Paradigm Shift.

He was a "Moslem"
Hijackers; Kidnappers; Bombers, Terrorists - and who knows what else? ,I hated the idea of meeting an "infidel, hijacker, kidnapper, bomber, terrorist, non-believer." Any normal person would be repulsed at the idea. I couldn't believe my ears. A 'Moslem?' No way! I reminded my dad of the various different things that we had heard about these people.

In early 1991 these were the thoughts of a Christian priest after his father began doing business with a man from Egypt. He said, “I want to meet your son.”

Since he was a Christian Priest he came up with an idea that he would convert this Muslim man whose name was Mohammad into a Christian. Christian priest started to meet Mohammad.

According to the word of Christian Priest, “I agreed to meet him on a Sunday after church so we would be all prayed up and in good standing with the Lord. I would be carrying my Bible under my arm as usual. I would have my big shiny cross dangling and I would have on my cap which says: "Jesus is Lord" right across the front. My wife and two young daughters came along and we were ready for our first encounter with the 'Moslems'.”

Mohammad replied with a "yes" to almost every question that was asked by Priest

"Do you believe in Adam and Eve?"

"What about Abraham? You believe in him and how he tried to sacrifice his son for God?"

"What about Moses?", "Ten Commandments?", "Parting the Red Sea?"

"What about the other prophets, David, Solomon and John the Baptist?"

"Do you believe in the Bible?"

"Do you believe in Jesus? That he was the Messiah (Christ) of God?"

Mohammad astounded him by replying with a confident "yes" to every question posed by the Priest, but he was happy that it was going to be easier to convince Mohammad to embrace Christianity. The Priest started to meet Mohammad every now and then, and since they were business partners they had a lot of time to interact during business trips. They became friends and started to share their beliefs, their agenda was common "they were searching for truth".

Fast Forward

Mohammad had some issues with his residency. The Priest offered him to live at his place thinking that Mohammad could share some of the work and some expenses.

Fast Forward

Mohammad and the Catholic preach and Priests family had intense debates on religion around the kitchen table after dinner every night to discuss religion. Everyone used to prepare for the debate so that they could argue effectively and won't miss anything while giving their point of view. The Priests father would bring his King James Version of the Bible. The Priest would bring out his Revised Standard Version of the Bible, his wife had another version of the Bible. The Catholic priest of course, had the Catholic Bible which has 7 more books in it than the Protestant Bible. So they spent more time talking about which Bible was the right one or the most correct one. Then they would try to convince Mohamed about becoming a Christian. The Priest recalls that one time he asked Mohammad about the Quran and how many versions of it there were in the last 1,400 years. Mohammad told him that there was only ONE QURAN. And that it had never been changed. Today and over 9 million Muslims have memorized the entire Quran from cover to cover.

Catholic Priest was the first to be impressed by Islam but he wanted to know more so he requested Mohammad to take him mosque. So they went to mosque one day and the Catholic priest just noticed how Muslims used to pray.

After some time Catholic priest again requested Mohammad to take him to mosque. When they returned home Catholic Priest was no longer priest and he had become Muslim. That made the other Christian priest more curious about Islam and when he talked about this Catholic Priest becoming Muslim with his wife, announced entering into Islam and told him that she was going to enter into Islam, because she knew it was the truth.

He was really shocked now. He went downstairs and woke up Mohamed and asked him to come outside with him for a discussion. They walked and talked through the whole night. By the time Mohamamd was ready to pray Fajr (the morning prayer of the Muslims) Priest knew that the truth had come at last and now it was up to him to do his part. He went out back behind his father's house and found an old piece of plywood lying and right there he put his head down on the ground facing the direction that the Muslims pray five times a day.

Next day priest and his wife embraced Islam. After a few months Priests father and children followed.

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It has become a fantasy for Pakistan cricket fans to see Pakistan cricket team achieving good results in major cricket events.The recent failure of Pakistan cricket team in ICC champions trophy has brought a lot of distraught for the fans.After a poor performance on tour in South Africa the batsmen again let the side down and team could only manage to challenge world champions West Indies in the first game which was a low-scoring nail-biter played  at The Oval on 7th of June.Despite the horrible show with the bat, the Pakistan team did well in bowling department under the lights of world class spinner Saeed Ajmal,and extra ordinary pace battery.Team lost its first game and Misbahs heroic performance was overcome by the indies,however, this match could have been won  by Pakistan quite comprehensively provided the batting order would not have crumbled for mere 170 which included a 96 runs not out knock from the skipper Msibah ul Haq and a half century from promising opener  Nasir Jamshaid.

The Pakistani bowling attack showed a lot of resilience in defending a low score, but Indies managed to chase the score and secured a priceless two wicket victory owing to a handy knock played by monster sized batsmen Chris Gayle who scored 39 and Samuels who scored 30 which proved vital in the end.

Pakistan played its second game against South Africa on 10th of June at  Edgbaston, Birmingham.Pakistani fans were expecting for tough fight.South Africa won the toss and chose to bat first ,however Pakistan's bowling attack  showed some character in the first few overs of the game but failed to manage line and length in the later part of the game and could not find answer to Hashim Amla's splendid strikes and his intellect of shot selection. Amla played a classy innings of 81 runs.South Africa scored 234/9 in their quota of fifty overs.Pakistan's batting could not withstand ordinary bowling of Proteas,Pakistani batsmen were lacking self confidence and seemed disoriented with their shot selection tactics,Misbah tried to pull together innings for the team but wickets kept falling on the other end and whole team not only managed to score just 165 in pursue of small total of 234 but also failed to play their quota of fifty over,which flamed anger throughout the nation.This failure added to dismay of Pakistan cricket fans as this failure lead to elimination of Pakistan in the preliminary round of the tournament and dreams of Pakistan cricket fans to ever win ICC champions trophy were shattered since this scheduled will no longer be played.

