Today, I have a special guest. Her name is Sabrina. She just contacted me a few days ago, and now I ask her to be on this show because she has a testimony of leaving Islam for the sake of Christ.

So, Sabrina, tell us, what is your—what is your name, and a little bit of your background?

And tell us how we can connect with you also on social media, if you have a YouTube channel, or Facebook, or something like that.

But we are here to—to hear, we are here to hear what the Lord Jesus has done for your life.

Hallelujah. Um, I just want to start with praising the Lord for His grace and mercy.

He’s so good, he’s so faithful, and today I want to bring glory to His name.

So, my name is Sabrina, and I’m from Bulgaria. I am Bulgarian Turk. If you don’t know what that means, I’m not sure either.

So, um, it looks like something—like something like this: in our home, we had Turkish traditions, Islamic traditions.

When I was going to school, I was spending my time with my Bulgarian friends, which Bulgarians are like British people or American people, they have their own way of living, their style.

But when I was going back home, I had a different way of living. So, I grew up in a, um, Muslim household, and the town that I was living in Bulgaria was a Turkish town, so we had very, very different traditions.

And some of them didn’t even include Islam, they were like, um, Indian kind of, and very, very rare traditions.

And I always knew about Allah. I always, um, you know, I knew about it because my grandparents, they were very, you know, um, devout Muslims.

And, um, during my, um, childhood, I knew about, um, Ramadan. I knew about, you know, um, Islam and Allah.

And, um, I grew up in this, um, situation of—of, um, in every Ramadan, for example, my grandmother will cook and will force me to cover my hair so I can give the food that she cooked to our neighbors.

Um, and she was always telling me, um, “If you do more good deeds,” in Turkish we call this sevap, “if you do more sevap, you will have more blessings from Allah.”

So, um, I always knew that I have to earn Allah’s favor, you know, to be a good child and just—just—just be obedient, so he can bless me, yeah.

In Arabic, it’s called barakah. We—for—in Farsi, we call it getting barakat. It’s the same word that—Jésus—I actually speak, believe it or not, I speak Turkish too, so maybe we—oh wow—chat some in Turkish.

But, um, uh, so were your, uh, grandparents or, uh, people that, um, that are in Bulgaria—of course they speak Bulgarian, is that correct?

Yes, but some—some, uh, immigrated from Turkey to Bulgaria. Is that where you come from?

Oh wow, exactly, exactly. So they’re very, um, different cities, yeah. So they brought Islam with themselves too.

Oh yeah, oh yeah. Islam is spread everywhere around Bulgaria. And Bulgaria is—it’s, um, it’s a Christian, um, country.

When you—when you talk about Bulgaria, it’s a Christian country, but now Islam is taking over Bulgaria.

And even the small towns that I grew up—and where I grew up, Islam was more like a tradition.

And Muslims, they are very different. They are not like Muslims from Pakistan or Iran or Iraq, they are very, very different.

And they celebrate, for example, Ramadan in a very, very different way that non-Muslim—no Muslim will ever celebrate.

So, um, it’s—it’s like more tradition. They don’t know why they are, um, Muslims. They just follow, um, Ramadan.

They’re just celebrating the—the traditions that Ramadan, uh, um, Islam brings. We had, um, something called Kurban Bayram and Şeker Bayram, and in every celebration, we will gather together, cook, give, um, food to everyone around us.

And my grandmother will fast every Ramadan, and that’s it. And outside of—of the tradition, nothing.

I remember when, um, we had this weird tradition, when something bad happens or something good happens, if, um, the old people they, uh, promise something, they have to bring it—like, they have to do what—what they promised.

And then I remember when my, um, first cousin was born, my grandmother promised on his birth that she would give kurban to Allah.

So she will give a sacrifice to Allah. And the Imam came in my house—and I don’t know if this includes Islam—but, um, he recited the Quran and they killed the lamb.

And they just, um, and they took the—the blood of the lamb and they covered my cousin’s forehead.

I don’t know why. Of course, of course. That’s, um, the Shia, the Sunnis, everywhere in the Islamic world, it’s a tradition that they do because we Muslim believe that the blood brings protection.

So when, um, uh, somebody is born, somebody is getting married, somebody buys a car, they kill an animal.

Usually it’s a lamb, depending how rich the person is or how poor the person is, the size of the animal is to their, um, uh, their—the connects to the economics of the family.

So they kill a lamb, they slay, they cut the neck of the lamb, they break the, uh, neck of the lamb, and then they pour the blood on that car or—or on the marriage or the house they bought because they believe that this will, uh, bring protection.

Uh, the blood will bring protection, and it’s a very common practice. So that’s why they did it, Sabrina, they put it on their, uh, cousin’s forehead.

I did it many times to myself, uh, during, uh, Muharram, the month of, um, the, uh, the month that we call it the month of blood, when the grand son or the grandsons of the self-claimed prophet of Islam, uh, died in various wars.

