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In print · 2014
Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus
by Nabeel Qureshi
Qureshi was raised in a devout Ahmadi Muslim home and taught to defend it — he argued with Christians and he won, which was rather the point of the training. Then one of them did not fold, and the argument outlasted the stage where arguments usually stop: the evidence for the resurrection, the claims Jesus made for himself, put through the same tests he had been taught to apply to the Quran. He applied them honestly. What it would cost at home he weighed longest, and in the end he counted it out loud.
Why Nabeel Qureshi became a Christian
At college he set out to argue a Christian friend, David Wood, out of his faith, and they argued for three years. The case for the New Testament held up better than he expected, and in 2005, after a series of dreams he took as an answer, he was baptized. His parents found out from an email left open on his computer.
“They didn’t disown me, but … we stopped functioning like a family. They didn’t come to my wedding.”
What it cost
His family. His mother cried whenever she saw him, and he wrote, “To this day my family is broken by the decision I made.”
the book, quoted by The Gospel Coalition, 2017
Common questions
- Did Nabeel Qureshi’s family convert?
- Not as far as anyone has reported. His parents remained Ahmadi Muslims after his death in 2017.
- Did Nabeel Qureshi’s parents disown him?
- No, but for years they stopped acting like a family, and they did not come to his wedding. By 2014 things had begun to mend, and in his last videos he asked for prayer for his “loving parents.”
- Did Nabeel Qureshi die a Christian?
- Yes. He died of stomach cancer in Houston on September 16, 2017, aged 34, still working as a Christian apologist.
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