Sid Roth welcomes Nasir Siddiki

Sid Roth: I think that there is such a coming together of Jewish and Gentile believers in the Messiah that will release well what Paul calls it a life from the dead resurrection power.  Now my guest Nasir Siddiki ancestry comes from Egypt and I just found out something I never knew, His great great grandfathers go back to the time of Mohammed and his ancestor was one of the best friends of Mohammed.  What do you know about this ancestor Nasir?

Nasir: Well Sid his name was Abuzoker Siddik and he was Mohammed closest friend and when Mohammed died he became the first ruler, or the first king, the first caliph of the Moslem nation and I’m in the direct line of Abuba Siddiki.

Sid: Now just out of curiosity when you’re in the Middle East or someone hears that, your last name do they realize that connection?

Nassir: Absolutely, if they come from a Moslem background, immediately they understand the line of Siddiki is here and of course Nassir Siddiki is a very prominent Moslem name.

Sid Roth: Okay, you were very prosperous in business, and in fact you came from a prosperous influential Moslem family and by age thirty-five you made your first million, you had the fancy cars, you had the homes.  And then you developed a deadly, and I mean a deadly disease, I don’t think in terms of shingles as a deadly disease but tell me in your darkest hour how bad were you physically?

Nasir: Well, when it started as blisters on the side of my neck and overnight.

Sid: Yeah, I have had shingles and I remember I had it over by my waistline and it was very painful.

Nasir: Yes, it felt like somebody put gasoline on the side of my head and put a match to it and it was burning up.  They rushed me to hospital, Toronto General Hospital.  They diagnosed it as the worst case of shingles ever recorded in the history of that Hospital.  I remember I was in the emergency room trying to break a stretcher because the pain was so bad.

Sid: Had you ever experienced pain like that before?

Nasir: Never, never in my life.  And then they admitted me to hospital and the next morning from on the right side of my head there were blisters that were one inch in size covering my head, my ear, my neck, part of my shoulder, my chest and my back, in fact my ear was so covered in blisters it was touching my shoulder.  I looked like a leopard, I looked like the elephant man, I was deformed on one side.

Its Supernatural: I mean you went from the top of the world to a mess!

Nasir: Yes.

Sid: I image you must have said, “How can this happen to me?”

Nasir: Well, I was talking the doctors and they said, “We don’t know your immune system has shut down and your body is not fighting back.”  Shingles of course is a virus originally of the chickenpox family, but this one was over taking my body so quickly because my immune system had shut down because the previous eighteen months I was working eighteen hours a day, seven days a week, not eating right, not sleeping right, and I had literally worn my body down.

Sid: Well, did they expect you to die?

Nasir: I was there when the two doctors came in and they examined me and they said, “He probably will not last till the morning.

Sid: As I understand it, they thought you were sleeping or they would not have said that.

Nasir: Yeah, and they called Anita who later became my wife, called her out of the room and said to her, “Probably he will be dead by the morning, but if by chance he should live his right eye could be blind, the right ear deaf, the nerve endings on the right side of the face have been damaged; and because of the temperature of 107.6 hyperthermia had affected the brain and the brain had cooked itself and so they said, we don’t even know if he will be able to live as a vegetable because his brain has cooked itself and that was the good news.”  That night as I was lying in bed fast asleep I woke up and I heard a voice and as I opened my eyes I saw the outline of a person at the end of the bed.  And you know I knew that it was Jesus, now Moslems do they know Jesus?  Oh course they do if they would read the Koran Jesus is mentioned many times as a prophet, as good man, as a healer; and so Moslems are familiar with Jesus, but they just don’t acknowledge him as the Son of God.  A  nd this person was radiating light from them so I couldn’t see details of…

Sid Roth: By the way, you’re probably aware of this as I am but it seems as though today I hear more stories of Moslems having dreams or visitations of Jesus than I ever remember.

Nasir: Yes.

Sid: And so you were kind of like a forerunner of this, so Jesus Himself came in and you had a knowing, you knew it was Jesus and then what?

Nasir: Then He said two things, and these are the only two words that I remember He said, “Number one I am the God of the Christians; number two I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”  Now when you come from a Moslem background that is a very profound statement because the Moslems come from the line of Ishmael; so we as Moslems we believe in Father Abraham, but we believe that Ishmael was a son of promise.  So it’s Abraham, Ishmael, but no Jesus said I’m the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; and that was very profound to me.  And that’s all that I heard the same doctors that left me to die walked in the next morning and they said, “We do not understand what’s happened to you it has gone into remission instead of the blisters growing, they have started to shrink.”  In fact my case became a case study for the top doctors of the city of Toronto, why is this man still alive?  I told them that it was a miracle from Jesus, but of course they didn’t believe me.

Sid: Now wait a second, how in the…well they probably didn’t know that you were Moslem and came from such a prestigious Moslem background.

Nasir: Right.

Sid Roth: But, did you find it strange saying that to them?  I mean you’re a sophisticated businessman, businessman, sophisticated businessman don’t say Jesus came.  Did you say, “Jesus came into your room,” or no?

Nasir:  “Said that Jesus came and healed me,” and you see when you get so close to death, I mean you see a bird in the sky, you can get excited.  I was just so excited that Jesus would come and heal me, but I did have one burning question, Sid.  “Is this Jesus, the Son of God, the way that the Christians claim or is he just a Prophet, the way that I had been brought up to believe all my life.”

Sid: And that’s interesting because may Moslems that have visitations can’t put it all together, that’s what happened to you.

Nasir: That’s exactly what happened.

Sid: So, what did you do with this quandary?

Nasir: Well, the next day…

Sid: Because if I know one thing, I know that a Moslem has problems with Jesus being the Son of God; that whole issue.

Nasir: And so the next day they released me from hospital, I went home and people would walk across the street because my head was still deformed, but it was shrinking.  And I had this burning question, “Is Jesus the Son of God?”  The next morning, in my home I woke up at 6:00 in the morning, I don’t know why I woke up that early, walked over the living room turned on the television and right on the screen were these words, “Is Jesus the Son of God?” the very thing that was in my heart.

Sid: Was it a program or was it supernatural?

Nasir: It was a program.

Sid: But it still was supernatural for you to see that.

Nasir: It was supernatural that I was watching it so early in the morning.

Sid: Yes.

Nasir: There were two men that just like you and I talking about this Jesus, and they answered every question in my heart.  How God loves the world and how He sent Jesus to die on the cross for you and I and alone in my living room the greatest miracle of all happened.  I dot down on my knees and I asked Jesus to be the Lord, of my life.

Sid: That is such as wonderful testimony but, you still didn’t know a whole lot.

Nasir: No.

Sid: What did you do now that you are a believer in Jesus; would you have called yourself at that point a Christian?

Nasir: No, I didn’t know any of these Christianese languages; I just ran out the next day bought me a Bible because I wanted to know, “Who is this Jesus that would come for a dying Moslem?”  And I read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John I wanted to find out about the life of Jesus.  And I remember somebody came to visit me a few days later and they said, “Oh, you believe in Jesus,” and I said “Yes, yes, he’s the Son of God, I asked Him into my heart.”  And they said, “You’re a born again Christian.”  I said, “I’m a what?” I didn’t understand any of those Christianese language; all I knew was that I had asked Jesus into my heart.