Um, we kill a lot of an animal and then we walk in it, we walk in those bloods, and then then we put our hands in it and put it on our forehead.

And that’s how we say that, uh, the blood of the animal will protect us.

So, um, uh, did you guys go to the mosque? Is—were there any mosques around?

Did you do the prayers, uh, and, uh, can you explain some of that? Yes, there is a mosque, uh, in the town that I live—only one mosque and one Church.

Um, so I only went once because of my grandmother. She took me with her and I went inside.

And I saw that, you know, inside was, you know, it’s—it’s more—we have like colorful things around and carpets and stuff, so I liked it.

But the moment I heard the Adhan, I was so scared because I was—I was a little child.

I didn’t understand what’s happening, and I run out and never came back to the mosque because I was so scared.

And, um, I used to go a church—I mean, I mean, yeah, as a child, yeah, I didn’t understand really.

And I was so scared, uh, from the Adhan, so scared. Every time I was hearing the Adhan, I was so scared.

I thought—I was so scared from the Arabic language, the Arabic recitation of the Quran.

And, um, I was going church when I was little because there was a beautiful, beautiful teacher that I really liked.

And I was going to the church because of her, because she was so beautiful.

And, um, I was the one who was collecting all the girls from the streets, and I was like, “Let’s go to the church, there is a beautiful teacher, they give sweets, they give, you know, drinks.”

And I knew about the church from the very, very young age—I was maybe six or seven.

As the time passed by, I was a teenager, and the first Christian in my family was my sister.

And thank the Lord because we didn’t grow up in a house that was forcing us to follow Islam.

Only the old people they were following, and from us, they were just respect, uh, um, uh, waiting for us just to respect Allah and do nothing wrong.

“If you have your religion, it’s okay, but don’t disrespect Allah. If you help me in every Ramadan, if you just do your duties, you can be a Christian, it’s okay.”

And we also used to go—I remember—Allah Baba, we called him Father, even though it’s blasphemy in Islam.

This is just how I grew up, the situation, the—the—the, um, the town that I was living.

When someone was naughty, and we used to tell him, “Allah Baba doesn’t leave you.

You have to—you don’t have to do this because Allah Baba is watching. Our—our—our Father is watching you.

You don’t have to do this, so you have to be a good boy, you have to be a good girl.”

So we was—we were teaching—they were teaching us how to treat Allah as a father.

So this is how I grew up. Wow. Yeah, so, um, it is very contrary to the teachings of Islam, wow.

Oh yeah, oh yeah. And there are very like—there are places that they—they call Allah Baba because they love and respect Allah as a father, even though it’s blasphemy in Islam.

But these are the—the Muslims that they don’t know about Islam, they don’t know the teachings.

They just try to be a good people and to earn Allah’s mercy and grace, that’s it.

They are—maybe—maybe Allah’s barakah or the, uh, the blessings of Allah, yes. Barakah, yes, yes, the blessings.

Uh, just a side note, I just, uh, noticed that, uh, in the comments we have people from South Africa, Vancouver, India, USA, Tanzania, Brazil, Germany, wow.

And, um, we have people from, uh, India. Somebody has country that I cannot, uh, um, pronounce, but glory to God.

Thank you so much for watching from all over the world, this is awesome. So, Sabrina, tell us, um, you’re in this cultural Islamic family that doesn’t know much about Islam.

It’s just the time of the feast, of different feast of, uh, Islams they gather, and then they, uh, they do something good to the neighbors and other people to—to receive the blessing.

And you’re growing in, uh, you—you’re growing in all of this, but at the same time, because a beautiful teacher, the church, there’s a mosque, there’s a church, you’re—you’re scared of the mosque, and then you go to the church to visit this beautiful, uh, teacher.

What else is happening? Um, so when I was going to that, um, that church, it was a very, very small church.

It was in a house, they didn’t have, uh, a big, uh, place. So we were just gathering inside of this room and praising the Lord.

I really liked the—the worship songs. And when—when the time passed by, I became a teenager, as I said earlier, and I started going to church with my sister.

But at the same time, I just know that there is God and his name is Allah, that’s it.

And, you know, Jesus, and I was going to the church, and I was hearing just—just some names about Abraham, David, Adam and Eve, Jesus, but never understood what is to be a Christian, what’s the message on the cross, why did Jesus, you know, die.

And I was going, uh, in the church, and outside I was doing my own thing.

And I had the fear of God, but never asked myself like, “What’s the purpose?

Why am I here?” I just cared about my own things. And I believed Jesus, I always believed in him because my sister was always talking about Jesus and the end times, that he is the one who save us and, you know, he’s the one who brings us, um, and who redeem us.

And she was talking about the—the very, very end times, what will happen. And I didn’t very take her very seriously because I didn’t really care at that time.

