As a young girl, she
had questions about God. But being born in a family which practiced Islam,
asking questions was taboo. In Iran, she could not do that at all. “God you are
complicated,” she said in what was a crying prayer to God as a teenager. She wanted
to know the real God. “I dream that Jesus and I were walking in a rose garden
and we were walking. In the dream I thought he was a prophet,” she recollected.
“Do you want to follow me?” Jesus asked her. She said “Yes.” But she wondered
how she could follow someone who she was told was only a prophet many years
ago. After she moved to the US, she desparately wanted to experience the joy
and peace of Christians. She went to a church and was told that Jesus was God.
“Did he say that?” she asked the person in the church. “Yes,” was the answer.
She then prayed the salvation prayer. “Things just started changing. That heavy
heart was gone, completely gone. It was like the Lord took the rock out
permanently from my heart. He put a permanent hope in me,” she said. In due
course, she got many dreams. Her mother also believed in Jesus. Her sisters too
believed in the Lord. She has an advice to Muslims: “Have an open heart to
allow Jesus to come in. Then you will know if he is God.”