How a direct descendant of Muhammad met Christ on a crowded Pakistani sidewalk.

I LAID DOWN MY ISLAMIC PRIVILEGE TO PREACH JESUS AROUND THE WORLD

   I was born in a Sunni Muslim home in Bangladesh, where I learned the meaning of stern discipline from my father, a major general in the military with responsibilities in the intelligence service. We lived on different army bases in elaborate quarters reserved for officers and their families. Servants catered to our every need. The business and political elite of Bangladesh and Pakistan frequented social events in our home.

   I grew up attending an Islamic madrasa (religious school), where we studied the Qur’an and learned classical Arabic from an imam. My father could trace his lineage back to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (the name derives from Hashem, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad’s great-grandfather). His heritage qualified me as a direct descendant of Islam’s founder.

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Sid Roth: My guest says there's an easy way to never be bullied by fearful thoughts again. What a wonderful life, next. I have been looking forward to this interview with Pastor Eddie Turner but more important than even me, this interview is going to dramatically touch every believer and non-believer in the Messiah that's watching us right now. It's got to do with a subject that you wrote a book on, Conquering the Chaos in Your Mind. What do you mean chaos in the mind?

EDDIE: Sid, I'm talking about racing thoughts, tormenting thoughts, the inability to shut your mind off. In this season in which we're living, mental health professionals are seeing a deluge of people that are coming that are needing help. People can't get their minds to quieting down. Stress, anxiety, fear is consuming them more than ever before.

SID: Well, in your life you had an encounter that no one should have, so to speak. Minding your own business and all of a sudden a voice says to you what?

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Sid Roth: My guest was hit with the fire of God and said, "Stop. My body can't take this fire anymore." Would you tell God to stop? Yes, you would.

Duncan Smith, what a life. You were born to parents that were pastors in Nigeria. They loved God and they gave you that, but you didn't like the lifestyle they lived.

DUNCAN: Yes. The reality was, Sid, they were very sincere, loved Jesus with all their hearts, but there was so much religion back then, so much sincerity, but it was very centered around what I like to affectionately call Churchianity now. And so it was absent of a lot of fun.

SID: And that's the operative word - Fun. It's sort of like just regulations and strict rules. A young teenage kid, you don't want that.

DUNCAN: No.

SID: So what’d you resolve to do, and what did you do?

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