27/08/2025
An Islamic leader who put his faith in Christ after receiving a vision in a mosque in Uganda was hospitalized after relatives beat him, demolished his home and took in his wife and six children.
Wambuzi Maka Uthman, a 39-year-old former sheikh (Islamic teacher), went to Friday prayers in Mayuge township in eastern Uganda on August 1st as usual, then went to sleep in a corner of the mosque, he said.
“There I saw a man dressed in white, long clothing surround by four angels – the man called me by my name, ‘Uthman, Uthman, Uthman,’ three times,” Uthman told Morning Star News. “I was so frightened as I drew near to him, knelt down and worshipped Him. Thereafter He told me to go to my people and to tell them to repent and turn to the living God.”
As he returned home at about 5 p.m., he met a pastor from Elim Church, he said.
“I shared with him the strange message that I received of repentance,” Uthman said. “He took me to his church and shared deeply about the vision that I had. I then understood that it was Issa [Jesus] who had sent me to my fellow Muslims to repent.”
One August 4th, he began telling his wife and six children, as well as his neighbors, about Christ.
“I was so happy beyond expectations as I developed a deeper love for Jesus – my wife could not believe the Good News which I was sharing with her,” Uthman said. “She thought I was out of my mind. She went and told my brothers about the strange teaching about Jesus which I had shared with her.”
Thinking he had taken leave of his senses, his brothers and wife arranged for a van to take him to Butabika medical center.
“When we were about to leave, I told them that I am not mad and started sharing with them of the dramatic vision of Issa appearing to me,” Uthman said. “Immediately after realizing that I was not mad, my elder brother hit me with kicks and blows on my mouth, nose and eyes, and I started bleeding, while others started beating me with sticks. I developed an extra energy and managed to escape mysteriously through a thick bush, then arrived at house of a nearby neighbor who happened to be a Christian.”
The neighbor rushed Uthman to hospital in Mayuge town, where he was treated for one week. A photo of Uthman with swollen eye and lips from the beating is too graphic to publish.
While he received treatment at the hospital, his wife took their six children with her to live with relatives.
Family members went to his house and demolished it, where Uthman’s brother, Said Isabirye Muhammad, told Morning Star News, “We cannot continue staying with this infidel who is telling us things about Jesus as the Son of God, yet for us we know him as a messenger of Allah alone.”
Heavenly Father, how much you love your children! Here Uthman is, an Islamic leader of a mosque, when you come to him in a dream! And of course Uthman’s first response is to worship your son Jesus! How wonderful, frightening, confusing, and yet clarifying this was for Uthman. Thank you for emboldening him with the truth that he immediately shares it with his wife and six children. When we know the truth about who you are we want to share it with everyone we love! Thank you for saving Uthman from his attacking brothers by giving him an extra energy, and we pray now for his future protection. May his wife, children, and brothers also have dreams of your son, and may the village of Mayuge become known as the place where a mighty work of the Gospel started that sweeps across Uganda. In Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. Romans 8:35-37
https://morningstarnews.org/2025/08/former-sheikh-beaten-loses-family-after-vision-of-christ/
