Sunday Remijius, now Abubakar, hails from Udenu Local
Government Area of Enugu State. Born into a strong
Catholic family, the graduate of Economics education, from
the Nasarawa State College of Education who loves
cooking, was employed at one of the Shoprite offices in
Abuja as a Merchandiser. But his encounter with a
colleague led him to Islam. That decision has left him with
steel in his leg from one of the several attacks from his
family for renouncing his religion. In this interview, he
shares his tough journey to Islam, his struggles with his
family and his cry for help, among other issues of interest.
Excerpts:

How did you become a Muslim?
I accepted Islam through the influence of a colleague while
I was working at Shoprite in Apo, Abuja. His name is
Ibrahim and his attitude made me to become a Muslim.
Shoprite employ people from a state and post them to
another state for training. I was posted from Abuja to Kano
but I met Ibrahim when he was posted to Abuja from Kano.
There were about 23 boys with me then and some cabal
used to deduct N2000 each from the salaries of all us
unknown to the management. This happened for years.
Ibrahim was directly in charge of that ‘deduction project’
when he came but he refused to take the money. When I
inquired why, he said his religion does not allow him to
touch haram. Coupled with other traits I noticed about him
because of his religion, it made me to accept Islam. I
reasoned that if his attitude was possible because of his
religion, then I want to be part of the religion.

How did your wife receive the news of your conversion?
We were working together at Shoprite then but she was
angry when she learnt that I converted. Initially I didn’t want
her to know. But one day, she saw me coming out of the
mosque we have at the office and was wondering what I
went there for. I opened up and told her ‘I’m now a
Muslim’. Her name is Helen. She said she can never
convert to Islam and called my family who came down to
Abuja from Nasarawa State where we lived. This was in
2020. All they thought was that someone converted me.
The period coincided with my yearly leave at Shoprite and I
took the opportunity to travel to Enugu State with my wife.
Meanwhile, because of my conversion, my family left
Nasarawa State and relocated home. They said I brought
shame to them, especially my father who is a traditional
title holder.

How will you describe your experience with your parents
as a Muslim?
It was terrible and unimaginable, especially for my father. He
finds it hard to believe that I could be a Muslim and want to
remain one. But my mother and younger sister, who is the last
born in our family, love me so much. After my conversion, if I
miss any prayer, I will be very uncomfortable until after I pray
and I will happy and very peaceful with myself and everyone
around me. I was observing my Maghrib prayer in one instance
and reciting Suratul Fatiha aloud when all of a sudden, I felt a
terrible blow from behind. When I turned, they were some of
my relatives. They hit me with plank, iron and anything they
could get. I tried to fight back because I am a very strong
person just like Umar in Islam, but they were five of them.
They hit me to the extent that I fainted and they wanted to kill
me. It was my mother that prevented them by throwing herself
on top of me that day. When I regained consciousness, I
discovered that I couldn’t stand up anymore and my hands and
legs were broken. Initially, I was taken to a local hospital in
Enugu where I was bedridden for six months. My hands were
okay but my legs became a problem. Anytime I tried to walk, I
will feel and hear cracking of bones inside me. I made
arrangement to come to Idala Hospital in Kano for specialized
treatment on the advice of Ibrahim. It was there that steel was
infused into my leg. The treatment cost me my entire savings
because I was doing very well at Shoprite with about N200,000
salary when my allowances were added. My office gave me
six months but I spend about a year and five weeks without
full recovery. It was within this period that I lost my job at
Shoprite. I was loved there and the management wanted and
was eager to give me back my job, but for my condition.

How much did your operation cost?
About N420,000. I was operated twice. After the first time, my
leg became shorter, so I went back and they had to use
something to lengthen it a bit. That was when they put the
steel in my leg.

