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🗓️ 15 November 2025
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Sam Shamoun shares how he memorized the Quran without formal study and how that gift shaped his faith. He opens up about losing his father, his struggles with low self-esteem, and how a Muslim challenger pushed him to master Christian apologetics after realizing the Bible’s truth stands on its own.
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| 0:00.0 | Sam, how many times have you read the Quran? |
| 0:02.7 | I don't know, really. |
| 0:04.0 | Maybe once or twice, I don't know. No, stop it. No, I'm serious, I don't... Literally, you've read it maybe once or twice? Yeah. And how do you remember everything? As I was trying to, I think we set off there, in the 90s, I realized, honestly, when I would have a conversation, versus would pop in my head. So it's not I trained for it |
| 0:21.9 | And I don't want people to be impressed by it |
| 0:23.4 | Right? |
| 0:24.1 | I don't want people to be impressed by it, right? Oh, is it? No, knowledge puffs up, love builds up. I got a lot of issues that I pray God will show me mercy on the day of judgment. But I just realized maybe it's God's way of gifting me. How many times have you read the Bible? If I go back, I probably read it two or three times. |
| 0:39.8 | Two or three times. |
| 0:40.9 | I don't really read it all the way through. Like now, it's just like, you know, I'll go through it, you know, maybe read a psalm here or there, or if I'm researching. Yeah, it's, it's, I guess like when they dropped, really, I was dropped as a child when I was one on my head. So maybe it triggered something. I don't know. Maybe that's how God does it, right? Are you a massive? Because when I sat down with Charlie Kirk and we would talk to him, off camera he would say he studies three hours every day, no matter what he reads and studies three hours every day. Do you have a ritual of studying a lot every day? Do you |
| 1:11.6 | read a lot every day? Not that way. What I do is I'm always on my blog, writing posts for people |
| 1:16.9 | if not doing live streams. So I'm not studying. I'm writing to equip people with articles so they can |
| 1:23.6 | use it in battle. Because I want to quit people. So because look, if the Lord Terry's, I'm going to die. So at six and a half, this nine-year-old comes to you. At that time, at that time, what's your relationship with your dad? At six and a half? My dad walked away when I was probably seven shortly right after that. So it's right around that time that this is happening to you. |
| 1:45.9 | Got it. |
| 1:46.3 | Okay, so that had a massive impact on you? |
| 1:48.2 | Huge. |
| 1:48.9 | Huge. |
| 1:49.2 | So is that a moment for you where your biological father walked out, but your spiritual father's |
| 1:57.0 | going to be with you forever? |
| 1:58.0 | Did that give you that piece as a young man? |
| 1:59.9 | Yeah, Raymond was... |
| 2:00.7 | Young boy? Yeah, Raymond was pretty much much my dad even though he was nine and his |
| 2:04.6 | grandmother my mother was a wonderful woman she left a wonderful legacy but she wasn't educated in |
| 2:10.9 | scripture so but his grandmother was my spiritual mother raymond's raymond's grandma yeah because his |
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