Ciniraj Mohamed - Indian muslim meets Jesus
Christ

Bro. CINIRAJ MOHAMED of SALEM VOICE

I was born on 25th May, 1954 as the fourth child
of Janab Kassim Pillai Labba, a retired
headmaster and Fathima Beevi. My house is
known as "Kochera". It is an ancient, prominent
and orthodox Muslim family at Kalloor, a rural
area in Trivandrum, South India. More than 4000 muslim families inhabiting in our
area and some hindus at suburbs. No Christians
at all. There was not even a single christian in the
schools where I was studied.

Our mosque is around thousand years old. My
ancestors spread the religion of Islam in that
place and built the mosque. My ancestoral home
is very close to the mosque. The land revenue
and the axillary records of the mosque were
kept in my father's name well into my boyhood. My ancestors were entitled to muslim priesthood
by heredity. They had the designation as
"Labba" with their names to indicate the
priesthood. In these circumstances, I was brought up with
great regard and love for Islamic teachings and
its practices and of my family. I did my religious
education before I started regular schooling. No
bad habits existed in the way of our family life. I
even wrote a book about the Qur'an.

My college education was held at a Christian
institution called Mar Ivanios College, which is in
Trivandrum city. The vast majority of my college
classmates were christians. I was only muslim in
the class. I had difficulty to mingle with my
classmates in the beginning. But gradually I became close and intimate with them. Actually it
led me to evil associations and wretched habits. I
started smoking, began to use drugs and
alcohol, done streaking, being known as rowdy
in the city. Damaging reports and ugly pictures
concerning me began to appear in the news papers. As a result my parents, brothers, sisters
and dear ones were greatly disturbed. It seemed
I may have to discontinue my education. If so I
wanted to prove I could succeed on my own by
going to the Arabian Gulf even as a stow-away. By this time I became addicted on drugs and
alcohol. My body began to shiver and I became
very tense if I did not use drugs at the habitual
times. I was on the watch-list of the Police. My
parents cut off the money which they were
giving me regularly. I had lot of friends, ready for any adventure, when I had money in my pocket.
As a matter of fact my earlier friends became my
sworn enemies in my period of trial. I lost my
peace of mind.

It was at this juncture that some missionary
students gathered courage to talk to me. They
claimed that Jesus is the Son of God, who was
crucified for the mankind. He rose from the dead
and He is the king of peace. They further claimed
that if one believes in Him and confesses all sins he will become a new person. I could not even
imagine that Prophet Isa (Jesus) is the son of
God or that he was crucified and rose from the
dead. In turn exhorted them to reach heaven by
believing in Islam which is the true religion. I had
heated arguments with them on many occasions. They could only find fault with my
wretched life, but could not prevail over my
arguments or prove my ideas wrong. But without losing heart, one day they brought
some leaflets. The leaflets were based on the
Bible which I considered forbidden, for it is
abrogated. Hence I went into a rage. The
thought that the advice that I had given them
earlier regarding Islam, had made no impact on them increased my rage. I tored the leaflets into
pieces. With despicable words I threw the pieces
into their faces and I gave warning that I would
destroy them if they continue misleading others.

It was a serious matter that the students of
priesthood in cassocks were publicly insulted
and persecuted, specially in the compound of a
christian institution. It looked almost certain that
I would be expelled from the college. I could
also expect troubles from any direction. The next day I went to the college armed with
weapons, intending to cause violent incidents.
When I entered the class the missionary students
ran to me and embraced with love and joy. They
surprised me by expressing regret for having
caused mental distress on me. If the college was run by my religion and I was in the place of a
missionary, surely I would not have let one,
persecutes me, scot free. In fact, I was touched
by their love, kindness and gentle nature. The
Holy Spirit, which reminds us about sin,
righteousness and judgement, began to work upon me. That night I found a piece of paper in a text
book in my room. On it was written, "The saying
is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ
Jesus came to the world to save sinners, for
whom I am the foremost" (1Tim 1:15). On the
reverse side of the paper was written, "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is
eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Rom 6:23). I
did not know those were the verses from the
Bible. But I was overcome with thoughts.

All the sins, the excessions and violations that I
had committed since childhood began to appear
before me as if on a screen. I recognized all my
inequities, big and small. Each one of them
transformed into a blister on my body. The
blisters burst open and became sores. The flesh and bones, from where pus began to flow out,
became very hot and began to melt. Worms were
competing to get at the marrow of the bones.
The pain was unbearable. The stench could not
be described. I was being pulled into a
bottomless pit. There was nobody to save me. I cried out, "God, save me". Then a man, holy and bright, descended from
heaven and touched me. I understood it was
Jesus. For a moment I closed my eyes with a
heavenly joy, for His touch cooled my body and
mind. When I opened my eyes all the blisters and
sores had disappeared from my body. I am purified as if washed with a perfumed ointment.
But Jesus who came in bright and spotless was
now infected with blisters and sores. Pus and
discharges were flowing out of them. Worms
and maggots were roaming freely on his body. It
was like an abominable, foul smelling creature. Yes! "Surely he has borne our griefs and carried
our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was
wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised
for our inequities; upon him was the
chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed" (Is 53:4-5).

Christ had taken on himself all my afflictions. I
should have been condemned to death for all
my sins. But I saw Christ taking on all my sins
and being crucified in my place for my sake. Earlier I never believed that Christ was crucified. I
used to ask how our sins would be washed
away by his death, even if he was crucified. But
now I was convinced how and for what Christ
died. "For our sake he made him to be sin who knew
no sin, so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God" (2 Cor 5:21). I saw Jesus breaking the tomb and rising up
from the dead. He was more glorious and
resplendent in resurrection than he descended
from the clouds. I fell at his feet crying, "My Lord
and my God".

