The Hidden Believers

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

The following is adapted from a swuhbah by Shaykh Muhammad Nazhim Adil al-Haqqani (q.s.) on the 13^th April 2002. 

In a Church in Lefkosa, there was a priest with a white beard when I was young, 8 or 9 years old.  He was full of light.  He used to give me sweets and said “Salaam”.  He used to read the Qur’an.  Once, in Damascus, we went with Grand Shaykh to the market.  Someone greeted him, and Grand Shaykh said to me, “There are 50 like him, hidden ones, that carry faith.  They came to me and asked me if they should announce their belief.  I said, ‘No, stay as you are in order to avoid fitnah.’ 

Because our ancestors believed in the Prophet (s.a.w.) in secret, they prayed like this.  All of those who come to me are like that - their prayer was accepted.  The Germans and the English will come into Islam.” 

This was said many, many decades ago.  Since then, the number of coverts to Islam in England and Germany has gone up significantly.