Shahriq Khan

You guys are going to be the ones who defend the faith of the whole country, show people that it's not terrorism and all these things.

And that was an identity that I was really proud of, that I really carried until I got to college.

And for the first time ever in college,

I was challenged with the real world.

I was challenged out of Islamic indoctrination.

I could engage with other faiths.

I could study things for myself.

And through really just trying to defend Islam with my whole heart, I was really into it.

I met the living God, Christ, and I had a radical conversion, man.

And Christ actually walked into a dream I had that I didn't even pray to him.

I actually, in 2022, I was most suicidal.

And I had kind of left Islam, but I hadn't let Christ heal me yet.

And so I turned to the world.

I turned to super red pill things.

I turned to women and drugs and parties.

I was a fraternity president.

And the truth was, the identity just...

wasn't solving anything for me.

And so on the night that I was actually at the end of myself, when I was most suicidal, I prayed a prayer to Allah.

I said, Allah, please save me.