And then a day came, I had to move from Bulgaria to the UK, where I’m now.

And I—when I was packing my—my bag, there was—there was a Bible. And I only knew just—just few verses from the Bible, never read the Bible as it is.

And I thought, “Should I take it or should I just leave it? I mean, there UK, there’s—there are Bibles everywhere, I can just buy one.”

And then I left the Bible, I never took it with me. And then when I moved in the UK, life here hit me so—so much.

I met so many people, I was so free, open-minded. I respected LGBTQ, I respected Muslims, I respected Christians.

But in my mind, Christianity and Islam were the true religions of God. And I thought, you know, when we stand before God in the Judgment Day, He will save Muslims because Muslims are very good people.

And I saw a good Muslims here in the UK, okay. I never saw a good Muslim back in Bulgaria, they never showed me—well, this is what I thought before—they never showed me Islam, it was just tradition.

And I saw a good people, good Muslims here, and I thought, “This is, you know, Islam—Islam must be good.”

So in, um, 2019, I started working with Pakistani people, and my colleagues were very, very, very respectful, very good, and very—um, very loving, very caring.

And I did a mistake that many people do: I criticized Islam by the actions of my Muslim friends, not by the teachings.

And even though I was always—always, when they—when they were asking me, “What is your religion?”

I was always introducing myself as a Christian, even though I didn’t know what Christianity means, mhm.

And at that time, I started asking questions. In 2019, I was like, “Okay, there is God, they—they call him Allah, we call him Jesus, but our God died, and, you know, it—there is—there’s something wrong.

They cannot be two ways, you know, they’re not two—two truths. The truth must be one.”

And then because they were very caring for me, I became the one who respected Islam so bad.

I respected and I loved Islam and Muslims that if at that time someone comes to me and says something bad about Islam and Muslims, I would probably fight with that person.

But in every Ramadan or whatever there was celebrating, I was the one—the first one that I will call him, my—my best friend from, um, from Pakistan, I will call him and I will wish him, “May Allah bless you and guide you, and, you know, Eid Mubarak, and, you know, happy Ramadan,” whatever they will celebrate.

And I was the first one who respect this religion, and I really had a big respect about Allah at that time, even though I was calling myself a Christian, not knowing anything about Christianity or the Bible or Jesus.

But yet, because I was going church when I was 15, 16, I knew—and I thought—I am a Christian because I—I go to church, you know.

So just one second, I’m sorry. So at that time, even though you were born into a Muslim family, just because you attended some church services, you called yourself a Christian, right?

Yes, yeah, that’s true, that’s true. Um, as I said, Islam was very like a tradition.

I never thought that I’m a Muslim, but because I spoke Turkish and I had Turkish friends, my speech became as Muslims.

Everywhere I was going, I was like, “As-salamu alaykum,” you know, I was using these words like the—I can say Islamic words or something.

So I became more like Turkish, Turkish, Turkish than Bulgarian. And my curiosity about Islam began in 2019, same year, when a specific friend started asking me questions and I didn’t have the answer.

We were five friends, very close. Two of us, we pretend to be Christian, and three of them were Muslims—and, um, actually no, sorry, three—three of us were called so-called Christians and two Muslims.

And they were like—they were asking questions: “How can Jesus be God? He was a human being, he was, you know, using toilet, he was hungry, he was, uh, thirsty.

How can you believe that he is God?” And we didn’t really have the answer.

And he gave me—this specific friend gave me his reasons why he was a Muslim, and he had a very good reasons.

He was like, “I am a Muslim because I believe there is one God, there is one book, there is one prophet, and that—that’s why I’m a Muslim.”

And then he asked me, “Why are you Christian?” And I didn’t have the answer for that, and I just kept quiet.

No answer. “Why am I Christian? I don’t know.” So what’s the purpose, Jesus dying on the cross?

And me and the friend had that—we pretend to be a Christian—we went on Google asking Google, “Why did Jesus die?”

So we can know what’s happening in our religion, in our faith. Wow, it was so, so terrible moment, terrible moment.

And, um, this specific friend, I saw him a very, very special way because I was kind of in love with him, like a teenager love.

And, um, and you know when you love someone, anything they talk about, you’re going to—you could—yes, you’ll say yes, even though they talk about potatoes or food or whatever, you will be yes, you will take it very serious.

And I took Islam very serious because of that friend. He showed me Zakir Naik, and at that time, I didn’t know who Zakir Naik is, who—who is this.

And he said, “Go and put this video. He knows all the Bible, he knows all the Quran, he will explain you many things.”

I said, “Okay.” I went back to my house and I started looking for Zakir Naik.

I watched one video of him, and I didn’t really understand what he’s saying because, first, he was talking very fast, and second, he was quoting the Bible and I don’t know the Bible, so I—I didn’t really understand what he was talking about.

