I have just finished reading this book - a biography of a Pakistani aristocrat who was Muslim and became a Christian. It shed more light for me on the beliefs of Muslims, and the (erroneous) views they have of Christianity and The Bible. I have listened to testimonies before of Muslims who are saved, and it never ceases to amaze how the Lord comes to them in the most vivid and revelatory dreams, and this was the case with Bilquis too. The most beautiful part of the book is when she is told to speak to God as if he were her father, the lady telling her in tears at the time, which brought me to tears. (We are so blessed that we have a God who we can call Father, and not only Father, but Abba Father, Abba essentially meaning daddy, what a close relationship God has with us, and wants to have with us.) It was so foreign to her as a Muslim, since Allah is distant and never to be thought of in relationships terms. Also the trinity is a big stumbling block to Muslims who think it is outright blasphemy to say that Jesus and the Holy Spirit is God, but I do love how the trinity was explained to her by a missionary:
"In answer, David compared God to the sun which manifests itself in the three creative energies of heat, light and radiation, a trinity relationship which together makes the sun, yet singly is not the sun." A very encouraging book indeed, it is simply beautiful to take a step back and watch the hand of God at work in bringing a soul to salvation.
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