LETTER TO ISMA’IL MY BROTHER
Dear Isma’il, It’s rather sad and unfortunate that our brotherhood and the warm relationship of love we’ve enjoyed all our lives until recently, has unavoidably gone sour, to say I’m being ostracized as an out-cast from the family on the basis of my decision to believe in “ Isah Al-Masih (Jesus Christ) ” will be an unpardonable understatement. I write these few lines to you being fully aware that the Fatwa (a legal injunction from an Islamic authourity) warranting my death-sentence still hangs over my head, because I’m now considered an infidel who doesn’t deserve to live. I feel sorry to see the family that Father worked so hard to raise now divided and in tatters on the basis of my decision to follow Isah Al-masih, but in actual fact I have no regret discovering the very essence of life and true unconditional love which I never experienced i...