{"id":1778,"date":"2013-09-18T09:26:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T09:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/rs\/en\/from-christian-missionary-to-muslim-preacher\/"},"modified":"2013-09-18T09:26:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T09:26:56","slug":"from-christian-missionary-to-muslim-preacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r-islam.com\/en\/from-christian-missionary-to-muslim-preacher\/","title":{"rendered":"From Christian Missionary to Muslim Preacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-1777\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/rs\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/09\/to_muslim_preacher.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 7px; border: 1px solid black;\" width=\"425\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/r-islam.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/09\/to_muslim_preacher.jpg 425w, https:\/\/r-islam.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/09\/to_muslim_preacher-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Touring the black continent for years introduce Christianity to Africans, a Sierra Leonean Christian missionary has reverted to Islam, turning into a Muslim preacher who helped thousands of Africans to find Islam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">For many years, I tried to persuade Muslims in my country to adopt Christianity, then I had a dream in which I was invited to adopt Islam,<\/span>&#8221; Musa Bangura, told Anadolu Agency on Sunday, September 8.<\/p>\n<p>Bangura with Islam started twenty years ago when he had the same dream of &#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Islam invitation<\/span>&#8221; for three consecutive times.<\/p>\n<p>Converting to Islam in 1993, he became one of the leading Muslim preachers in Africa and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of spanning across Africa to call people to adopt Christianity, the new Muslim preacher had a new mission to find differences and similarities between Islam and Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>He even tried to invite his fellow priests to convert to Islam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">I revealed the contradictions in Christianity which resulted in my discussions with Christian priests,<\/span>\u201d Bangura said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">I proved them that Islam is the real religion.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Muslims believe in Jesus as one of the great Prophets of God and that he is the son of Mary but not the Son of God. He was conceived and born miraculously.<\/p>\n<p>In the Noble Qur\u2019an, Jesus is called &#8220;Isa&#8221;. He is also known as Al-Masih (the Christ) and Ibn Maryam (Son of Mary).<\/p>\n<p>As for his crucifixion, Muslims believe that Jesus was not crucified but was lifted up to heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Muslims believe that Jesus will come back to earth before the end of time to restore peace and order, fight the Anti-Christ (Al-Masih Al-Dajjal) and bring victory for truth and righteousness.<\/p>\n<p>The true followers of Jesus will prevail over those who deny him, misrepresent him and reject him.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Humanitarian Activist<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Abandoned by his family and wife after converting to Islam, Bangura tried to build a bigger family by helping needy Sierra Leone Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>He later launched &#8216;Why Islam&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0 website to introduce true information about Islam as well as directing Why Islam In Action (WIIA) organization, sponsored by a Turkish organization, IHH Insani Yardim Vakfi.<\/p>\n<p>The website achieved huge success, helping more than 8,000 non-Muslims to adopt Islam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">I now work for the Christians in my county and try to help them realise the truth and choose Islam,<\/span>&#8221; Bagura said.<\/p>\n<p>Why Islam In Action (WIIA), is a non-governmental humanitarian organization.<\/p>\n<p>It was established in 1995, under the auspice of Bangura.<\/p>\n<p>About four million of the Sierra Leone six million citizens are Muslim.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Source: On Islam<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Touring the black continent for years introduce Christianity to Africans, a Sierra Leonean Christian missionary has reverted to Islam, turning into a Muslim preacher who helped thousands of Africans to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories-of-famous"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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