During your time of tribulation, did you receive any
assistance from the family?
No, except my mother who loves me to a fault. Although
she was not happy that I became a Muslim, she offered
support when she realized they wanted to take my life.
Did you reach out to the Muslim community in Enugu?
I’m the only Igbo Muslim in my entire local government, apart
from those that came for business. There is a mosque where I
used to go to pray and the mosque management later involved
the police. But my father as a high-ranking personality
intimidated the policemen. He said he had to relocate from
Nasarawa because of me and here I am again. He told them
that I am his first son, and unless I renounce Islam and stop
praying, he will never allow me have peace. I told him that I
wasn’t the one that chose Islam, rather it was Allah that
revealed it to me and he said over his dead body. When we
got home, I was told that I’m no longer welcome in the house
and on the land which he gave me where I built my house. I
have left everything for him. It was the DPO of the station who
is also a Muslim that I met where I used to go and observe
Jumat that advised me to emulate the Prophet (SAW) and
make hijrah by leaving the community. My father warned him
not to interfere or it will lead to another crisis. He rejected the
intervention of my mother. It was one Hausa man that gave
me N50,000, another one gave me N20,000 among other
assistance. I had to leave because my wife and her family
were also giving me problem. I collected my daughter who is
7 years old now and arranged for her to get to Nasarawa.

How did you come to Ilorin and how have you been
surviving?
It was one Hausa man I met in Enugu, who had once sold
meat in Ilorin, that advised me to come down to Ilorin
maybe because of the relative peace and tolerance here. I
was given a place to stay by a good Muslim and one Hausa
told me to always come if I want to eat. My place is at the
heart of Maraba Motor Park where passengers to Kano,
Kaduna and Niger, among other states in the north, board
vehicles. I help the drivers to load (for a token) whenever I
am not having pain in my leg.

Have you been speaking to your family?
It is only my mother and our last born that still speak to
me. There was a time during this fiasco in Enugu that my
sister Lovina came to my house and saw me sleeping. My
English translated Qur’an which I often read before going to
be bed was on the ground and she began to read it. It
coincided with the time my father walked in. It was her
scream that work me up from the vicious hit from my
father.
Since your conversion to Islam, any regrets?
The only regret I have is the persecution from my family. I
love my mother so much and my happiest day will be to
witness her profession of Islam. That will further inspire
many others to follow. But I know most of my family
members wouldn’t want that to happen. If I put on jalabiya
back there in Enugu, my people will be looking at me as if I
don’t know what I am doing. They see my conversation as
something abnormal and unusual.

What help do you seek now?
The help I seek is concerning my legs, the metal implant is
affecting me. Sometimes I sit down on the ground to pray
and hate myself (astaghfirullah). At times, I will cry and
pray to Allah to assist me. Sometimes, I wonder if I’m the
first person to convert to Islam. Lovina once asked me that
if she converts to Islam, will she also pass through the
same pain I’m passing through. If I had my way, I would
have brought her closer to me. She is a graduate of the
Nasarawa State University. I am trying to convince her
because I know that In Sha Allah, I will be the source of my
family accepting Islam.

How much will the operation cost?
The doctor at Idala said N120,000 and I have tried to raise
the money by selling the only phone I have now for
N11,000. I don’t have anyone again. I had sold my
Mercedes 190 during a stage of the previous operations. I
wanted to make arrangement to dispose my remaining
motorcycle but learnt my junior ones are using it. I had to
forgo the idea because I don’t want anything that would
disrupt the happiness of my family.

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Interesting story

ManirBK:
Sunday Remijius, now Abubakar, hails from Udenu Local
Government Area of Enugu State. Born into a strong
Catholic family, the graduate of Economics education, from
the Nasarawa State College of Education who loves
cooking, was employed at one of the Shoprite offices in
Abuja as a Merchandiser.
....
https://dailytrust.com/tough-road-how-enugu-man-overcame-huddles-converting-to-islam
Sissie, mukina2 OAM4J Mynd44 oam4j lalasticlala seun semid4lyfe dominique Briareos UjSizzle

I'm so sorry for your pains and tribulations caused by people who probably didn't know better. The kingdom of God is not a community or a family thing.