Defeat in first two fixtures raged anger in Pakistani fans but the grudge match was still to come against arch rivalries India on 15th June.Winning this match could have served as face saver for the team and could have compensated for their shameful  defeats in first two games of the tournament.Stage was all set for this nerve racking game on a cloudy day in Edgbaston, Birmingham.Tone of the game was quite nicely set by Pakistani openers which included a few marvelous boundaries until rain interrupted the game,when the play resumed,game was reduced to 40 overs per team,interruption seemed to have disrupt tempo of Pakistani openers and gave some time to Indian bowler to rethink their strategy resulting in yet another batting prostration,Pakistani team could only score 165.When India begun its batting inform Shikhar Dhawan smashed some fantastic boundaries.It started to rain again,further rain reduced the India innings to 22 overs, with a revised target of 102 which India chased quite convincingly putting end to Pakistan's hope to win even a single game in the mega event. 

It has been aptly said that Pakistan team is only consistent at being 

inconsistent.Mismanagement has long been problem of Pakistan team.Its been more than a decade that Pakistani think tank could not find reliable openers.In last couple of years Pakistani bowling is doing an excellent job and made Pakistan win lots of matches,that goes to show how much Pakistani batting has struggled in recent years.Perhaps its the perfect time to make some big changes in the team which could strengthen then batting department otherwise Pakistani batting order fragility would never end.

He was a "Moslem"

Hijackers; Kidnappers; Bombers, Terrorists - and who knows what else? ,I hated the idea of meeting an "infidel, hijacker, kidnapper, bomber, terrorist, non-believer." Any normal person would be repulsed at the idea. I couldn't believe my ears. A 'Moslem?' No way! I reminded my dad of the various different things that we had heard about these people.

These were the thoughts of Christian Priest when in early 1991 his father began doing business with a man from Egypt and when that man said i want to meet your son.

Since he was Christian Priest he came up with an idea that he would convert this Muslim man whose name was Mohammad into a Christian. Christian priest started to meet Mohammad.

According to the word of Christian Priest 

      I agreed to meet him on a Sunday after church so we would be all prayed up and in good standing with the Lord. I would be carrying my Bible under my arm as usual. I would have my big shiny cross dangling and I would have on my cap which says: "Jesus is Lord" right across the front. My wife and two young daughters came along and we were ready for our first encounter with the 'Moslems'. 

Mohammad replied with a "yes" to almost every question that was asked by Priest

             "Do you believe in Adam and Eve?"

 "What about Abraham? You believe in him and how he tried to sacrifice his son for God?"

"What about Moses?", "Ten Commandments?", "Parting the Red Sea?"

"What about the other prophets, David, Solomon and John the Baptist?"

"Do you believe in the Bible?"

"Do you believe in Jesus? That he was the Messiah (Christ) of God?"

Mohammad astounded him by replying with a confident "yes" to every question posed by the Priest,but he was happy that it was going to be easier to convince Mohammad to embrace Christianity.The Priest started to meet Mohammad every now and then,since they were business partners they had a lot of time to interact during business trips,they became friends and started to share their beliefs,their agenda was common "they were searching for truth".

Fast Forward

Mohammad had some issues with his residency.Priest offered him to live at his place thinking that  Mohammad  could share some of the work and some expenses.

Fast Forward

Mohammad,Catholic preach and Priests family had intense debates on religion  around the kitchen table after dinner every night to discuss religion

Everyone used to prepare for the debate so  that they  could argue effectively and don't miss anything while giving their point of view.  Priests father would bring his King James Version of the Bible, Priest  would bring out his Revised Standard Version of the Bible, his wife had another version of the Bible. The Catholic priest of course, had the Catholic Bible which has 7 more books in it than the Protestant Bible. So they spent more time talking about which Bible was the right one or the most correct one, than they all used to convince Mohamed about becoming a Christian.Priest recalls that  one time he asked Mohammad about the Quran and how many versions of it there were in the last 1,400 years. Mohammad told him that there was only ONE QURAN. And that it had never been changed.Today and  over 9 million Muslims have memorized the entire Quran from cover to cover.

Catholic Priest was the first to be impressed by Islam but he wanted to know more so he requested Mohammad to take him mosque.So they went to mosque one day,Catholic priest just noticed who muslims used to pray.

After some time Catholic priest again requested Mohammad to take himto mosque,when they returned home Catholic Priest was no longer priest and he had become muslim. That   made the other Christian priest more curios about Islam and when he talked about this Catholic Priest becoming muslim with his wife, announced entering into islam and told him that she was going to enter into Islam, because she knew it was the truth.

Hewas really shocked now. He went downstairs and woke up Mohamed and asked him to come outside with him for a discussion. They walked and talked that whole night through.By the time Mohamamd was ready to pray Fajr (the morning prayer of the Muslims) Priest knew that the truth had come at last and now it was up to him to do his part. He went out back behind his father's house and found an old piece of plywood lying and right there he put his head down on the ground facing the direction that the Muslims pray five times a day.

Next day priest and his wife embraced Islam.After a few months Priests father also embraced Islam,their children also embraced.

This is the story of "Yusuf Estes - Ex Christian Priest".

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