From Mecca to Christ | Dr Ahmed Joktan
Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud
Great Lakes Outreach
4.9 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Ahmed Joktan had memorized the Qur’an by heart. Yet through an extraordinary succession of dreams and divine appointments, he became a follower of Jesus. When he shared his faith with a fellow Saudi, the religious police burst in and immediately came and knocked thirteen teeth out of his mouth. Imprisonment, torture, attempts on his life, all meant he had to flee from the land of his birth. The story is simply wild, and his current reach into the Muslim world through social media channels is yielding extraordinary and beautiful results.
To connect with Ahmed and/or support his work, visit www.meccatochrist.org
Do read his book ‘From Mecca to Christ’
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| 0:00.0 | In my dream, it was so bright. |
| 0:03.0 | I saw a shape of a man, rode in sunlight, |
| 0:07.0 | and I saw a building with white pillars that I have never seen in my life. |
| 0:11.0 | And the voice said, |
| 0:12.0 | Go to the house of the white pillars. |
| 0:14.0 | In there, you shall find the truth. |
| 0:17.0 | I was troubled, terrified, and I just went down to the reception. |
| 0:20.0 | And I was screaming at her on my pajamas saying, |
| 0:23.6 | there's a genie in my room. |
| 0:24.6 | She looked at me, she said, have you been drinking, sir? |
| 0:28.6 | So I just walked in the city. |
| 0:30.6 | I saw the building that I saw in my dream. |
| 0:33.6 | I turned around and there was a tall white guy, |
| 0:35.6 | said, tell me about your dream. |
| 0:38.7 | Wow. |
| 0:39.7 | Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilber with Inspired. |
| 0:44.9 | I'm so excited to be back for another fantastic week of encouragement and hearing, stirring stories of faith. |
| 0:49.7 | Listen, I think most of us are just fed up. |
| 0:51.9 | There's so much bad news out there. |
| 0:53.6 | We just get bombarded by stuff that makes us depressed and anxious and cynical and defeated and pessimistic about life. |
| 0:59.9 | Whereas actually, there's lots of good stuff going on. |
| 1:03.1 | It is a battle. |
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