I wish that the owner of this testimony is the poster!

I almost became a Muslim too in my 200 levels in the University. It was the Quran that pursued me back to Christ.

I want to assume that
1. You believe that Jesus did not die on the cross and He was neither crucified.
2. And you believe that Miriam the sister of Aaron is the mother of Jesus
3. And that you are going to Hell after death before Allah will remove you.
4. You also believe that the sun sets in the black murky waters
5. And you now believe that your semen comes from between your backbone and your rib cage.
6. You believe that in conception, the semen is becomes a baby by first turning into a kind of congealed blood
7., 8, 9......

SInce Allah dictated the Quran, can it harbour so much errors?
Actually, just one error in the quran prove that it cannot be from God.

It is unfortunate that your foundation in Christ is zero probably because of the church you grew into, but if you truly seek God the Creator of everything, you have chosen a religion of lies.

Without lies, Islam crumbles!

This last days if ur foundation is not strong in Christ like the common slang in town "OTILO" some people just grew up as a Christian that's all Wat dey know some even try to read there bible but they have fixed places they read like where money is mentioned where blessing is mentioned I have seen someone because of poverty he switch to a Muslim currently as am speaking he is now an habalist my advice to every one build ur foundation very well in this end time where different types of teaching, doctrine are surfacing or else "OTILO"

TenQ:

I'm so sorry for your pains and tribulations caused by people who probably didn't know better. The kingdom of God is not a community or a family thing.

I wish that the owner of this testimony is the poster!

I almost became a Muslim too in my 200 levels in the University. It was the Quran that pursued me back to Christ.

I want to assume that
1. You believe that Jesus did not die on the cross and He was neither crucified.
2. And you believe that Miriam the sister of Aaron is the mother of Jesus
3. And that you are going to Hell after death before Allah will remove you.
4. You also believe that the sun sets in the black murky waters
5. And you now believe that your semen comes from between your backbone and your rib cage.
6. You believe that in conception, the semen is becomes a baby by first turning into a kind of congealed blood
7., 8, 9......

SInce Allah dictated the Quran, can it harbour so much errors?
Actually, just one error in the quran prove that it cannot be from God.

It is unfortunate that your foundation in Christ is zero probably because of the church you grew into, but if you truly seek God the Creator of everything, you have chosen a religion of lies.

Without lies, Islam crumbles!

See this nincompoop without empathy! Someone converts to Islam and they almost killed him.

No be Christians like you did that?

Foolish Galatians!

The story would have gone viral if it was a Christian that got converted is being persecuted and almost killed.






Lalasticlala

AntiChristian:


See this nincompoop without empathy! Someone converts to Islam and they almost killed him.

No be Christians like you did that?

Foolish Galatians!

It is normal for an "unregenerate" soul to be completely BLIND to the TRUTH!

TenQ:

I'm so sorry for your pains and tribulations caused by people who probably didn't know better. The kingdom of God is not a community or a family thing.

I wish that the owner of this testimony is the poster!

I almost became a Muslim too in my 200 levels in the University. It was the Quran that pursued me back to Christ.

I want to assume that
1. You believe that Jesus did not die on the cross and He was neither crucified.
2. And you believe that Miriam the sister of Aaron is the mother of Jesus
3. And that you are going to Hell after death before Allah will remove you.
4. You also believe that the sun sets in the black murky waters
5. And you now believe that your semen comes from between your backbone and your rib cage.
6. You believe that in conception, the semen is becomes a baby by first turning into a kind of congealed blood
7., 8, 9......

SInce Allah dictated the Quran, can it harbour so much errors?
Actually, just one error in the quran prove that it cannot be from God.

It is unfortunate that your foundation in Christ is zero probably because of the church you grew into, but if you truly seek God the Creator of everything, you have chosen a religion of lies.

Without lies, Islam crumbles!

Of course without lies, Islam crumbles. No wonder, three Quarters of your hadiths are FABRICATIONS!