A Muslim who placed his faith in Christ after receiving his vision at a mosque in Uganda was hospitalized after his relatives beat him, destroyed his home and took his wife and six children, the source said.
Wambuzi Maka Uthman, a 39-year-old former Sheikh (Islamic teacher), went to prayer on August 1st on Friday at the Mayuge Town Council in the Mayuge district of eastern Uganda, before falling asleep at the corner of the mosque, he said.
“There I saw a man in long white clothes surrounded by four angels. The man who called me by my name, ‘Usman, Usman, Usman,’ three times,” Usman told Morningstar News. “I drew close to him, and I was very scared because I kneeled and worshiped him. Then he told me to go to my people and tell them to repent and turn to the living God.”
When he got home around 5pm, he met the pastor of Elim Church, he said.
“I shared an odd message with him that I received repentance,” Usman said. “He took me to his church and shared a deeper sense of the vision I had. Then I realized that it was Issa (Jesus) who sent me to my Muslims to repent.”
One August 4th, he said he began talking to his wife, six children and his neighbor about Christ.
“I was so happy beyond my expectations because I cultivated a deeper love for Jesus. My wife couldn’t believe the good news I was sharing with her,” Usman said. “She thought I would come to my mind. She went and told my brother about some strange teachings about Jesus that I shared with her.”
Thinking he had left his senses, his brother and wife arranged a van to take him to Butabica Medical Center, he said.
“When we were about to leave, I told them I wasn’t mad at them and began to share with them the dramatic vision of Issa that appeared to me,” Usman said. “Immediately after I realized I wasn’t mad, my brother kicked my mouth, nose, eyes, slapped me with blows, and started bleeding, while others started beating me with sticks.
The neighbor rushed Usman to a hospital in the town of Meigé, where he was treated for a week. The photo of Usman, whose eyes and lips are swollen from his heartbeat, is too large to publish.
While he was being treated in the hospital, his wife took her six children to live with her relatives.
According to the family brothers, the family went to his house and destroyed it by saying, “We cannot stay with this pagan who tells us about Jesus as the Son of God, but to us we know him as Allah’s messenger.”
Uthman left the hospital on August 11th and is staying in a private location for his safety.
The attack was the latest in many examples of persecution of Christians in Ugandan that Star News documented that morning.
The Uganda constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to spread faith and to transform from one faith to another. Muslims make up less than 12% of Uganda’s population, and the eastern part of the country has high concentration.
