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The day I preached in a mosque
Posted by Fiona Veitch Smith on 26 Jun 2007
As we're going to have a hot potato on Islam, I thought people might be interested in an article I wrote for Plain Truth about when I 'accidentally' preached the gospel to 30 women inside a mosque! Here's the first few paragraphs. The rest can be read on my website:
It was a late Friday afternoon in 2003 and I was responding to a call to prayer. I was waiting for my new friend Kamelia to join me. Kamelia is a Muslim and had invited me to visit her mosque in Newcastle upon Tyne, while she, in turn, would visit my church. I felt very conspicuous standing near the entrance, modestly dressed but without a veil. Kamelia had said there was no need to wear one because I wasn’t a Muslim. But I wished I had – I would have been better disguised.
Men and women, young and old, in all shades of the rainbow, nodded at me as they passed. Some of them greeted me with the traditional ‘Assalamu alaikum’ (peace be on you). But seeing I didn’t know the correct response of ‘Wa laikum salam’ (on you be peace) at the time, I just nodded and smiled. What were they thinking when I was so obviously an imposter?
To read more, go here.