I do not know whether this experience which
occurred me in my own house in an area where
there are no christians, is a dream, or a revelation
or a vision. I was not at all believing such kind of
matters. But this experience transformed me into
a Christian. It enabled me to throw away the old man and made me to become a new man. I
received joy and peace the like of which I never
knew before. I shared my conversion of mind and joy at the
same night to my parents. Although they
listened me, but tried to dissuade saying this was
only a trick played by Iblis (Satan). But I was
convinced that the loving God has saved me
through His only Son and that I would inherit eternal life. As a result I had to face torture and
threats in my life. I was baptized in the water as
soon as I accepted Him as my personal Saviour.
God baptized me with the Holy Spirit too.

One day I was narrating my christian
experiences to some of my friends near the
mosque. Suddenly one of my cousin brothers
named Salim stabbed me with a knife. My lower
jaw was split. Everybody thought that I may die.
But God saved me and made me a witness again at that place. Salim was making arrangements to
murder me in another way and had a plan to
convert it into a suicide. For the same he was
buisily making a noose at the top of a tree. But a
whirl wind blew and Salim fell with the branch of
the tree. He was near to death. Instinctively I wished for his death. But Jesus ordered me to
love and nurse Salim as He had loved me when I
was His enemy. At my initiative Salim was taken
to the hospital and was in plaster for more than
six months. When Salim recovered he accepted
Jesus as his Savior. The Jama'ath authorities chained me, shaved my
head, locked me in an underground cellar when
yet another person became a Christian. When I
tried to escape acid was sprayed on me. I was
beaten up several times and even lost a few
teeth. I considered these experiences as lucky de in the name of Jesus and as symbal of my
spiritual fervour. The Lord visited a few more
people who caused trouble on me. Most of them
led to believe in Jesus. My parents and siblings
who banned me from the entire area is now
visiting me, and are willing to pray with me, though in private. My family and I can now visit
with confidence our ancesteral home and the
adjoining muslim neighbourhood as witnesses
to the Gospel. The Living God is helping us in
that.

I have a deep burden about those who go
astray. Also He empowered me to preach Gospel.
By Gods grace I have already preached before
thousands of crowds. Preaching the Word of
God, using the gift of healing, counseling,
sharing the testimony are the part of my preaching ministry. While many who take pride in calling themselves
christians look upon gospel work with
contempt, I consider it only God's grace that I
look upon proclaiming the Gospel as a great
honour. My goal is to win the muslim world as
well as the third world unto the Salvation.

Bro. Ciniraj Mohamed,
Director, Salem Voice,
Baseelia, Devalokam (P.O),
Kottayam, Kerala-686038, INDIA
Telephone & Fax: 0091 481 573532;
Mobile: 00 98470 51532 E-Mail: siniraj@vsnl.com

JESUS CHRIST the son of GOD is bringing great glory to HIS Father

glory to God

Best decision ever!! GOD is great.

Oh what a God we serve, abounding in mercy n compassion. I am short of words, what can I say? Thank u Jesus for his salvation n others!

No matter who you are, Jesus loves you and he died to reunite you with God, he died to make your life meaningful, he died for your sins, he died to set you free, invite him into your life today. Say this prayer, " Lord Jesus, I know you died for me, come into my life, wash me clean from all my sins both past and present with your precious blood, set me free, help me walk with you daily, help me have a personal relationship with you. Thank you Lord Jesus. ". God bless you. Shalom !

wow! this former muslim has entered one chance. he is a big mugu because what he saw was satan. i have news for you all, including this indian whose grand-pappy's idolatry made him get deceived by satan; Jesus will deny each of you who made him God and or son of God by it rejecting his brother [SA] in prophetic mission.

i wouldn't have responded except that i am one of the messengers upon you here, carrying the mission of the Messenger [SA]. fear the fire that God will use to punish and the punish will be severe without limit or end.

.......JESUS CHRIST cannot deny those that call HIM who HE is...the son of the living GOD unless you didn't accept HIM whole heartedly
and what is you aim of calling yourself a messenger...you convinced and deceived thinking that Heaven is a place of immorality to go and fornicate with virgins, thats why you remain in sin thinking that you will go to Heaven to fill yourself with sexual immoralities ... If you don't believe that CHRIST is the only begotten Son of GOD you are going to be in hell and you will see muhammad there too. Repent CHRIST is not a man that lies or can't be trusted. Thank you JESUS CHRIST for despite I failed you..you haven't fail me or will ever fail me

Even if HE will deny me....I will continue to truth and believe in HIM even if HE doesn't exist I will still believe am saying this because I know HIM personally but you, you are just contraducting and you read about HIM in a bad way...you don't know HIM personally

RoyPCain: wow! this former muslim has entered one chance. he is a big mugu because what he saw was satan. i have news for you all, including this indian whose grand-pappy's idolatry made him get deceived by satan; Jesus will deny each of you who made him God and or son of God by it rejecting his brother [SA] in prophetic mission.

i wouldn't have responded except that i am one of the messengers upon you here, carrying the mission of the Messenger [SA]. fear the fire that God will use to punish and the punish will be severe without limit or end.

U don't knw anything at all ! Do think ur prophet knw anything about Jesus or God Himself ? I will tell u this, take it or leave it ! There' no Jesus or God in that ur religion, this might sound rediculous, but note, "am not here to insult or support any religion" am telling u the infallible TRUTH without hypocricy that there's no salvation in religions, " though all religions are good and teach morality and claim to be of God" but salvation is only through redemption by the blood of Jesus Christ.

Doesn't ur quran call Jesus Al-Masihu? Go and lean what that means. And pray also with an open hearth that God show u the TRUTH about this matter.