And then I left Zakir Naik, and I went back to that friend and I started asking him questions about Islam.

And everything that he was saying, I was taking very, very serious. And then I was going back to my work with my Pakistani colleagues, and there was a specific colleague of mine, he came up to me one day.

He said, “Sabrina, you are a very good girl. Can I just play—say something for you?

It’s just 2 minutes, and tell me how you feel.” I said, “Okay.” And there was a recitation of the Quran, and I thought that was an Arabic song.

And I was like, “Is that you? Do you sing that? Oh, that’s, you know, that’s a beautiful song.”

And then he was like, “H—how did you feel?” And because I didn’t want to, you know, make him feel bad, I said, “Well, I feel good.

I mean…” And he said, “That’s the Quran.” I said, “Wow, really?” And he said, “Yes, the Quran is true, you know, Allah this and Allah that, and Adam…”

And he started sharing me—with me Islam. And I was surrounded by Muslims, they always talking about Islam.

And after I was leaving my—my work, I was going with my friends, and that friend was talking about Islam.

So I was so much full with Islam at that time, and I had so many questions that I didn’t know the answer for it.

And, um, same year, 2019, was my first ever holiday, and we decided to go in Dubai with my friends.

And it happened to—we went to, um, in Abu Dhabi, the—I think was Zayed, something mosque, it’s a very, very beautiful mosque.

The moment that I entered this mosque, for the first time in my life, I spoke to God in Turkish in my mind, and I said, “Allah, my Allah, is that your way?

If this is your way and if this is your path, I want to become a Muslim.”

And I was so scared to share this with my other two friends that they were pretending to be Christians, um, because they will be very not okay, me becoming a Muslim.

And I have—I had my best friend, she was next to me, and she was—she was like, “Are you crazy?

You—you—you thinking to become a Muslim?” And she was very skeptic about Islam, she was very not okay with this idea.

And, um, but I was thinking so much about this religion. And one day, I met a friend and he asked me, “What is your faith?”

For the first time in my life, with without understanding anything—as I didn’t understand about Christianity, I called myself Christian—now I didn’t understand anything about Islam, yet I called myself Muslim.

I said, “Alhamdulillah, I—I am a Muslim,” I said. And I went back to my house the next morning, I said to my mom, “Mom, I want to become a Muslim, I’m a Muslim now.”

She said, “Are you crazy? You’re okay?” I said, “Yes, I want to become a Muslim.”

She said, “Well, okay.” So she’s not a believer yet, um, but she was like, “Okay, you know, anything you choose, I don’t care.”

But she was kind of, you know, surprised because she was a Christian when she was young, and my mom’s side, they were Christians, my dad’s side, they’re Muslims.

So she was like, kind of Christian, but, you know, not very, very into the faith.

But she didn’t tell me, “Don’t become a Muslim.” She was okay with this idea, becoming a Muslim.

And then, I—the Lord did something in my life. He took these friends out of my life.

And this specific friend that he was talking about Islam with me, the Lord took him out of the country.

Right now, he’s not in the UK. And after the Lord did that, I thought something bad happened, but by the time when I was going again to the—to to my workplace, I started—started noticing something about Islam that I—I never noticed.

And now I keep Islam away from Muslims. When I talk about Islam, I don’t talk about Muslims, I talk about the teachings of Islam.

And I saw that, you know, you can easily lie to your Muslim brother and—and your friend, and I was—I was kind of bothered of this.

How can you be a Muslim, yet you, you know, you’re lying to yourselves? Anyway, one day I was in my work—workplace, and I was very curious about, “What does the Bible say about, you know, life and money and marriage?”

And I went to Google and I typed, “What does the Bible say about money?

What does the Bible say about, you know, marriage?” And lastly, “What does the Bible say about the last days?”

And there was a verse from Luke, the Gospel of Luke, when the Lord Jesus was talking about the—the last days that—and I—I read the whole thing and I was so scared.

And I said to my mind, “Just leave it, ignore this, ignore the…” Because I—I felt this is truth, these words are truth.

And I never questioned the Bible, I knew—always knew that the Bible is true, and I believed every word of Jesus, what he was saying there.

But I—but I chose to look at my own ways and—and the world, what his—what the world world offers me, and I ignored this verse, but I kept it in my mind.

And then, by the time, I didn’t really understand what I was doing, and again, I will go to my phone and type, “What does the Bible say about this and that?”

I didn’t know—I never read the Bible, but this curiosity began after the Lord removed these people from my life.

And then, I was so close to become a Muslim in 2021. I was very, very close to my best friend, she was my best friend, and she was live—she she lived very very close to my house.

And I was spend couple of days in her house and couple of days in my house.

And every time I—I slept in her house, I would see a dream. And then one night, I was in her room—me, my best friend, and her sister—and they were sleeping.

