supernaturally, physically, and in such a real way. Her book opened the door for me to experience the supernatural and to know that God moves that way today. She taught me that I, too, can have dreams where God speaks to me, that I too can dine with him and physically feel his presence, and that I too can have that intimacy with Jesus. Her book was a springboard for me into an intimate relationship with Jesus that has never stopped, I've only grown more passionate and more hungry for His presence than ever before. She taught me to walk with Jesus in the spiritual, supernatural realm, and that that intimate relationship makes the Christian walk an adventure that is unbelievable. I am madly in love with Jesus, and Bilquis showed me some of what that can look like, how real that can be. No other book, other than the Bible, has ever impacted me as much as her book has. |
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Wonderful Testimony! |
I just finished reading this book and highly recommend it.It is an inspiring true and personal testimony of a wealthy traditional Muslim woman who came to the faith through vivid dreams from God. As she journeys from Islam to Christianity, her salvation leads to her to a wonderfully intimate relationship with Christ. She is dedicated and obedient in all details of her life, big and small , and openly shares her struggles with temporal things, a sharp tongue, and pride and how she learns to overcome her flesh and walk in a true relationship with the Lord. It is void of the shallow Christianity that is so prevalent in our society today, and I found that very refreshing . It left me desiring a deeper level of intimacy with God as well as causing me to evaluate my own obedience and faith in Him . The presence of the Lord she experiences is rare, but so is the faith and trust that she has for Him.
Her simplistic faith, untouched and tainted by modern Christianity and its rules and doctrine is a beautiful testament of how the Spirit will teach us all we need to know about Him. As He gives her dreams, leads her into the Scriptures and speaks to her she learns His word and how to obey Him. Her obedience, even as her life is threatened, is encouraging. I love a part in the book where she tells the Lord she doesn't have what it takes to be a martyr, so she asks Him to make her death quick and painless! I laugh because I have often prayed that myself.
Being a Muslim living in the middle east, coming to the faith in Christ was worthy of death. She was ostracized by her family and threatened with her life, yet she held steadfast and unwavering to the Lord in spite of it.
This book was originally written in 1978 but has been republished and includes an after word from two missionary friends who were close with her and were used to disciple Bilquis in her walk with the Lord. The author is now with the Lord, but has left behind a shining example of what a true relationship with Christ is for today.
It is an easy read and one that would make a wonderful family read aloud. I will definitely be adding it to book our pile to read to my children.
Stephanie
www.ahighandnoblecalling.blogspot.com |
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Amazing Book Amazing Story |
I love this book. It has become a friend over the years. It is written in such a way as you are sitting down and talking with a dear friend and she is telling you about her adventure.
What a life changing book it is. Read it.....and pass one along to a friend. |
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I dared to call Him Father |
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This is one of the most amazing books of a biography that I have ever read, on the power of GOD to show his LOVE for His children. |
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perfect study on women in islam |
I am currently taking a course on Islam and the anstructor thought that this book would be an interesting read as to how women in that society were treated from their perspective. My wife and I read the book together in ONE DAY, she read it out loud as we drove around running arrands and then as we arrived home we finished that evening. Neither of us wanted to put the book down as it had us captured from page one.
This book was obviously written by a well educated woman raised in the Muslim faith who started on the journey to Christianity through a carefully thought out spiritual process.
I would call this book a Must Read for Christians of today as we have lost this simplistic view of our faith that this woman had and our willingness to defend it to the loss of everything.
The book is yet in a very simplistic writing style that it reads much like one of Kipling's stories that the author quotes and obviously was raised on in Pakistan. |
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