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Shahriq Khan: The Christian Debate Strategy That Actually Reaches Muslims | DSH #1776
22 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: Why does John 3:16 sound blasphemous to Muslims?
So the truth is, we're trying to deconstruct Muslims by giving them John 3.16, like, so God loved the world that he'll give his only son as your blood atonement, right?
Chapter 2: How did growing up as a devout Muslim shape Shahriq Khan's beliefs?
As a former Muslim, that's the most blasphemous thing I've ever heard in my life. Allah doesn't love the whole world.
Chapter 3: What pivotal experiences led to Shahriq Khan's questioning of Islam?
He loves the obedient Muslim, right?
Chapter 4: What are the 'real five pillars of Islam' according to Shahriq Khan?
He would never have a son.
Chapter 5: Why do debates focusing on the New Testament fail with Muslims?
He's unbegotten, unlike anything in this world.
Chapter 6: How does engaging with Islamic theology change the conversation?
And truthfully, man, there's no need for blood atonement. Muslims don't believe in that. Adam and Eve were never on earth in the Quran. That's a very big difference.
Chapter 7: What respectful strategies can Christians use to engage Muslims?
So why would an earthly Messiah even be necessary if all you need to do is just repent? So understanding basic Islamic theology, you see that it's not like a New Testament thing.
Chapter 8: How has Shahriq Khan's ministry grown so rapidly?
It's actually not about that at all. Yeah.
All right, guys, here at Amfest with Shah Rukh Khan. Just met and you got a very interesting story. So I invited you on, man. Dude, I honor you for having me on. I really appreciate what you're doing, man.
So for those that don't know you, could you give a quick story? Yeah. Yeah. I think the biggest and most relevant thing is that I grew up as a very devout Muslim, and I loved that faith. My father actually saw 9-11 happened, and when I was three and a half years old, the first identity I had as a man was, you guys are going to be the Western light of Islam.
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. I repent. I'm so sorry.
I'll go back to Islam. I'll go back to my Muslim wife. A girl who was lined up for me to be a Muslim wife, my father's business, my community of doctors and lawyers and mentors. It was my whole life. And I walked away from it and I just repented and wanted to go back. That same night, Christ just slammed me in a dream, man. Wow. And I heard the words, you have been healed. Now get up and go.
When the only reason I recognized that it was Christ was because I had been discipled in the Bible and I knew the words trying to make arguments of, you know, the gospel of John. But I was like, Allah would never speak like that. But Christ did. And so I just in 2022, this was when that happened. I just decided to take a full swing at Christianity. I said, you know, I don't know everything.
I try to defend my faith against people. And I got crushed every time being a Christian, like slaughtered, bro. My whole Muslim community was like, dude, you don't know what you're doing. Um, and everyone in my life was telling me not to do it, but I just had this conviction. I think it was from the Lord.
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