And I—I think I started thinking about what’s going in my life, and I started asking myself a question, and I said, “When Jesus comes, in what position I will be, my life, you know?

What am I doing in my life? How is he going to find me? Where is he going to find me?”

And I didn’t say if Jesus comes, because I knew he would come, I said when Jesus comes, how he—he would see me and find me in what position.

And then, very random thoughts were coming on my mind. A thought came to me one—one night, I was ready to sleep and that thought came to me, and it was something like someone was talking to me, and this voice said, “You’re going to die.”

And it was very loud in my mind, and it kept going, “You’re going to die, you’re going to die, you’re going to die.”

And I was fighting with my—with my thoughts, I said, “I don’t want to die, I’m scared.”

And I said, “But this is fact, uh, no one can escape death.” And then second thought hit me: “Where are you going when you die?”

And I remember because we lost my auntie, she was 28 years old, and my grandmother was so sad at that day, my grandfather was so sad, but she’s okay now.

I mean—and I thought the same will happen to me, my mom and my dad, they will be very sad, they will cry, and then just maybe going to go on.

That’s right, yes, they will forget for me, and there is something we say in Bulgarian: “Every miracle is just for 3 days,” after no one is, you know, remembering you.

And then I thought, that will happen to me. And I began to realize that when I die, I will be alone, no one is coming with me, no—I’m not taking any—anybody with me to be with me, and I will face God alone.

And I thought, you know, when I die, people will get married, they’ll have children, you know, they will go holidays, so life will continue minus me, minus one person, and that will be me, I will be forgotten.

And that thought didn’t really—I didn’t really liked it. I was so scared on that night when I went to my best friend’s house.

She was sleeping, and I—I had so much fear in my heart. Her—um, her sister was sleeping too, and I saw a dream at that time.

In that dream, I was front of the shisha bar we used to go with my friend.

It was night time, and I saw the moon. Me and my best friend’s sister was next to me, so we was just watching the moon.

The moon was growing and becoming bigger and bigger and bigger, and then suddenly the moon exploded, and I saw the fire of the moon.

And she touched my shoulder, and she looked at me and she said, “Sabrina, run,” and she left me, and I was—I was alone.

Then I heard the trumpets, and I knew in my dream it’s the same trumpets that my sister was talking about.

She used to tell me, “You know, when Jesus comes, there will be trumpets.” And I knew immediately, everyone on this Earth can hear what I’m hearing now.

I closed my eyes for just two seconds, and I found myself on the middle of the road on my knees in a position of prayer, and I—I couldn’t look up because I was so scared and ashamed to—to look up, because I knew Jesus is coming.

And I started praying, and my prayer was to say, “God, please forgive me.” But I—I started praying and I said, “God, please forgive…”

And I didn’t even finish my prayer, and I quit. No one forced me, I quit myself.

And I—I felt I’m hopeless, there is no—like, there is no chance, it’s very late for me.

And then when I quit my prayer, I confessed four things about myself with my own mouth, and I said, “I had my time.

I wasted. It’s too late for me. I am going to hell.” And I woke up.

When I woke up, I don’t really remember what happened, because it was like three—three years ago, but I used to have piercings all over my ears and my nose, and I took them out suddenly.

And I used to, you know, smoke and drink and, you know, the—that was my lifestyle.

I quit the cigarette, I, um, I just left everything behind. And I remember in that room on my best friend’s house, every time we were partying, every time we were just, you know, gathering together, eating, drinking, smoking, on one corner there was a small Bible.

And we didn’t even respect the Bible—the Bible was there, we were smoking and drinking and, you know, celebrating and dancing and everything, and never respect the Bible.

And I never knew three years later or five years later friendship with my friend, I will take this Bible and read it.

That was my first Bible—the Bible—it’s like the Bible was waiting for me all these years there.

I never touch it, no one ever touch it. And I asked my friend, “Can I have your Bible?”

She said, “Yeah, take it.” And I started reading—reading the New Testament, and when I read that our bodies are temple, I decided to leave and just, you know, the—the smoking and and drinking and everything.

And and then slowly, slowly the Lord started working in my heart and showing me things that I never knew before, I never understood before.

And then one day, I was in a 10-hour shift, I was working, but I felt so heavy my chest, it was something like I couldn’t bear anymore—like it was very heavy for me, someone had to help me and take it from me.

I finished my work, and I felt, “I’m going to cry, I need to cry, but I cannot go to my house because everyone is there, my whole family is there.”

And I called the same friend, my best friend, and I said, “Can I come to your house?”

She said, “Yeah, of course, come.” And I was on—on the bus on the way to her house, and I found a Christian song, worship song, that she played to me probably a couple of months ago, and I stopped this song.

I said, “Just leave it, this Christian stuff, just leave it.” And the same song, I opened the same song on the bus, and I started crying.

And the song was saying like, um, “You found me, I was in darkness, now I’m in the light.”

