Adijah’s aggravated husband threatened to fully disown her and her daughter, and took all of their possessions.
Adijah said, “The following day before we left, he had uprooted all the cassava crops I had planted. Shouting at the top of his voice, he threatened to take back everything that he had put under my name so that I will not inherit any property from him. He said these were the dire consequences of forsaking Allah and his prophet and following after other gods.”
Although Nuriah, a primary 6 student, hates Islam, she is afraid to convert to Christianity because of her father. She said, “I am ready to become a Christian, but my father might look for me and beat me. I still love my father but he doesn’t want us to worship the way we want. He should not force us into Islam. One of our relatives has informed us that my father is looking for ways to kill us.”
Adijah’s husband has since remarried. “I hear that he has looked for a Muslim lady and they are staying together in the same house we used to live. We live in fear because we don’t know what he is planning to do to us.” Adijah told ICC.
For a year now, Adijah has not been able to work or secure a place to cultivate crops. She survives on gifts from well-wishers of food, clothing, and school fees for Nuriah. She confessed, “It has not been easy; though, through the trials, the Lord has been faithful to us. We lack many things, but eternal life is not one of them. The reward waiting for us in Heaven is of more worth than our current suffering.”
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