And when I heard these words, I said, “Wow, you know, how can you forgive me like—I still don’t know but—the way…”

And I went to her house, I didn’t even speak to her, I just left my bag, I opened the window.

I felt something was happening to me at that time, and I started going around the—the room up and down, up and down.

I opened the window and I remembered my dream, and I start—so it was something happening to me, I—I felt ashamed, so much shame on me.

And I physically felt my sins, so my—my body began to squeeze. I—I was squeezing myself and just—I couldn’t even open my—my arms and my—my legs.

I didn’t know what’s happening, I physically felt my sins on my back, and it was very heavy, and I—I was crying so much, didn’t understand why.

Then the second minute, I am joyful, I—I am full with joy, I don’t know why.

And I kept repeating, “Lord, you waited for me, you waited for me, I know you waited for me.

Now I came to you because you knew I would come one day.” This is all I was saying.

And then I would cry, and then I will, you know, be joyful and smile again.

And then, lastly, I couldn’t bear it anymore, and I turned to my friend and I said, “Let’s pray, can you pray with me?”

And she said, “No,” because I am confused, didn’t understand what that means. And I just ignored her, I said, “Okay, don’t pray.”

She was—was laying down on her bed, and I just broke. I was weeping, and I fall on my knees next to her legs.

I—I repented next to her legs. She was just watching something on her phone, and I was just next to her legs, and I was begging God to—to forgive me, and I confessed the words that I couldn’t confess in my dream.

I said, “God, can you please forgive me? Please forgive me.” When I said that, I saw like a trailer—every second, one second of every sin that I committed.

I was with my eyes were closed, and I could see myself everything that I did, it was like just one second from everything.

And the shame that I had began to be more and more and more, and I was just weeping and and crying, and I—I don’t remember what I said, but I remember I said, “Forgive me, Lord, forgive me, Lord.”

And then I was crying so much, and then I physically felt free. And, uh, again, I don’t remember what happened after this day, but I remember the Lord started like—I knew—I knew that he waited for me.

When I began to read the—the Gospel of Matthew, two things touched my heart: the wisdom of Jesus and the mercy of Jesus.

And I, um, read about the woman, the—the Samaria—Samaria woman, that, uh, she—she was begging the Lord Jesus to heal her daughter.

And I don’t know how this story, I took it to my life and I compared myself with this woman.

I don’t know, but I fell on my knees. And because I didn’t know how to pray and how to, you know, explain and myself and, uh, express my feelings in Bulgarian language, I just—I just—I said, “Thank you, Lord.

How can you forgive me?” It took me two months to forgive myself, I couldn’t forgive myself.

And I was asking, “How can you forgive me? How? I don’t deserve it.” And I just thanked the Lord, I was thanking him.

And every night, I would close my door and sit back on my bed, take the Bible and read the Psalms to the Lord, because I—I don’t know how to express my—myself and explain myself with words.

I would read the word of God to God, and I would cry so much for two and three hours, and I would just have this—this thought on me: “How can you forgive a person like me?”

And I still don’t know why, but I know when Jesus said, you know, “I chose you first.”

As I decided to get baptized, I didn’t have a church at that time, so I got baptized, um, and immediately I went to my friend, my best friend.

Two weeks or three weeks later, she became a Muslim—the girl that we were in Dubai with her, and she was criticizing me, “How can you become a Muslim?”

The same girl became a Muslim. And if you ask me now, “Point to me a good Muslim,” she will be one of the people that I will really point to, to say, “This is a good Muslim.”

She is very devout, she is now with hijab, she is very, very, uh, trying to follow the Sunnah and everything.

Unfortunately, we stopped talking, anyway, we don’t have any, um, friendship anymore, but, uh, she knows that I’m always for her and with her, even though we don’t talk anymore, same for me.

But when she became a Muslim, she was so happy, she was expecting me to share her happiness and be okay with things that contradicts what I believe.

And because I didn’t do that, I didn’t share her happiness, I didn’t really, you know, support her, it’s like she had a light in her eyes that I switched off, and then our friendship began to collapse.

And I was so curious. I—I felt that I lost my best friend, and I was like, “What this Islam?

I mean, I always knew about Allah and everything, but what exactly is this religion?”

And I started, you know, questioning Islam and study Islam. And one day, I was just scrolling in—in YouTube, and a video came to me: “Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus” from Brother Nabeel Qureshi.

He was the first seed that was planted in my heart, and, um, I listened to his testimonies.

And when he said about David Wood that, you know, they became a very, very close friends, and I was like, “But I left my friend.

They became friends, I left my friend.” And I felt so bad and so sad because I didn’t do anything about my friend, but I tried to, um, share with her the truth.

And then I began to ask her questions before our friendship totally finished. And then she was—she’s that kind of person that she doesn’t really like to talk about religion.

“If you have your religion and you are happy with it, don’t bother me, you know, just leave your life.”

And then one day, we were outside, you know,, um, having some coffee, and the topic of religion now is the first thing we—we talk about.

And then the topic of Jesus came, and I said, “Oh, but—but the Quran says if you believe in that Jesus is Lord, you’re going to hell.”

She said, “Yes, that’s right.” And I said, “But I believe that Jesus is Lord, so I am going to hell.”

And for the first time in my life, I saw my best friend laughing at me—not because I said something funny or I did something, you know, stupid or something, she was laughing at me because according to her and her—her religion, I am going to hell.

And she didn’t really do anything about it. She said, “Well, Allah chooses the Muslims, like—if—he choose you to become a Muslim, then you will be saved,” something like this.

So I—I thought, so either Allah has favored people, he doesn’t like really anyone, he just have, you know, chosen people to become Muslims, or she doesn’t really care about me that I’m going to hell.

And I—I was like, “What kind of religion is that? Like, how they say Dawah?”

But she didn’t even invite me to Islam. If she came up to me and said, “Sabrina, Christianity is false, I want you to become a Muslim because this is the only you can get it, you know, to—to God,” if she did that, I would know that she really loves me because she shared Islam with me.

But she didn’t do that, she was laughing at me because I’m going to hell according to Islam.

And that broke my heart and made me go to this religion as deep as I can.

And praise the Lord for the people like you, like David Wood, Sam Shamoun, Christian Prince, Nabeel Qureshi, Rob Christian.

So I don’t know what happens, I became so jealous about my friend, I would listen debates for four hours while I’m working.

I am pretend I’m listening to the people, but I actually—I listen to the debate.

I—I didn’t—I even stopped reading the Bible, I started, you know,, um, learning how to debate and how to give answers to these questions that they have.

And I was so much jealous that I contacted, uh, Sister Hatun and she called me, and I explained to her my situation.

She was like, “Come to Speakers’ Corner,” if you know where Speakers’ Corner is, mhm.

And then I went to Speakers’ Corner, I met her, and she gave me some advices, she gave me, you know, some ways to, um, speak with Muslims.

And I would just debate Muslims, not in a bad way, but because of my friend I couldn’t help her, now I want to help others to know the truth.

So she’s the reason why I be to, um, study—study apologetics. Yes, yes, basically, yes.

Because in my country, no one is using apologetics—no one. Like, Bulgarians, they are just—it’s—it’s they’re worst than, you know, there are some Arab people they are Muslims, they’re very good people, yet they don’t know anything about Islam, but Bulgarians are worse than this.

They—they just have opinion for God and don’t know anything about God. And the Muslims in Bulgaria, they are listening to Zakir Ahmed, so they know the arguments, but they’re not many Christians they have the, um, the answers for it.

And I said, “I have to bring and do something about these, you know, these people and serve them in—in any way.”

So I brought “Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus” in Bulgarian. So there is a page “Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus” in Bulgarian, there are Bulgarians now listening to the answers, and the Gospel spreading around, and praise the Lord.

That’s awesome, that’s awesome. So, um, let me recap, uh, as best as I can, Sabrina.

So you came from a Muslim family in—that they were Turks living in B—Bulgaria, in a small, small town with a church and a mosque.

And then, um, you were Muslim around the Islamic holidays, and then you attended church because of a pretty, uh, Christian teacher.

And then, uh, even though you didn’t know what Christianity is or why did, uh, God sacrificed his son for your sake, you called yourself a Christian.

Just because you went to church, you thought you’re a Christian, even though you from a Muslim family.

And then, uh, you had this friends in UK, that some Pakistani Muslim approached you to give you how beautiful and how wonderful Islam is.

Look at Pakistan, it is so beautiful, Islam has brought us so much beauty in Pakistan that we all have left Pakistan to live in England, a Christian nation.

We have le—left the beauty of Islam to come live and among the infidels in England.

And then, um, you—you take a trip to Dubai, they go to this mosque, start talking to God and saying that, “If this is the way, I want to be a Muslim.”

And your friend that calls himself a Christian tells you, “No, no, no, this is terrible.”

And then you guys come back and you have dreams, and you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, repent by the feet of your friend.

And the friend that wasn’t—was discouraging you from becoming Muslim, now she has converted to Islam.

And as a result, the two worldviews are separating and separating, it becomes, uh, so dramatically, uh, opposing views that your friendship is lost.

And your friend, according to her worldview, Islam, because you have converted to Christianity, you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you are going to hell, and this is a funny things—funny thing to her, so she’s mocking and laughing at you because you’re going to hell.

And she’s not offering you a solution or she’s trying to help her best friend.

And then you are separated, and now you realize that, um, there are so many things going on and so many questions, so many things that you could be a part to help, therefore you picked up on apologetics, came across my channel on other, uh, believers such as David Wood, uh, and Sam Shamoun and other people.

You’re learning about Islam, you’re learning about Christianity, and now you’re sharing that in your language in Bulgaria.

Yes. You think I recapped everything correctly? Yes, everything was perfect. Awesome. But, uh, um, Sabrina, as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, we don’t laugh when people go to hell or they’re under way to go to hell, which is any worldview other than Christianity.

Because Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and life,” not one of the way—one of the ways, “I am the way.”

So we know that if you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, if you accept him as the price for the sake of your sins, the debt is paid and God can forgive you legally, just like being in a court.

You owe a fine to the—to the—to the, uh, to the, uh, court court, and the judge comes, tells you you have to pay for it.

You say, “Judge, I don’t have the money, I don’t have the fine to pay, I can’t afford this,” and judge says, “Then therefore you have to be prosecuted.”

But at the same time, somebody steps in the court and says, “I make the payment for you, for your sake,” and then judge can legally let she go and then you are free.

So we have been set free by the blood of the Lamb, he has redeemed the—redeemed us from the kingdom of darkness and has brought us into the kingdom of his beloved Son.

We have been redeemed by the payment that Christ has paid. And it is not funny for us as Muslim going to hell, it is not funny for us to atheists or any other people go, therefore we do something about it.

We tell them what Jesus has done for you, what Jesus—Jesus has paid your debt, and God proved his love to us by sacrifice and his son for our sake.

So I believe that, Sabrina, the—the story is not finished between you and your friend.

Everyone is redeemable, I believe so too. Yes, what’s her name? I can pray for her.

Yeah, her name is Julia Tria, um, Julia. Julia. We pray for Julia, and, uh, one day, the same way that the Lord has lifted the veil off of our eyes, the deception—the veil of deception was tore off of our minds and eyes—we believe in the name of the Lord Jesus that the same thing will happen to Julia.

And she will be one of those people that I—I will be interviewing on this channel, amen, and will give God the glory, and she become an apologetic—and start apologist and start defending the faith in, uh, Christianity, and tearing up the false religion such as Islam that it’s—it’s performance, performance, performance-based, and you just need to do good and hope for the best.

Maybe Allah will give you barakah, but Allah—the prophet of the self-claimed prophet of Islam didn’t know what would happen to him.

Oh yeah. How could he know what would happen to you and I? I mean, this is an important point in Islam.

If the—if the person that was the mouthpiece of Allah didn’t know, therefore Allah doesn’t know.

If this person was inspired by how much—to say no one knows. So, but we know—we know where we going, we know we have, um, we have a place in God’s kingdom, we are his children.

We know that God has sent his Spirit into us to call God a true Abba, a real Baba is becoming our father.

Jesus is our brother, is our Lord, is our Savior, and we are seated in heavenly—heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

Awesome faith, Christianity is what an awesome thing to do, to have relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and be reconciled to God.

What an awesome God Jesus is, what an awesome God our Father is. So, Sabrina, I want to say thank you.

Our hour is coming to a close, I just want to say thank you so much for in the short motive to come up this on this channel and share your journey from Islam to Christianity.

Thank you so much. Tell the people—tell how people get—can get a hold of you, and if there is Turkish or Bulgarian Muslims watching this program, um, tell them, uh, something in Turkish or, uh, Bulgarian.

Have a nice… I just want to thank the Lord that, um, through you, through this channel, that, um, many people can hear what the Lord did.

It’s nothing that I did, it’s all by his grace and mercy. And, um, yes, if the Lord wills, we will have Turkish-speaking people that they will help me, because for now, we’re just two people—one, uh, person helps me.

But yeah, if they’re Bulgarians listening to this, you can go to, um, YouTube and type Търси Истината, which means “search the truth,” it’s my YouTube channel.

And you can go to, um, Facebook and type “Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus,” but in Bulgarian, Търсейки Аллах, Намерих Исус.

Um, so yes, that, um, if you, um, want to—if there are girls, actually, teenagers, you want to, you know,, um, connect with me, you can do it, uh, through Instagram.

My Instagram is sabrina_c.p, and, um, yeah, just—just text me, and I will be very, very happy to serve you in any—any way.

Thank you so much, Sabrina, for being here and sharing your story. Folks, make sure you’re subscribed because we will be sharing much more stories.

There are a lot of ex-Muslim—I want to tell you this, this is very, very exciting times.

There are—there are a lot of ex-Muslim connecting and contacting me via Facebook, via YouTube, on our website.

It’s just amazing, I just need to make this happen and have more and more to share their stories.

But there is something very special happening, don’t believe the lies of Islam that, “Oh, Islam is growing.”

No, it is not. Muslims all over the world are converting from Islam to Christianity, and this is something very exciting.

And I will be interviewing more and more, in order to stay tuned, make sure you’re subscribed and you like this video and share it.

God bless you, you have a wonderful, wonderful day.